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Spy Plane As Propaganda Tchotchke
An Iranian company Aaye Art Group ("designer and manufacturer of artistic and cultural goods") is making replicas of the American RQ-170 drone aircraft downed in Iran last month: "Most of the toys,...
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In Memoriam: Kodak Scenic Spots
I took my first Kodak Photo Spot (wiki) pictures at my spring break trip to the Disney World in the mid-1990s, and through all these years I've never stopped admiring their genius. It's a marketing...
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Future: The Pirate Bay Loads Up on Physical Goods
Not science fiction anymore, this: "Once chairs and other things become content, the prospect of rampant chair piracy turns from unimaginable into very real." The Pirate Bay is opening a new category...
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Convert Your RSS Into Email Newsletters With Ads
This is a sponsored post. RevResponse, a company that helps bloggers make money by selling and giving away white papers and magazine subscriptions, has a new nifty tool that converts a blog's RSS feed...
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Why Facebook Will Do Search And Why Google Needs Social
Mark Zuckerberg posted a picture of himself in front of his computer, and an eagle-eyed blogger noticed that his version of Facebook sports a larger-than-usual search box. An unintended leak or not,...
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Instead Of Sales, They Seek Applause
From a book about which David Ogilvy is quoted as saying: "Nobody, at any level, should be allowed to have anything to do with advertising until he has read this book seven times": "Advertising is...
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The Illustrated Anatomy of a Viral Pinterest Scam
Update: Part II - How The Scammers Hijacked Facebook Likes It started with a tweet from a friend: Never one to pass a scam, I dutifully clicked and landed on a page with this URL:...
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How To Hijack Facebook Likes, and Other Social Engineering
The Pinterest Giveaway Scam got pretty big today; at one point about 10% of Pinterest homepage pins were scam pins. In addition to the Starbucks offer, I counted at least three others -- for H&M,...
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California Dogs Tune Into Their Own TV Channel
Cats can has cheezburger, but dogs are getting their own TV programming. San Diego dogs subscribed to Cox or Time Warner now have their own 24/7 TV channel called DogTV, soon to roll out nationwide....
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Putin, Viagra, and The Unfortunate Ad Placement of the Day
A new puppet show in Russia shows Vladimir Putin fighting the loss of his penis, according to this Reuters story that was accompanied by a I Can't Believe It's Viagra banner.
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Google Still Indexes AdSense Ads As Content; Top Search Result Are PDFs
Four years ago, I noticed that Google was indexing AdSense ads as if it were content on the host pages. I thought I'd check to see if they were still doing it. The reason I care is that, for Google,...
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Play Scrabble Over Twitter With TwitterScrabble
Arrange 100 characters into the highest-scoring tweet of the day to win your box of Scrabble Trickster with this brilliant Belgian Twitter Scrabble promotion. Alas, only in Dutch. - via Digital Buzz Blog
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Pinterestorama
Pretty -- a panorama made of Pinterest boards. Saw something similar on Flickr a few years back. - via Grant
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Do People Hear Ads When They Are In a Coma?
"...when they run to the bathroom" is what I meant to ask. In case you are wondering, some studies show that people in a coma can hear.
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Pinnable Ads
Saw this page on AdKeeper, the company that is trying to make online advertising bookmarkable. This could be an interesting way for Pinterest itself to make money: becoming a network for ads that...
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In Case of Emergency, Eat This Book
Land Rover in the United Arab Emirates printed 5,000 edible copies of a desert survival guide. Twenty-eight pages of potato-based starch paper have a slightly sugary taste from the glycerin-based ink...
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Google's Screenwise Project Listens To TV Habits
Google's Screenwise research project announced back in February is designed to collect data on more than just Internet behavior. In addition to custom wireless routers that gather information on...
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A Cheat Code in Halo 4 Box Art Puzzle
Microsoft unveiled the box art for the upcoming Halo 4 game by emailing Xbox community members one of the 32 pieces of puzzle that when assembled together reveal the image. The puzzle was cracked in...
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Going to ARF's Audience Measurement Conference
For a recent experiment, we divided respondents into two groups. To both groups, we showed a trailer for an upcoming movie. One group was given two different descriptions for the trailer (as if there...
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We Must Blaze A Trail To New Media [1946]
Found a small stack of PDFs of scans of old issues of Grey Matter, Grey's research newsletters the agency sent out to media ("since 1935"). Particularly cool is a 1997 retrospective (pdf) of what Grey...
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New York Agency To Host Competition for Marketing Technology Start-ups
A note from EDGE Collective: On September 27, EDGE Collective is hosting their inaugural event Expand My Brand, an all day symposium matching up today’s top brands with emerging technologies and...
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I Miss My Old Media
I miss all the news that fit to print -- not all the news, and pseudo-news, and churnalism, and press releases published verbatim, and gossip, and updates to gossip, and galleries, and listicles that...
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The Power to Do More
Every time I see this, I wonder if it shouldn't be the exact opposite. Nobody sells the dishwasher promising people that now, finally, they can do more dishes. The washing machine rumbling in my...
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Does Subliminal Advertising Work?
We attempted to reconstruct a famous 1950s experiment with subliminal advertising by inserting very brief flashes of certain words in this video clip. Take a look at this video with subliminal...
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