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| Yahoo Adds Shortcuts to Travel Section in SERPs |
| Published: July 26, 2007, 6:21 pm |
| Tags: Technology, International, Yahoo, Social Networking, Marketing, Seo |
| Yahoo just launched a really cool new feature that shows you travel related content on travel.yahoo.com for the city or location that you searched. Take a look at the new format: Yahoo’s new format features several important things that people look for when they type-in a geo-related search: Visitor guide, Hotels, Restaurant guide, Maps, |
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| Divx to spin off its Stage6 video-sharing site |
| Published: July 26, 2007, 2:30 pm |
| Tags: Investing, Technology, Mobile, Marketing |
| Divx to spin off its Stage6 video-sharing site: Stage6, a site featuring user-created videos that uses technology from its publicly traded parent company Divx, has been growing so fast that Divx has experienced a sharp up-tick in operating expenses, lowering its overall operating income. So San Diego's DivX will spin out Stage6, which will now |
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| Going.com Raises $5 Million To Market It's Event Site |
| Published: July 26, 2007, 1:22 pm |
| Tags: Technology, Investing, Social Networking, Acquisitions, Marketing, Domains |
| Going.com is really getting things going in the fundraising strategy, raising $5 million to help its self grow quicker than it’s competition. Going.com has grow to a half million users, most of which are in the hot demographic of 20-somethings from San Francisco, New York City, Chicago and Boston. General Catalyst and Highland Capital have |
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| 50+ Tools For The WordPress Admin |
| Published: July 26, 2007, 12:56 pm |
| Tags: Technology, Blogging, Gadgets, Copywriting, Social Networking, Marketing, Mobile, Domains |
| Mashable has a great list of over 50 tools for Wordpress Admin management. Here’s the full list, and there are more details over at Mashable. 404 Notifier - Gives you a log of all your 404 errors so you can see why your readers are ending up on broken pages. Admin Dropdown Menus - Make your crowded admin panel menus neat and orderly by |
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| Jangl Signs Justin.tv - Reaching 20 Million People |
| Published: July 26, 2007, 12:09 pm |
| Tags: Blogging, Technology, Social Networking, Mobile, Marketing |
| Jangl, the VoIP service that's integrated with various social networks online, has grown to reach over 20 million people as a result of signing four deals with more online communities. The four companies that have partnered with Jangl are Various, Inc., Justin.tv, Fubar and Revision3. Various, Inc. is the parent company of FriendFinder, and has |
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| Business.com Sells for nearly $350 million |
| Published: July 26, 2007, 11:54 am |
| Tags: International, Technology, Acquisitions, Marketing, Domains |
| a deal for Web-based marketing directory Business.com Inc. for between $340 million and $360 million, according to a person familiar with the transaction. In 1999 business.com was founded by Jake Winebaum and Sky Dayton that bought the name for $7.5 million, which was a lot of money at the time for a domain name. Marc Ostrofsky sold the |
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| Suing Facebook: Oh Wait You Mean I need Evidence to Sue? |
| Published: July 26, 2007, 11:03 am |
| Tags: Legal, Blogging, Technology, Google, Marketing |
| The battle over facebook intellectual property is heating up as the Gederal Judge pushes back in Boston. Massachusetts Federal Judge Douglas P. Woodlock repeatedly suggested that ConnectU hadn't provided enough evidence to support their claim that Zuckerberg had built Facebook on code used by ConnectU. Claims must have a factual basis, the |
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| New Star Trek and Cloverfield 1-18-08 Movie Posters |
| Published: July 26, 2007, 3:54 pm |
| Tags: Movie Marketing, Paramount Pictures, Sci Fi Fantasy, Action Adventure, Sequels And Remakes, Poster, Cloverfield, Jj Abrams, Star Trek |
| I’m sitting in Hall H for the Paramount panel, so this is a quick update. Paramount has given us the new posters for the JJ Abrams produced monster flick code-named Cloverfield and his upcoming Star Trek prequel. It looks liked “Monsterous” has been removed from the poster. I wonder if Paramount had secound thoughts about the |
