Hé ouais, mon coco, t'as parfois des intuitions brillantes.

Je viens juste de m'arracher de mon deuxième bureau indien à Bangalore, pour aller voir ce qui se trame à Shanghai. Une officine que nous venons de monter pour commencer à se fritter à cet énorme marché de mabouls qui ne bittent rien au consulting.

C'est un vrai dawa là-bas.

Comme nos jeunes consultants manquaient de productivité à mon goût, je leur ai filé un cocktail bien serré de came hardcore et d'amphets de guerre. C'était pas forcément la bonne idée. Ils ont carrément pété les plombs :

Chez les mecs c'est pire, avec une tendance à l'agressivité :

Et ils font ça non-stop depuis une semaine.. je vois pas comment les arrêter. Je suis dans la panade.

pThe overall panic that has taken hold of the financial markets made its way to online advertising yesterday with the release of the Interactive Advertising Bureau's third-quarter online ad figures: online advertising up only 2% quarter-to-quarter and 11% year-over-year. But before you scramble to lower all of your estimates once again, keep in mind that the third quarter and October are likely to have been skewed heavily by the elections. While I wouldn't suggest that online behaves completely like TV, it is a long-known fact that political advertising crowds out other advertisers and tends to put pressure on pricing.nbsp; br / br / The general news and political sites have enjoyed a run-up in traffic (with questions as to its sustainability post election) that created enormous ad inventory. Economic theory will tell you that an increase in supply (i.e. ad inventory) coupled with unchanged, or even lessened demand (i.e. advertisers) can only be cleared by lower pricing. While I'm not feeling particularly optimistic about anything right now, I would caution the market to hold back on drawing any conclusions about online ad pricing or ad trends until we get past the election season. While trends are likely still weakening, the bottom is far from falling out. /p p iLauren Rich Fine is ContentNext's research director/i /p p!-- iMark Logic Digital Publishing Summit, Thursday November 6, Westin Times Square. Insight and perspective from Outsell, Gilbane, Simon Schuster, BusinessWeek.com, more. Evening cocktail reception. Cost is complimentary. a href="http://content.adbureau.net/accipiter/adclick/CID=000010cb0000000000000000/SITE=PC_US/AAMSZ=PREMB_NEWS/relocate=http://marklogicdps.eventbrite.com/"Register now!/a/i --/p pa href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/pcorg?a=b1OHBV"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/pcorg?i=b1OHBV" border="0"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=kl9ZN"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=kl9ZN" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=kU0qN"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=kU0qN" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=bBgWn"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=bBgWn" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=NBo7N"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=NBo7N" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=5d3VN"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=5d3VN" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/pcorg/~4/461210912" height="1" width="1"/

pa href="http://gigaomnimedia.com/" title="Gigaomni Media"Gigaomni Media/a (GOM), the parent company of the popular network of tech sites including Gigaom, is parting ways with its long time ad partner a href="http://www.federatedmedia.net/" title="Federated Media"Federated Media/a, and moving to a more enterprise-focused a href="http://www.idgtechnetwork.com/" title="IDG TechNetwork"IDG TechNetwork/a, IDG's tech ad network, we have learned and confirmed from the two companies. The new deal with IDG is for all CPM-based online advertising across GOM's network of seven sites, and the company will still sell events and online sponsorships directly on its own. /p p While this is not a significant monetary setback for Federated, it does point to what the John Battelle-founded online-ad company is giving up as it continues to scale: Its focus has been on large-scale national advertisers and creating both general and custom programs with them, as opposed to the more 'intimate" sells required for enterprise-focused vendors that GOM attracts. FM has a big-brand focus, for most part, and beyond its early start with tech sites, it has now moved into all kinds of other verticals like parenting, food, graphic arts, small business and others. /p p Gigaom founder Om Malik has a href="http://gigaom.com/2007/06/22/on-the-microsoft-ad-campaign/" title="previously publicly disagreed"previously publicly disagreed/a with some aspects of FM's "conversational marketing" approach with some tech advertisers. And while that did lead to some tension last year, I spoke to both Chas Edwards, Publisher Chief Revenue Officer of FM, and Paul Walborsky, CEO of GOM, and both reiterated that this parting was amicable, and of course, there are too many friendships at stake here. /p p For GOM, this new move comes after its biggish $4.5 million third round of funding that it announced last month. In recent months it has also acquired two blogs, jkOntheRun and TheAppleBlog, and appointed a new CEO. For IDG, this is a high-profile blog media company to bring into its fold. Its ad network was launched earlier this year, and had about a href="http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-idg-expands-ad-network-to-outside-blogs/" title="100 tech blogs as"100 tech blogs as/a of March, and would not comment on this story. It said they will have more announcements next month about it. /p p!-- iMark Logic Digital Publishing Summit, Thursday November 6, Westin Times Square. Insight and perspective from Outsell, Gilbane, Simon Schuster, BusinessWeek.com, more. Evening cocktail reception. Cost is complimentary. a href="http://content.adbureau.net/accipiter/adclick/CID=000010cb0000000000000000/SITE=PC_US/AAMSZ=PREMB_NEWS/relocate=http://marklogicdps.eventbrite.com/"Register now!/a/i --/p pa href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/pcorg?a=iabkmJ"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/pcorg?i=iabkmJ" border="0"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=bhjjN"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=bhjjN" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=hfkgN"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=hfkgN" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=DQ6Sn"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=DQ6Sn" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=voQCN"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=voQCN" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=8waAN"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=8waAN" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/pcorg/~4/461179552" height="1" width="1"/

pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/lifehacker/2008/11/kitteh.png" width="178" height="183" / We spend all day typing at you, so now it's your turn to type back at us. This comment thread is officially open: post your cries for tech help, reader surveys, questions about the meaning of life, favorite screenshots, video clips, site feedback, rants, and raves below. Don't forget to respond to a specific comment by a fellow reader by hitting the arrow on the bottom right hand side of it. Anything goes here (within reason, of coursemdash;play nice, my kittens), so let's start cocktail hour early and chat it up. We'll round up the best threads that appear here over the weekend so they don't fall off the page into oblivion before the night is done. Have fun! iPhoto by a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/soffias/2164485882/"Soffia S/a./i/p br style="clear: both;"/ a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=01d6839fbf705f5a7c1b2cb010e9ee53p=1"img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=01d6839fbf705f5a7c1b2cb010e9ee53p=1"//a img src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=01d6839fbf705f5a7c1b2cb010e9ee53" style="display: none;" border="0" height="1" width="1" alt=""/div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/lifehacker/full?a=wYzPb6Dn"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/lifehacker/full?d=120" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/lifehacker/full?a=q18VlvWW"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/lifehacker/full?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/lifehacker/full?a=JX6bXUiN"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/lifehacker/full?i=JX6bXUiN" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/lifehacker/full?a=IUr28nPX"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/lifehacker/full?i=IUr28nPX" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/lifehacker/full/~4/okk4nRhK2bk" height="1" width="1"/

