If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Barack Obama spent roughly $4 million dollars on 30 minutes of primetime ad space last night. The commercial, which aired on CBS, NBC, MSNBC, Fox and some cable networks, concluded with Bill Clinton stumping for Obama. Obama then hit the Continue Reading →
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If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. A jury convicted Senator Ted “Tubes” Stevens on all seven felony counts which violated federal ethics laws. Stevens is guilty of failing to report thousands of dollars in gifts and home renovations. Stevens, who was until recently Alaska’s most prominent Continue Reading →
If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Dave Westin, President of ABC News, sent a company wide email notifying employees of drastic budget cuts. ABC News, which is trying to limit expenses asked that executives take coach flights, stay in cheaper hotels, while canceling all print subscriptions. Continue Reading →
A few years ago, I had the pleasure of hearing Jack Stanley, director of the Thomas Edison Menlo Park Museum, speak about the life and times of the inventor. From 1876 to about 1884, Edison got about 400 patents, a rate of almost one a week. Stanley called Edison, the New Jersey town, “the center Continue Reading →
Had the pleasure Wednesday of seeing Michael Chin of Kickapps do a (kickass) presentation in my Digital Marketing class at Baruch’s biz school. He demonstrated not only how social media centered around a brand or organization can cultivate enthusiasm (and generally give an indicator of sentiment), but also how much mineable data there is about each participant Continue Reading →
If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Yesterday the Dow Jones closed at 8519, near its five year low. The story did not make the front page of the New York Times nor the evening news. Forget Joe the Plumber, where is Joe the Businessman? Amazon’s 3Q Continue Reading →
If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Google’s first Android enabled phone, the G1, will go on sale today. Google has also made the code for Android available to developers through an Apache 2.0 license that lets developers add to the codebase. The open-source mobile device, available Continue Reading →
If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. If elected President, Barack Obama would create the first-ever Cabinet level Chief Technology Officer. Obama thinks that the US is not doing nearly enough to create jobs in the tech sector and believes an executive position would better the situation. Continue Reading →
If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. After weeks of speculation, Sarah Palin appeared on Saturday Night Live. The Alaskan Governor and Vice Presidential nominee helped SNL take home a 10.7 rating/24 share, a nearly 161% improvement over the shows October average from 2007. SNL also received Continue Reading →
“That’s why I say I, like every American I’m speaking with, we’re ill about this position that we have been put in where it is the taxpayers looking to bail out. But ultimately what the bail-out does is help those who are concerned about the healthcare reform that is needed to help shore up our Continue Reading →