On Sunday, Guns 'N' Roses fans finally get to collect earnings on Dr Pepper's bet that the tumultuous band would never finish Chinese Democracy -- for 24 hours. After that, the freebies revert to huge traffic for the soft-drink manufacturer's servers.

"We never thought this day would come," Dr Pepper's vice president of marketing Tony Jacobs told Variety, speaking no doubt of November 23, which also happens to be Chinese Democracy's release date. "But now that it's here, all we can say is: The Dr Pepper's on us."

Clever.

Dr Pepper's marketing stunt may be over as soon as it starts, but the band already offered its blessing back in March on its website. And Guns 'N' Roses wasn't even in on it. So it says.

After the hype settles, what matters is how Chinese Democracy tastes, not Dr Pepper. Axl Rose played the waiting game. Did he win it?

Photo: GNR @ MySpace

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By now you’ve all seen Peter’s post from yesterday that introduced the new PS3 ad campaign. I wanted to give you some details on the two PSP ad campaigns that also kicked off recently. One campaign focuses on the new PSP-3000 and the other on the big games that are available this holiday season (or coming soon after), including Resistance: Retribution, God of War: Chains of Olympus, Madden NFL ’09 and more favorites.
This campaign is one of my favorites because not only does it gives a nod to the awesome ‘POV’ TV spot that we aired when the PSP first launched back in March 2005, but it places the PSP within a colorful and diverse blur of urban activity. As someone who spends a lot of time in San Francisco and travels the country often, I see the way that people in different cities use their PSPs and I think we’ve captured that in a fun and interesting way. The TV spots are fast-moving, 15-second snapshots of the PSP within several large cities, with local or regional musicians contributing their tracks to the spots. With the PSP, everywhere really does get better. Here are three of the spots, including a sneak peak into the TV spot for Chicago, which will start airing next week.

Taking the urban theme even further, we were able to work with local artists in 11 different cities and have them design unique PSP skins. It’s an awesome way of working with local talent to discover the ways that they love their cities and communities and how they use their PSP. Starting next week, be sure to visit the PSP module on PlayStation.com to check the PSP skins out. Of course I’m inclined to love the San Francisco skin, but think that they all offer unique flavors. Would love to hear which one you like best in the comments section.
Be sure to keep an eye out for the TV spots which are airing now, as well as the print, online and transit ads. For those of you lucky enough to live in or visit one of the five cities that we’ve focused on, you’ll see PSP ads all over buses, subways and trains.
Let us know what you think, and have a great weekend!