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pYahoo (a href="http://finance.paidcontent.org/paidcontent?Page=QUOTETicker=YHOO" class="ticker" title="YHOO"NSDQ: YHOO/a), which has been trying to sell off its European comparison shopping service a href="http://kelkoo.com/" title="Kelkoo"Kelkoo/a for a while now, has finally found a buyer, according to a href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/11/21/yahoo-finally-sells-kelkoo-and-brings-cash-in/" title="a report"a report/a: it has been sold to a little-known UK-based private equity firm called Jamplant, for something less than euro 100 million ($126 million). Yahoo bought the service in 2004 for a price then of about 475 million euros (now $598 million). Also, the founder and ex-CEO of Kelkoo Pierre Chappaz wrote a href="http://www.kelblog.com/2008/11/kelkoo-quitte-yahoo.html" title="about the deal"about the deal/a (in French) on his blog strikebut again, Yahoo hasn't said anything yet officially/strike. /p p bRobert adds/b: Yahoo UK confirmed the sell off to us. First sign of the sell-off came when a href="http://www.paidcontent.co.uk/entry/419-yahoo-opens-rd-in-grenoble-uk-too-expensive-too-few-engineers" title="Yahoo re-tooled Kelkoo's Grenoble, France, HQ"Yahoo re-tooled Kelkoo's Grenoble, France, HQ/a in September as an RD centre. Chappaz refused to name the price but said it was "below 100 million euros" - that means Yahoo makes a loss of at least 375 million ($472 million) euros (not including any profits in made in that time, of course). Chappaz said: "The difference is the price of management incompetence that led Yahoo's (stock price to fall) below $9." /p p Never heard of Jamplant? You're not alone. Chappaz said it's a new investment unit created by the founders of that other price comparison site USwitch, which sold to E.W. Scripps (a href="http://finance.paidcontent.org/paidcontent?Page=QUOTETicker=SSP" class="ticker" title="SSP"NYSE: SSP/a) for £210 million in 2006. It seems the operators have not given up their hope of running a bargain-hunting engine, as the consumer economy begins to impact spending. From a href="http://www.wikio.fr/article/79771978#news79771978" title="Yahoo UK MD Glen Drury's email to staff"Yahoo UK MD Glen Drury's email to staff/a: "Philip Smyth, chairman of Jamplant, believes that, with our backing, Kelkoo should be able to accelerate its growth much faster as a standalone company. /p pKelkoo has 270 staff in Grenoble and in London. Its latest business involved powering a white-label price comparison site for ITV (LSE: ITV) and similar deals with The Independent. Chappaz: "During the past year, several funds approached me to restart Kelkoo with them. I told them no. Despite my commitment to Kelkoo, I would prefer to devote myself to Wikio. The sell-off of Kelkoo by Yahoo ... after the failed agreement with Google (a href="http://finance.paidcontent.org/paidcontent?Page=QUOTETicker=GOOG" class="ticker" title="GOOG"NSDQ: GOOG/a) ... illustrates the failure of this company to grow in the world of transaction services." /p pstrongRelated/strong/p ul class="related" lia href="http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-yahoo-could-close-poorly-performing-european-properties-third-party-sea" title="Operation Toblerone: Yahoo Closing London Offices; Geneva Will Be Euro HQs; 70 Managers Told To Move"Operation Toblerone: Yahoo Closing London Offices; Geneva Will Be Euro HQs; 70 Managers Told To Move/a/li lia href="http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-yahoo-considering-strategic-options-for-comparison-shopping-service-kel" title="Yahoo Considering "Strategic Options" For Comparison Shopping Service Kelkoo in Europe"Yahoo Considering "Strategic Options" For Comparison Shopping Service Kelkoo in Europe/a/li /ul p!-- iMark Logic Digital Publishing Summit, Thursday November 6, Westin Times Square. Insight and perspective from Outsell, Gilbane, Simon Schuster, BusinessWeek.com, more. Evening cocktail reception. Cost is complimentary. a href="http://content.adbureau.net/accipiter/adclick/CID=000010cb0000000000000000/SITE=PC_US/AAMSZ=PREMB_NEWS/relocate=http://marklogicdps.eventbrite.com/"Register now!/a/i --/p pa href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/pcorg?a=pvvGfj"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/pcorg?i=pvvGfj" border="0"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=ONL2N"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=ONL2N" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=61ckN"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=61ckN" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=NfdWn"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=NfdWn" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=eM0AN"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=eM0AN" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=lw6PN"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=lw6PN" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/pcorg/~4/460904259" height="1" width="1"/

Usually when we're talking about Nokia and patents, a mention of Qualcomm can't be far behind. This time however, we're looking at something entirely less boring, fascinating even: ultra-sound sensors that detect hand gestures in the air in front of the device. Now the stretch. Nokia's chief designer, Alastair Curtis, was asked at a recent cocktail party why Nokia's N-series of multimedia devices have yet to see a multi-touch interface, Curtis replied, "We've not launched what we think is right for N-series in a touch product. You'll see in the coming months, years... what we feel is right." Curtis then elaborated, "Much as I'm talking to you now with gestures." Hmm. Ok Alastair, if such devices are in the chute, as long as they don't resemble the Palm V-series... we're cool.

