BrandBrains

• Drop Trio: Big Dipper
  (tags: indie music jazz droptrio magatune)
• Virgin Mobile Sued Over Use of Flickr Photo
  “…The family is claiming the ads caused “grief and humiliation,” and that the photographer was not properly credited.”
  (tags: copyright law photography web2.0 flickr virginmobile photo creativecommons)
• Google Beating Facebook at its Own Game?
  “So how will Google beat Facebook at its own game? Be even more open than Facebook ever was. Google plans to announce a new set of APIs on November 5th, says Techcrunch, enabling developers to build on Google’s social graph data.”
  (tags: api facebook google socialnetworking web web2.0 digitalmedia)
• Podaddies Partners with Apple for Quicktime Ads
  “This is an interesting deal, as Apple does not provide ad-support content. Podaddies already provides technology to play ads on connected iPods and iPhones, and is working on creating the same technology for disconnected devices as well.”
  (tags: apple ipod quicktime itunes podaddies advertising digitalmedia video audio podcasting iphone ipodtouch)
• Visible Technologies
  (tags: advertising analytics brand branding brandmanagement business buzz cgm marketing reputation monitoring online media)
• Shoutlet: The Web 2.0 Marketing Tool
  “Shoutlet is a powerful social media marketing tool. Distribute and track your content through email, mobile phone (SMS), RSS feeds & more.”
  (tags: advertising aggregator analysis blogging blogs business buzz im media social tool web2.0 marketing digitalmedia socialnetworking socialnetworks)
• Dimdim Launches Open Source Web Meeting Service
  “…100% free method to hold web meetings of just a few people or a gathering of a few hundred. The features are rich and expansive and include things such as sharing desktops, showing slides, talking, listening, chatting, and broadcasting via webcam.”
  (tags: free opensource software dimdim webmeetings webex placeware gotomeeting business collaboration)
• Quantcast Launches New Analytics Tools
  “Flash media, widgets, and videos can all be tracked now to see not only how many times your site is being viewed, but also data on your widgets and other embeddable media.”
  (tags: analytics marketing measurement quantcast digitalmedia widgets flash streamingmedia)
• Disney to halt U.S. mobile phone service at year-end
  Disney Internet Group President Steve Wadsworth said in a statement the company found the business to be “a difficult proposition in the hyper-competitive U.S. mobile phone market.”
  (tags: disney mvno wireless digitalmedia cellphones mobilephones mobilecontent)

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