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March 2009

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2009 Trends: Micro-Vlogging @QIK

New Babes in Social Networking  With the rapidly expanding popularity of the micro-blog text byte, it was only a matter of due course that micro-vlogging would be next. Step aside you ten-minute rambling vlogs on YouTube and Myspace, here comes QIK which hosts and promotes video communiques, updates, and dispatches from mobile devices that are less than 60 seconds long. QIK's motto: "Mobile live video sharing for everyone, everywhere!" (more…)
March 17, 2009
Design

New Contemporaries 2 featuring Matt Stallings

This Friday the 13th come on down and enjoy the thriving art scene in San Diego. Ninthlink's Matt Stallings has been nominated for the San Diego Art Prize, other wise known as New Contemporaries 2. This years show is hosted by Little Italy's newest gallery Noel-Baza. The show is full of a diverse collection of nominated established artists + up-and-comming heroes of the visual stimulation know as artists. (more…)
March 12, 2009
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Current Trends in Online Advertising

There's a lot of exciting, innovative things going on in the crazy world of online advertising.  Innovators out there are constantly experiemnting with new ways to enhance brands' online presence, create customer relevance, and making it easy for consumers to find what they want/need when they do their consumasurfing.  This is something the team at Ninthlink fully emphasizes when we work with clients. Here are some recent trends in online advertising... (more…)
March 12, 2009
Development

Social Networking on the Global Rise

Social Networks and blogs are visited by over two-thirds (67%) of the global online population, making them the fourth most popular online category ahead of email, this according to Nielsen's new "Global Faces and Networked Places" report. The social network and blogging audience is also becoming more diverse in terms of age: the biggest increase in visitors during 2008 to "Member Community" web sites globally came from the 35-49 year old age group (+11.3 million). Meanwhile, mobile continues to play an…
March 10, 2009
Marketing

The New Online Payola — Good or Bad?

Payola scandals rocked the music world in the late '50s and '60s, calling into question if "hit" songs were from natural talent or forced onto music` fans by constant paid-for airplay. Online music site Jango, which boasts having in excess of 6 million users, is trying to resurrect the concept with a new model offering the chance for indie music artists to buy plays in a variety of packages to try and incubate fans for their music.  (more…)
March 10, 2009