Sony to make movie from "Christian the Lion" YouTube weeper [Clips] (5)
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It was sweet when Bree and Dan posted corresponding "Boy Problems" and "Girl Problems" videos during the first LonelyGirl15 run. Yeah, it's heart-rending when crows mother kittens. But YouTube's biggest tearjerker has to be the story of Christian the Lion — coming to a theater near you, courtesy of Sony. The story: Two British guys adopt a lion cub in 1969, raise it for a couple years and then release it into the wild. Later, ...
5 rules for making a company video worth watching [] (4)
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Austin-based interactive ad agency Tocquigny embarrassed itself with a video meant to show prospective interns how fun it is to work at the company over the summer. Instead of showing how quirky and Internet-savvy Tocquigny was, it proved to be a turnoff — and a ripoff. Besides not copying someone else's work, what could Tocquigny have done differently? Using five examples the agency should have followed, we'll explain how to do a self-promotional corporate video ...
Facebook's search engine second fastest-growing on the Web [Microsoft] (1)
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What did Microsoft get when it signed a deal in August to serve ads against search results on Facebook? The right to make money off the second-fastest growing search engine on the Internet, according to a ComScore study. Facebook served 173 million search queries in July 2008, up 10 percent from 157 million in July 2007. Facebook doesn't allow its users to search the rest of Web from its site. Even then, its search engine ...
Polls: Where did Google rip off its Chrome icon? (6)
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On Blogoscoped, obsessive Google watcher Philipp Lenssen has posted an exhaustive list of "Google Chrome Tips and Pointers." Go there if you are, for example, a freeloading jerk who wants to learn how to install ad blockers in Chrome. But I think the best part of the FAQ is the question Lenssen raises about where the logo came from. Voice your preferred theory in our poll: Gawker Media polls require Javascript; if you're viewing this ...
Apple geniuses make 56 percent more than Geek Squad agents [Careers] (4)
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Company-review site Glassdoor says that according to employees at both companies, Apple's repair technicians — known as "geniuses," with the attitude to match — make $18.30 per hour and $36,000 per year on average. That's about 56 percent more than Best Buy's Geek Squad "agents," who earn $11.58 per hour and $23,000 per year. The reason for the difference? Apple's "geniuses" are tasked with repairing beautiful objects that restore your sense of childlike wonder, whilst ...
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Google Street View steers clear of Obama's neighborhood [Your Privacy Is An Illusion] (3)
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The image associated with this post is best viewed using a browser.Google has kept its camera-mounted Priuses away from Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama's Chicago house, a tipster notes — even the entire neighborhood. Start your vast left-wing conspiracy theories! Did Obama pull strings with Google to maintain his family's privacy? Come on: Images of Obama's house are all over the Web. There are aerial views of the home on Google and Microsoft's online maps, ...
eBay couldn't sell Sarah Palin's jet - She took a loss! (10)
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During her speech at the Republican National Convention, VP nominee and Alaska governor Sarah Palin said that when she took office she first started cutting state spending by selling her predecessor's jet. Then Palin nailed a crowd-pleaser saying: "I put it on eBay." And it's true, she did. But eBay, then helmed by Palin's fellow RNC speaker Meg Whitman, couldn't handle the business. Palin's people listed the jet three times on the site, but no ...
58 percent of Internet users haven't even heard of social networks [Stats] (2)
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Sheryl Sandberg's right! We've teased Facebook's overserious COO for talking up Facebook's need to sign up more users before figuring out how it's going to make billions of dollars off of them. But analytics firm eMarketer says only 42 percent of the Internet-using world knows about social networks. Translation: A lucky 58 percent are not burdened with worrying about whether they've made anybody's top friends list. Heck, while we're at it: Less than a quarter ...
Users booted for Facebook spam cry to the Washington Post about it [Great Moments In Journalism] (7)
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Elizabeth Coe sent 100 friends a link to her company's website. This feat got her booted from Facebook — and got her featured in the opening of a Washington Post story about Facebook's spam-fighting effort. Facebook is now banning users who ask too many people to be friends all at once, send too many messages, join too many groups, or "poke" too many people. "All I was doing is using it to communicate more efficiently, ...
Wal-Mart sponsors blog that says "Nigger Obama Eats Babies" [Online Advertising] (3)
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Through a third-party, retailing giant Wal-Mart sponsors a white supremacist's blog that describes a desire for presidential candidate Barack Obama to be "tied up, gang raped, and have his neck cut" as "what we're all thinking." Walmart recently changed its logo and began touting its "green" initiatives in order to revamp its brand image. Guess one of Wal-Mart's many ad agencies —Mediavest, Martin Agency, or perhaps Triball DDB — didn't get the memo. We've got ...
