What Internet activism looks like
Anil Dash hits one so far out of the park it attains orbit in this response to a silly Malcolm Gladwell column that decried Internet activism as incapable of achieving meaningful change. It's all must-read stuff, but here's the bit that made me want to stand up and salute:
Today, Dale Dougherty and the dozens of others who have led Maker Faire, and the culture of "making", are in front of a
movement of millions who are proactive about challenging the constrictions that law and corporations are trying to place on how they communicate, create and live. The lesson that simply making things is a radical political act has enormous precedence in political history; I learned it well as a child when my own family's conversation after a screening of Gandhi turned to the salt protests in India, which were first catalyzed in my family's home state of Orissa, and led to my great-grandfather walking alongside Gandhi and others in the salt marches to come. Today's American Tea Partiers see even the original "tea party" largely as a metaphor, but the salt marches were a declaration of self-determination as expressed through manufacturing that took the symbolism of the Boston Tea Party and made it part of everyday life.
To his last day, my great-grandfather wore khadi, the handspun clothing that didn't just represent independence from the British Raj in an abstract way, but made defiance of onerous British regulation as plain as the clothes on one's back. At Maker Faire this weekend, there were numerous examples of clothing that were made to defy laws about everything from spectrum to encryption law. It would have been only an afternoon's work to construct a t-shirt that broadcast CSS-descrambling code over unauthorized spectrum in defiance of the DMCA.
And if we put the making movement in the context of other social and political movements, it's had amazing success. In city after city, year after year, tens of thousands of people pay money to show up and learn about taking control of their media, learning, consumption and communications. In contrast to groups like the Tea Party, the crowd at Maker Faire is diverse, includes children and adults of all ages, and never finds itself in conflict with other groups based on identity or politics. More importantly, the jobs that many of us have in 2030 will be determined by young people who attended a Maker Faire, in industries that they've created. There is no other political movement in America today with a credible claim at creating the jobs of the future.
Make The Revolution
[On weekends, we will be re-posting some pieces from the previous week that we wanted to call attention to again that some readers might have missed.]
After Disney named two longtime Internet execs–Playdom’s John Pleasants and Jimmy Pitaro of Yahoo–as co-presidents of its Internet unit, BoomTown did a longer interview with CEO Bob Iger about the entertainment giant’s next Web moves.
I always enjoy talking digital with Iger–who is pictured above in an interview I did with him in 2006 at the fourth D: All Things Digital conference–since he has been one of the old media moguls who seems unafraid of the challenges of new media.
While appropriately wary, Iger acted early and often in exploring digital initiatives at Disney (DIS) that others in Hollywood’s and New York’s media worlds were loath to consider.
“I have tried to keep two obvious philosophies,” Iger said in a phone interview yesterday. “First, that our current business not get in the way of adopting new technologies, and, second, that our business belongs on these new platforms.”
Easy to say, of course, but it’s still nice to hear, given the longtime, incessant and ultimately wearying push-and-pull between those who make bucks making content and those who make bucks making technology.
“My premise is that technology is about an opportunity for us,” said Iger. “And we cannot will it away and should not…because you can’t stop these things from happening.”
That’s presumably the impetus behind the hiring of Pleasants and Pitaro (picture here, left to right).
With an assist by recent Disney board member and Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, Pitaro came to his attention earlier this year, Iger said.
Pitaro left his job as SVP of Media at Yahoo (YHOO) last week.
And Pleasants was CEO of Playdom, the online social gaming company that Disney acquired for $763 million in late July.
The pair, who will report directly to Iger as co-chiefs of the Disney Interactive Media Group, replace outgoing head Steve Wadsworth.
The shift is a big move by the entertainment giant and yet another attempt to clarify and bolster its Web strategy, which has had a long and often rocky history.
Under the previous regime of former CEO Michael Eisner, for example, Disney bought search engine Infoseek and tried to create a portal called Go.com.
That failed, and was one of many efforts to define the media company’s Web goals.
More recently, in 2008, Disney gathered most of its Internet properties within DIMG under Wadsworth.
Still, money-making has not been part of the mix. In its most recent quarter, DIMG lost $65 million on revenue of $197 million.
In the interview about the new structure, Iger said: “I think we’ve built a framework of assets, and now is the time to create a structure in a more focused way. In splitting the divisions, we can focus more on them better and in a way they deserve.”
He outlined the new set-up, which will have Pleasants focus on the online gaming and mobile landscape and Pitaro on the Web arena.
Iger said he felt Pleasants and Pitaro brought different backgrounds to the task, as well as longtime experience in the Internet arena.
He said that upon considering a fresh approach, he felt that Wadsworth was “spread too thin,” given all the various online arenas for Disney.
