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Quick Clicks: David Henrie, ‘Unclothed Man’, MySpace

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 21:52:38 GMT

Web series and web video tid bits worth clicking today: David Henrie, 20 year-old star of Disney Channel's The Wizards of Waverly Place, made a surprise guest starring appearance on Illeana Douglas' Easy to Assemble series set yesterday. During the shoot, which takes place on a flight Sweden, Henrie tweeted out a photo of him sitting next to SNL vet Tim Meadows. (Full disclosure: I too was on set for an appearance in the series.) [@David_Henrie/Twitter] Toy ideas for the Holidays are all over the place. But two ladies, who could easily be an SNL skit of their own, have a daily toy show full of gems like environmentally safe Tegu magnetic building blocks. Pretty cool toy. [Daily Grommet] IFC premiered its new 4-part web series The Unclothed Man today from graphic novelist Dash Shaw. The series leads up to the release of Shaw's latest 'The Unclothed Man in the 35th Century A.D.' [Monsters and Critics] MySpace reality series Married on MySpace, which starred the "charismatic" couple Elle and Tito is heading to TV, in the form of Elle & Tito: The Married Life on Latino broadcaster SiTV. [Variety] Penny Arcade, the popular web comic on video games and gaming culture, has launched the two-part pilot to their new web series PA TV, which no doubt spends some time at the sites well-attended Penny Arcade Expo (PAX). [Penny Arcade] Venice The Series, a new steamy drama series debuted online last week to a not too shabby 65k views on the pilot on YouTube. The indie series "unifies the gay lifestyle with the straight world; people of color with multi-ethnic groups; and people in Venice, California with the global community," according to the show's mantra. Related News:Dash Shaw ‘Unclothed’ Graphic Novel Gets Web Series on IFCQuick Clicks: NPH’s Dirty Snowman, ‘Gloomers’, Retrotastic Sci-FiQuick Clicks: Apple Tablet Rumors, ‘Diggnation’, Pin-Ups and YouTube

From: Tubefilter, Inc.

SocialMedia.com Is Hiring A Senior Designer!

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 18:55:02 GMT

SocialMedia.com is developing a the first platform for social advertising, and we need someone to make sure it looks great! We are looking to hire a multi-talented graphic and web designer who can turn out production-ready display banners and updates to our company website all in a single day. Your responsibilities at SocialMedia will be [...]

From: SocialMedia

Brian Dinday Killed in Diving Accident

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 18:29:33 GMT

Oh, this is a tough one. On Saturday, we received an email from a fellow lawyer telling us that Brian Dinday had been killed while diving off the California coast. According to news reports, he was diving for abalone with his 30-year-old son when he was swept out to sea by heavy surf. The entire team [...]

From: Avvo

Top 5 Reasons Why the Bank Did Not Accept Your REO Foreclosure Offer!

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 17:43:05 GMT

This week I would like to spotlight five mistakes being committed by real estate agents on their REO property offers to the banks. I hear from countless other broker and investor friends in the Southern California area how frustrated they are that their REO offers are not being accepted. When they send me a copy of [...]This Article is Copyright © 2004-2009 BiggerPockets, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Top 5 Reasons Why the Bank Did Not Accept Your REO Foreclosure Offer!

From: BiggerPockets, Inc.

Critic and Marathoner

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 16:52:42 GMT

Today we’re discussing Critic and Marathoner, two stickers that highlight deep interactions on Glue. Critic “Who are you, Ebert? You’ve been leaving a lot of comments and replies!” The Critic sticker rewards those who share more insight than a thumbs-up. As you leave comments and replies on Glue you’ll earn the Critic sticker. This sticker is rewarded in bronze, [...]

From: GetGlue.com

Update: Changes to TokBox functionality

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 15:51:18 GMT

As of this weekend, EtherPad is working on TokBox. The AppJet team has temporarily restored their free service in response to user demand. We’re still working on finding an alternative solution so stay tuned for updates! If you would like to read EtherPad’s blog post regarding these changes click here. As always, feel free to send [...]

From: TokBox

Holiday Bargains Abound in Facebook Marketplace

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 15:43:46 GMT

From sunglasses to snowboards, Facebook Marketplace is full of holiday bargains and one-of-a-kind gifts for even the most discriminating on your list. What’s more, gently-used is a greener alternative to purchasing new. According to the Environmental Protection Agency, the average American produces five million tons of trash between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Day — much of which can [...]

