We're posting all the interviews from the sixth D: All Things Digital conference that took place in late May. Unfortunately, due to issues too complicated to go into, we have to post all the D6 interviews in several 15-minute parts (I know, I know). But-as many readers have requested-they will [...]
Our featured question this week is from Seth Caplan, a young Hollywood producer, who asks his network, "Do you want to see more independent films in theaters?" It's a timely question to ask, as Seth has a film opening at limited theaters this weekend. "How do we now cut through [...]
In Light Engineering (LED), we’re known to be multilingual – depending on the project, we’ve been known to speak Perl, Python, Java, C++, Javascript and PHP, to name a few. Our weapon of choice is still Ruby on Rails, the popular MVC framework. Out belief is that Rails makes certain [...]
When BoomTown was younger and much more impressionable in the 1990s, the television dramedy "Northern Exposure" had an unusually profound impact. Set in the fictional town of Cicely, Alaska, the Emmy Award-winning show was a classic fish-out-of-water story about Joel Fleischman, a New York doctor (played by Rob Morrow) transplanted [...]
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August 19th, 2008 |
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One of the primary issues facing consumers in the digital era is control of their private data. Yesterday I wrote about the Peter Jennings special “No Place to Hide” which covered a lot of the issues facing consumers. The reality is that munch of our transactional data is already tracked [...]
National Lampoon has made several digital investments over the past several months, with most geared towards male users (CollegeHangover.com, Drunk University, RivalFish). Now it's looking to reach more females—though still in a way that's logical to its existing demographic: The company is acquiring AllModelZone.com, a site for photographers and would-be [...]
For a long time I've been calling for standards in social media advertising. Today if an advertiser wants to make a social media buy across multiple social sites, they will need to build different creative for each of the different social media advertising products on each of the major companies, [...]
The reason they can't hire anybody is everybody with a shred of tech knowledge knows it's going to be a disaster. MySpace is so 2006... And its software/interface sucks. And there was no traction with Snocap... So suddenly, because fat cats found out social networking/Web 2.0 was the next big [...]
We're posting all the interviews from the sixth D: All Things Digital conference that took place in late May. Unfortunately, due to issues too complicated to go into, we have to post all the D6 interviews in several 15-minute parts (I know, I know). But-as many readers have requested-they will [...]
The latest Pew biennial news consumption survey is out and, as usual, the results offer something to latch on to for just about everyone with a stake. TV news ratings are declining? Yes, but even heavy internet users turn to TV as their main news source. Newspaper readership is still [...]
BusinessWeek is launching--hold on, this will shock you--topic pages, and NYT devotes one full story on the launch of it. Its topic pages, called Business Exchange, are index/aggregation pages on various topics it covers, and include BW's own stories and then other sources (including competitors) as well. Users, who can [...]
AOL (NYSE: TWX) has confirmed that it has acquired social net working tool Socialthing. Terms were not disclosed. The company is going to be part of its People Networks business unit, which AOL created in May after its $850 million purchase of Bebo. News.com's Caroline McCarthy says that SocialThing picked [...]
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August 15th, 2008 |
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I was hoping that McCain's Tech Policy would emphasize and extend the two McCain pro-Internet initiatives -- the McCain Lautenberg Community Broadband Act and Spectrum Re-regulation, neither of which have yet seen the light of day -- but it doesn't. In the first case, it makes a vague nod in [...]
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August 14th, 2008 |
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I think I'm way behind on this but today when searching for Facebook's advanced search feature, I ended up empty handed. The new search page only displays search by name, school and company. Previously Facebook enabled users to use the advanced search utility to find people by practically all areas [...]
Ben Ling, a key driver of Facebook's platform strategy who recently announced he was leaving the company, is going to YouTube. The news was first reported by Kara Swisher, who says his job will be to help turn the famously under-profitable video site into a money maker. This is actually [...]
Media6Degrees, a NYC-based provider of social media analytics for marketers, has raised a substantial $9 million first round led by U.S. Venture Partners. The company raised a $2 million convertible note this spring from Coriolis Ventures. It's also raised "early stage" money from various angels. The company promises that through [...]
BoomTown simply cannot resist the irresistible urge to compare their gripping quest for gold by U.S. Olympic team rowers (and, as you can see here, left to right, identical twins) Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss with their more lackluster effort to grab a piece of Facebook via a lawsuit. In an [...]
While NBC faces criticism over its digital offering, over in the UK, the BBC is roaring on with an all-out, open strategy for its biggest ever interactive sports event, comprising multiple live streams, rolling text updates, Flickr photos - and no holding live back for prime time. BBC Sport Interactive [...]
NYTimes.com has been quietly rolling out a series of sub-sections this month, in hopes of attracting more B-to-B advertisers. By mid-September, new sub-sections will be added to the toolbars of both the Business and Technology channels, including, respectively, Green Business and Enterprise Technology. Others will be added throughout the rest [...]
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August 13th, 2008 |
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I'm happy to announce a great list of speakers for the upcoming Social Ad Summit. We will be announcing more speakers in the coming week (a few which I'm personally extremely excited about) but I wanted to provide an update. We just recently began sending out invitations to the event [...]
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August 13th, 2008 |
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Last night Facebook rolled out a new feature to the newsfeed which enables users to filter the stories that are displayed. You can select to display only stories from specific applications or specific friend lists. This is an interesting feature but I'm not sure that it does all that is [...]
