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OMMA Hollywood 2009: Mobile Advertising Case Study – Microsoft Bar Codes Mobile Ads
This is the audio podcast of the Mobile Advertising session at the OMMA 2009 conference. Download Mobile media session OMMA 2009
OMMA Hollywood 2009: Mobile Advertising Case Study – Microsoft Bar Codes Mobile Ads
This is the audio podcast of the Mobile Advertising session at the OMMA 2009 conference. OMMA 2009 - podcast of Mobile Advertising session about bar codes
ONA – LA “Beyond You Tube”
100_0254.jpg, originally uploaded by martinboz. Found this shot while doing a Pipl.com search (try it out - its fascinating) of myself. This is from the ONA meet-up that we had on March 9, 2009, about online video. It's always interesting to see yourself in photos you...
Rules for Running a Paywall/Subscription-based Online News Site
We (i.e. Singleparentcity.com and Filmson.com – don’t bother trying to find them – they both folded) tried to do this back in 1999, back in Web 1.0, and there were a lot of lessons that we learned that seem to have been lost in the mists of time.
If you are going to try to be in the business of selling information (or the way we couched it, “a fulfilling multimedia entertainment experience”) online, the thing to remember is that things happen way, way faster than they do in the offline/print world.
Audience Planbook: A Step-by-Step Plan to Transform Newspapers
It is my hope that the recent trend of newspapers actually dropping their guards a bit and talking to each other (and who knows – maybe even cooperating a little) is going to increase. Not just because it’s nice to see all the kids in the sandbox play nice, but because this looks like the only way the industry is going to come out the other side of this crisis.
…thus confirming everything I always suspected about Aerosmith fans…
We all make judgments about each other based on surface impressions – it’s what the book “Blink” was about. A couple of bearded guys in an aging VW Microbus is such a cliche that I’ll bet you immediately thought “hippie.” The cops do things like this with bumper stickers, such as when they revealed that 90% of the time they pull over a car in LA with a KROQ bumper sticker, they routinely search it for drugs (when this was reported, two things happened – KROQ screamed bloody murder and thousands of stoners went outside with razor blades and started scraping furiously). Gang members do it with shoelaces, and screeners at airports do it with twitchy body language.