Will anyone pay for anything?

The idea for Revenue Bootcamp held on the Microsoft campus in Mountain View, Calif., on July 10, 2009, developed earlier this year after some people realized that upcoming conferences focused only on “social media . . . basically gathering eyeballs, but nobody was talking about monetizing people . . ., ” Guy Kawasaki explained in […]

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The Coming Upstream Revolution. And We Need It

Most consumers pay some attention to their downstream bandwidth speeds, which can affect how quickly iTunes files finish downloading or the quality of movie streaming, but upstream speeds have never been as big of an issue. That’s clearly starting to change as Internet service providers like Verizon and Qwest offer data packages with increased upstream […]

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It’s not easy staying on the edge of chaos

I just read this very excited article about the use of wikis and blogs to revolutionise the US intelligence community:SSRN-The Wiki and the Blog: Toward a Complex Adaptive Intelligence Community by D. Andrus. Its giddy praise of Wikipedia amused me (especially as I found it as a linked reference from a Wikipedia article), but it […]

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Web 2.0 is not people-centric. It splits people up

A few words about a founding principle of web 2.0 that appears to be a big mistake. This won’t be without impacts on future usages, on the werb as inside companies because we are reaching the limits of the central component of any collective dynamic : the user. Image via Wikipedia A few words about […]

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ZDF Chooses Viz Virtual Studio and Graphics for Two Virtual Studios in New Broadcast Complex

BERGEN, NORWAY, July 23, 2009- Vizrt announces that ZDF (Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen), one of two large public broadcasters in Germany, recently began broadcasting from two virtual studios within its new 30 million Euro broadcast complex in Mainz, Germany. With its extensive, customized complement of Viz Virtual Studio and broadcast graphics solutions from Vizrt, ZDF is […]

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Geotags, Photo and Media Management with CDWinder – New version 5.6.1 Released

CDWinder, one of the leading media cataloging applications for the Windows platform, receives a further update today. CDWinder now creates previews for video files, has its own built-in 3D-GeoTagger that also geotags azimuth and tilt, and offers a new Locr-Upload feature. CDWinder also has an improved Find function, up to 20% faster than before, and […]

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Kicking the tires on Final Cut Pro 7

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By now anyone who has ever heard of Final Cut Pro has heard that Apple shipped Final Cut Pro 7 as part of the new Final Cut Studio on July 23. It wasn’t the total FCP reboot that many had hoped and consists mainly tacked on new features. The early word was that it probably […]

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Justifying Investments in Digital Asset Management

Friday, July 24, 2009 byJake Athey Since the Aberdeen Group Report, The Marketers Guide to Justifying Investments in Digital Asset Management, came out,we’vebeen speaking with all sorts of organizations from various vertical industries – manufacturing, retail,healthcare, financial services, insurance and non-profits to name a few – about their marketing operations and digital media management practices. […]

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