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• Facebook Gets Stiff-Upper Lip From Brits

  Published: August 9, 2007, 11:39 am

  Tags: News, British Advertising, British Government, Social Networks, User Generated Content, Web Sites

  other site that focuses on user-generated content. The buying agency for The Central Office of Information (COI), i-level, has been ordered to not place ads on such user-generated content sites as Facebook. The COI controls an ad budget that is worth a reported $672 million. COI director of digital media, James Galloway was quoted in the Times

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• MSNBC.com's fine Newsvine deal (MSFT, GE)

  Published: October 8, 2007, 4:45 am

  Tags: General Electric, Generalelectric, Internet, Inthenews, Joint Ventures, Jointventures, Microsoft, Msft, Msnbc Com, Newsvine Com, User Generated Content, Usergeneratedcontent

  the power of its community. Users can vote and comment on articles, which creates lots of frequency and loyalty. What's more, Newsvine will keep its identity, which is smart. It's often the case that a big organization can dampen innovation. But, I'm sure we'll start seeing some cross pollination, such as placing Newsvine features on

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• Amtrak: in The Dark on Emergency Preparedness

  Published: October 20, 2007, 5:00 pm

  Tags: Philadelphia, Amtrak, Blog, Blogger, Culture, Electrical, Emergency, Media, Power Outage, Steve Rosenbaum, Train, Ugc, User Generated Content

  An Amtrak train station suffered a power outage yesterday, plunging commuters into darkness. Amtrak issued a press release touting their quick response. [q read more

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• JS-Kit Helps Publishers Up The Integrity

  Published: November 2, 2007, 1:42 pm

  Tags: News, Comments, Js Kit, Khris Loux, Ratings, User Generated Content, Widgets

  placed next to questionable content which has not been approved by the advertiser, it creates a loss of integrity both for the site and the brand. User-generated content is the dice-roll factor that can potentially create this kind of situation, and a common place that most Internet users participate in this interactive past-time is when

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• Menupages Logo

  Published: November 9, 2007, 7:14 pm

  Tags: W3c, Awards, Golden Spiders, Internet, Web Standards, Web Design, Beaut Ie Blather, Business, Web 2 0, Social Network, E Commerce, Business Online, User Generated Content, Events

  Business Online, user-generated content,

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• Future of marketing = user conversations and content

  Published: November 10, 2007, 4:04 am

  Tags: Ugc User Generated Content

  'buzz words' for the future? User generated content. Conversations. Engagement.

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• Marketing in the 21st century

  Published: November 12, 2007, 1:31 pm

  Tags: Brian Solis Kd Paine P Amp G Seth Godin Social Media Ugc User Generated Content

  A quick round up of good posts on the subject of planning your 2008 marketing stategy. Before you plan read what Seth Godin  thinks in his latest book (thanks to Sally Falkow) P&G are going and why they are letting people build their brand (thanks to K. D. Paine) Brian

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• Seriously Awesome PlayStation Eye Usage

  Published: November 15, 2007, 12:19 pm

  Tags: Sony, Gamer Life, Game Consoles, Game Platforms, Game Companies, Playstation 3, Playstation Eye, Ps3, User Generated Content, Xbox Live Vision

  This is the single coolest thing I've ever seen either the PlayStation Eye or Xbox Live Vision cameras do. Using the PlayStation Eye, a Sony employee was able to draw something on a paper say, some ground and a spaceship and have the Eye translate that into an onscreen image that you're able to play with. One example was drawing the

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• Just steer clear for today

  Published: November 16, 2007, 10:09 am

  Tags: Rants, Internet, Business, Web 2 0, Awards, Golden Spiders, Social Network, E Commerce, Business Online, User Generated Content

  Business Online,

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• Making Money from BlogBang?

  Published: November 29, 2007, 7:20 pm

  Tags: Newstalk, Karlin Lillington, Fianna Fail, Busthoughts, Labour, Blogging, The Left, Advertising, Andrew Keen, Cult Of The Amateur, User Generated Content, Publicis, Blogbang, Righthook

  user-generated content, Publicis, BlogBang,

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• Nokia: By 2012, 25% of entertainment will be created and consumed within peer communities

  Published: December 4, 2007, 1:57 pm

  Tags: Content, Research, Nokia, Mobile Content, Nokia Content, Nokia Research, User Generated Content

  local and home-grown. See, user-generated content IS the future. Full release is available from here. ---Related Articles at IntoMobile:Nokia launches a solution to fight the "bit pipe" challengeNokia Promises An Easy Way To Kill Mobile VoIP?Informa: Mobile broadband set to explodeAttention Nokia fans in LA: Party with N Series in 3

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• :: Successful Social Networks Must be Relevant to End-User Goals

  Published: December 7, 2007, 9:05 am

  Tags: Social Networking, User Generated Content, Community

  "online communities," and "user generated content" has been around for years. It is nothing new. We've had newsgroups, bulletin boards, chat rooms, and multi-user-dimensions (MUDs). There was "Friendster" before "My Space," or even "Facebook"...so why even try to compete in this crowded landscape?Companies add community-based tools to their

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• Associated Content Signs Deal with Attributor

  Published: January 18, 2008, 11:23 am

  Tags: Articles, News, Products, Associated Content, Attributor, Content Theft, Copyright Infringement, Plagairism Prevention, Plagiarism, Plagiarism Detection, Social Media, Social News, Ugc, User Generated Content

  content site Associated Content has signed a deal with content tracking service Attributor, to not only track content posted to the site as it is copied across the Web, but also to detect potential plagiarism in author submissions. This announcement comes just over a month after Mashable discovered an author at the site plagiarizing

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• Taking a Blender to Todays Online Marketing

  Published: January 21, 2008, 11:47 am

  Tags: Real Estate Marketing, Social Networks, Bbs Systems, Compuserve, Consumer Empowerment, Conversation, Email, Fidonet, Forums, Prodigy, Thought Leadership, User Generated Content

  networks, BBS systems, Compuserve, consumer empowerment, Conversation, Email, fidonet, forums, Prodigy, Thought Leadership, user generated content

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• Continuing shift to user generated content

  Published: January 31, 2008, 2:13 pm

  Tags: Ugc User Generated Content

  Interesting comments from the CEO of the Denuo Group (a Publicis company) on the loss of command and control method of advertising (thanks to AdAge). The big issue for traditional centralised marketing is that it ignores the fact consumers want engagement and participation. Those viral campaigns and 'mash-ups' can tap into

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