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Afraid of “losing out” to other people.
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Department stores, specialty retail stores, and the transportation revolution that moved goods and customers more easily all contributed to the rise of advertising. Turn of the 20th century advertising..
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Q: Is Google a media company or a technology company? A: It’s better to think of Google as a technology company. Google is run by three computer scientists, and Google is an innovator in technology in our space.
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Up-and-coming singer-songwriter Ben Griffith is appearing in a new Ford advert in exchange for some wheels. Sensible act or Faustian pact? Read the comments..
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Abigail Holdsworth sells ad space on the front of her first musical release..
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“Account Planning is the discipline that brings the consumer into the process of developing advertising. To be truly effective, advertising must be both distinctive and relevant, and planning helps on both counts.” – Chris Cowpe
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The thing runs standard Linux. It’ll work on the Cingular and the T-Mobile networks.
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He was wrong about youtube, and this end of the stick is nonsense too. BT is just a distribution system. Pizza delivery isnt perfect, it just does the job it’s designed for.
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Hardware interfaces for secondlife – the start..
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Jasia revists Blackgang Chine, a family run theme park.
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Free electricity through radio waves. Stunning..
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This video purports to show an episode of Iron Chef America on the Food Network—with a single frame advertising McDonald’s.
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1995 Theses – them the notes we play today
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The ad generator is a generative artwork that explores how advertising uses and manipulates language. Words and semantic structures from real corporate slogans are remixed and randomized to generate invented slogans.
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While music manufacturers struggle to create “integrated hardware solutions”, enterprising DJs and VJs are picking up US$40 Nintendo Wii remotes and having a blast.
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Contextual street advertising
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It's fascinating to see TV execs trying to come to grips with Internet fandom
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So because the Fano plane is so esthetically beautiful, would not the Fano plane be a good place to look for the basic rules of our universe? What have we got to lose?
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Babelgum ushers in a new era for television, blending the lean-back experience of traditional TV with the interactive and social power of the Internet.
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The IPTV wars are warming up..
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Morgan Freeman is da teacher – Get down daddio.
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Essentially what they want to do is replace soulless direction sources with real people helping real people.
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Eboy animates Einstein
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I Can’t Believe There are All These Monkeys on TV!, Kilroy was here, leg makeup and Wacky WallWalkers® – all from the USA. What a country.
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I knew pump that area was good – and so Does Hollywood. Unsuprisingly, Ze is off to tinsletown. Viva le show..
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Stuff that’s interesting.. and animated to show how it’s all connected. Lovely. Musak from Richard – Aphex Twin – James
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“Putting our fancy new gizmo to work, we fed the text of Bill Gates’ Sunday night Consumer Electronics Show keynote into the tag-cloud generator, and added the results to our scrolling timeline of Microsoft keywords. Here’s the static view below, showing
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The Porter stemming algorithm (or ‘Porter stemmer’) is a process for removing the commoner morphological and inflexional endings from words in English. Its main use is as part of a term normalisation process that is usually done when setting up Inform
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If you have the time to spare, it’s definitely worth picking up a copy of Optaros’ Open Source Catalogue 2007 (it’s free).
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8apps – Social Networking for Productive People
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For 50 years broadcast media have played a powerful role in shaping political culture and mediating citizen engagement in the democratic process. Now a participatory culture is putting the tools of media creation and critique in the hands of citizens them
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Our instinct on this one is that it is a test, and FIM is testing how far they can push the widget makers. Saber rattling is the word
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“This deal marks another step forward in our overall digital strategy and brings a large, active and engaged community of college students to our growing online portfolio,” said Judy McGrath, Chairman and CEO, MTVN.
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The Joneses are perhaps the only characters in the annals of newspaper comics whose name is part of the title of a strip, but who have never actually appeared in a newspaper.
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Welcome to the fantastic adventures of Sexton Blake. Here’s what you’ll find on this, the biggest
website about the world’s BEST consulting detective, his allies, and his fiendish enemies… …
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the overall CO2-equivalent emissions from all the cheeseburgers consumed in the US [in a year] roughly equal the greenhouse output of 100’000 SUVs.
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Fiction stranger than truth?
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Fantastical interesting people
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Beggers..
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Straight outta Dilbert. “Undertaking formal performance appraisals is not usually an activity most managers relish, but it’s an important part of the job of a manager…”
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Packet Garden captures information about how you use the internet and uses this stored information to grow a private world you can later explore.
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The Venice Projects gets colourful. Watch the behind the scenes movies. Personally, I don’t see this as the future of TV, but it will take stripes of the broadcasters.
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The Detroit Auto Show has just closed for another year. There are other auto shows throughout the United States that are well-known and draw large crowds. But, Detroit is different.
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Gravity through mutliple dimensions
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legendary physicist David Deutsch weaves a complex and captivating argument … placing the study of physics at the center of our species’ survival. Problems are soluble, problems are inevitable.
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In this memorable talk, Dan Gilbert demonstrates just how poor we humans are at predicting (or understanding) what will make us happy. “We have within us the capacity to manufacture the very commodity that we are chasing when we choose experience”
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The Center for Land Use Interpretation is a research organization involved in exploring, examining, and understanding land and landscape issues. The Center employs a variety of methods to pursue its mission – engaging in research, classification, extrapol
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Secrets – along with patents – protect Apple against competitive threats from foreign companies that have become expert at instant cloning of Apple’s products and designs.
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Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates unveiled Microsoft Corp.’s plans for an innovative consumer software product available later this year: Windows® Home Server.
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Easy come easy go..
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Just call it the ifone goddammit..
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Has Sony gone mad? Prominent adult movie producer Digital Playground (site) says it is forced to use HD DVD instead of Blu-ray, because Sony does not allow XXX-rated movies to be released on Blu-ray.
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this is no real Rocky, as our man shows by suddenly diving into a pub for a pint, a fag and a plate of fish and chips.
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In the words of Danah Boyd, the biggest site on the Internet has turned into a “massive zit full of marketing pus”.
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Superb! (Via brainsonfire.com/)
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Indepth interview about The Venice Project…
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Robert over looks the obvious such as storage and technical ability of users
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VeriSign, Inc., and Adobe Systems Incorporated (NASDAQ: ADBE), today announced their intent to collaborate on integrating Adobe® Flash® technologies with VeriSign’s peer assisted content distribution technology, setting a new standard in the delivery
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Brilliant Midi gun.
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BB pal and game researcher Jane McGonigal, my new colleague at Institute for the Future, just emailed me some details about the new alternate reality game Vanishing Point that she worked on with 42 Entertainment.
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Do marketers sit around their house looking for things to put ads on?
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A lot of people are wondering just how big this thing is. Using the technical specs from apple.com, I grabbed some cardboard, scissors, and glue and made a scale model of the iPhone. Here it is:
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Seth takes a swipe at Stan Sigman, the CEO and President of Cingular…meow.
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“Serving suggestion: Prints look best when done on gloss paper using the company printer ink when everyone else is at lunch.”
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