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by: Anne Haynes & Informant

My informant alerted me to more information on the Cloverfield, 01.18.08, monster movie

He states, it’s a monster movie that’s dovetails into a plague/infestation movie.
Blog post with more insight on 01.18.08

The monster is a scaly beast and when the scales fall off the monster they take on a mini-monster shape and run around NY. The gremlins of sorts bite humans and generate a plague. Merrick also states that CLOVERFIELD = “survivors on the run”.

The movie sounds like it’s been inspired by many other movies.

Imagin….

THE MONSTER

AFTER THE SCALE FALLS OFF AND GROWS

by: Anne Haynes

Jeremy Schoemaker created a blog post this weekend regarding how corrupt the DMOZ directory has become.

There was a time when DMOZ was the best directory to be listed in on the internet. I’ve read lots of blog posts regarding threats from DMOZ and paying to be listed, but never to the extent of $5,000.00.

Bad DMOZ and Jeremy is correct when suggesting Google to buy Best of the Web as a paid inclusion directory.

ScriptLance is a service that connects programmers with webmasters that need custom programming done for their websites. Much like an auction, programming projects are posted and interested programmers bid on them.

ScriptLance

Following is a great list of Web 2.0 technologies sites.

Web 2.0′s Top 1,000 List!

I’m not sure how Brendan found me, but he and I are linkedin. I received his request tonight and after watching the following video his affiliate platform filled with AJAX for direct response sounds pretty sweet.

Brendan if you’re out there, thanks for the connection!

by: Anne Haynes

How will rich media be supported with only a few phone companies supporting rich media technology? A survey suggests that people are only using their video feature phones to watch videos they themselves have created. The performance over the digital mobile network at this time is not note worthy. A friend of mine tried to show me a YouTube video over his IPhone and let’s just say his, phone, the network, the distribution are not working together.

Google is now selling flash overlay advertisements in YouTube videos to a selected group of partners at $20 dollars per 1,000 viewers.

Following is an example:

Video ads over the internet vs. over mobile networks are two totally different beasts. Advertisers are seeking ways to entice the mobile user to watch selected ads within a video. Utilizing services like Ultramercial.com allows for mobile users to earn free minutes after they watch advertisements on their cell phones.

From a quality and bandwidth perspective, utilizing peer-to-peer (P2P) to widely distribute videos and ads without incurring costs of hardware, hosting and bandwidth is a viable solution. The film and music industries want to find solutions to legalizing distribution, removing bandwidth limitations, and receiving revenues.

P2P programs like BitTorrent, Morpheus, Kazaa, BearShare have been around for years. These programs are downloaded free and funded by ad revenue embedded within the application after download from the Internet.

The question is how to wed multiple ads within one piece of rich media content and monotize it over mobile networks without jeopardizing quality….?

Last night ABC i-CAUGHT went behind the scences to meet the Urban Ninjia. With 15,823,753 hits and a 4 star rating on YouTube, this is no ordinary Ninjia.

by: Anne Haynes

I watched i-CAUGHT tonight for the first time. While it’s the second episode, it-is-what-it-is: a force to bridge the gap between traditional commercial video producers and “Joe” the online video producer.

One of the i-CAUGHT segments was around the Canadian car thieves. Canada has the secret to finding car thieves by placing cameras within cars. Think of the cars like decoys or dummies; the keys are in the ignition. These camera devices easily help identify criminals stealing cars that area frequently visited on YouTube.

After the episode tonight I decided to conduct a search on Google. It took several queries to find what I was looking for, but the following search term police cameras in canadian cars rendered the first result in Google SERPS.

How much more long-tail can you get?

While the search engines are getting smarter these days (Google) the dynamic query strings within the URL do not help a search engine understanding the meaning of a page. The URL is one of the first variables the spiders visits. And when it sees “?id=3451526&page=1” it’s clueless. Google has updated the algorithm to index dynamic URLs for years now, but it’s obvious that understanding the meaning of a page based on the title tag meta and a friendly URL helps the search engines serve up more relative results.

Come November when Universal Search rolls out prime time, SEO strategies must be udpated to support an organic marketing approach.

by: Anne Haynes and Informant

1.18.08 could actually be a real “apocalypse” movie – in the sense of the 4 horsemen, plagues, dead rising, festering boils, 7 headed dragon comes in from the sea, etc. Biblical material, not just a “giant monster” movie.

On August 1st, CurbedWire informed the cloverfield following of a swath of destruction at the corner of Orchard and Stanton Streets on the Lower East Side. It’s a swath of destruction that is, sad to say, merely a movie set—albeit a set for the much-buzzed J.J. Abrams monster movie alternately called Cloverfield, 1-18-08, and Monstrous.

Additional reports from set locations being shot in NYC are reporting sightings of zombie-like actors, and plague-infested bodies