Electronic billboards have been taking some heat lately from officials across the country trying to regulate them more.
Al Tompkins at Poynter Online recently compiled some examples of the issues over these billboards for his Morning Meeting blog.
Business folks like them, some people are concerned about them leading to distracted drivers and still others are seeing them as a revenue source for transportation departments.
I’m not a big fan of the electronic billboards at night but during the day they don’t seem that annoying. I suppose they could be more distracting than your standard billboards. But is anybody even bothering anymore to look away…
I don’t mind ads on social sites, as long as they’re not spammy in nature. I think the less obtrusive the better. Many would rather have none at all, but this is the real world we live in. I am conflicted as a social media participant and business owner.(I don’t advertise on social sites.) I try to empathize with consumers and treat them the way I’d like to be treated. I can understand how a person can get pissed off at the prospect of a company trying to sell them something when they’re on a social site. I’ve come to find two…
Ziff Davis has announced that the January 2009 issue of PcMagazine will be the magazine’s final print edition.
The magazine, which was started in 1982, has a storied history, but its print base eroded over the years as its core brand of journalism—news you can use while shopping for computers—moved online. It cut back from bi-weekly to monthly earlier this year.
The site will still be called PCMag.com, but the sub sites will be renamed and reorganized into one division, PCMag Digital Network.
There have been concerns about whether or not the issues will still be published as a digital edition. It will be,…
Yelp.com and CitySearch.com are competing to be the go-to search site for everything local.
While both sites offer virually the same concept, they each have different features, some of which might help you to make up your mind about which service works better for your needs.
Yelp.com says real people, real reviews drive their site. It works better for larger, metropolitan areas. I searched my local area, and there are some reviews on the site, but many of them are random and there are only a handful of restaurant reviews for my area.
Yelp offers the option of receiving weekly emails detailing what…
Soldiers and their families have often struggled with a way to stay in contact while separated from each other. Sometimes, spouses can go weeks and months with not word from their significant other.
TroopTube was developed as a way for troops to upload and share videos and information, from where ever they may be.
TroopTube is the new online video site designed to help military families connect and keep in touch while miles apart. The site is designed for easy use, so you can quickly upload videos and share the simple joys of each day with each other, either privately or with the…
Twilio recently rick-rolled TechCrunch.
To learn how to rick-roll someone in your life, check out what Twilio has to offer.
Twilio’s information says that it allows Web Apps to make and receive phone calls. This has the potential to be awesome, and I think the idea of rick-rolling someone on their cell phone is hilarious, as long as it’s done to a person with the right sense of humor.
This shows that sometimes having a sense of humor and a willingness to annoy someone can often work in getting the word out about your idea or service. Don’t be afraid to take a chance.
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Sony is tempting the users of their Playstation Network with a virtual world.
Home is a series of virtual spaces and places. It’s different from Second Life in that you choose which space you want to visit, and then teleport there, instead of walking or flying like in Second Life.
The PlayStation Network, which currently has about 13 million PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Portable registered users, is integral to Home. The PSN is the network that users access to play each other in online matches, download games or videos to the hard drives of their consoles, and records a player’s success in…
We all know the story…
CD sales are sky diving, P2P services are incredibly popular, record labels are stubborn, and music fans are getting sued.
Can this nightmare ever be fixed? The Electronic Frontier Foundation has created a plan that in theory could work to combatant the nightmare we’ve all heard above. Their proposal, “A Better Way Forward: Voluntary Collective Licensing of Music File Sharing” breaks down an innovative plan that seemingly could work.
In brief, the plan is to have file sharers pay a small fee every month to a blanket or collective liscense that is almost exactly the same as what radio…
This morning, I logged into my Twitter account, only to be bombarded with tweets about a Motrin ad. I was really confused, so I started reading the links and following the trail.
Apparently, the makers of Motrin posted an ad, it’s currently on the front page of the site, talking about how babywearing is in fashion, right now, even though it’s a pain in the back. The text of the ad reads as follows.
Wearing your baby seems to be in fashion.
I mean in theory it’s a great idea.
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And who knows what else they’ve come up with. Wear your baby on your side, your…
Yet another relationship is ruined, due to Second Life. This time, the couple, Amy Taylor, 28, and David Pollard, 40, had gotten married in a lavish online ceremony, while also being married in real life. The couple met in an online chat room in 2003. It started out as an online relationship, but soon existed as well in the real world.
The wife began to suspect he was being unfaithful, catching his avatar having sex, online, with a cyber prostitute, and decided to hire an online private investigator to track her husband’s virtual activities.
Pollard admitted having an online relationship with a…
