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20th November, 2008

Posts Tagged ‘YouTube’

Obama’s Best Practices

By Denis Campbell • Nov 8th, 2008 • Category: Features
Lessons Learned from an Historic Campaign (Part One)
By Denis Campbell
In the early stages, Barack Obama’s Presidential quest was called quixotic at best and at worst political suicide. Here was a man barely in the US Senate who had just two years prior suffered a bruising defeat for an open Congressional seat and here he was [...]



Google’s Real Strategy

By Denis Campbell • Sep 2nd, 2008 • Category: Business
When Microsoft and Yahoo! failed in their spring dinosaur merger dance, who knew Google was snickering in the background knowingly waiting to launch its own attack on the vaunted Microsoft Internet Explorer browser? Remember those long summer days filled with US and EU antitrust trials? Those cases of mind-numbing minutiae where judge after judge ordered [...]



Who’s Got Next?

By Denis Campbell • Aug 29th, 2008 • Category: Features
As the evening closed to orchestral strains from the film ‘The American President’ playing in the background, there was not one fictional note in Democratic nominee Barack Obama’s acceptance speech before a crowd of 90,000 people at Mile High Stadium. Reflecting on the tone, all I could think of was the archetypal movie line, “now [...]



Bezos All a Twitter

By Denis Campbell • Jul 29th, 2008 • Category: Business
(Repriese article)
Twitter, the microburst text message service that allows you to send messages to friends when not busily on Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube or even here, to let them know what you are up to (I‘m in the shower, on the phone, walking the dog, etc.) just in case they forget, unplug and (gasp!) seek a [...]



YouTube v. Viacom v. e-bay v. Gucci v. Tiffany v. Global Courts

By Denis Campbell • Jul 15th, 2008 • Category: Business
Viacom wants YouTube visitors to stop watching their shows commercial-free and instead go to their websites such as Comedy Central where they can show you commercials to watch the same content. They expect YouTube to police every Viacom video and are embroiled in a lawsuit that is also becoming a huge issue over privacy and confidentiality [...]



Gordon and David on YouTube

By Denis Campbell • Jun 8th, 2008 • Category: Politics
A recent BBC news story discussed Barack Obama’s 5-million member strong e-mail list and its potential for everything from fund-raising to pushing through a legislative agenda.
The US FEC (Federal Election Commission) has been stymied in its attempts to track and register his contributions because 1.5 million people have contributed more than $200 million dollar, at an [...]