Posts from August 14, 2008

David Card | August 14, 2008, 10:36 PM
What th-? Part II
Uh, why does the FiOS installation guy in the TV ad hold a Kindle posing as a digital notepad? Stoopid product placement? Hints at future products? In-joke? Or just ad hoc substitution by a prop guy?...( more )

David Card | August 14, 2008, 10:22 PM
What th-?
Potter fans are not amused. The sixth Harry Potter film, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, originally scheduled for a November 21 release, has now been moved to July 17, 2009 in the US and major international markets Warners claims it's because the writers' strike threw off the skeds for...( more )

Ed Kountz | August 14, 2008, 05:30 PM
Wesabe Members Can Now Twitter Expenses
Like social networking and the buzz phrase 'Web 2.0', Twitter has been H-O-T recently. Since it was reported in April that a U.S. student Twittered his way out of an Egyptian jail, it’s been impossible to chuck a wireless mouse without hitting at least one reference to the cutting-edge micro-blogging...( more )

David Card | August 14, 2008, 01:57 PM
Efficiency, Hollywood Style
I guess if you already know a movie script is going to be crappy and require dozens of re-writes from multiple teams of writers who don't talk to each other, it makes sense to get to it earlier rather than later: "We all want this movie to go into production...( more )

Mark Mulligan | August 14, 2008, 08:43 AM
P2P Licensing Maybe Not So Close
PLayLouder’s CEO Paul Hitchman says it’s ‘pure speculation’ that they’re close to signing up with an ISP. I indicated yesterday that if the story was accurate it indicated a very significant change in tact from labels. It appears that they’re not quite that worried yet. But this doesn’t mean PlayLouder...( more )

David Card | August 14, 2008, 08:24 AM
Play Ball!
Must-read interview in the Journal with MLB.com ceo Bob Bowman. On the state of mobile sports content for now: People don't look at their phone for very long. It's about 30 seconds. And that's how people are used to enjoying non-voice content on their wireless devices. For a live baseball...( more )