Fresh of the pages of dead-tree media elite NYT comes news of a new media partnership:
“Mr. Lee, the director, is teaming up with Nokia, the cellphone maker, to direct a short film comprising YouTube-style videos created by teenagers and adults using their mobile phones.
By hiring Mr. Lee for the project, Nokia is seeking to combine [...]
The NYT has a look at the Peter Gabriel-backed recommendation service The Filter. The idea is that, like many other services out there, Filter monitors what you consume via your computer and then recommends other stuff you might like to consume - theoretically, stuff that cost money.
“Users must still download the Filter software to their [...]
On Publishing2.0 There is a look at the way TechCrunch, Digg and the NYT each decide to “publish” the news on their websites.
TechCrunch is a tradition blog in that you will always see things with the newest post on top. Digg is similar but it also allows you to reorganize by number of “diggs.” Then [...]
The Old Grey Lady shows she’s still kicking with a pretty good article on the efforts of brands to integrate themselves into the popular web service Meetup.com.
They focus on efforts by the Kimberly-Clark Corporation to create a parent’s meet-up sponsored by Huggies. As the NYT points out, this is not without its risks:
“There is, however, [...]
Just getting to this article in the New York Times about Pepsi’s “non-traditional” launch of their latest soda, Tava.
What makes this release so unique, you ask? Well, for starters, there are no TV ads! Wow! And they’re using the internet! Breakthrough! Alert the presses!Pardon the sarcasm, but this is a very long article that reads like one [...]
The New York Times has a long and informative article challenging the common assumption that creating web-content is a male-driven world.
“Research shows that among the youngest Internet users, the primary creators of Web content (blogs, graphics, photographs, Web sites) are not misfits resembling the Lone Gunmen of “The X Files.” On the contrary, the cyberpioneers [...]
The latest “viral” campaign video to make the rounds is worth considering less for its content then for some of the underlying meaning that can be gained from the response to the video.
It is a pro-Clinton music video that was written, shot and distributed completely independently of the Clinton campaign. Thus, it is legitimately viral.
Aside [...]
So, two days ago there was an article in the New York Times that looked at just how difficult it was to delete your Facebook account.
There was plenty of buzz about this on the webs for a while.
Now, a mere two days later comes this article in the New York Times in which they report:
“Aiming [...]
