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Skank blog
MediaPost Publications Tearful Model Claims ‘Skank’ Blog Damaged Her Reputation – with a skank blog the online world extends bullying into the adult world from the school yard. With concepts like the skank blog will come leaking of sexually intimate material as a media platform. Think sex tapes, but for ‘average people’. The skank blog phenomenon poses its biggest problems in markets like the US were the legal remedies are few and far between.
Beauty
Hello Kitty & MAC (Make up) Collaboration « Perspectives – I guess is a logical progression after Rupaul and Dame Edna and completely subverts the idea of celebrity endorsement. More related content here.
Business
Harley-Davidson, you’re not getting any younger – International Herald Tribune – their market is literally dying off, a serious brand reposition is required
P&G’s Lafley Sees CEOs as Links to Outside World – WSJ.com – The CEO has a very specific job that only he or she can do: Link the external world with the internal organization.
Consumer behaviour
Micro Persuasion: Social Networking Demographics: Boomers Jump In, Gen Y Plateaus – the kids dig real life
Six Ways with Social Media by Bunny Ellerin – Interbrand Healthcare – Over 150 apps on Apple App Store aimed at clinicians, half of US physicians have a smartphone or PDA of some sort
Design
Make a Lighter, Stronger Plastic Bottle
Hong Kong
thecoolhunter.net – Sevva – Hong Kong – this looks amazing
How to
50 Free Press Release Submission Websites – thanks to Rax for the heads up on this
ArrivedOK.mobi. Get your friends and family notified you landed fine
twendz : Exploring Twitter Conversations and Sentiment
Google Ads Preferences – the privacy / ad tailoring screen
Japan
Trends in Japan – CScout Japan Blog » Fashionable Beverages: TGC Milk Tea & Lawson
Event: Light-Light and Sakura Story in Tokyo – PSFK.com – Reason number 19,995 why I want to live in Tokyo.
CURIOSITY.JP – cool graphic design and experiential designers
Legal
Rivals Accuse I.B.M. of Stifling Competition to Mainframes – NYTimes.com – the interesting thing about this court case is how some of IBM’s rivals in software are trying to change the mainframe market from a vertical to horizontal marketplace. I don’t think its really about antitrust, and IBM maybe a precursor to break other vertically integrated companies like Apple.
Microsoft Hit With New Patent Lawsuit: Windows Update – will PointCast be cited as prior art?
Marketing
BLiNQ Report Debunks Facebook App Myths – tells us what we already know, there is only a small amount of jackasses who actually will use your new super-duper poke application
Media
News And Events – Microsoft Advertising
Official Google Blog: Making ads more interesting
Pro-Christian ads draw 1,300 complaints from the public – Brand Republic – interesting level of reaction. Is it secular fundamentalism?
Twitter is a 5-tool player — how it should get paid
Media Cloud Leverages Calais to Track News Trends – ReadWriteWeb
When it Comes to Search, Yahoo is Big in Japan
Online
Micro Persuasion: Twitter Search Traffic Poised to Eclipse Google Blog Search
The 50 Publishers That Blogs Link To Most
Youth Marketing Statistics: Online Video Viewer Demographics
Security
The Untold Story of the World’s Biggest Diamond Heist
Software
Microsoft to kill off Internet Explorer – The Inquirer
Technology
Service Cloud. Join the Conversation – salesforce.com
IT Conversations | Syndicate | Larry Weber (Free Podcast) – from four years ago, but really nice pod cast.
Telecoms
Jonathan Schwartz’s Blog: Sun’s Network Innovations (3 of 4)
Wireless
iPhone Makes Up 50 Percent of Smartphone Web Traffic In U.S., Android Already 5 Percent
Dell and Palm face tough reality of smartphone business – Rethink Wireless