From: Oodle

Let’s Play Can You Spot the Brand, Target: ‘Moochie’

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 15:10:14 GMT

Time for a little Monday afternoon web series game time... The name of the game is "Spot the Brand in This Web Series." This sort of subtly branded web series come of the ad agencies from time to time, cleverly void of any sponsor pre-rolls or display ads from their reticent backers. Some hit, some miss—like Proctor & Gamble's not-so-viral Zack series for Tampax from earlier this summer. The target this time is Moochie, a six-episode comedy web series from earlier this fall. The setup of this series is pretty standard—three underachieving 20-something guys living together—though they do have a lazy talking hamster named Moochie. We'll leave out the name of the ad agency (that would be too easy), but we will say that director Matt Lenski helmed the series with the help of editor Heidi Black and musician Dan Deacon. Views haven't exactly been through the roof on the series on YouTube, though it did get pushed out through Xbox, Yahoo, Vimeo and VideoEgg as well. See if you can spot the brand and product in this series. Related News:30 Rock’s Keith Powell ‘Directs a Play’… For Real!‘Cooking With Werner’ Herzog, Spot On Satire‘Model Ball’ Shows Us These Ladies Can Play

From: Tubefilter, Inc.

Link of the Day: Twitter/Facebook Infinite Loop Syndrome

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 12:48:25 GMT

Great Achewood comic about the Bermuda Triangle that is social networking - my favorite part is the "search" section. Have you updated your Twitter today?

From: oddcast

23andMe….and me: Interview with Esther Dyson

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 12:30:36 GMT

Esther Dyson is a Director of 23andMe and an investor in numerous Internet, private aviation, space and health care ventures. She has also shared her genetic data, medical records and other personal information with the research community and the general public as a research subject for the Personal Genome Project, an initiative led by Harvard’s [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "23andMe….and me: Interview with Esther Dyson", url: "http://spittoon.23andme.com/2009/12/07/23andme%e2%80%a6-and-me-interview-with-esther-dyson/" });

From: 23andMe

For the fifth deal of Christmas, Zazzle gave to me…

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 12:12:25 GMT

Five Bucks off TEEEEEES! $5 off t-shirts, embroidered shirts and pet t-shirts Use code: 12DEALSSHIRT ‘Tis the season to save with Zazzle’s 12 Deals of Christmas! Today’s deal is five dollars off all apparel! T-shirts are a great gift for anyone on your list because everyone wears t-shirts. Shop Zazzle’s huge collection of vintage [...]

From: Zazzle

‘Berry/Agee Experiment’, Cross Pond Music Video War Turned Series

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 11:44:32 GMT

Atom.com’s new series The Berry/Agee Experiment is an experiment indeed. Can an inside joke between two friends be enjoyable for other people? Can a funny song be expanded into a video mockumentary? Can this be kept up for several episodes? The answer is both yes and no. Luckily, the two friends who share the inside joke are Matt Berry and Steve Agee, both very funny dudes with serious comedy street cred. Berry is a veteran of British TV comedies The Mighty Boosh and The IT Crowd, while Agee is best known for his role on The Sarah Silverman Program. They became friends when Berry came to LA to guest star in a Silverman episode and after he left town, they kept in touch by composing and recording songs that hilariously insulted each other and e-mailing them back and forth across the pond. And The Berry/Agee Experiment was created to turn their audio assaults on one another into a video web series. The songs themselves are hysterical, as Berry and Agee verbally and musically spar in a tongue in cheek feud that quickly goes blue and somehow manages to get more and more inappropriately side-splitting as it continues. One song has Agee taking on the role of a robot sent back in time to warn the world that Berry has a strain of AIDS so potent it will one day threaten to wipe out mankind. Another has Berry complaining that he can no longer have sex now that Agee’s repulsive image is burned into his brain. These contemptuous compositions run the musical gamut, covering several genres. There’s the jangly country blues number “Dead Matt Walkin,” the psychadelic soundscape “Matt F**ks Hookers,” and “Super Steve” a parody set to the tune of Supertramp’s “The Logical Song.” Related News:Andy Dick, A.D. Miles, Steve Agee Headline Atom's 2009 Programming Lineup‘(Do You Wanna Date My) Avatar’, ‘Guild’ Music Video Hits YouTubeBrit Humor Carries ‘The Meeting’ Across The Pond

From: Tubefilter, Inc.

Snoop Dogg Ustream All Access

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 11:23:52 GMT

Today we’re launching an exciting new web series called Ustream All Access, giving online viewers a live peek at the lives of celebrities and athletes. The series kicked off last week with an amazing behind-the-scenes look at Will.i.am and the Black Eyed Peas at the Grammy Nominations (watch the videos here), and continues this week [...]

From: Veedow.com

Snoop Dogg Ustream All Access

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 11:23:52 GMT

Our CEO on MediaBistro.com

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 11:04:54 GMT

Mark Josephson, our CEO, recently participated in a panel and interview on MediaBistro.com about building hyperlocal businesses and communities. The panel largely agreed that the explosion of content is a boon for the local industry and an enormous revenue opportunity for media companies. You can see Mark speaking directly to that point in this [...]