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| Comic-Con Preview: 20 Minutes of Beowulf 3D |
| Published: July 26, 2007, 3:35 pm |
| Tags: Adaptation, Paramount Pictures, Movie Marketing, Animation, Sci Fi Fantasy, Action Adventure, Beowulf, Neil Gaiman, Roger Avary |
| Last night a movie theater full of film press packed a big digital theater in downtown San Diego to watch 20 minutes of Robert Zemeckis’ Beowulf. Screenwriters Roger Avary and Neil Gaiman were on hand to field questions following the screening. The screening started late because the theater was at the end of a multi-level labyrinth they |
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| Bus Photos: Spaceballs Animated Series and WarGames: The Dead Code |
| Published: July 26, 2007, 5:27 am |
| Tags: Direct To Dvd, Comic Conventions, Comic Con, Television, Images, Movie Marketing, Action Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Sci Fi Fantasy, Sequels And Remakes, Spaceballs, Wargames The Dead Code |
| While waiting outside of Comic Con , we ran into two busses decked out in full promotion for the upcoming Spaceballs animated series and the WarGames direct to DVD sequel. We were able to snap off a couple photos before they drove away. We’ve written at lengths about our disgust for movie studios raping some of our favorite films for a few |
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| Beowulf Movie Trailer |
| Published: July 26, 2007, 5:18 am |
| Tags: Paramount Pictures, Adaptation, Movie Marketing, Sci Fi Fantasy, Action Adventure, Horror, Movie Trailers, Beowulf |
| I just got back to our hotel from the big Beowulf footage premiere and party at Comic-Con 2007. One of the many things they showed us was this movie trailer, but in digital 3D. I’m interested in hearing what you guys think of this one because on the computer screen it looks a little flat to me. The trailer is definitely a lot cooler when it |
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| Indiana Jones 4 Poster Revealed at Comic-Con |
| Published: July 26, 2007, 4:28 am |
| Tags: Comic Conventions, Comic Con, Paramount Pictures, Movie Marketing, Sequels And Remakes, Action Adventure, Poster, Harrison Ford, Indiana Jones 4 |
| I was surprised to find that Paramount are handing out Indiana Jones 4 teaser posters on the show floor of Comic-Con 2007. I grabbed one on my journey through the massively crowded and exhausting preview night. The new poster is a collage of past character paintings of Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones. The bottom reads Memorial Day 2008 in the |
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| New Wall-E Photo |
| Published: July 26, 2007, 4:15 am |
| Tags: Images, Disney Pixar, Movie Marketing, Sci Fi Fantasy, Drama, Animation, Wall E |
| USA Today published a new photo of Disney/Pixar’s Wall-E (Trailer, Photos). The year is 2700. WALL E, a robot, spends every day doing what he was made for. But soon, he will discover what he was meant for. From Academy Award -winning director, Andrew Stanton (Finding Nemo), WALL E is the story of one robot's comic adventures as he |
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| SAW 4 Movie Poster |
| Published: July 25, 2007, 2:52 pm |
| Tags: Lionsgate Films, Movie Marketing, Horror, Sequels And Remakes, Poster, Saw 4, Tobin Bell |
| Lionsgate has released a new international movie poster for SAW IV. The poster depicts Tobin Bell’s (who plays Jigsaw in the film series) head in a supermarket produce scale. So yes, Jigsaw is dead. The previously released official plot synopsis is below. Click on the poster image to the right to enlarge. Jigsaw and his apprentice Amanda are |
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| First Look: Robert Zemeckis' Beowulf |
| Published: July 25, 2007, 3:52 am |
| Tags: Adaptation, Paramount Pictures, Images, Sci Fi Fantasy, Movie Marketing, Action Adventure, Beowulf, Robert Zemeckis |
| The Los Angeles Times has a first look at Robert Zemeckis’ Beowulf. The article includes two brand spanking new images (seen above and to the right). Here is an interesting clipping from the newspaper’s feature: His knack for a good scrap is on show in one of the film’s pivotal fight scenes when Beowulf battles Grendel in the |
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