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Aug 10

Cartoon: So Sue Me

If you own a big tech firm, you aren’t Microsoft, and you weren’t named in the patent lawsuit filed this week by Paul Allen’s Interval Licensing, well… you’re probably looking deep into your soul today and asking where it all went wrong. If you aren’t a defendant - which includes AOL, Apple, eBay, Facebook, Google and Yahoo! - why not?

…Craig, click on the legal status tab for something perhaps even more intriguing: if I’m reading it correctly, that patent appears to be collateral, put up by AOL and currently held by the Bank of America. (Bear in mind that I have precisely zero legal expertise in this area. In fact, I have what I would describe as negative legal expertise: I am capable of reducing the net legal knowledge of a room simply by walking into it. It’s my admittedly meh superpower.)

Doug, that’s an interesting but unintended read of the first one-third of the sentence. (Anyone else reach the same conclusion?) If you grasp the nettle, steel your nerves and follow the sentence all the way to the end, though, then:

1) you should be sure to rehydrate after the long journey (my old J-school profs would flay me for writing such a lengthy lead), and

2) you’ll probably realize that these are three conditions followed by a conclusion: if (a) and (b) and (c) then (d). You apparently read it instead as “If (a) then (b) and (c), and Error:…

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19
Aug 10

Freakonomics (Trailer)

…ade of Sumo wrestling and exposes searing and violent truths about this ancient and revered sport. Morgan Spurlock (Super Size Me) offers up a buoyant and revealing angle on the repercussions of baby names. Rachel Grady and Heidi Ewing (Jesus Camp) balance levity and candor with their eye-opening profile of underachieving kids incentivized to learn with cold hard cash. Finally, Eugene Jarecki, who brought us the unforgettably powerful Why We Fight, investigates an unsettling theory to explain why crime rates dramatically dropped in the early ’90s. Seth Gordon (The King of Kong) weaves the pieces together with brisk interludes, providing context and commentary from the authors. Freakonomics exposes the hidden side of everything, debunking conventional wisdom, and revealing what answers may come if one just asks the right questions….

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Aug 10

How One Man Turned Sexual Innuendo Into Gold

SNL spoofed it. Ellen Degeneres gives them out like Oprah dishes out cars. This is what the inventor of the Shake Weight has to say for his wanktastic creation.

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10
Aug 10

EPIX, Netflix Announce Multi-Year Deal For Streaming Movies

EPIX and Netflix, mum yesterday, are now happy to talk. The two companies have confirmed a big, expensive deal which gives Netflix the ability to show the pay TV service’s movies on its streaming video offering.

…not surprisingly, the announcement from the two companies doesn’t mention price, and only describes the pact as a multi-year one. There also seems to be a bit of a hedge in the release, which doesn’t say that Netflix gets all of Epix’s movies just an array of them.
Still, it’s a major move for Netflix (NFLX), and undoubtedly a nice cash infusion for Epix, which has struggled to get carriage deals from traditional cable operators.
As I noted yesterday, this deal may make Netflix more competitive with cable, but it’s not designed to threaten Hollywood’s DVD business. Netflix still won’t be able to get consumers the movies over the Web until they reach Epix’s window, which means they’ll have been available on DVD for some time before that. Epix is owned by three big studios Viacom’s (VIA) Paramount, Lionsgate (LGF) and MGM and none of them want to cut off their disc dollars.
Also important to note that the deal is designed to mollify Epix’s current and would-be cable partners, via another window Netflix…

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31
Jul 10

Tools that bring Success in Option and Future Trading

Despite of having many similarities, Future and Options are different in some ways. You must understand it clearly before doing anything with it.The definition is quite big for these two markets.

…Despite of having many similarities, Future and Options are different in some ways. You must understand it clearly before doing anything with it.

The definition is quite big for these two markets. The most common difference is Future Market is highly capitalized and more risky whereas the Options securities which are subject to binding agreements.

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Jul 10

Twitter Decides It’s Time to Make Some Real Money

Twitter’s EarlyBird account is definitely a step in the right direction in terms of ad and revenue strategy, but will it work?

…For those of you who don’t remember the April announcement about Promoted Tweets, basically, they’re ad-based tweets that Twitter promised to promote more prominently on the top of relevant Twitter results pages rather like Google’s sponsored search results. The big, and I thought crazy, caveat was that Twitter would pull “Promoted Tweets” that weren’t performing. This was something new in advertising. If consumers didn’t like the ad, then it would be pulled it down. Maybe it was the language Twitter used and not the concept. I can understand that no one wants underperforming advertising out in the wild, least of all the advertisers. Here, however, is what Twitter originally said, “We’ll attempt to measure whether the Tweets resonate with users and stop showing Promoted Tweets that don’t resonate.” It would have made more sense for Twitter to simply say, “If too few people retweet the Promoted Tweet, we’ll apologize profusely to the advertiser and pull the useless Tweet.”…

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Jun 10

Business Case study : Social Media for Marketing

Out of the 1400 employees of the company, 450 are on Twitter responding to customer feedbacks and queries.

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Jun 10

Fujitsu and Toshiba to Merge Mobile Businesses in July

In an attempt to save their sinking ships in whirlpool of Japanese mobile market , Fujitsu Limited and Toshiba Corporation have anchored a merger deal with each other today.

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13
Jun 10

Online Video Sites Cash in On Live Lucrative Ventures

“A lot of the sponsors we’re working with today are asking us for more live events,” Caraeff says. “Did I think we would be doing this live event strategy so soon?

…s framework is built around selling advertising against self-triggered scarcity. Creating a sole source for music videos on the internet, Vevo could generate revenue by being the single entity selling ads around them.

An even more lucrative option is a live event. Consumer brands get a trifle touchy with the idea of missing out on the wide online audience that a live event has to offer, letting the sponsor place ads at every strategic point during and after the event. Notwithstanding the fact that a live video is more capable of attracting an engaged viewer, a tad unlikely with simple music streaming. Which is why, sponsors scamper to grab any good opportunity they get.
A lot of the sponsors we’re working with today are asking us for more live events, Caraeff says. Did I think we would be doing this live event strategy so soon? Not exactly. I thought we’d be getting into this at the end of our first year, not in the first one or two quarters of our business. So it’s something we’ve moved up in our road map…

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8
Jun 10

Maybe This Is Why Blockbuster Is Dying

When your CEO thinks popping the Netflix disc in the Wii is more difficult than driving to a store to physically rent a disc (and then returning said disc), that might be a sign that your company isn’t exactly forward-thinking.

…When your CEO thinks popping the Netflix disc in the Wii is more difficult than driving to a store to physically rent a disc (and then returning said disc), that might be a sign that your company isn’t exactly forward-thinking.
According to this interview with CEO Jim Keyes over at Fast Company, he’d much rather get discs by mail, go to a kiosk or go to a store to rent his movies. Unfortunately for him, he’s in the minority there. Netflix is pushing hard into streaming because streaming is very clearly the future. If Blockbuster wants to willfully ignore that fact, I guess that’s their prerogative….

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