Google Set for Richer Advertising on Smartphones

http://adage.com/digital/article?article_id=139471

What Mobile Payments Will Mean for the Marketing World

I love outdoor concerts and this one with The Nadas and the Beach Boys was one of the best. Pretty good for a small Iowa town!

Upgrading my home computer from Vista to Windows 7 went well but took a LONG time. I don't see a huge difference. It seems more solid, the UI has improved, and I'm finding some useful new features. The Windows 7 firewall and backup/restore have solid improvements over Vista.

Music Video Forces United to Clean Up Customer-Service Act

http://adage.com/garfield/post?article_id=137864

Here is this week's Hawthorne Videoactive Report, including a web cam interview with Sean Cheyney, Vice President of Marketing and Business Development for AccuQuote, talking about his company's many New Media and video-based marketing efforts.  Please go to: http://www.videoactivereport.com/

This is a really great article about the implications of digital abundance by Chris Anderson, author of The Long Tail.

Hawthorne Direct Announces Gina Lombardo-Negron as Short Form Media Supervisor

Hawthorne Direct Announces Scott Montgomery as Media Buyer

Hawthorne Direct Announced as Four Times Communicator Awards Winner

I’m hardly the first to suggest that Barack Obama personifies a sea change in American politics, but I’m in a much smaller crowd suggesting that “the nation’s first” internet candidate’s marketing strategy isn’t quite as unique as we think.

Q: What’s your take on the FTC’s plan to rewrite the guidelines for TV ad testimonials?

Last night I watched some videos of the Epic’s newly released “Gears of War 2.” It’s of special interest to me because I was VP of programming at a game company developing a game on Epic’s engine during the Unreal Tournament/Warfare time frame around 2000-2002. Working with this game engine was one of the most challenging and fun things I’ve ever done.

As I’m following current events unfold at home in the evening, I’m thrilled at the education I’m joyfully receiving in history, economics, and politics. I had rare tastes of this in High School and was largely oblivious after as I focused on Physics in University.