USA Today claims "Oil has yet to hit problematic height" in a headline today. "At some point, high oil prices have to matter," says David Briggs, head of global equity trading at Federated Investors. "When Joe Six Pack has to start paying $50 to fill up his tank, you have to think they will stop buying Frappuccinos and bottled water." It cost me $44 to fill my tank before work this morning. It would have been $48 if …
The $8.5 Million Dollar Curry
Market Watch: A pair of top venture-capital firms are putting their money where Adam Curry's mouth is. The former MTV VJ has secured $8.85 million in backing for his venture, PodShow Inc. "There is little that gets Valley girls and boys as hot and bothered as when an Internet company gets funded by both Sequoia Capital and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers," Private Equity Week reported Thursday. Previous investments …
Blogs Trump Chat Rooms As Advertising Vehicle
Ad Age ponders the wisdom of advertising on consumer-controlled spaces. Blogs require caution, but are much more predictable than chat rooms. "The blogs we would encourage people to advertise on have a small number of authors, one, two or three tops. In chat rooms, anyone can post," said Scott Rafer, CEO of Feedster, a blog and RSS search engine and ad network, who is building technology to monitor and filter blogs. …
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One Man Gathers What Another Man Spills
Yesterday, on the 10th anniversary of Garcia's passing, Seth asked, "What Would Jerry Do?" More than Campbell's Soup or American Airlines or CAA or Cisco or McKinsey, the Grateful Dead is the template for how organizations are going to grow and succeed moving forward. No, not every element of who they were and what they did, but the idea of conversations and open source, the idea of souvenirs and emotion and live …
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Score One For Sarcasm
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Amateur Needed
Want to be CBS's first podcaster? The network is searching for an amateur DJ to interview CBS stars and create a podcast about the new fall season. The podcaster will join the nation's top DJs at the CBS Radio Junket on September 10 in Hollywood to interview CBS talent for the podcast, which will be made available to millions via CBS.com and Infinity Broadcasting's San Francisco-based KYOURADIO, the world's …
Blogging At The Cellular Level
People are increasingly using their cell phones--or handheld media centers, as the case may be--to create their blogs. The practice is known as Mobloging, or mobile blogging. Nokia wants to make the process easier and more widespread. They've coined the term Lifeblog (a proprietary version of Moblog) and teamed with Six Apart, who have made their Typepad product Lifeblog-compatible. Here are three Lifeblog examples, …
The Art Of Big Boxes
Thanks to a pointer from Meta Cool, I now know to go to COSTCO for my next purchase of an original Miro, Picassso, Chagall, Toulouse-Lautrec or Leroy Neiman. This limited edition lithograph, signed and numbered by the artist is fetching a cool $3999.99 …