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pimg src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/images/strangelovelive.jpg" /Every now and again some of us at ReadWriteWeb pop up in video or podcast recordings. Our VP Content Dev Marshall Kirkpatrick moreso than me, as he is based in the US. And Marshall is appearing on an interesting live video show tonight, called a href="http://strangelovelive.com/"Strange Love Live/a. It will be broadcast a href="http://www.ustream.tv/channel/strange-love-live"live on Ustream/a at 10pm PST tonight (Friday). Hosted by Cami Kaos and Dr. Normal, Strange Love Live focuses on the latest happenings in online tech - calling on techies around the Portland, Oregon area to provide insight into their areas of expertise. Interesting without being dull, recent topics have ranged from OpenID to WordPress to iPhone apps. We're looking forward to seeing Marshall live tonight! a href="http://www.ustream.tv/channel/strange-love-live"Tune in at 10pm PST/a./p p align="right"emSponsor/embr /a href='http://d.openx.org/ck.php?n=12682amp;cb=12682' target='_blank'img src='http://d.openx.org/avw.php?zoneid=861amp;cb=12682amp;n=12682' border='0' alt='' align="right" //a/p h2Recent RWW Appearances on The Interwebs/h2 pYours truly (RWW editor Richard MacManus) was interviewed at Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco a href="http://bub.blicio.us/web-20-summit-richard-macmanus-of-readwriteweb/"by Alison McNeill of bub.blicio.us/a:/p pobject classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" width="540" height="410" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0"param name="src" value="http://blip.tv/play/AduRJgA" /embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="540" height="410" src="http://blip.tv/play/AduRJgA"/embed/object/p pimg src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/images/netanight.jpg" align="right" /Marshall Kirkpatrick was a href="http://twit.tv/natn73"recently on the popular TWiT.tv show/a net@night with Amber and Leo. The hosts Amber MacArthur and Leo Laporte had a lot of fun trying to pronounce our name - hence the episode title of strongWeadWiteWeb/strong!/p pAlso check out Marshall's a href="http://www.therecruiterslounge.com/2008/10/28/readwriteweb-launches-jobwire/"podcast with The Recruiters Lounge/a, talking about our new product a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/jobwire/"Jobwire/a, and a href="http://www.capturetheconversation.com/read/a-social-media-discussion-with-marshall-kirkpatrick"Jason Cormier's interview with Marshall/a on Capture The Conversation./p stronga href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/rww_on_strange_love_live.php#comments-open"Discuss/a/strong pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/v3kZiA6JkStIqKWLSzOtHNxnSCA/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/v3kZiA6JkStIqKWLSzOtHNxnSCA/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/readwriteweb?a=5n5sgMrv"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/readwriteweb?d=1035" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/readwriteweb?a=Z0V5ntqj"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/readwriteweb?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/readwriteweb?a=yeAaz7kk"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/readwriteweb?i=yeAaz7kk" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/readwriteweb?a=cqFG1uSy"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/readwriteweb?i=cqFG1uSy" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/readwriteweb?a=J4OUdZaH"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/readwriteweb?i=J4OUdZaH" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/readwriteweb?a=2cgUfy8N"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/readwriteweb?d=52" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/readwriteweb?a=pGmICT5r"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/readwriteweb?d=1034" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/readwriteweb/~4/UqlWZ-tdlNU" height="1" width="1"/

Sony's director of hardware marketing, John Koller, has said announced the launch of the new urban PSP ad campaign and uploaded a video showing three of the 15-second TV spots.

Today, Google launched its SearchWiki feature, which adds an aspect of personalization and quasi-semantic enhancement.

Jessica Smith is Chief Mom Advisor of MomForce.com and Chief Mom Officer for Wishpot.com. She chronicles her experiences as a mom and virtual executive at JessicaKnows.com.

More and more moms are leaving the nine-to-five corporate grind and finding themselves working virtually from home in order to spend more quality time with their children. These balance-achieving moms need to stay productive, flexible, and as stress-free as possible what with carpooling the kids, making dinner, and advancing their careers.

As a mom who works virtually myself, I’ve tried out my share of productivity and communications tools. Now I’m going to share with you the five I can’t live without:

Google Apps

I use GMail to manage five different accounts related to the different projects I’m working on. I use Google docs to collaborate with other moms for event planning, project execution, and information capture. And Google calendar is a life saver when scheduling meetings because it plays nice with just about any calendaring platform out there. The bonus? Now that I have a T-Mobile G1, I cut out the step of a daily sync because Google’s Android platform syncs “over the air.” Meaning, I can focus on my child, the dishes, my clients, the mom communities, etc. instead of trying to remember the last time I synched my BlackBerry.

Remember the Milk

As a busy mom, every second counts. Fleeting ideas and phone calls can happen unexpectedly and sometimes at the most distracted part of my day (erm…that would be every part). Remember the Milk is a task list tool that I also use to capture those ideas, jot a quick note, or write down a few words to jog my memory later.

Using the Gmail Remember the Milk Add-on, this nifty little tool now lives within my Gmail screen. Handy and unintrusive, I don’t have to open any extra windows to get what’s in my head on that list. Literally, within seconds, it’s captured and saved. And with my hectic life? Every second counts. Alternatives to Remember the Milk include Jott and Evernote.

Twitter

Seems like more and more moms are on Twitter every day. So it was no surprise when the moms’ twitter streams made headlines recently after a Motrin ad rubbed many moms the wrong way. However, a lot of moms, like me, use Twitter as a way to keep up with current events, parenting resources, and developing friendships. And more moms than you might think are using Twitter as a professional networking tool. I’d even argue that I use Twitter stream as a blog reader that sees more action than my Google Reader.

