links for 2007-06-30
Redes Hispanic advertising agency. (tags: hispanic advertising) Georgia: Web Page on Wrestler Was Altered Investigators are looking into who altered the Wikipedia entry on Chris Benoit, a professional wrestler, to mention his wife’s death hours before the authorities discovered the bodies of the couple and their 7-year-old son. (tags: article wikipedia crime) Chiefs Defend Slow Network for the iPhone On the eve [...]Hispanics/Latinos Online
June 29, 2007 · Categories: Demographics, Online Behavior, Polls/Surveys, Statistics · View Comments
I’ve written before about the importance of identifying your audience and conducting market research to determine their attitudes and behavior before implementing any Internet marketing effort. Here’s an example of what you can pull together with data that’s freely available online:
Hispanic/Latino Americans Online Profile Summary
Hispanic Americans
are increasingly going online; one third of them are [...]
links for 2007-06-29
June 29, 2007 · Categories: Tools · View Comments
F.T.C. Urges Caution on Net Neutrality
Supporters of net neutrality rules, including consumer groups and content providers like Google, are concerned that Internet access providers could slow or block content in the absence of such rules, particularly as Internet providers offer their own serv
(tags: article internetaccess legislation government regulation netneutrality)
Superfly Media
An ongoing blog about notable & [...]
Communism 2.0
Since I’ve been going on about the open source movement this week, I thought I’d republish for you a piece I did originally for the May 25, 207 issue of the Politics In Minnesota newsletter: It’s often amusingly accurate: The type of technology you favor often predicts your ideological leanings. Mac users, for example, are passionate about their computers [...]links for 2007-06-28
MySpace, Chasing YouTube, Upgrades Its Offerings MySpace plans to rename and refurbish the video-sharing service on its popular social network. The new service, called MySpace TV, will be set up as an independent Web site (www.myspacetv.com) that people can visit to share and watch video, even if they h (tags: article video Myspace youtube videomarketing) Advertising Age – [...]Open Source Vs. Proprietary?
June 27, 2007 · Categories: Technology, Tools, Web 2.0, Web Design/Development, Web/Tech · View Comments
I’ve recently been looking into a lot of open source web-based technology and I’ve become
more and more impressed with the solutions. Most of the Web 2.0
technology is built using open source software or platforms of one type or another. Open source solutions can be particularly appealing to small businesses and nonprofits, primarily because they are [...]
links for 2007-06-27
PwC: Videogames to Surpass Music in Revenue This Year – Marketing Charts In some markets, such as the US, the UK and Australia, PwC forecasts that the videogame market will beat out the music sector as a result of the growth of online and wireless games, new consoles and in-game advertising. (tags: article Statistics videogames music marketpenetration) GigaOM [...]Open Source Manual Writers
June 26, 2007 · Categories: Technology, Tools, Trends, Web 2.0, Web Design/Development, Web/Tech · View Comments
Open source and I did not start out on the right foot.
Open source is software that is developed globally via the Internet by anyone who wants to contribute through freely available source code. Developers can contribute by fixing bugs, adding features, or extending functionality with the understanding that the resulting software will be free for [...]
links for 2007-06-26
A Guide to Anywhere, Right in Your Hand These so-called location-based services are trying to revamp the Web experience to be less cumbersome on mobile devices, freeing users from what has been a pretty dismal experience involving lots of typing, scrolling and waiting. (tags: article mobile moviemarketing travel localmarketing) Online Sales Lose Steam as Buyers Grow Web-Weary The slowdown [...]Cisco Viral Video Marketing Campaign
This is a fantastic viral marketing campaign. I found the following video at IFILM YouTube under the simple and direct title Businessman has a meltdown in hotel lobby. The video, as as you’ll see, is an entirely legitimate-looking security camera footage of a long and wince-inducing public meltdown of a businessman: The closing domain, DontHaveAMeltDown.com, is [...]-
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