In fact, today, Disney owns a number of big Internet properties, including Disney.com, Family.com and Club Penguin, although there does not seem to be a particularly cohesive strategy among them.
Of course, that’s no surprise, given it is all part of a multifaceted media company with a variety of businesses.
Due to its powerful content assets, said Iger, it might be a perfect time for a more cogent plan. With the explosion of devices, such as the Apple (AAPL) iPad and others, the importance of cooperation between content and technology is more critical than ever.
“I think a lot of technology companies are really finally ready to handle more premium content in a way that is beneficial to all of us,” said Iger.
And, he added, it was time for Disney to get more involved in technology, which was the reason for the purchase of Playdom. The move has made it more a publisher than a licensor.
“If we wanted to get significant in size, we need the investment to be greater,” Iger said about the big payout to get into the fast-growing social gaming arena.
And that has meant less emphasis on console games, on which he said Disney had focused too much in the past.
No longer–now Iger said he has planted Playdom, as well as its purchase of the Tapulous music app start-up, in a spanking new facility in Palo Alto, Calif., right in the heart of Silicon Valley.
“We need to be part of the culture and world there in a significant way,” said Iger. “And I believe I have convinced the senior team within Disney that Playdom is a huge opportunity for them.”
That includes online gaming related to units such as sports at ESPN, as well as other Disney brands, such as the theme parks or Marvel, into Playdom games.
While Pleasants will run his part of the show from Silicon Valley, Iger said, Pitaro will work out of Los Angeles on Web initiatives and in upgrading the Disney online experience.
“We want to make Disney sites more of a community and entertainment center than a marketing hub,” said Iger. “Where is gets complicated is the levels of exclusivity and the other places we want to distribute our content.”
That includes being part of the premium Hulu online video site, as well as perhaps even creating a Disney-branded pay service, but also being open to working more with Netflix (NFLX).
And that means a multifaceted approach to all kinds of payment models for Disney online, from subscription to advertising-supported to pay-per-view.
“In certain areas, we will be very aggressive with our content and in others less aggressive, to the extent that each offers us revenues,” said Iger. “Obviously, where there is potential cannibalization, we will be a little more careful…but we are going to push forward.”
When asked about the most obvious management issue–the possibility of clashing with two heads of one division (MySpace, anyone?), Iger said that while there was overlap, he thought the jobs Pitaro and Pleasants had to do were also wide-ranging and different enough.
Plus, added Iger, “They both report directly to me and I am there to see to it that it works.”
In other words, as Disney continues to move forward into the digital future, the content and technology buck stops, as it should, at Iger.
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<b>News</b> Corp. Could Buy Yahoo
It's possible Rupert Murdoch could buy Yahoo if AOL doesn't. His tech isn't cutting edge, but he does hate Google.
Video: ABC <b>News</b> gets taken for a spin in Google's self-driving <b>...</b>
ABC News goes for a spin with one of Google's driverless cars – Click above to watch video after the jump Google's autonomous fleet has been.
iPad <b>News</b> Apps: 'NYTimes' Revamp, 'New York Post' In-App <b>...</b>
A pair of New York newspapers are making news themselves today with their recent iPad app releases, with The New York Times introducing a greatly-expanded application and The New York Post rolling out.
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What Internet activism looks like
Anil Dash hits one so far out of the park it attains orbit in this response to a silly Malcolm Gladwell column that decried Internet activism as incapable of achieving meaningful change. It's all must-read stuff, but here's the bit that made me want to stand up and salute:
Today, Dale Dougherty and the dozens of others who have led Maker Faire, and the culture of "making", are in front of a
movement of millions who are proactive about challenging the constrictions that law and corporations are trying to place on how they communicate, create and live. The lesson that simply making things is a radical political act has enormous precedence in political history; I learned it well as a child when my own family's conversation after a screening of Gandhi turned to the salt protests in India, which were first catalyzed in my family's home state of Orissa, and led to my great-grandfather walking alongside Gandhi and others in the salt marches to come. Today's American Tea Partiers see even the original "tea party" largely as a metaphor, but the salt marches were a declaration of self-determination as expressed through manufacturing that took the symbolism of the Boston Tea Party and made it part of everyday life.
To his last day, my great-grandfather wore khadi, the handspun clothing that didn't just represent independence from the British Raj in an abstract way, but made defiance of onerous British regulation as plain as the clothes on one's back. At Maker Faire this weekend, there were numerous examples of clothing that were made to defy laws about everything from spectrum to encryption law. It would have been only an afternoon's work to construct a t-shirt that broadcast CSS-descrambling code over unauthorized spectrum in defiance of the DMCA.
