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Development Marketing

New Net Term: “Junk Tween” in Social Media, and How to Use Twitter for Maximum Effect

"Junk tween" -- that's the new term for the mass amount of annoying "junk culture" neologisms and textual non-sequirters that tweens have been polluting the bandwidth with, the sort of stuff Twitter has been combating to keep its good name as a viable social media tool rather than a platform for kids to "talk trash." (more…)

Jeromy StallingsNovember 2, 2009

Design Development

Shape of a Box: The First YouTube Zine

Ever pushing the visual boundaries, YouTube is now hosting their first online literary journal, dubbed Shape of a Box. The journal offers a variety of the written word in aural form -- an essay using Movie Maker software, poetry about Jodie Foster, to someone adding music to William Blake's classic "Tyger, Tyger." Basically, the forum takes the sort of videos people normally upload onto YouTube and collects them in an anthology form. The question is: why didn't someone think of…

Jeromy StallingsNovember 1, 2009

Design Development Marketing

What Will the Net Look Like in 5 Years? Eric Knows!

Last week, at the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo Orlando 2009, Google CEO Eric Schmidt expounded on his prediction of how the Internet(s) will look like in 2014. Schmidt envisions a radically "new" internet dominated by the Chinese-language and beakthroughs in social media content, delivered over super-fast bandwidth in real time. (more…)

Jeromy StallingsOctober 28, 2009

Development Marketing

Pirates and Ad Revenue on the Digital Gangplank

You know that old adage, "If you can't beat them, join them?" We're seeing it happen more and more on the Internet. When the big recording companies could not stop the beast within that was called NAPSTER, they went into business with the site... And so now we see that what began as an anti-piracy tool has evolved into a monetization and marketing tool. Say what? you say. Or is that, "Arraagh, me mateys, show us the bling!" (more…)

Jeromy StallingsSeptember 29, 2009

Development Marketing

Blog Trends: Local is Hotter

One recent trend noticed in the blogosphere is how users are preferring local blog posts, information, and news, over sites that are more national and global in perspective (that is, some New York Post reporter's blog as opposed to a blogger who only discusses issues relevant to a region, city, or town). (more…)

Jeromy StallingsSeptember 21, 2009