Today the keynote is Mark Zuckerberg, father of Facebook. I’ll be interested to see if he addresses the repercussions of all those application notices, invitations,  and commercial spam that’s disguised as a Facebook “group” that are flooding user homepages.  If you have a Facebook account and have checked it recently you know exactly what I’m […]

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I ran across this little commentary on the future of spending for online advertising at GigaOM and thought that I’d share. From November 7:
This being the week of ad:tech, news of online advertising has dominated the conversation: from MySpace’s hyper- targeted ads to Facebook’s new ad system to broadband advertising systems introduced by companies […]

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A follow-up from my post yesterday about the Nissan Rogue and their new advertising.
I’m jealous of the boys at Chiat:

Reminds me of the new Wired article posted last week:
When Reality Feels Like Playing a Game, a New Reality Has Begun
Chroma Blog Post about the merger of gaming and reality.
Adfreak Blog Post about the Rogue campaign.
Gaming Culture […]

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I have recently become a junky for Heroes.  I say recently because I’m a year late to the party. 
After rushing to finish the first season in only two weeks via Netflix, I geared up for the second season only to discover it had already started.  Nice timing, NBC.
Fortunately, NBC has one of the best online […]

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2006:

2007:

human joystick theater advertising Volvo

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