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…

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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.

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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.

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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).

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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.

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