Month: June 2006
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Found with Davy Rothbart
While my normal commute hour is filled with podcasts from the usual tech talk shows and NPR highlights, every now and then I dip into the vast archive of talks over on itconversations.com and pick a few interesting lectures. Today I found a gem! Davy Rothbart runs Found magazine and speaks at Pop Tech about…
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Getting drafted for the Yankees
From mlb.com, reporting on yesterday’s first round baseball draft picks: Yankees top pick Ian Kennedy was one of four right-handers selected in the first five rounds Tuesday. I’d like to wish the best of luck to the other Ian Kennedy, I’m pulling for you. I’ve been following his budding baseball career as part of a…
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Billboards as Ambient Graffitti
So this is cool. deinde posts a photo (above) of a billboard in Manhatten that you can SMS to register your vote on the live updating counter. Here’s my idea, add technology that senses nearby bluetooth or wifi-enabled devices and asks permission to read their preferences or log file. The billboard then becomes a realtime,…
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Reuters Video Affiliate Network
Reuters is using Brightcove to distribute its video content via an affiliate network of bloggers and small publishers. The network is in the pilot phase now but you can apply here and, if accepted, copy & paste some code into your site to make Reuters Video available on your site via a player like the…
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WSJ 3.0
Advertising Age checks in with Gordon Crovitz, three months into his role as publisher of a unified online & print editions of Dow Jones’ Wall Street Journal franchise and describes Gordon’s thinking around how the paper edition will evolve. Given the digital era’s barrage of news from all sides and sources, the paper probably will…
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How to make an impression
Enough of this online advertising stuff, sometimes you need to jump into the real world to make an impact. Flickr user Live U4 is uploading photos of various super-sized building mods as part of the promotion. I think I can make out the Spanish enough to figure out that this is a Nike campaign in…
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New email format for Yahoo! Groups
Yahoo Groups just announced that they will embed new links in HTML emails from subscribed groups. From the notice: Get one click access to your favorite group features. If your group updated any content, you can find out from the email. Message Archive Read and reply to group messages Photos Share photos from your photo…
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Yahoo Video adds sharing
Last night Yahoo Video added uploading so you can share your videos with your friends and the world. Once you’ve uploaded a video, you can add tags, email or IM a link to your video as well as cut & paste code so you can embed the video into your website or blog. The video…