A good friend of mine posted what I think has to be a response to the latest hoax which has some thinking that Facebook going public means that earlier copyright agreement are negated. CBSNews notes that ” Facebook members own the intellectual property (IP) that is uploaded to the social network, but depending on their privacy and applications settings,
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In some ways Google Streetview is akin to those photo projects where numerous photographers contribute a slice of life to a project in a day. Though Streetview captures the street-scape as is, it also captures it over many different periods so you may see sun and sky on one street and then turn up another and see snow and cloud
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The Google Ngram Viewer is a phrase-usage graphing tool which charts the yearly count of selected n-grams (letter combinations), words, or phrases, as found in over 5.2 million books digitized by Google Inc (up to 2008). The words or phrases (or ngrams) are matched by case-sensitive spelling, comparing exact uppercase letters, and plotted on the graph if found in 40
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Veterans Affairs Canada has created a new Facebook app called I Remember which is a remembrance montage for its Canada Remembers page. Use the montage to view photos, videos, stories and messages from followers about Veterans, friends, family and other Canadians who have served in conflict and in peace, including messages of support to the men and women in uniform
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CBC is running a contest for those with a creative mind. Put your audio imagination into an animation creation: Calling all animators! What does WireTap look like to you? WireTap is launching its first-ever animation contest and we want you to enter! It’s easy: all you have to do is download one of three contest-approved mp3s, animate it in the style of your choice–stop-motion, hand-drawn,
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QR codes are spurring consumers to take action with response rates that are higher than other direct marketing tactics, according to a new report from Nellymoser. The report, “Scan Response Rates in National Magazines,” found that readers of national magazines scan QR codes, Microsoft Tags, digital watermarks and other mobile action codes at an average rate of 6.4 percent. The
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Election Day south of the border. There is a lot of online coverage happening. Right or left, news media outlets in the US seem to bend to one way or the other it seems. Here in Canada, there is also coverage like other countries, of the most expensive election ever (the cost of this election of over $6,000,000,000 is
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Forrester released a great study in 2011 about Interactive Marketing in a forcast up to 2016. Specifically the report section I wanted to share was regarding amount spent in terms of budgets, and planning for those budgets. Here is that segment: By 2016, advertisers will spend $77 billion on interactive marketing — as much as they do on television today.
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A great podcast from the CBC Radio show, The Age of Persuasion with Terry O’Reilly In the logical, rational, results driven world of advertising, some of the best creative ideas can be mighty difficult to sell to a client. From Saturday June 23, 2012: Leaving Your Mark (runs 27:30)
Morley Winograd, co-author of “Millennial Momentum”, looks at millennials and how the generation is changing office culture. And how Gen X are again squeezed as predicted by the boomers who hang on and the millenials who expect the world. Keep the faith Gen X. We are the ones who know how to act and know how to not be expectant.
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