[Thanks, Pdexter]

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img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="0" alt="" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2008/11/nokia-touchless-gestures.jpg" /br /Usually when we're talking about Nokia and patents, a mention of Qualcomm can't be far behind. This time however, we're looking at something entirely less boring, fascinating even: ultra-sound sensors that detect hand gestures in the air in front of the device. Now the stretch. Nokia's chief designer, Alastair Curtis, was asked at a recent cocktail party why Nokia's N-series of multimedia devices have yet to see a multi-touch interface, Curtis replied, "We've not launched what we think is right for N-series in a touch product. You'll see in the coming months, years... what we feel is right." Curtis then elaborated, "Much as I'm talking to you now with gestures." Hmm. Ok Alastair, if such devices are in the chute, as long as they don't resemble the Palm V-series... we're cool. br /br /[Thanks, Pdexter]br /br /a href="http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1amp;Sect2=HITOFFamp;d=PG01amp;p=1amp;u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htmlamp;r=1amp;f=Gamp;l=50amp;s1=%2220080005703%22.PGNR.amp;OS=DN/20080005703amp;RS=DN/20080005703"Read/a -- Patent application br /a href="http://www.popsci.com/gear-amp-gadgets/article/2008-11/whats-next-nokia"Read/a -- Curtis quotesp style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/nokia-planning-touch-less-gesture-controlled-devices/"Nokia planning touch-less, gesture-controlled devices?/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.engadget.com"Engadget/a on Fri, 21 Nov 2008 08:09:00 EST. Please see our a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"terms for use of feeds/a./ph6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"/h6a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/nokia-planning-touch-less-gesture-controlled-devices/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/forward/1379220/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/nokia-planning-touch-less-gesture-controlled-devices/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/0bqMwbOSAKH-Y8XrfvpKyUTFgT0/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/0bqMwbOSAKH-Y8XrfvpKyUTFgT0/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?a=sKpov6Sp"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?i=sKpov6Sp" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?a=xVs7pSOR"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?i=xVs7pSOR" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/weblogsinc/engadget/~4/CE4HGuVwH90" height="1" width="1"/

Frank Gruber of SOMEWHAT FRANK & co-founder of TECH cocktail is in Chicago at the CrowdSpring.com office where he chats with Founder and CEO, Ross Kimbarovsky about the crowdsourcing design marketplace. Distributed by Tubemogul.

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Deux hommes forts, cousins éloignés , devenus rivaux; l'orgueil, la rancœur et des intérêts économiques... Tels sont les ingrédients du cocktail d'où est sortie la sanglante guerre entre l'Erythrée et l'Ethiopie. Aujourd'hui, les Casques bleus sont partis et rien n'est réglé...

pWebVisible, a provider of local online ad tools, has acquired search marketer a href="http://www.adapt.com/" title="Adapt Technologies"Adapt Technologies/a. Terms were not disclosed. The Irvine, Calif.-based WebVisible has raised $17 million in venture funding over the past three years, most recently a href="http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-local-advertiser-webvisible-gets-12-million-secon-round" title="securing"securing/a $12 million in a second round from Redpoint Ventures in March. WebVisible markets software to small businesses with the promise of better management of their online ad buys. The company's management tools operate across a range of platforms, including search engines, which is where Adapt Technologies comes in. Among Adapt Technologies' services, WebVisible hope to make greater use of its cost-per-action tracking system. a href="http://biz.yahoo.com/iw/081120/0454399.html" title="Release"Release/a /p pstrongRelated/strong/p ul class="related" lia href="http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-local-advertiser-webvisible-gets-12-million-secon-round" title="Local Advertiser WebVisible Gets $12 Million Second Round"Local Advertiser WebVisible Gets $12 Million Second Round/a/li /ul piMark Logic Digital Publishing Summit, Thursday November 6, Westin Times Square. Insight and perspective from Outsell, Gilbane, Simon Schuster, BusinessWeek.com, more. Evening cocktail reception. Cost is complimentary. a href="http://content.adbureau.net/accipiter/adclick/CID=000010cb0000000000000000/SITE=PC_US/AAMSZ=PREMB_NEWS/relocate=http://marklogicdps.eventbrite.com/"Register now!/a/i/p pa href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/pcorg?a=gFkinW"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/pcorg?i=gFkinW" border="0"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=dk20N"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=dk20N" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=PCr6N"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=PCr6N" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=iZ4en"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=iZ4en" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=JojeN"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=JojeN" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=MeD2N"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=MeD2N" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/pcorg/~4/459808349" height="1" width="1"/

