The lovely Matthew Magain from Sitepoint sent me this job a week or so ago. I reckon they’d be a smashin’ company to work for: Company: SitePoint Pty LtdJob Title: Direct/Online MarketerDescription: An exciting opportunity exists for a results-driven direct marketing guru to unleash their entrepreneurial side in a young, dynamic and innovative company. The…
The Beeb is getting in on the act: BBC boosting online communitiesNetwork to create social networking sitesBy STEVE CLARKELONDON — The BBC is jumping on the social networking bandwagon as commercial arm BBC Worldwide looks to increase profits from Web-based activities. Worldwide CEO John Smith, who has overseen a doubling of profits at the outfit…
John Reid, British Home Secretary had this to say: A”kite mark” standard is being planned by the home secretary to help protect children from internet paedophiles. John Reid told GMTV he planned a system of approved software so parents could feel assured their child was safe from paedophiles while online. He said the idea was…
from NMA Online TV services from established broadcasters are to be subject to advertising restrictions under the EU’s overhaul of its 1989 TV Without Frontiers directive. But video sharing sites such as YouTube have escaped being subject to the directive. Ministers met yesterday to redefine TV Without Frontiers and took into account internet content for…
Every so often an off beat topic takes centre of attention (for a few minutes at least). Today it is the refusal by TV operators to carry Al Jazeera (the Arabic channel). In the US it’s Comcast who have backed out, in Australia Foxtel won’t play ball. Both claim that it is a capacity problem…
You can upload it for free to YouTube and Flickr, or you can get some ka-ching for it (from an email) … In a ground-breaking move which we are delighted to support, UK broadcaster ITV has commissioned an entire show featuring ‘user-generated content’. Which in plain English means amateur pictures and video clips.And they’re going…
Al Gore, the guy who created the Internet, that one? Sky is to launch Al Gore’s US user-generated content TV channel Current in the UK and Ireland following a deal with the former US vice-president. The deal was announced today by BSkyB CEO James Murdoch and Gore. Gore is planning to design Current TV content…
Yahoo! Answers UK and Ireland have struck a deal with Sainsburys for Sainsburys to sponsor the food and drink section: Sainsbury’s to sponsor Yahoo! AnswersUK & Ireland has announced that it’s tied up with Sainsbury’s as the first global commercial sponsorship deal for its new Yahoo! Answers social search site. The campaign will see Sainsbury’s…
WPP have been busy this week: WPP Group forms partnership with TiVoAuthor: Gareth JonesWPP Group has formed a partnership with TiVo, the American personal video recorder (PVR) company that has developed technology allowing viewers to skip TV commercials. It’s understood that the deal will see WPP’s media planning and buying agency brand GroupM buy a…
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