Facebook Success Doesn’t Equal LinkedIn Death
I don’t know if it’s a human nature thing or a Western civilization thing, but it seems a lot of the time we focus on winners, damn the rest, and assume that when one supplants the other the other drones on eternally in obscurity rather than the two coexisting. We do this even though Coke and Pepsi, McDonald’s and Burger King, Wal-Mart and Target all coexist in free market bliss.
Search, Mickey D’s, Or Coke, Branding Is Powerful
Here’s a challenge for you: raise a child unexposed to branding. Good luck with it. This article isn’t about parenting, though, it’s about the power of the brand. A recent study revealed preschoolers think even milk and carrots wrapped up with McDonald’s golden arches tastes better.
Cycling Site Sold To JumpTV
Last month, Cycling.tv made distribution deals with Blinkx and Joost; we’ll call that “good.” What’s “bad” is that Cycling.tv lost about $1 million last year, and the official site suffers from some technical problems. Now, after (presumably) weighing these matters, JumpTV has acquired the cycling property for $4.95 million.
Veoh Squares Off With Universal
Internet Television company Veoh is suing Universal Music Group in federal court to reinforce its rights as a copyright complaint company under the safe harbor provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).
PR & Social Media Still Oil & Water
In many ways, the recent discussion of Marketwire’s acquisition of PRNN and how it was positioned as an example of the pioneering developments in Social Media and news distribution reminds me a bit of PRWeek’s claim that PR was entering an era of PR 3.0.
Yahoo Launches Green Icon Contest
Yahoo’s in need of a “Green icon.” What’s that, you ask? Well, it may be your call – the search company is holding a design contest to find this icon, and will donate $20,000 to an environmental nonprofit agency of the winner’s choice.
29% Of Technorati Top 100 Never Hit Digg Home Page
I heard about this story from Glen yesterday about his extensive research into the correlation between the Technorati 100 and Digg home page stories.
Google Starts Shared Storage Service
Google users can boost their available storage for Gmail and Picasa Web Albums to as much as 250GB for an annual fee.
Windows Live Takes A SkyDrive
The product formerly known as Windows Live Folders has been renamed and opened up to people in the US, UK, and India.
Doodle 4 Google Contest Creates Huge Response
When I first wrote about Google Australia’s Doodle 4 Google contest, I thought it was a nice idea – “nice idea” meaning a warm-fuzzies PR initiative that not a lot of people would notice. But people are noticing, and a new post on the Official Google Australia Blog quantifies the matter.