Archive for the ‘News’ Category

Advertising – social media – google and myspace

Monday, April 21st, 2008How google screwed up the myspace deal proclaims Wired.Lots of smart people are trying to figure out how to monetize social networks. It's no easy feat: Even if millions of people log on to Facebook twice ...

On the origin of Social Media and Advertising

Friday, April 18th, 2008Read it hereThough Mark Selby speaking at Forum Oxford today says its not UGC - It is in fact Collaborative Social Media and I buy that.UGC - for advertisers USER read CONSUMER - faceless ...

Evolution of SMLXL

Friday, March 28th, 2008 In 2002, I founded a company called SMLXL - short for Small Medium Large XtraLarge.Its focus was and still is - how do businesses and organisations meaningfully engage in a commercial or social agenda with their audiences.  We were some ...

Mobile Marketing Awards for Best Offering from a Service Provider – the winner is Blyk

Friday, March 7th, 2008JMac from Blyk tells it like no otherThis is great for Blyk, and also interesting - rumours run like a virus around Blyk, ie highly contagious, but one is not sure where they come from.For example Peggy Ann ...

Gates sees accelerated decline of traditional media’s ad model

Friday, February 29th, 2008Microsoft thinks the advertising business model for traditional media those venues where advertisers still channel most of their spending will fall apart faster in the coming five years as the kind of interactive, targeted advertising that is defining the Web ...

The advertising agency of the future: Or the day the music died. Welcome to the iMedia Summit

Sunday, February 24th, 2008A long long time I can still remember how the music used to make me smile and I if I had my chance that I could make those people dance and maybe they'd be happy for a ...

Incubators for Media Innovation

Tuesday, February 19th, 2008With 110 million members and $800 million in annual revenue, MySpace has become a growth engine for Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. (NWS) media empire. Now the media mogul wants to turn the online social network into a breeding ...

Egg economical with the truth

Tuesday, February 5th, 2008A story is breaking in the UK around internet bank Egg and its credit card business. According to the BBC, Egg has given 161,000, (around 7% of its customer base), 35 days notice that their credit cards ...

Blyk expands into new markets

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008Blyk announced today its expansion to the Dutch market.Vodafone will be its carrier.More on Blyk

A new digital era: predicts Bill Gates

Tuesday, January 8th, 2008Funny old world. In CDB we wroteGeneration-C stands for the Community Generation. The defining and distinguishing characteristic for Gen-C is the continuous connection to and responding to digital communities. This is very different from any other communities. ...

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