Want to find moms on Twitter?

- Use Twitter Search with the search term mom, baby, or other keyword like baby sling, preschool, etc to find other like-minded moms on Twitter.

- Sign up for the Twitter Moms Ning group to connect and share with other Moms on Twitter and find new ones to follow.

- Look for a link to the mommy blogger’s Twitter profile on your mommy blogs.

Facebook

Sure, I’ve connected with childhood chums on Facebook as far back as elementary school on this ever-popular (some might even say THE most popular) social networking site. However, I also use it as an effective way to make important announcements about projects I’m working on, sharing resources I’ve found helpful with other moms, and discovering new blogs and websites to read and explore further.

The Notes application makes it easy to share my feed with those that might not be avid blog readers and the Groups function lets me make new connections within various niches of interest. I’ve even designed my own flair with the logos of the companies I work with. Facebook can be a total time waster, but if used properly it can be a valuable tool.

Feeling overwhelmed? Start with these mom-friendly Facebook apps:

- Add your blog, support your favorites and discover new ones with Blog Network.

- Support your favorite charity or express your passion for a cause with the Facebook application Causes.

- Escape from preschool TV show line-up and be entertained by taking your friends quizzes or making up your own with the Quizzes app.

YouMail

This is a neat application that works with your cell phone’s voicemail. A lot of people will find this useful, but moms especially. I know there are some times when because of a yapping puppy and a tired, cranky preschooler, I just can’t get to the phone. With YouMail, not only can I set up different voicemails depending on who the caller is, I can also see who left a voicemail in my email. This, with the ability to forward a voicemail by email to some else, helps me prioritize and therefore makes me productive.

Plus, it takes Caller-ID to a whole different level, by showing me not just the number but the location, too. Working virtually, I get calls from all over the country, so this feature is very useful when taking time zones and the appropriate time to return a call into consideration.

Living a balanced life as a full-time mom and a virtual executive isn’t easy and it’s certainly not without stress. But I’ve found that using a few key tools consistently, makes for a more productive and therefore, more successful outcome both with my family and my career.

What are your must have tools?

Jessica Smith has successfully brought her 8 years of marketing and business development experience home with her, literally. She is Chief Mom Advisor and the woman behind the idea for MomForce.com, Chief Mom Officer for Wishpot.com, and works with big brands including Walmart and Ford. Jessica offers a personal glimpse into her life as a mom and virtual executive at JessicaKnows.com. Her specialties include creating buzz and community for companies that target moms through new media. She has also been recently tapped as one of the 50 Most Influential and Powerful Women in Social Media as #23. Jessica enjoys the best of both worlds, motherhood and career, at home in the DC Metro area with her husband and young son. You can find her on Twitter as @jessicaknows.

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Disney Fights Piracy on Site it Funded; 56.com, funded by Steamboat Ventures had bootlegged Disney content like full-length copies of WALL-E up on the site. (The Wall Street Journal)

YouTube Testing HD Videos; video giant stealthily trying out the higher quality 720p format. (Epicenter Blog) CNET teaches how to tweak your YouTube embeds for HD playback.

BitGravity Launches Multi-View, Will Be Used on Diggnation; viewers can choose from five different simultaneous video streams of the show. (emailed release)

BBC’s Local Video Plan Blocked; regulators say the the $100 million project to add video bulletins to 65 local UK web sites would hurt video efforts of struggling local newspapers. (paidContent)

DVD Sales Are Down; sales of the shiny discs off 9 percent during the third quarter, Blu-Ray’s prospects even bleaker. (The New York Times)

Justin Timberlake’s SNL Skit Pulled Because of Music Clearances; embeds of the Single Ladies sketch did disappear, but not because Timberlake wanted more money. (LA Times)

Mr. Internet Wants to Be the “Talk Soup” of Web Culture; created by agency Crispin, Porter + Bogusky show will collect all manner of web-based stories and air on Plum TV. (MediaWeek)

