June 2006

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Advertising in Blogs and Banner Blindness

Forrester finds (via DM News) in their Report ,”Interactive Marketing Channels to Watch in 2006,” that the spending for advertising on the Internet is mostly e-mail, search, contextual targeting, and rich media. The advertisers are curious about social media things (like blogs) but do not plan to get “into the game” yet…
Let’s find out [...]

Podcasting, Audio, Video and iTunes

There is a really good article on Wired today: podcasting after iTunes. If you want to learn the (still short and young) history of podcasting give it a read!
You also gets a little into video podcasting or video blogging. The ratio audio-video is about 10-to-1. And if we take the whole picture we maybe have [...]

Corporate Blogging

Is your company offering a corporate weblog? If not than you should at least be planning for one! Jupiter Research finds that 34% of Corporations have a weblog and 35% plan to have one this year.
Addition: Jupiter did not publish anything how their numbers add up compared to other studies made. See JupiterResearch Passes Around [...]

ION media player for podcasts and the Web

This time i would like to introduce ION: a java based player for media on the Web. A few days ago a new version ha come out that is really great! Use it!
From the Site comes the following description. Experience the Media Web:
A Media Console: ION makes it easy for you to find, manage and [...]

Why buy a HD camera?

What is mostly seen in these days are short films taken with the camera build into a mobile phone. But now you can also watch a Full-length film shot on phone as the Guardian reports.
This technique demanded a new approach to filming due to the limitations of the camera in the mobile phones as of [...]

Microsoft TV in France first

IPTV is getting more and more attention these days! The news from Reuters shows that also the big players (here Deutsche Telekom owned Club Internet) are starting serious offerings.
Deutsche Telekom’s French Internet arm, Club Internet, will be the first in Europe to sell Microsoft’s software for TV and video on demand over Internet Protocol networks [...]

Does the music industrie need to do more community work ?

JupiterResearch Finds That MySpace Music Community Activity Far Outpaces Online Music Sites:
Jupiter says that Communities influence music choice and discovery far more than Online stores or e.g. MTV.com. Take MySpace: it seems more “real” to people searching and discovering music. You also find MySpace band pages through you friends what implies a higher trust.
Have you [...]

Ever wanted to teach?

There are many new sites coming up. This one is really trying to change another field: teaching. You can create own courses at: nuvvo. Give it a try!
eLearning is something that will rapidly develop in the coming years. Now everybody can do the teaching. Is this giving us better material to learn from? Let’s find [...]

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