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Friday, May 2, 2008

Batman Trailer Mashup Lookalike

One of my favorite things about the Web is how quickly and effectively you can take media and mash it up into all sorts of new forms.
Case in point, this comparison of scenes from a trailer from the latest Batman movie, “The Dark Knight” and that of 1989’s original “Batman.”
Incredibly, many of the scenes [...]

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Friday, August 24, 2007

Memo to YouTube and Facebook Users: There’s Advertising Going On in These Joints–Discuss!

I guess I should not be surprised that there has been immediately negative reaction from users to the recent moves at both YouTube and Facebook related to putting ads throughout both services in a big way.
But, with ever-escalating costs (and in YouTube’s case, a big $1.65 billion acquisition price that demands justification by its owner [...]

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Funny Friday Video: Facebook Face/Off

We like funny videos as much as the next person and we especially like funny, techie ones.
Here’s one parodying the great John Woo movie Face/Off by reimagining it in a Facebook setting. It’s from the excellent CollegeHumor site:

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About Kara

Kara Swisher started covering digital issues for The Wall Street Journal's San Francisco bureau in 1997 and also wrote the BoomTown column about the sector. With Walt Mossberg, she co-produces and co-hosts D: All Things Digital, a major high-tech and media conference. Read more »

Ethics Statement

Here is a statement of my ethics and coverage policies. It is more than most of you want to know, but, in the age of suspicion of the media, I am laying it all out.

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