Supossably

Plan your wedding with these Web resources

posterbot — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:15:05 +0000

If you’re getting ready to plan your wedding or you know someone who is, these resources can help you save some cash and find the right vendors.

No tags for this post.

Rutger Hauer to Hollywood: Don’t fear tech

posterbot — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:15:04 +0000

q&a The “Blade Runner” star is backing a company that wants to open up bandwidth and says technology will help improve filmmaking.

No tags for this post.

Hollywood’s antipiracy charm offensive has FCC in crosshairs

posterbot — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:15:03 +0000

Hollywood’s new campaign for government permission to police the Internet for copyright theft began this month with a segment on, of all places, CBS’s Sixty Minutes. Viewers expecting another of the shows’ self-described “hard-hitting investigative reports” watched a feature called The Movie Pirates, in which a shocked Leslie Stahl disclosed what was apparently a revelation to her—that people go into multiplexes with camcorders, record the movie, then package and sell it on the street.

“Mobsters have moved into the piracy business, and it’s bleeding Hollywood to the tune of billions of dollars a year,” Stahl warned her viewers. The most prominent scofflaw shown in the program was an enterprising fellow from Illinois, who, to the journalists’ horror, was caught recording the flick while watching it with his family. “He brought a child with him to do this?” Stahl asked the private investigator who collared the man, outrage in her voice.

No tags for this post.

A new set of rules for social games

posterbot — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:15:04 +0000

Playfish’s $300 million sale to Electronic Arts seems to spell good news for other makers of social-network games, but this is a fast-growing and messy niche filled with one plot twist after another.

No tags for this post.

Music industry bows to the point-and-shoot camera

posterbot — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:15:04 +0000

As cheap, powerful automatic cameras and camera phones proliferate, the music industry–and its sports counterpart–have had to realize they can’t control fans’ ability to take pictures.

No tags for this post.

Twitter, LinkedIn team up for self-promotion free-for-all

posterbot — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 07:15:04 +0000

A partnership between the business-networking site and the microblogging service means that status messages can be interchangeable between the two: great for all those marketers who use the two to broadcast their own brands.

No tags for this post.