A case of great minds think alike today. Two lovely Dipity timelines for you to enjoy. The Guardian plots media job loss announcements here#8230; and the NW Media#8217;s Evening Leader does a good job here, at plotting a North East Wales credit crunch line: Similar Posts:Evening Leader launches online courtroom project Evening Leader plots UFO sightings with Dipity HTFP: [...]img width='1' height='1' src='http://rss.feedsportal.com/c/367/f/5716/s/26a99e6/mf.gif' border='0'/div class='mf-viral'table border='0'trtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=Recession timelines... Media job cuts plotted / credit crunch in North East Waleslink=http://blogs.journalism.co.uk/editors/2008/11/21/recession-timelines-media-job-cuts-plotted-credit-crunch-in-north-wales/" target="_blank"img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif" border="0" //a/tdtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/bookmark.cfm?title=Recession timelines... Media job cuts plotted / credit crunch in North East Waleslink=http://blogs.journalism.co.uk/editors/2008/11/21/recession-timelines-media-job-cuts-plotted-credit-crunch-in-north-wales/" target="_blank"img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/bookmark.gif" border="0" //a/td/tr/table/divbr/br/a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/24192768910/u/49/f/5716/c/367/s/40540646/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/24192768910/u/49/f/5716/c/367/s/40540646/a2.img" border="0"//a

A case of great minds think alike today. Two lovely Dipity timelines for you to enjoy. The Guardian plots media job loss announcements here#8230; and the NWN Media#8217;s Evening Leader does a good job here, at plotting a North East Wales credit crunch line: Similar Posts:Evening Leader launches online courtroom project Evening Leader plots UFO sightings with Dipity HTFP: [...]img width='1' height='1' src='http://rss.feedsportal.com/c/367/f/5716/s/26a99e6/mf.gif' border='0'/div class='mf-viral'table border='0'trtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=Recession timelines... Media job cuts plotted / credit crunch in North East Waleslink=http://blogs.journalism.co.uk/editors/?p=5363" target="_blank"img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif" border="0" //a/tdtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/bookmark.cfm?title=Recession timelines... Media job cuts plotted / credit crunch in North East Waleslink=http://blogs.journalism.co.uk/editors/?p=5363" target="_blank"img src="http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/bookmark.gif" border="0" //a/td/tr/table/divbr/br/a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/24192768910/u/49/f/5716/c/367/s/40540646/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/24192768910/u/49/f/5716/c/367/s/40540646/a2.img" border="0"//a

LittleShoot is a new web-based p2p file sharing site founded by one of the creators of Limewire that could live up to its pedigree and then some. While being web-based naturally makes the service more attractive than downloadable file-sharing apps, LittleShoot has a few other killer features that could make it the new model for p2p.

For one, LittleShoot is starting off by serving as a search index for services that already have billions of files, like YouTube, Flickr, and yes, Limewire. Thus, searching for just about anything will yield a plethora of results that you can download right to your computer. LittleShoot includes its own player too, so as a video or song is downloading, you can view and listen from the browser.

Speedy Downloads

Once those files are downloaded, they become part of the p2p network that is LittleShoot. Like other p2p services before it, LittleShoot works by downloading pieces of content from other users that have a given file, in the most efficient way possible. The service is optimized not just to find the most nearby computers with the file, but also defaulting (when possible) to users on the same ISP to further pump up the download speeds.

Anonymous Publishing

Publishing files to LittleShoot is also exceptionally easy. You simply browse your hard drive and select the files you’d like to upload. You can add tags to your files to help improve the search index. You can access your files from a “Publish” tab on the site, where you can edit, open, or delete them. LittleShoot requires no registration, which should give users some sense of anonymity in uploading their files (of course, whether copyright holders demand IP addresses at some point is another issue).

Turning Twitter into a p2p Platform

Although not live yet, another big feature LittleShoot has in the works will essentially turn Twitter into a file sharing service. When you upload files, you’ll have the option to tweet a link to them, which in turn will be tremendous viral marketing for LittleShoot while significantly improving the performance of the p2p network, since files will be hosted on more and more computers as they get downloaded.

