Marshall Sponder writing on Smart Mobs looks forward to the day when he can create content on the fly. I'm not alone in thinking the Ultra Mobile Computers will become the dominant device (and maybe have a phone built into it too) in a year or two. It's one thing to be able to read my Gmail and look at my Webmetricsguru.com blog stats from my TMobile SideKick 3, along with taking photos of my paintings and …
Dangling Ferraris
Long Zheng writes about the fancy new machine he and many other bloggers received from Edelman, the blogger-friendly PR giant working with Microsoft to help launch Windows Vista. Microsoft gave out some timely Christmas presents to a bunch of bloggers this year. Brandon LeBlanc got one, Scott Beale got one, Barb Bowman got one, Mauricio Freitas got one, Mitch Denny got one, Zen.Heavengames got one, plus many other …
Manhattan Movers Capture The Imagination Of Millions
According to The New York Times, art imitates life then life imitates art. Thanks reality television! Last week, Anna Wintour, the editor of Vogue, agreed to allow A&E to film a documentary of the making of its September issue, usually the thickest of the year. Since the curtains were drawn open on the darker details of the genre in “The Devil Wears Prada” and “Ugly Betty,” both of which pattern characters on Ms. …
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Silk Pajama Wearers Taking It To The Bank
John Battelle is pleased with the progress his new firm, Federated Media, made in 2006. I won't gloat, but I will tell you all this: We beat my year's estimated revenues by nearly 30%, and this fall, we were booking well over a million a month in new business. By mid January or so we'll be announcing an amazing array of new sites joining FM, and I feel very confident that the model is viable. Perhaps FM won't be that …
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Play Station Three Smart, But Not Hot
Hallmark Is Writing The Book On Integrated Marketing
The New York Times explains how Hallmark's new lifestyle book is helping to reach female consumers, deepen its relationship with retailers and offer advertisers value-added exposure for their own brands. Hallmark Magazine is only in its third issue, but it has already attracted blue-chip advertisers like Kodak and Lindt chocolate. At a time when many magazines are struggling, Hallmark Magazine, published by the …
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Tight Pants…Not Just For Indie Posers Anymore
LA Times looks at the popularity of Santa Ana-based lifestyle brand KR3W. "KR3W's smoking," said Steve Carlson, general manager of Central Coast Surfboards in San Luis Obispo. "Each time I look at a new season line from them, I'm like, 'Whoa, doggie man. This one's testing me out.' " KR3W's appeal is linked to the popularity of its skaters and what Carlson calls an "urban crossover attitude" that attracts young …
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Bill Green’s Phat List Of Beefs
George Parker is the most pissed off ad blogger we know, but Bill Green can get peeved too. Here are some selections from his list of "12 or so things that bothered me this year." 2) Cellphones + drivers. 3) Chillabrations, ‘Fash’-ons and anything blinged, pimped or ‘phat’-ted. 4) No Geico cavemen sitcom. 5) Non-drunk racist celebrities who aren’t really racist. 6) Drunk racist celebrities who aren’t really …
