MarketingVOX: Google has begun a grant-awarding project to incentivize the development and refinement process for gadgets that appear on personalized home pages, reports John Battelle’s Search Blog.
Google Gadget Ventures seeks to reward those who created useful and popular gadgets. Grants of $5,0…
Archive for June, 2007
Friday, June 29, 2007
Google Grants Gadget Developers Gold Stars for Good Work
Pirate Bay Operator Rebukes ISOHunt, TorrentSpy Filtering
MarketingVOX: Pirate Bay operator Peter Sunde had a rather passionate response to yesterday’s news that ISOHunt and TorrentSpy will begin filtering copyrighted content, stating he promises “to keep coming up with new sites like The Pirate Bay, Bayimg and Slaskpost.”
Sunde believes ISOHunt and Torr…
For Freedom’s Sake, WSJ Reporters Take Long Thursday Brunch
MarketingVOX: Yesterday reporters at The Wall Street Journal staged a quiet protest in support of journalistic independence, according to a Newspaper Guild release. Instead of showing up for their editorial duties in the morning, they appeared in the afternoon.
Reasons for the protest were reporte…
iPhone Then and Now: Fewer Willing to Buy; More Willing to Pay
MarketingVOX: The percentage of shoppers reporting they were “very likely” or “extremely likely” to purchase an iPhone actually fell from 26 percent to 15 percent between the period after the launch announcement and the first week of June, according to Compete surveys of consumers shopping for or …
Weblish Spoken Here: Debut on The Huffington Post
If you aren’t in line for an iPhone today or stuck in traffic heading to the shore, take a jaunt over to the The Huffington Post, where my debut blog post, Weblish Spoken Here, today appears in its Media section.
From the opening paragraph:
“Blog, folksonomy, wiki and other words coined by geeks a…
Remove Idea-Blocking Obstacles with Conducivity
As marketers and business people, our time is spent coming up with creative ideas, problem solving, and decision making. With focus, concentration and inspiration, we are better and faster at these applied thinking skills.
Your boss just let you know – due in 48 hours – is the “big idea” that will…
Caring as Marketing
I’m alive, but man — what an insane last couple of weeks, both personally and professionally. I’ll be blogging about the executive search-related issues after they get resolved, but not now.
On the personal front, my wife gave birth to our new baby daughter, Vivian Marie, on June 18. …
TechNewsWorld: The Top 10 News Stories Broken by Bloggers
TechNewsWorld says that bloggers who break news stories ahead of mainstream media appear “to be a new and emerging breed of journalist.” Actually, that breed has been evolving over the past 10 years, and the result is nothing short of a sea change in how news and information travels.
I pointed Wal…
Thursday, June 28, 2007
‘Slate’ Launches Video Site
MediaBuyerPlanner: Slate has launched a video site, SlateV.com, to complement its online magazine, according to the Lost Remote blog.
The Brightcove-powered site is being run by Multiple Emmy winner Bill Smee and veteran NPR correspondent Andy Bowers.
Last summer, to celebrate its 10-year annivers…
Sprint Nextel Starting to Phase out Nextel Name
MediaBuyerPlanner: Sprint Nextel is beginning to phase out the Nextel name in its advertising. In a new campaign being unveiled on July 1, which includes outdoor components, print ads and two new television spots, the company will use the tagline Sprint Ahead, and Nextel will only be included in c…
