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Online Trends: Building a Better Planet

You know that long-running Twix commercial where the guy and girl are at a party and he tries to lure her to his apartment, saying, "I thought you were someone who wanted to blog about your ideals" and she replies: Oh, blogging! I LOVE blogging!"? That commercial shows that Madison Avenue is aware of a trend online: the marriage of political activism and the blogosphere. A connected trend: online communities forming and coming together to build a better planet --…
September 3, 2009
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Recent Happenings Online

We've noted a few moves and changes in the online world that is of interest and importance to us all, and how our online behavior if affected. For instance, eBay announced it was selling a controlling share in internet calling service Skype to private investors led by Silicon Valley-based Silver Lake Partners. The deal, which includes a pay out of $1.9 billion for a 65% share of the company, ends a tech marriage that never really found its promised synergy, even as…
September 2, 2009
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The Buzz is “Intelligent Search”

The Term “Intelligent search” is the buzz term that’s been at many fingertips and lips lately, connecting it to “artificial intelligence.” Does this conjure images of SkyNet and androids replacing humans? Hollywood seems to have us believing that “A.I.” means robots, but A.I. starts at the software and usability level. Intelligence search, the first major move toward technology that “thinks” for itself, is the latest trend in search engine processing, and the wave for tomorrow’s Web. 3.0 and 4.0. (more…)
September 1, 2009
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Mickey Mouse vs. the Hulk? — Major Moves in Online Animation!

We just love animators and illustraors here at Ninthlink -- our participation at the San Diego ComiCon and involvement with planetillogica attents to our committment to artists of all types out there, in the physical and digital world. So this perked our ears up with great interest, when we heard that a major ad agency had found a way to crowdsource the largest community of animators on the web and help these folks with their campaigns. Social animation studio Aniboom entered…
August 31, 2009
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Online TV and Content Trends

We've been talking for some time on this blog abou the major growth online TV shows has had the past year, and how more major players are jumping head-first into a media platform that was generally left to the daredevils and high-stake gamblers of cyberspace. More people are seeing the writing on the wall -- or the images in the web-browser, and what kind of benefits these can reap and sow. Futurescape just released a new research report entitled The Birth of…
August 29, 2009