pLondon-based online ad network a href="http://www.Adconion.com" title="Adconion"Adconion/a has acquired a href="http://www.ktvdigitalmedia.com" title="KTV Digital Medi"KTV Digital Media/a, the Los Angeles-based digital video production and distribution firm. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. With this acquisition, Adconion is forming its own content development and syndication arm to be called a href="http://www.red-lever.com" title="RedLever"RedLever/a...this arm will develop and distribute branded video entertainment for agencies and advertisers across the Adconion.TV network, which launched last month. Vuguru, the Eisner-backed digital studio, is using Adconion.TV to syndicate its new show "Back on Topps". More details a href="http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/081120/ny47611.html?.v=1" title="in release"in release/a. /p p Adconion is heavily backed, and raised a big second round of $80 million earlier this year. It also bought Las Vegas-based direct marketer Frontline Direct later for about $20 million. Part of the money raised by it was to expand into U.S. and do these acquisitions. /p pstrongRelated/strong/p ul class="related" lia href="http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-uk-ad-network-adconion-buys-frontline-direct-for-20-million" title="UK Ad Network Adconion Buys Frontline Direct For $20 Million"UK Ad Network Adconion Buys Frontline Direct For $20 Million/a/li lia href="http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-uk-online-ad-network-adconion-gets-80-million-funding-expanding-into-us" title="UK Online Ad Network Adconion Gets $80 Million Funding; Expanding Into U.S."UK Online Ad Network Adconion Gets $80 Million Funding; Expanding Into U.S./a/li /ul piMark Logic Digital Publishing Summit, Thursday November 6, Westin Times Square. Insight and perspective from Outsell, Gilbane, Simon Schuster, BusinessWeek.com, more. Evening cocktail reception. Cost is complimentary. a href="http://content.adbureau.net/accipiter/adclick/CID=000010cb0000000000000000/SITE=PC_US/AAMSZ=PREMB_NEWS/relocate=http://marklogicdps.eventbrite.com/"Register now!/a/i/p pa href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/pcorg?a=ttB9ev"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/pcorg?i=ttB9ev" border="0"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=jTZ9N"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=jTZ9N" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=ir1vN"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=ir1vN" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=R1Tyn"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=R1Tyn" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=FHJEN"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=FHJEN" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=G4QYN"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=G4QYN" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/pcorg/~4/459782192" height="1" width="1"/

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pApple (a href="http://finance.paidcontent.org/paidcontent?Page=QUOTETicker=AAPL" class="ticker" title="AAPL"NSDQ: AAPL/a) is bundling a form of copyright protection software into new MacBooks that has a href="http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=8472731" title="some buyers"some buyers/a up in arms. Called High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP), the technology prevents MacBook owners from playing movies they've purchased through iTunes on many external monitors, TVs or projectors—meaning they're stuck watching flicks they've paid for on much smaller screens. /p p HDCP is designed to prevent film piracy by blocking the connection between a computer and a copying device (like a DVR). The problem is that legitimate devices like TVs—particularly older units—also get blocked in the process. It also doesn't help that manufacturers like Apple, a href="http://lcdandmore.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPRODProdID=83651" title="Panasonic"Panasonic/a and a href="http://review.zdnet.com/product/desktops/sony-vaio-rc310g/31929422" title="Sony"Sony/a aren't forthcoming about how they're adding the technology to products. Even Microsoft's Vista and Windows Media Center have varying degrees of HDCP compliance.nbsp; /p p a href="http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2008/11/apple-adds-copy.html" title="Wired says"Wired says/a Intel bowed the technology back in 2001, but Apple began quietly embedding it in new MacBooks this year as a way to appease Hollywood studios wary of licensing content to iTunes. Since iTunes files get downloaded right to a user's hard drive, a film could feasibly be burned to a DVD and recopied ad nauseum. Analysts say that's why the iTunes movie library is anemic in comparison to the libraries of Netflix (a href="http://finance.paidcontent.org/paidcontent?Page=QUOTETicker=NFLX" class="ticker" title="NFLX"NSDQ: NFLX/a) or Vudu—which don't let users store the files. Apple hasn't released any statements addressing the issue, but it's not alone /p piMark Logic Digital Publishing Summit, Thursday November 6, Westin Times Square. Insight and perspective from Outsell, Gilbane, Simon Schuster, BusinessWeek.com, more. Evening cocktail reception. Cost is complimentary. a href="http://content.adbureau.net/accipiter/adclick/CID=000010cb0000000000000000/SITE=PC_US/AAMSZ=PREMB_NEWS/relocate=http://marklogicdps.eventbrite.com/"Register now!/a/i/p pa href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/pcorg?a=vqif3M"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/pcorg?i=vqif3M" border="0"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=fROxN"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=fROxN" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=WI3JN"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=WI3JN" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=nbljn"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=nbljn" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=jr2jN"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=jr2jN" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=RIGmN"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=RIGmN" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/pcorg/~4/459456390" height="1" width="1"/

