BitTorrent

BitTorrent, Wal-Mart To Open Online Video Stores (Media Post Publications)

BitTorrent forged deals to sell movies from
major Hollywood studios Paramount Pictures, Lionsgate and Twentieth
Century Fox Film, as well as TV shows from MTV Networks, starting
February--while retail giant Wal-Mart has begun testing digital
downloads by offering customers who bought DVDs of "Superman Returns" a
downloadable version for an extra few dollars more ($2 for download to
portable device, $3 to PC).

Walmartかあ。。。ふうむ。

dailymotion.com

YouTube's Doppelganger (from Forbes.com)

It's getting tougher and tougher to break copyright law on YouTube
these days. The site now performs frequent purges of television shows
and other proprietary content uploaded by users. But those forbidden
files can still be had. They've largely migrated to DailyMotion.com,
another video-uploading site that replicates YouTube's model of
user-provided videos. DailyMotion, by contrast, seems to do little if
any regulation of copyrighted material, nor does it limit the lengths
of clips.

コンテンツホルダーにとってはもぐらたたき状態ですが、

今度のもぐらもいきおいがあるらしい。

Shawn Fanning To Launch Rupture

Shawn Fanning To Launch Rupture, an Online Gaming Community (from Business Week)

Shawn Fanning of Napster fame says he plans within the next month or so to launch Rupture,
a virtual social community for online gamers. He raised seed money from
a group of investors, including Ron Conway and Joi Ito. 

Rupture was inspired by Fanning's newfound love of online gaming. During the past year and a half, he's become a big fan of World of Warcraft,
joining a guild and climbing up the ranks of players.

WoWをIT業界のゴルフと称した人がいますが、まさにそんな感じですねえ。。。どこで誰に会うかわからない。

The more he
played, though, the more he became frustrated with how hard it is to
communicate with other players, organize game playing together and
learn about other gamers' identities, online and offline.

激同。

Ruptureのサービス概要は以下の通り。

I haven't seen the service but Fanning explained it to me this way:
Using an add on or a software download, Rupture taps into the game to
automatically pull together character names, profiles, and resources,
and publish them on a personalized site. Rupture will also pull
together stats to create individual and guild rankings and provide a
place for guilds to organize their playing. As Rupture tracks each
member's playing over time, these personalized profiles evolve. And
players will be able to chat in groups or with other individuals and
download other addons and game demos.

ここ数ヶ月、WoWをやっていない。。。のですがちょっと復活してみてRuptureも使ってみようと思います。

DailyMotionMovieVids.com

New Site Uncovers Pirated Movies

Now, however, a site, DailyMotionMovieVids.com, directs Web users to
movies that are available for free online. Two companion sites,
DailyMotionEpisodes.com and DailyMotionMusic.com, do the same for TV
shows and music. The movie site quietly launched last week, while the
music site went live earlier this month. All three sites, known as the
DM* Network, rely on users to contribute information about where on the
Web particular movies, TV shows and music can be found.

へええと思ってDailyMotionMovieVids.comを見に行ってみたらあるわあるわ
Harry Potter! Star Wars!でもクリックしてみると全部削除されてるじゃーん！

だめだめですorz

そもそもこれって違法ちゃうん？という問いに対してはこういう議論がされているらしい。

The DailyMotionMovieVids.com site states that it's legal because it
isn't hosting any videos, just directing users to them. But Corynne
McSherry, a staff attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation,
said that the law is murky. "The current legal situation is that it's a
little bit of a mix," she said, adding: "It's unclear what the law is
going to be for copyright protection in the context of linking."

なお、このサイトの唯一の収入源となっているAdsenseを運営しているGoogleは違法コンテンツを掲載しているサイトには広告は出せないと違法扱いして広告配信を停止しようとしているらしい。

Who Likes Consumer Generated Ads?

Who Likes Consumer Generated Ads? Not Young Adults

"AMA(American Marketing Association)’s survey revealed that compared to a company that uses only
professional advertising, most adults feel that a company that uses
customer-created advertising is more customer-friendly (68%), creative
(56%), and innovative (55%).

Survey respondants between the ages of 18 and 24 are more likely than
those between the ages of 25 and 64 to say a company that uses
customer-created advertising is less trustworthy (21% versus 10%,
respectively), less socially-responsible (20% versus 10%, respectively)
and less customer-friendly (13% versus 5%, respectively)."

ふうううん、でも全部の調査結果を見てみたら単に若者は全部高めにつけがちだったってオチじゃないの？
と思ってしまったりする。

Hershey Co. to Produce Elvis Presley Candy

Hershey Co. to Produce Elvis Presley Candy from Ad Age

30th Anniversary of Elvis's death next summer、そうなんだ。

Sales for Reese's -- No. 1 in the chocolate category -- fell slightly during the last year to $412 million.

私Reese's大好きなのだけれど、日本におみやげすると甘すぎてたいていだめだめです。
しかし。。Reese'sだけで昨年売上高4億1200万ドル（400億円以上！）とは。。。すごい。


This year's buzz aside, Elvis has done well hawking products
posthumously, ranking first in Forbes' 2005 list of top-earning
deceased celebrities with $45 million in sales last year. The King is
featured in ads for the Honda CR-V, he'll be touted in a TV Guide
tribute CD on the magazine's Dec. 11 cover and he has recently been
licensed for everything from revolvers (the Elvis Presley "Taking Care
of Business" Smith & Wesson) to keys. Zippo has sold out its
limited-edition Elvis lighters annually for the last 20 years.

エルビスってまだ人気あるんだ。。。

Retailers agree, even those who aren't crazy about the flavor
combination. "I didn't like the way it tastes, but anything with Elvis
has a possibility," said one Midwest grocery executive. "The girls in
my office are thrilled." Even 30 years dead, Elvis still has a way with
the ladies.

Talking Cats and Dogs

Garthに教えてもらったビデオ。

相当うける。

talking cats

Talking Dogs