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Get Your Brand or Trademark into Facebook Now

Facebook's vanity URL launch  is at 12:01 ET tomorrow or 9:01 PT tonight. The change will replace cumbersome geeky URL codes with place names that follow the facebook.com address; the place to stake your claim is facebook.com/username.  It is admonished  that users will want to choose their handles carefully because they will be difficult to undue. "Think of it as a cyber tattoo," says a nameless Facebook employee.  Generic names like "baseball" aren't being allowed. Also, given the increasing importance of…
June 12, 2009
DesignDevelopment

True/Slant Provides New Avenue for Infotainment

An alternate news site coined True/Slant launched in beta yesterday with $3 million in funding from Forbes Media and Fuse Capital. Led by veteran journalist/web guru and former AOL exec,  Lewis Dvorkin, True/Slant is providing a platform for more than 100 "Entrepreneurial Journalists" who desire to utilize the web to reach readers directly in exchange for a modest stipend, a share of the ad revenue the site generates or, in some cases, an equity stake in the company. (more…)
June 9, 2009
DesignDevelopmentMarketing

Recent Trends @ Sony

As Sony is one of the leading innovators in online trend-setting, here's a look at some of the things Sony has been up to... The company is set to unveil its new smaller, lighter version of its PlayStation Portable (PSP) portable gaming device, details of which were leaked during a interview on Qore, Sony's online gaming magazine featuring Veronica Belmont. (Here's the June edition on YouTube.)  (more…)
June 4, 2009
Design

Wednesday’s Goldmine : TheMarkerBar.com

Sitting here in the conference room with the doors and windows closed and Jeromy architecting with a massive Sharpie marker, the fumes started flowing and Russell and I started ideating. There are all kinds of Hookah bars, right? Well, what about a Marker Bar? (more…)
June 3, 2009
CultureDesignDevelopment

A Life in Code

Aimee Sunshine-Hill and Charlotte Gapasin are Ninthlink's beautful goddesses of Code Writing.  Here, in their words, are some thoughts and musings about the balance between life and code. (more…)
May 7, 2009