Posts Tagged ‘ technology ’
Ever wonder how you can make your own instant animated classic? Wired Magazine is giving you a cheat sheet. Their newest issue details the painstaking process that Pixar’s artists go through to make favorites like Toy Story and Up. It turns out the key to creating a film (other than undying patience) is a truly [ READ MORE ]
Would you switch from Google or Bing if somebody paid you? Turns out this isn’t a hypothetical question anymore. Swagbucks, an online portal, lets you earn points by searching the web and trade them in for prizes. Sounds too good to be true. Is it? How do you get Swagbucks? The main way you earn points [ READ MORE ]
Forgive me while I geek out a little bit. It’s not really a secret that I love following marketing trends, especially ones involving social media. Part of the reason I got an iPhone was so I could (finally) check out all the cool apps and tech I read about in Wired Magazine. I wanted to [ READ MORE ]
As of Tuesday, the newspaper industry has one more thing to worry about. On March 2, the Supreme Court decided to reopen a 2005 settlement between freelance writers, online databases and print companies. The case is a class action lawsuit from writers who felt mistreated when media giants, including the New York Times and Reuters, published [ READ MORE ]
(Note: As a part of my Marketing on the Internet course I will be writing several case studies about new media and technology in marketing. This is the first, comparing Nike and Puma’s shoe customization sites.) I feel like I should preface this by saying I’m not a shoe person and I’m definitely not a sneaker [ READ MORE ]