pApple (a href="http://finance.paidcontent.org/paidcontent?Page=QUOTETicker=AAPL" class="ticker" title="AAPL"NSDQ: AAPL/a) is talking to the three remaining major labels about adding more DRM-free, MP3 tracks, a year after EMI signed on. UMG, Sony (a href="http://finance.paidcontent.org/paidcontent?Page=QUOTETicker=SNE" class="ticker" title="SNE"NYSE: SNE/a) BMG and WMG are still talking to Apple, and at least one is close to an agreement, this a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10102414-93.html?tag=newsLeadStoriesArea.1" title="News.com report says"News.com report says/a. Meanwhile Amazon's music store, Napster (a href="http://finance.paidcontent.org/paidcontent?Page=QUOTETicker=NAPS" class="ticker" title="NAPS"NSDQ: NAPS/a), Rhapsody and other have already amassed on the MP3 deals with these labels, but no specific evidence yet that DRM-free has spurred the sales of song downloads in the last year. One a href="http://www.pcworld.com/article/139484/drmfree_music_boosts_online_album_sales.html" title="evidence does"evidence does/a point out that with price parity, users prefer DRM-free over DRMed songs...who wouldn't? /p p Meanwhile, that persnickety MySpace Music CEO hasn't signed on yet, has he? /p piMark Logic Digital Publishing Summit, Thursday November 6, Westin Times Square. Insight and perspective from Outsell, Gilbane, Simon Schuster, BusinessWeek.com, more. Evening cocktail reception. Cost is complimentary. a href="http://content.adbureau.net/accipiter/adclick/CID=000010cb0000000000000000/SITE=PC_US/AAMSZ=PREMB_NEWS/relocate=http://marklogicdps.eventbrite.com/"Register now!/a/i/p pa href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/pcorg?a=tcSLNg"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/pcorg?i=tcSLNg" border="0"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=VlWCN"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=VlWCN" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=Yh8ON"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=Yh8ON" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=hGpDn"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=hGpDn" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=95gPN"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=95gPN" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=5JHcN"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=5JHcN" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/pcorg/~4/459165897" height="1" width="1"/

pimg src="http://paidcontent.org/images/uploads/arianna_120x120.jpg" align="right" border="0" /a href="http://press.nikonusa.com/2008/05/behind_the_scenes_nikon_coolpi.php"img src="http://paidcontent.org/images/uploads/biopic-kutcher-ashton.jpg" alt="image" align="right" border="0" width="120" height="120" //aDecember is fast approaching and as it customary with us, we are doing a mixer and year-end roundup here in Los Angeles. As part of that, we are thrilled to announce that actor and producer bAshton Kutcher/b will be interviewed on stage by bArianna Huffington/b, co-founder and editor-in-chief of The Huffington Post, at our a href="http://www.contentnext.com/lamixer08/" title="L.A. Year-End Digital Media Review and Mixer"L.A. Year-End Digital Media Review and Mixer/a at the WGA Theater on Dec. 9. Ashton's production company, a href="http://www.katalystfilms.com/" title="Katalyst Media"Katalyst Media/a, produces film, TV and digital entertainment properties, inclusive of the animated Web series ia href="http://blahgirls.com" title="Blah Girls"Blah Girls/a/i. that will be distributed on MySpace in 2009. /p p We will also host a panel session at the event, featuring bMiles Beckett/b, co-founder and CEO of EQAL and co-creator and executive producer of ilonelygirl15/i and iKateModern/i; bLewis Henderson/b, SVP - head of digital for the William Morris Agency; and a few others. bRafat Ali/b, our founder and editor, will moderate the session, which will focus on the state of the digital entertainment industry and what's expected in 2009. /p p Registration will open next week for this event, so keep your eyes peeled as tickets go fast. /p p Thanks to our diamond sponsor, a href="http://www.msn.com" title="MSN Entertainment"MSN Entertainment/a; silver sponsor, a href="http://www.marketwire.com" title="Marketwire"Marketwire/a; and our corporate sponsor, a href="http://guardian.co.uk" title="Guardian"Guardian News and Media/a. For more sponsorship options, e-mail us at badvertising AT contentnext.com/b. /p piMark Logic Digital Publishing Summit, Thursday November 6, Westin Times Square. Insight and perspective from Outsell, Gilbane, Simon Schuster, BusinessWeek.com, more. Evening cocktail reception. Cost is complimentary. a href="http://content.adbureau.net/accipiter/adclick/CID=000010cb0000000000000000/SITE=PC_US/AAMSZ=PREMB_NEWS/relocate=http://marklogicdps.eventbrite.com/"Register now!/a/i/p pa href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/pcorg?a=Sh81GK"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/pcorg?i=Sh81GK" border="0"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=8kIhN"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=8kIhN" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=9d35N"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=9d35N" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=eW7Fn"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=eW7Fn" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=szJQN"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=szJQN" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=XckCN"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=XckCN" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/pcorg/~4/459247201" height="1" width="1"/

