Archive | October, 2009

Google Music

October 28, 2009

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Image via CrunchBase Google announced the ability to search, find, and play music via their search experience tonight. This is a huge business development boon by the companies involved and a major kudos goes to Imeem, MySpacePandora, LaLa, and Rhapsody. This also seems like a big win for the record labels. Below is a video [...]

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CNN NewsPulse and the future of content

October 28, 2009

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CNN relaunched this week with a complete redesign. Along with having some smart advertising introduce the new layout, integrated well with the IAB standard units, they highlighted another section at the top of their navigation: CNN NewsPulse This dashboard approach combines a few items you have probably seen elsewhere on content sites. You have probably [...]

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The first stage in social gaming

October 26, 2009

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I believe that we are in the very nascent stages of social games which is evident by recent news that some old classics like Sid Meier’s Civilization is coming to Facebook. This is a game that was potentially finished and is now being resurrected to a platform that has become relevant. By bringing social features [...]

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Figure out your story

October 23, 2009

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I recently read an article about 3 ways to pitch yourself and it got me thinking about processing and bottling up your story. The gist of the post are these three key elements: 1. Think relevant, not recent 2. Focus on skills-based versus situation or industry-based qualifications. 3. Connect the dots — what ties it [...]

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How to setup an appointment

October 22, 2009

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Image via Wikipedia I deal with a number of requests all focused around setting up a time and location. Sometimes its me reaching out to someone and other times it is someone reaching out to me. These range from setting up a time to speak via phone or can include setting a time and a [...]

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Google and Wharton Partner to Create helpful Marketing and Advertising YouTube Channel

October 1, 2009

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I was emailed an interesting initiative today about Google and Wharton (highlighting their new site on YouTube) showing interesting speakers discussing the current and future state of media and advertising as well as some handy tools. In their own words: Google and the Wharton School’s Future of Advertising Project are partnering to create, “Fast. Forward”, [...]

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