Ypulse Essentials: Game Designer High, UGC vs. Professional Content, Obama Ringtones
Posted by anastasia on 06-25-2007
Meet Trevor (the Mentos intern…very smart. Thanks Chet!)
- Personal training on the rise… (for kids) (Yahoo! News)
- It's like the Fame school (but for aspiring game designers in NYC. Plus doctors disputing the existence of "video game addiction") (Serious Game Source via Snarkmarket)
- Sundance gets its avatar on (The New York Times, reg. required, on the brave new world of virtual tv)
- People mashing sh$t up (the L.A. Times, reg. required, on web mashups)
- UGC vs. professional content (Mania.tv is betting on the pros…Slate is mixing it up with both and Michael Eisner is betting on a summer spinoff of "Prom Queen") (MediaWeek) (Lost Remote)
- Obama ringtones (um…ok. And Indecision 2008) (Huffington Post)
- Teens and twentysomethings like foreign cars ("they want three things: style, performance and affordability" and the ability to customize [Scion rules]) (Detroit Free Press)
- Atoosa on advertainment (her latest Forbes column on the ever crumbling Chinese wall between ads and edit, which has now reached the far flung shores of the web with LG15 starring Neutrogena)
- 'Transformers' leaps back to the small screen (will reappear in animated form on Cartoon Network) (press release)
P.S. Check out my latest post on Totally Wired on managing online identities. And, the Totally Wired PTA tour is in sponsorship selling mode. If you work with a brand that wants to reach PTA moms, check out this sponsor kit (.pdf) and get in touch.