pa href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/nohodamon/1993333672/"img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2167/1993333672_e6608d0b9c_m.jpg" align="right" border="0"/aAnd so it starts again: The Writers Guild of America (WGA) is planning to file for arbitration against the Alliance of Motion Picture Television Producers (AMPTP), alleging that the producers are not complying with the new contract that was negotiated after a prolonged strike during the winter of 2007-08. The full WGA a href="http://www.wga.org/content/default.aspx?id=3384" title="more to come"statement is here/a. /p p The points in WGA's new complaint: br / -- That the media companies part of AMPTP are not paying residuals for writers' work that is reused on new media. Of course this was the main issue of the WGA strike. br / -- WGA is "embarking on an aggressive contract enforcement program—including legal action—to ensure that the AMPTP companies make good on their obligations," it says. br / -- WGA says that its residual agreement with media companies covered feature films after July 1, 1971, and TV programs produced after 1977. It now says that "the companies have reneged on this agreement and are taking the position that bonly programs produced after February 13, 2008 are covered by the new provision. This may be their deal with the DGA, but that was never our agreement/b." AMPTP and DGA came to an agreement after the WGA agreement was struck. br / -- "Our tracking has shown that episodes are staying on websites blonger than the 17-day initial window/b called for in the contract. This triggers the payment of a residual, but so far we've seen nothing," said David Young, executive director of the WGAW. /p p With the economy in shambles, any other stoppage in work would be devastating for the entertainment community. Also, with online revenues for media/entertainment companies also being affected with the economy, don't expect them to start paying more than absolutely necessary at this point, and they may even try to figure out workarounds if they can. /p p iPic courtesy: a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/nohodamon/1993333672/" title="NoHoDamon"NoHoDamon/a/i /p pstrongRelated/strong/p ul class="related" lia href="http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-writers-vote-to-end-strike/" title="Writers Vote To End Strike; New Contract Still Must Be Ratified"Writers Vote To End Strike; New Contract Still Must Be Ratified/a/li lia href="http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-dga-deal-ratified-by-members" title="DGA Deal Ratified By Members"DGA Deal Ratified By Members/a/li /ul piMark Logic Digital Publishing Summit, Thursday November 6, Westin Times Square. Insight and perspective from Outsell, Gilbane, Simon Schuster, BusinessWeek.com, more. Evening cocktail reception. Cost is complimentary. a href="http://content.adbureau.net/accipiter/adclick/CID=000010cb0000000000000000/SITE=PC_US/AAMSZ=PREMB_NEWS/relocate=http://marklogicdps.eventbrite.com/"Register now!/a/i/p pa href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/pcorg?a=orB7IF"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/pcorg?i=orB7IF" border="0"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=SyL9N"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=SyL9N" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=NFspN"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=NFspN" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=srrhn"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=srrhn" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=m2q9N"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=m2q9N" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=qqkiN"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=qqkiN" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/pcorg/~4/459041952" height="1" width="1"/