For Developers

LittleShoot also plans to offer tools to external developers, so “any site can include our javascript library and create a p2p YouTube, for example, but where flash files stream just as if they weren’t p2p,” says co-founder Adam Fisk.

Why Are They Doing This?

There are already a ton of p2p download services, many of which are under constant attack by copyright holders and industry groups. Essentially, Fisk and his team think file sharing has evolved in the wrong direction in the Web 2.0 world.

“People flocked to put their videos and photos on sites like YouTube and Facebook, and those sites now control an astonishing percentage of our digital content. Corporate ads are slapped on personal videos. Privately shared content is taken down due to bogus copyright claims. Sharing has become synonymous with forsaking one’s right to manage one’s own content,” the company says.

LittleShoot could certainly shake things up, and given how long Limewire has managed to survive, I wouldn’t bet against it being a new disruptive force in p2p file sharing with some staying power.

MySpace scored two high-profile album streams this week: Chinese Democracy by Guns N' Roses and Electric Arguments by The Fireman (Paul McCartney and Youth). MySpace playcount indicators show that many listeners are only sticking around on MySpace to play the first few tracks on both albums. On both pages, playcounts generally decline from track to track over the courses of the albums.

Coolfer wonders whether people have developed a case of "MySpace premiere fatigue" and can no longer be bothered to listen to more than the first few tracks on either of these high-profile releases. You can skip directly to any track on either album on the site, but the default setting is to play the tracks in the same sequence in which they appear on the album, which the blog acknowledges is a major reason for the drop-off. In these times of multitasking and short attention spans, we're likely to find something else to do during the 45 minutes or so it takes to listen to an album, especially with the whole internet sitting right there to distract us.

To be fair, neither album first appeared on MySpace (most of Chinese Democracy leaked through a blog and all of Electric Arguments was first available on NPR). MySpace was the first place the Guns N' Roses album was available, so the drop-off there does indicate that people tend to stop listening as the album progresses, even if they are excited about a totally new release.

But "MySpace preview fatigue" as a general phenomenon? Doubtful.

As the copy becomes worthless, the only thing of value is its original source, which draws traffic, advertising revenue and opportunities to sell merchandise, tickets, related albums and so on. Besides, the 'ground zero' location for any album has the potential to become the venue for subsequent conversation about the album, creating more traffic and opportunities down the line.

Premieres could be the sole aspect of recorded music that will grow in value as time goes on.

As an aside, Guns N' Roses' listens have already climbed into the hundreds of thousands, while The Fireman's songs linger in the the four-digit range. There are many reasons for this, including that fans have been awaiting Guns N' Roses' release for over a  decade while McCartney and Youth didn't even reveal that they were behind The Fireman project until after their second album. Plus, much of McCartney's core audience already heard his album on-demand since Tuesday on NPR (if they need to hear it online at all) where some of us maintain the premiere actually occurred.

Guns N' Roses, whose MySpace motto is "Chinese Democracy in stores Nov 23rd. Only at Best Buy," already had over 400,000 fans on MySpace before the premiere, as a MySpace spokeswoman told us. Apparently, not even half of them have bothered to hear the album yet (the last track, "Prostitute," currently clocks in with 159,712 plays).

See Also:

• Guns N' Roses' Chinese Democracy Launches on MySpace
• Lawyer: Guns N' Roses Uploader to Walk
• Guns N' Roses Leaker's Fate Rests in the Band's Hands
• FBI Visits Leaker of Guns N' Roses' Chinese Democracy
• MySpace Music Sees Major Money in Free Tunes
• Blog Leaks Tracks From Guns N' Roses' Chinese Democracy
• MySpace Music Adds User Playlists, Amazon Links

BringIt is a online site, where video gamers can put up money to challenge other players to matches, play their favorite games, and earn prize money by winning. The service was designed with gamers in mind, delivering the next level of competitive gaming by removing physical barriers and offering an online destination where players looking for real head-to-head competition and real rewards can test their skills wherever and whenever they want.

A new iPod dock was launched by Marantz earlier; a wireless dock called IS301 that has Bluetooth connectivity.