Category Archives: media

Mirror.me Reflects Your Online Social Identity

Tweetmirror.me is the latest web app to mash up a user’s Twitter data and spit it back in beautiful tag clouds, graphs, and pie charts. My profile is both a flattering and — I’d say — accurate representation of my … Continue reading

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National Geographic’s Plan for Digital Subscriptions, iPhone and iPad Apps for Everything

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Google I/O 2011 Round-Up: Chromebooks and The Cloud

TweetGoogle took us further into the digital media future with some compelling announcements at the fourth annual Google I/O developers conference in San Francisco this week. Recent Google I/O keynotes seem silly in retrospect — both Google Wave and Buzz … Continue reading

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Interview: AOL’s Debbie Menin on Branded Content, Online Video and how Social Media Influences Marketing

I spoke with AOL’s Entertainment Practice Head Debbie Menin at Digital Hollywood Spring 2011 last week at the Ritz in Marina del Rey. We discussed the different ways in which consumers are using social media to inform purchases and decisions and how that in turn is informing the advertising industry. Menin also gave me the lowdown on the latest trends on branded content and how and why consumers share content using social media (based on recent AOL – Nielsen research). Continue reading

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Spotify MP3 Downloads: Better than Amazon and iTunes?

TweetSpotify now offers users various packages for purchasing downloads of the tracks already streamable via the service. A single track goes for $1.29 cents a track but for $50 you can download 100 tracks (that’s 50 cents a pop). The … Continue reading

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Interview: Ooyala’s Chris Wong on Trends in Online Video and Advertising

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