From: Outside.in

New Feature for Admins: Add possible answers to users' profile questions

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 10:17:00 GMT

You've been able to ask your users questions that they answer when registering or editing their profile. Now you can give them a set of possible answers that they can choose for those answers. This will make getting their answers even easier and also make sure the data you capture from them is uniform across everyone. To add or edit the possible answers to your questions, just go to "Configure Marketplace" and find the Profile Questions section. You can ask new questions and give them answers, or use the "add" link to add answers to questions you've already posted.On the profile edit and registration pages, these answers will show up as a drop down box.Here's a video of it in action:

From: Inkling Markets

Home Mortgage Cramdown: Part Deux?

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 09:52:10 GMT

As pretty much everyone realizes by now, the Obama administration’s efforts to convince banks to modify troubled loans has been little more than window dressing. Despite the $75 billion promised to fund the program, only a fraction of the people it was intended to help have received any aid. The problem of homeowner [...]This Article is Copyright © 2004-2009 BiggerPockets, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Home Mortgage Cramdown: Part Deux?

From: BiggerPockets, Inc.

Issuu Mobile coming this week

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 09:47:40 GMT

Even before we launched Issuu we knew that mobile one day would be the perfect platform for digital publications. Think about it. We always bring our phones wherever we go. Wouldn’t it be perfect if you could explore and read thousands, or even millions, of publications in the park, on the train, or during a flight? But [...]

From: Issuu

Yahoo and Microsoft Finally Sign Off on Search Marketing Deal

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 08:04:00 GMT

Late on Friday the deal that was announced with such hoopla between Microsoft and Yahoo back in July became ‘official’. Lest one think that this means that there is imminent change coming, please remember that the government has to OK everything as well. What this means for the search marketing world in 2010 is open for discussion, but one thing is for sure: change is on the way. As recently as late October there were serious concerns that the complicated deal that was literally several years in the making was going to be delayed. Mountains of legal documents are a normal occurrence when big companies come together. This deal, however, was more complicated than most since these two giants in the online space are ‘coming together’ to form what is hoped to be a real competitor to the dominant position in search marketing held by Google. So how does this impact the search marketing industry? Well, back in July when the press release version of the deal occurred Mashable broke down the impact as follows: Microsoft’s Bing will now be the search engine on all Yahoo sites. Yahoo will provide the relationship sales force for both companies’ premium search advertisers. Each company will maintain its own separate display advertising business. Self-serve advertising for both companies will go through Microsoft’s AdCenter platform. Microsoft will compensate Yahoo through a revenue sharing agreement on traffic generated on Yahoo’s network. The term of the agreement is 10 years. Now that the ink is just officially drying on this deal, the question is: when will the search marketers of the world see the impact? Well, there is the small issue of the deal being vetted by the government. It may be fair to assume that Google may have an interest in ‘making waves’ as to whether this kind of union is something that is good for business in general. Most agree that it is but if you were Google wouldn’t you have something to say? Conventional wisdom says that by the end of 2010 Yahoo’s search engine will be Bing. Since the end of 2010 is an Internet year away let’s just wait and see. Video: How to Get Off the Google AdWords PPC Crack Learn how to break your Google AdWords addiction! Download the free video to learn how to use inbound marketing to generate leads and break your dependence on programs with recurring expenses. Become a Fan on FacebookGet inside info and advance notice of HubSpot's free marketing webinars, ebooks and more. Click here -->

From: HubSpot

The Falling Dollar and Real Estate Investors

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 05:00:11 GMT

Want to watch someone’s eyes rapidly glaze over at a holiday party? Just start talking about how the dollar is falling against other world currencies. Most people don’t understand what that means. They don’t care either because they don’t understand how or why it affects them. They just assume that when something falls, or goes [...]This Article is Copyright © 2004-2009 BiggerPockets, Inc. All Rights Reserved. The Falling Dollar and Real Estate Investors

From: BiggerPockets, Inc.

Christmas ideas – Brio wooden Baby toys, Win Green Tents and Pavilions.

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 02:58:41 GMT

Less than three weeks to Christmas, what to get? Well I had long determined to write about the large range of Brio toys we stock because they are just such good toys, and will make an excellent stocking filler. Their wooden toys are just delightful, and I think that quality wood really is such a good [...]

