Joost Receives $45 Million In Funding
Internet television service Joost has raised $45 million in venture funding from five companies.
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Internet television service Joost has raised $45 million in venture funding from five companies.
Media companies have started sending a message that they view Google as the enemy. Time Warner CEO Richard Parsons described Google and its ilk as Custer in his last stand.
Chad White has a great blog today on Email Insider called "Personality Goes a Long Way." Lots of people have written about this before, but Chad has great examples all taken from e-mail marketing, which has always seemed to have less personality than blogs, for example. Here are Chad's three big ideas, which I heartily endorse:
Most of us hold professionalism in high esteem. We consider ourselves professionals of one sort or another. We try to "act professional." But more and more, I am running into professionalism run amok. When professionalism starts to mean that you are the expert and you don't make any mistakes, I think it's misguided.
While doing some RSS feeds catchup, I actually bumped again into a weblog post that I have been meaning to share a thought or two for a little while now since it has been out there in the open for a few weeks already.
The saying “all publicity is good publicity,” has, I think, been pretty much dismissed by now. But to what degree, and in what instances? Sage Lewis, founder and president of Sage Rock, considered those questions (among others) during his talk on “Measuring the Impact of Social Media” at yesterday’s SEW Live event.