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Going Bunco with the Shopgirls of Madison Lane

Some innovative content is popping up out there from the online channels. Bored with Desperate Housewives and  hunting through YouTube for fun things to watch?  We recommend chekcing out The Shopgirls of Madison Lane, presneted by digital studio and distribution company RedLever.  The show is scripted but meant to resemble a reality show, a digital sopa opera that followed four women who work toether at an online fashion company.  They have hectic work and love lives, "all the while keeping…
April 22, 2009
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Legal Motions and Deals in Cyberspace

The operators of P2P file sharing site The Pirate Bay were found guilty of copyright infringement in a Swedish court last Friday, sentenced to one year in jail and ordered to pay $3.7 million in damages to "offended" parties including Warner Bros., Columbia, 20th Century Fox, Sony BMG and EMI. The King Kong defense didn't swing on the branches of EuroLaw. The MPAA cheered the ruling but insiders warned that the decision would do little to immediately stem the flow of online…
April 21, 2009
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All That Free Pubtweecity — Ashton Kutcher Beats CNN and Helps Ophra Become a Twit

Why is Twitter the fastest growing,  most popular social media platform in the history of the Internets?  All that free publicity from peeps&twits like Prez Obama, Lindsay Lohan, Ashton Kutcher and wife, and others for one thing... Mashable.com notes that Twitter grew by 75% between February and March, 2009.  A recession dream for any company! The last couple days, folks across the digital data stream, and in the real world, were a flutter with the Great Tweet War between Kutcher,…
April 17, 2009
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Gettin’ Trendy: Gabble, Twig, Muze, and Mog

Gabble, twig, muze and mog -- these could be the next wave of cool digital trendy words.  Here's why... Our droogs @Hewlett-Packard are backing a new mobile video start-up dubbed Gabble -- it is positioning itself as a private communal video portal for mobile phones. The idea is to allow users to send goofy (and not-so-goofy) videos only to friends in their network rather than post them to a sharing site for the world to see. This means they can send those risque self0-made…
April 16, 2009