Finalist In McDonalds/MySpace Jingle Contest Is Former McDonalds Armed Robber
20 Jul 2008 12:17am GMT Well, here’s something that’s so ridiculous it couldn’t be made up. McDonald’s teamed up with MySpace to create a new jingle for the 40th anniversary of the Big Mac. The original song (two all beef patties, special sauce, lettuce…) was created back in 1974. Over 1,000 user created songs and videos were submitted - the [...]
Pressflip Is A Belly Flop
19 Jul 2008 8:36pm GMT Pressflip is a new blog search engine (it’s actually a relaunch of a site called Persai, which launched earlier this year). The idea is you do a search, train the engine by telling it which results aren’t interesting to you, and then wait for new results to come in over time. The search results aren’t [...]
Edopter Attempts “Social Trendcasting” Through Crowdsourcing And Internet Buzz
19 Jul 2008 7:47pm GMT Edopter is a unique concept that attempts to combine crowd-sourcing with internet buzz to predict new trends. It’s called “social trendcasting.” The way it works, is by allowing users to generate “trends” according to what they think will catch on. Some trends are “cewebrities” (pictured below), “Batman: The Dark Knight,” and “tap water.” [...]
VC Deals In Charts (Q2 2008)—Exits? We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Exits?
19 Jul 2008 12:22pm GMT Second quarter data is out on venture deals from the National Venture Capital Association and PriceWaterhouseCoopers. Despite the IPO market drying up completely, the What-Me-Worry crowd on Sand Hill Road keep pumping money into venture deals at a steady pace. Venture capitalists invested $7.4 billion last quarter in 990 deals, compared to $7.5 [...]
Facebook Sues German Social Network StudiVZ
19 Jul 2008 4:25am GMT Facebook is starting to pursue social networks that have copied their design or features by suing German site StudiVZ. The Financial Times has reported that Facebook filed a suit in the California Supreme Court against the German company for what it claims is an infringement of Facebook’s “look, feel, features and services”. StudiVZ claims to [...]