links for 2007-08-28
Posted by derickson on Aug 28th, 2007
2007
Aug 28
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When the redesigned NFL.com was unveiled, pro football bloggers everywhere cried because the new site broke their links to player profiles. How did the NFL stumble into this marketing blunder?
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Some subscribers to DIRECTV’s popular package will get an additional bonus this year, as the NFL and DIRECTV have announced that those signing up for the satellite TV provider’s SuperFan package will be able to watch the games streamed live to their PC.
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Watch Typolution, a fantastic animated short about pollution using only music by Ratatat and typographic characters to convey its message.
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New online only Minnesota news site.
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Managers heading up a new daily online news Web site say more than 20 veteran Twin Cities journalists, including two Pulitzer Prize winners, have committed to make regular contributions to MinnPost.com.
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A BUSINESS strategy of The New York Times to get its articles to pop up first in Internet searches is creating a perplexing problem: long-buried information about people that is wrong, outdated or incomplete is getting unwelcome new life.
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Are designers the new journalists? God help us, but it may be true, judging from the number of young talents who have taken to the keyboard.
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In a joint venture that involves millions in up-front cash and a 50-50 split of ad revenues, the network and the two creative partners have agreed to create a hub to spread “South Park”-related material across the Net, mobile platforms, and video game
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Joel Kramer, the former editor and publisher of The Star Tribune of Minneapolis, is expected today to announce plans for an online, nonprofit daily newspaper for the Minneapolis-St. Paul area, the country’s 14th largest media market.
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When YouTube pitched its new advertising format to me, it described the semitransparent ads it is overlaying on videos as “something that has not been available before.” It probably should have added: “on YouTube.”
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Two weeks ago, a Facebook member in Manchester, England, added her name to an online campaign to bring back a chocolate bar called Wispa, discontinued by its maker, Cadbury, four years ago.
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Amid the disdain, and without many people noticing, micropayments have arrived — just not in the way they were originally envisioned. The 99 cents you pay for a song on iTunes is a micropayment.
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Digital marketing blog.
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Comedy video sharing site.
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As Long-form Content Becomes Bite-Size, Make Everything on Your Site Eembeddable
