BBC To Kill Open Source TV?

The BBC is looking to encode TV listing metadata and employ a compression algorithm to circumvent piracy, ad removal and illegal copying. According to a recent blog post by the EFF‘s Danny O’Brien, the group wants to get mandatory DRM onto digital TV receivers via a broadcast flag. In other words, a “public service broadcaster” […]

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Benchmarking the Staggering Volume

Imagine the opportunities for “accidental” traffic if content is embedded at some/any/all of these (or other) sites. Remember, the numbers are going up daily. Even if your target communities are exceptionally narrow, odds are these sites capture some segment of your audience base if youembed content. Twitter: 23 million unique visitors/day; 3 million tweets/day YouTube: […]

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Gartner: Now is the time to buy marketing resource management (MRM) software

SCOTTSDALE, ARIZ. — It was a rough year for marketers, as is often the case anytime there’s a dip in the economy, but cutting back on marketing budgets doesn’t mean companies need to cut back on marketing programs, according to a speaker at this week’s Gartner CRM Summit. Last year, said Kimberly Collins, research vice […]

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