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

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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: Are You Ready for the Future of Media? [Deloitte]
According to Deloitte’s survey, 40% of consumers broadcast their own online photos, video, and music, and 51% make user generated content part of their regular media diet. UGC intake jumps to 71% for Millennials.

2007: The Year Traditional Agencies ‘Got’ Search [MediaPost]
Major advertising agencies, such as WPP, OMD, and Isobar/Carat, have made significant investments in search engine marketing this year.

Radiohead To Promote Album With New Year’s Eve Concert on Current TV [TechCrunch]
Current TV and Current.com will broadcast a Radiohead concert to promote the in-store release of In Rainbows. The commercial-free webcast—which will feature songs from the album—should prove effective with Gen Yers receptive to content-based advertising.

This Season, More Use Yahoo! Mail than Gmail [MarketingVOX]
This November, Yahoo! Mail got 240 million unique visitors to Gmail’s 80 million. However, comScore predicts that Gmail will surpass Yahoo! Mail by November 2010.

Apple Wants You to Order Your Latte by iPhone [Wireless Weblog]
Apple has filed a patent for a wireless system that allows customers to place orders from their cell phones while on the way to a restaurant or cafe.

Teen and Tween Media Behavior Differs [MediaPost]
Nielsen reports that tweens spend less time on the internet than teens and prefer gaming to other web activities. Email is the most common online activity for teens.

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