Photo of the Week: This photo was taken by, one of my skinnyCorp friends, Harper Reed as he captured some fresh Threadless designs.
Somewhat Frank Weekly Tidbits: 08.26.2007
Attention Economy: All You Need To Know
Read/Write Web explains: the Attention Economy is a marketplace where
consumers agree to receive services in exchange for their attention.
Examples include personalized news, personalized search, alerts and
recommendations to buy.
New York Times Launches…MyYahoo
The New York Times took their personalized home page product out of
beta. The look and feel is about the same as it was a a year ago when
it went into private beta - Think MyYahoo, Pageflakes or Netvibes, with
the New York Times logo.
Do You Have Bacn In Your Email Inbox?
When you get those messages from communities you have joined that
simply notify you of updates or a new friend, that is bacn. It is
social network spam.
YouTube Premiering InVideo Ad Format
Google launched a new InVideo ad format designed to offer high
engagement without negatively impacting the user experience. As an
alternative to preroll and postroll ads, InVideo ads offer more
engagement, less disruption for viewers and lower video abandonment.
Essential, Free Video Utilities
Some great video utilities that could come in handy for video tutorials.
Probo: ‘The Intelligent, Autonomous Huggy Robot’
The ANTY team members are designing and developing an intelligent huggy
robot [named] Probo. A first prototype is to be expected in 2008. This
is pretty cool, who wouldn't want a huggable robot anteater!
MTV+Real+Verizon Vs. Apple & iTunes
GigaOM tracks all the latest going on with MTV, Real, Verizon and Apple.
Embed Google Maps with HTML
Google Maps took another step forward as the defacto online map today
by releasing the ability to embed Google Maps into web pages as simply
and easily as cutting and pasting some HTML.
US launches ‘MySpace for spies’
America’s intelligence agencies prepare to launch “A-Space”, an
internal communications tool modelled on the popular social networking
sites, Facebook and MySpace.
Microsoft's Tafiti
Microsoft has just released a new, experimental search service called
"Tafiti," which is Swahili for "do research." The service is designed
to help you when using the web for research projects.
Twitter Adds People Search
CenterNetworks explains how Twitter has released a "People Search." So
now you can find other buddies and friends to watch eat ice cream, pee,
walk to the fishing pond and maybe a bit of actual work - and all the Twitter'ers rejoice!
Yahoo! buys Actionality
Yahoo! has bought the ad-funded gaming specialist Actionality, ME understands. Game on!
CollectiveX Launches Groupsites
TechCrunch covers the launch of the Maryland based CollectiveX's Groupsites.
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Revolutionizing journalism education at Medill
Chicago Magazine recently wrote a piece on the challenges facing John
Lavine, the new dean at Northwestern’s Medill School of Journalism as
he sets a new course for teaching journalism focusing on "new media."
What a novel idea. I would recommend John gather some bloggers and other new media specialists and have them come to the Evanston campus and speak. Heck, I'm a Northwestern alumni, I'd come in and chat about it.