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Digital grassroots: the Internet fights back

Sherrilynne Starkie

People can now create mashups without fear of reprisal. Lobbyists from the film, music and video games industries even hosted a fund-raising dinner for Bulte in advance of the election. From then the movement grew: The Fair Copyright for Canada Facebook Group was launched in 2007 and soon had 90,000 members.

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Why Alps Bethneck is 5 Years Old

Ari Herzog

2007: Facebook. The constant parade of new verbs and nouns has been interesting: texting, “going viral,” mashups, memes, flashmobs, friending, unfriending, likes, retweets, crowdfunding, “add me,” rickrolling, circles, FollowFriday, hash tags, Pandora, Instagrams. This is his story. 2005: Flickr. 2010: Twitter.

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7 Traits of Highly Effective Viral Videos

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Fede Alvarez published a small film to YouTube a few weeks ago, and it landed him a $30 million movie deal. It shows the power of mashup. Once online, it caught the attention of executives at Apple who flew him into California to make it a commercial reality. Showing your passion can translate to opportunities down the road too.

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What Traits Define a Social Media Marketer?

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

bookmarks for July 13th through July 16th July 16, 2008 at 8:39 pm HDtv film Thailand » Archive » My del.icio.us Online community managers are a slightly different breed than social PR folks, or bloggers, or people who are devoted to social news or folks who are widget and mashup fiends.