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Entries from December 2007

NGT News: Bunchball Games, Search Marketing, Radiohead Webcast & More

by NGT

Bunchball: Cross-Platform, Real-Time Games. A Sign of Social Networking’s Future? [TechCrunch]
Bunchball Games is the first application to take advantage of Facebook’s new cross-network partnership with Bebo. You can now play Bunchball’s Flash-based games with users on Facebook and Bebo from either SNS.
Related on NGT: Bunchball: Addictive Group Gaming on Facebook
The State of the Media Democracy: […]

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NGT News: iTunes Digital Movie Rentals, Internet Video Advertising & More

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Google One-Ups Yahoo In Japan [TechCrunch]
Google will become the default search and email provider for Japan’s DoCoMo mobile customers.
Best of Ads, Worst of Ads [Wall Street Journal]
Wall Street Journal lists the best and worst of this year’s ads. Guerilla marketing and viral video may be the new buzzwords, but the success of a campaign still […]

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NGT News: Mobile Tips for Bar-hopping, UGC Election Coverage & More

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A Mobile Social Service to Get you out to the Bar [RCR Wireless News]
BuzzD is a mobile networking program that provides real-time peer reviews of social venues. You can see your friends’ critiques of the cocktails at a local bar or the find out how long the line is at the hottest club by texting […]

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NGT News: Teen UGC, Motorola in China, Google-DoubleClick Deal & More

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Study: 59% Of Teens Create Content Online [TechCrunch]
A Pew Internet & American Life Project study shows that the majority of American teens create online content. Teenage girls are more likely to blog and post pictures than boys, but teenage boys lead when it comes to user-generated web video.
At 71, Physics Professor Is a Web Star […]

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Guest Post on YPulse

by Allison

Alan and Allison have a guest post today on YPulse (Anastasia Goodstein’s must-read blog on Gen Y), which looks at the upcoming mobile trends in Asia. It discusses:

Social networking sites (SNS) like Mixi and Gree have gone mobile, and the next wave are game and avatar-based versions.
Location-bases services (LBS) are launching in Asia because […]

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Tags: Asia · Wireless World · Youth Trends

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