From: Hello Baby

Construction Workers' Surprising New Building Block: Social Media

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 01:30:00 GMT

Nicole Buraglio is Director of e-Media for Hanley Wood Exhibitions. She oversees the e-media business, implementing web revenue-generating ideas and technologies, engaging customers with increasingly improved online opportunities and enhancing their overall media experience. In addition, Nicole has full P&L responsibility for Connect, Hanley Wood’s new online networking tool. Nicole has been in the trade show industry for more than 12 years, 9 of which have been with Hanley Wood.Construction Workers' Surprising New Building Block: Social Mediaby Nicole Buraglio Businesses have a lot of fears and questions about social media:If I take my marketing strategies in this direction, will people follow me? What if they’re not the “type” of audience that gets social media? Can social marketing help my business?Yes. Social media marketing can (and will) change the way you do business and ultimately exponentially increase your efforts and, more importantly, your results --especially in this age of younger-generation dominance. (I've observed 3-year-olds successfully operate iPhones and it seems kids over 5 have already had at least one cell phone.) The fact is most people get social media. Grandmothers are on Facebook. Your complete professional history – and future, for that matter – can be tied up in one neat little package called LinkedIn. You learn more about your friends and family from 140 characters at a time than you ever thought or, in some cases, wanted.I work in the trade show industry and our business is in building/construction. We market to guys who spend all day on a construction site, eating their lunches brought from home, while perched on a tied rebar beam cage. You’d think they would not care much about following an event on Twitter or becoming a fan of a silly web page, but they are. They're totally connected to each other online.We started marketing much more strategically this past year as the economy spun out of control. A lot of our efforts are now geared toward Internet Marketing. Word of mouth has always been our most effective tool, it still is. Social media is just a new, more viral way to spread your message online.Our World of Concrete event draws more than 70,000 people every year to Las Vegas to learn about the commercial construction industry, purchase new products, and network with peers and leaders. This group is primarily made up of men who walk the show floor donning their jeans and duck jackets. You won’t catch many of them without a fresh beer; and, they refuse to miss anything about this world-class event. Of the commercial construction audience to which WOC is marketed:Thousands follow the WorldOfConcrete on TwitterFans created a group on Facebook (we didn’t have to do anything!) for the 2008 event and WOC exhibitors continue to post announcements on the wall for the upcoming 2010 event.Industry professionals continually RSVP on the show’s LinkedIn accountYouTube and Flickr both feature user-generated content about the showIf social media can work for a commercial construction audience, social marketing can certainly work for you and your business, too.I challenge you to make this ever-evolving phenomenon, communally referred to as social marketing, part of your regular (if not daily) promotional program. I promise – it will deliver.construction worker photo by santafesweetsUpcoming Live Webinar: The Science of Social Media Marketing - Wednesday, December 9th, 2009 Social media scientist Dan Zarella explain what drives people to share information and opinions online.Reserve your spot now and learn scientifically proven best practices for spreading your content virally through social media. Become a Fan on FacebookGet inside info and advance notice of HubSpot's free marketing webinars, ebooks and more. Click here -->

From: HubSpot

Bug Labs Founder and CEO Peter Semmelhack on Bottoms-Up Innovation (Video)

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 19:45:00 GMT

Clickable's December 1, 2009 Interesting Cafe in New York featured Peter Semmelhack, founder and CEO of Bug Labs. With a passion for empowering people to invent, Peter shared how open-source electronic-device platforms are fueling bottoms-up innovation and a new way of thinking. Peter's talk was amazing! Below is a short video interview (about 9 minutes) we did after his group discussion. Below that is the full group discussion (about 50 minutes). Let us know what you think. If you like it, share it. Interesting Cafe is hosted by the culture team at Clickable. It's a periodic gathering for our community members to share ideas and meet interesting, inspiring people. It's developed a reputation as New York's mini TED. If you'd like to join a future Interesting Cafe, send me an email [mkalehoff(at)clickable (dot)com] with "Interesting Cafe" in the subject and I'll add you to our event notificaiton list. Summary Interview (Please visit the site to view this media) Full Group Discussion (Please visit the site to view this media)

From: Clickable Inc.

The “Affordable Custom Home” Real Estate Rehabber/Investor Niche?

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 12:17:34 GMT

When I was active as a Realtor working primarily with investors in Philadelphia, most of my business revolved around finding “Propertunities” for investors to rehab and hold or sell for a modest profit, usually in the that 100-200k range where there were always plenty of buyers. Of course, one of the most stressful [...]This Article is Copyright © 2004-2009 BiggerPockets, Inc. All Rights Reserved. The “Affordable Custom Home” Real Estate Rehabber/Investor Niche?

From: BiggerPockets, Inc.

For the fourth deal of Christmas, Zazzle gave to me…

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 11:12:00 GMT

Four stocking stuffers! 30% off Postage, Mousepads, Keychains, Buttons, Magnets, Stickers and Bumper stickers! Use code: 12DEALSSTUFF ‘Tis the season to save with Zazzle’s 12 Deals of Christmas! Today’s deal is 30% off 4 great sets of stocking stuffers! Postage, mousepads, stickers/bumper stickers and buttons/keychains/magnets are perfect small gifts when you add your own photos and [...]

From: Zazzle