links for 2006-11-01
31 10 2006-
“This Suntracker’s 3 aluminum mirrors track the sun using a tiny solar powered motor. Pretty cool way to get 1000-watts worth of lighting in your house for free.”
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“The CEO of EMI Music (you know, one of the biggest, baddest record companies out there) just recently went on the record saying that, in its current incarnation, the CD is dead.”
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“But to earn it, she couldn’t just write about her life as a single mother of two living in Tennessee. She had to essentially shill for advertisers, from Epson inkjet printers to the software product Camtasia.”
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“Radio and entertainment media giant Clear Channel is in advanced buyout talks with private equity groups Providence Equity Partners, Blackstone and KKR…”
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“Adobe…plans to spend $100 million in venture funding in the next 3-5 years to promote its software development platforms, with a particular focus on Apollo, which allows people to run Web applications without a browser.”
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“…execs are quietly looking for a partner to do the same thing with existing kids and teen franchises KOL and RED.”
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“Publishers can sign up with Brightcove, AOL’s partner, for an account that will allow them to receive up to 70 percent of the revenue generated by sales of their videos.”
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“vSocial, a Tempe, AZ-based online video services providers (white-label video services to other sites), has raised $1.5 million from investor Ron Conway and Consor Capital.”
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“Internet search is the most efficient marketing channel for customer acquisition, more than twice as efficient as yellow pages, which is next best, according to a Piper Jaffray study of five channels.”
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“sfCubed will take your contact information and tasks from Salesforce.com and automagically enter them into Address Book and iCal. Pretty sweet, huh?”
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“It’s … brought the biggest-ever traffic spike to CampaignForRealBeauty.com, three times more than Dove’s Super Bowl ad and resulting publicity last year, according to Alexa.com.”
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“Lets you turn any command line script or AppleScript into a system service, accessed from the Services menu.”
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