Archive for July, 2006

The end of TV as we know it. Social networking comes to television

Wednesday, July 19th, 2006From TV weekWeb Forging New Genre: Sites' Online Dating Shows Incorporate Social Networks, Reality ElementsInternet gurus, who already have helped transform television viewing habits by offering interactive and on-demand programs online, are poised to unleash their next challenge ...

Television cannot deliver a digital society

Wednesday, July 19th, 2006BSkyB launches a package this week of broadband and on-demand TV programming - but the competition will be fierceIn our book we discuss the issues and implications for broadcasters living in a digital world. Now the conversations has spilled ...

Boardroom reward ploys

Tuesday, July 18th, 2006Trust and  Transparency vs. OpacityAcademic rocks corporate America by revealing boardroom reward ploysThe boardroom titans of Silicon Valley and Wall Street have met their match in a Norwegian-born finance lecturer from a hitherto obscure business school in America's ...

Fake Politics vs. Authentic Politics

Tuesday, July 18th, 2006Interesting article about how politicians will/should engage with our disconnected youth. written by Amina TaylorI nearly spat out my morning coffee when I heard the words "urban", "gangster" and "hoodie" emerge from the lips of Conservative Party ...

France is one of the leading ‘blogging’ countries

Tuesday, July 18th, 2006France is one of the leading 'blogging' countries and its "blogosphere" (bloggers and/or blogs' creators) is growing fast. According to a recent exclusive crmmetrix study, 26.7% of the French online population visit a blog at least once a month.In addition:* ...

Social media influence is important for PR.

Tuesday, July 18th, 2006In his article in Online Spin about digg.com Max Kalehoff of Nielsen Buzzmetrics says:If I were an online publisher, or a PR person, I'd be spending a lot of time studying how this idea catalyst works and can be ...

YouTube hits 100m video views per day

Tuesday, July 18th, 2006Internet video site YouTube has said its users are now watching more than 100 million videos per day.YouTube is the leading net video download site in the US, with 29% of the country's multimedia market, according to traffic monitor ...

iPod radio transmitters may become legal

Monday, July 17th, 2006Gadgets which play music held on iPods over FM radios are set to become legal in the UK. Devices such as the iTrip plug into MP3 players and connect them wirelessly to radios in cars and homes. Despite being ...

iPod radio transmitters may become legal

Monday, July 17th, 2006Gadgets which play music held on iPods over FM radios are set to become legal in the UK. Devices such as the iTrip plug into MP3 players and connect them wirelessly to radios in cars and homes. Despite being ...

French Parliament approves the worst copyright law in Europe

Monday, July 17th, 2006The French Parliament has voted Friday, June 30th 2006 to approve the DRM bill called DADVSI (? droit d'auteur et droits voisins dans la soci?t? de l'information ?). This bill was voted by raised hands instead of the ...

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