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Internet Content Specialist For Attorneys: Avoid Pitfalls
Monday, May 16, 2011 12:39 No CommentsAn Internet content specialist specializing in online marketing and promotion for attorneys has noted that the most successful legal professionals who market online have a keen insight into legal issues that affects the every day lives of individuals and businesses.
“It’s a challenging time for marketing of all types,” observes Boca Raton Florida based legal online [...]
Comcast Partners to Bring TV Shows, Ads Online
Thursday, July 16, 2009 13:59 No CommentsListen to this article
CBS Corp., Time Warner, Inc. and several other media companies will participate in a Web-TV trial with cable operator Comcast Corp. later this month. Their aim is to make more TV shows available online, but only for subscribers of Comcast’s cable service. The idea here is to preserve a [...]
Andreessen Launches VC Fund To Focus On Small Bets; Weighs In On Facebook
Tuesday, May 19, 2009 7:01 No CommentsListen to this article
Netscape founder and angel investor Marc Andreessen is partnering with long-time co-investor and Opsware executive Ben Horowitz to launch a fund to focus on venture investments of about $500,000. Andreessen and Horowitz have been co-investing as angels for years, with average investments of around $100,000 per deal; they formed the new fund [...]
WolframAlpha Works Through Tech Glitches
Monday, May 18, 2009 10:32 No CommentsListen to this article
The WolframAlpha search engine made its debut Friday and continued testing through the weekend. The team brought up the engine live through an Internet feed, though it seemed like everything that could go wrong did.A few glitches in the live broadcast set the team scrabbling to make excuses for a late start. [...]
Revised Forecast Predicts Internet Will Be Only Medium To Grow Ad Dollars This Year
Tuesday, April 14, 2009 9:00 No CommentsListen to this article
The Internet is the only medium expected to reap advertising increases during 2009, according to the latest edition of ZenithOptimedia Group’s quarterly tracking study on the advertising economy. The report, released early this morning, reflects a dramatic downward correction by the Publicis media unit, which now predicts the global ad economy will [...]
Boxee’s New Band-Aid Solution To Its Hulu Problem: RSS Feeds
Monday, March 9, 2009 7:49 No CommentsListen to this article
A couple of weeks after Hulu pulled its content from Boxee, the internet-streaming service announced on its blog today that it has introduced a new built-in RSS reader that gives users access to feeds from popular video services like Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Video, Yahoo! (NSDQ: YHOO), YouTube, and—yes—Hulu. But don’t be fooled: [...]
Netflix: Blu-ray Subs Hit 700,000
Thursday, January 29, 2009 10:04 No CommentsListen to this article
Washington, D.C. (January 29, 2009) — Netflix said this week that it ended the fourth quarter with 700,000 Blu-ray subscribers, a sharp jump from the previous quarter.
The online DVD rental service said it had roughly 500,000 Blu-ray subscribers at the end of the third quarter. But the company increased that total despite [...]
IPG: Digital Will Impact 5 Key Areas Next Year
Wednesday, December 24, 2008 12:30 No CommentsListen to this article
The digital interactive marketplace will continue to take shape and even make strides in 2009. IPG Emerging Media Labs identifies five trend areas to watch next year, related to browsers, conversation, transmission, retail and consumer tech.
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ComcastCares Social Media Interview with Frank Eliason
Tuesday, December 16, 2008 13:34 No CommentsSocial Media Smarts: Interview with Frank Eliason of Comcast aka @ComcastCares
Photo by Shel Israel
Twitter has become many things to many people and organizations for that matter, including Comcast. It really says something when a company experiences the bite of consumer malcontent via social media and then turns around and becomes known as a best [...]
YouTube Rebuffs McCain’s Request For Preferential Treatment
Thursday, October 16, 2008 9:38 No CommentsListen to this article
YouTube has turned down the McCain campaign’s request to personally evaluate the presidential candidates’ clips before removing them for alleged copyright infringement.
In a letter dated Oct. 14, YouTube Chief Counsel Zahavah Levine said the site removes clips once it receives takedown notices because the Digital Millennium Copyright Act requires it to do [...]