Uh oh, the b-tards got their hands on Google's Chrome comic [4chan] (51)
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The image associated with this post is best viewed using a browser.The seditious perverts on bizzaro community board 4chan got their grubby hands on Google's Chrome comic and now they're doing to it what they already did to cute cat pictures when they came up with LOLcats. 4chan links don't stay static and we found the images preserved at Yayhooray. Sure, more topical and certainly more earnest parodies of Google's Chrome Comic are already out ...
The 5 most laughable terms of service on the Net [Terms Of Disservice] (16)
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Nobody reads terms of service agreements, those legal documents new users have to click a box to say they've read. And the truth is, they hardly matter to anybody but the cyber-rights-now crowd who get worked up by articles on Boing Boing, and the paranoid lawyers at large Web companies who want to avoid money-fishing lawsuits. But sometimes they go far beyond protecting corporate interests into la-la land. Did you know that when you download ...
Wal-Mart sponsors a blog that says "Nigger Obama Eats Babies" [Online Advertising] (3)
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Through a third-party, retailing giant Wal-Mart sponsors a white supremacist's blog that describes a desire for presidential candidate Barack Obama to be "tied up, gang raped, and have his neck cut" as "what we're all thinking." Walmart recently changed its logo and began touting its "green" initiatives in order to revamp its brand image. Guess one of Wal-Mart's many ad agencies —Mediavest, Martin Agency, or perhaps Triball DDB — didn't get the memo. We've got ...
Google founder on no Chrome for Macs: "It's embarrassing" [Clips] (9)
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After this press conference to announce Google's new Web browser, Chrome, Google cofounder Sergey Brin asked BoomTown's Kara Swisher if she'd try it out. "But you don't have a Mac version, baby, so no," Swisher tells him in this clip, excerpted from Swisher's longer interview. "I know, I know, it's embarrassing," says Brin. "When is that coming out?" Swisher asks. Brin, perhaps regretting taking questions from such a mean lesbian, looks over his shoulder for ...
Newsflash: Apple to unveil new products at new-products event [Rumormonger] (1)
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At a press conference scheduled for September 9, Apple will unveil "unspecified new products," reports Reuters. Thanks, Reuters guys — that really helps! The event's theme is "let's rock." In August, Digg cofounder Kevin Rose predicted Apple would announce a new iPod Nano, minor changes to its iPod Touch, price cuts to older iPod models and version 8.0 of iTunes — in other words, the same kind of update to its iPod product line Apple ...
Why Madison Avenue thinks Google is lame [Online Advertising] (4)
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Google now employs 40 people whose sole job it is to charm Madison Avenue, reports the Times. They're doing it all wrong. Google's agency-relations team swarms in with candy, beanbags, and iPods, bringing the kindergarten esthetic of the Googleplex to ad buyers' offices. The implicit message: Google believes people in the advertising industry are as naïve as fresh-out-of-college Googlers, and their obedience can be bought with sugary treats. The effort to woo the admen may ...
Facebook makes as much as $42 million off pointless "Gifts" [Social Networks] (2)
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After too much math, Jeremy Liew of Lightspeed Venture Partners estimates that Facebook earns between $28 million and $42 million allowing its users to buy icons as gifts for each other. Lightspeed came up with the revenue numbers by watching how much users spent on the icons for a week and then multiplying that number by 73.3. Uh, why not 52? Because Facebook Gift sales go up during the holidays, just like real useless merchandise. ...
Microsoft hiring for an iPhone App Store rival [Skymarket] (1)
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AppleInsider spotted a job posting from Microsoft looking for a product manager. The gig: Bring to market a widget directory for Windows Mobile similar to the iTunes App Store for the iPhone, which Apple CEO Steve Jobs said earned $30 million in revenues during its first month in business. Microsoft called the store "Skymarket" in the now-removed job posting, an unfortunate name which reminds us of 2004 flop Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow), ...
Facebook movie to be based on Ben Mezrich's controversial tell-all [Hollywood] (2)
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Aaron Sorkin is indeed working on a Facebook movie — which Valleywag readers think should star Superbad's Michael Cera — but not with Facebook's permission, says a company flack. "We are routinely approached by writers and filmmakers interested in telling the Facebook story. We are certainly flattered by the attention and interest, but at this point, have not agreed to cooperate with any film project." Probably the main reason Facebook wants no part of Sorkin's ...
