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April 2009

DevelopmentMarketing

Legal Motions and Deals in Cyberspace

The operators of P2P file sharing site The Pirate Bay were found guilty of copyright infringement in a Swedish court last Friday, sentenced to one year in jail and ordered to pay $3.7 million in damages to "offended" parties including Warner Bros., Columbia, 20th Century Fox, Sony BMG and EMI. The King Kong defense didn't swing on the branches of EuroLaw. The MPAA cheered the ruling but insiders warned that the decision would do little to immediately stem the flow of online…
April 21, 2009
DevelopmentMarketing

All That Free Pubtweecity — Ashton Kutcher Beats CNN and Helps Ophra Become a Twit

Why is Twitter the fastest growing,  most popular social media platform in the history of the Internets?  All that free publicity from peeps&twits like Prez Obama, Lindsay Lohan, Ashton Kutcher and wife, and others for one thing... Mashable.com notes that Twitter grew by 75% between February and March, 2009.  A recession dream for any company! The last couple days, folks across the digital data stream, and in the real world, were a flutter with the Great Tweet War between Kutcher,…
April 17, 2009
DevelopmentMarketing

Gettin’ Trendy: Gabble, Twig, Muze, and Mog

Gabble, twig, muze and mog -- these could be the next wave of cool digital trendy words.  Here's why... Our droogs @Hewlett-Packard are backing a new mobile video start-up dubbed Gabble -- it is positioning itself as a private communal video portal for mobile phones. The idea is to allow users to send goofy (and not-so-goofy) videos only to friends in their network rather than post them to a sharing site for the world to see. This means they can send those risque self0-made…
April 16, 2009
Marketing

Market Trends: The Future of Online Advertising

YouTube, recently berated by a Credit Suisse analyst last week for its lack of success in selling ads, seems to be resiting that berate and growing its ad business at an impressive clip, according to a report in Ad Age.  But should we beleve the global bankers in Switzerland? (more…)
April 13, 2009