And if we put the making movement in the context of other social and political movements, it's had amazing success. In city after city, year after year, tens of thousands of people pay money to show up and learn about taking control of their media, learning, consumption and communications. In contrast to groups like the Tea Party, the crowd at Maker Faire is diverse, includes children and adults of all ages, and never finds itself in conflict with other groups based on identity or politics. More importantly, the jobs that many of us have in 2030 will be determined by young people who attended a Maker Faire, in industries that they've created. There is no other political movement in America today with a credible claim at creating the jobs of the future.
Make The Revolution
[On weekends, we will be re-posting some pieces from the previous week that we wanted to call attention to again that some readers might have missed.]
After Disney named two longtime Internet execs–Playdom’s John Pleasants and Jimmy Pitaro of Yahoo–as co-presidents of its Internet unit, BoomTown did a longer interview with CEO Bob Iger about the entertainment giant’s next Web moves.
I always enjoy talking digital with Iger–who is pictured above in an interview I did with him in 2006 at the fourth D: All Things Digital conference–since he has been one of the old media moguls who seems unafraid of the challenges of new media.
While appropriately wary, Iger acted early and often in exploring digital initiatives at Disney (DIS) that others in Hollywood’s and New York’s media worlds were loath to consider.
“I have tried to keep two obvious philosophies,” Iger said in a phone interview yesterday. “First, that our current business not get in the way of adopting new technologies, and, second, that our business belongs on these new platforms.”
Easy to say, of course, but it’s still nice to hear, given the longtime, incessant and ultimately wearying push-and-pull between those who make bucks making content and those who make bucks making technology.
“My premise is that technology is about an opportunity for us,” said Iger. “And we cannot will it away and should not…because you can’t stop these things from happening.”
That’s presumably the impetus behind the hiring of Pleasants and Pitaro (picture here, left to right).
With an assist by recent Disney board member and Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, Pitaro came to his attention earlier this year, Iger said.
Pitaro left his job as SVP of Media at Yahoo (YHOO) last week.
And Pleasants was CEO of Playdom, the online social gaming company that Disney acquired for $763 million in late July.
The pair, who will report directly to Iger as co-chiefs of the Disney Interactive Media Group, replace outgoing head Steve Wadsworth.
The shift is a big move by the entertainment giant and yet another attempt to clarify and bolster its Web strategy, which has had a long and often rocky history.
Under the previous regime of former CEO Michael Eisner, for example, Disney bought search engine Infoseek and tried to create a portal called Go.com.
That failed, and was one of many efforts to define the media company’s Web goals.
More recently, in 2008, Disney gathered most of its Internet properties within DIMG under Wadsworth.
Still, money-making has not been part of the mix. In its most recent quarter, DIMG lost $65 million on revenue of $197 million.
In the interview about the new structure, Iger said: “I think we’ve built a framework of assets, and now is the time to create a structure in a more focused way. In splitting the divisions, we can focus more on them better and in a way they deserve.”
He outlined the new set-up, which will have Pleasants focus on the online gaming and mobile landscape and Pitaro on the Web arena.
Iger said he felt Pleasants and Pitaro brought different backgrounds to the task, as well as longtime experience in the Internet arena.
He said that upon considering a fresh approach, he felt that Wadsworth was “spread too thin,” given all the various online arenas for Disney.
In fact, today, Disney owns a number of big Internet properties, including Disney.com, Family.com and Club Penguin, although there does not seem to be a particularly cohesive strategy among them.
Of course, that’s no surprise, given it is all part of a multifaceted media company with a variety of businesses.
Due to its powerful content assets, said Iger, it might be a perfect time for a more cogent plan. With the explosion of devices, such as the Apple (AAPL) iPad and others, the importance of cooperation between content and technology is more critical than ever.
“I think a lot of technology companies are really finally ready to handle more premium content in a way that is beneficial to all of us,” said Iger.
And, he added, it was time for Disney to get more involved in technology, which was the reason for the purchase of Playdom. The move has made it more a publisher than a licensor.
“If we wanted to get significant in size, we need the investment to be greater,” Iger said about the big payout to get into the fast-growing social gaming arena.
And that has meant less emphasis on console games, on which he said Disney had focused too much in the past.
No longer–now Iger said he has planted Playdom, as well as its purchase of the Tapulous music app start-up, in a spanking new facility in Palo Alto, Calif., right in the heart of Silicon Valley.
“We need to be part of the culture and world there in a significant way,” said Iger. “And I believe I have convinced the senior team within Disney that Playdom is a huge opportunity for them.”
That includes online gaming related to units such as sports at ESPN, as well as other Disney brands, such as the theme parks or Marvel, into Playdom games.
While Pleasants will run his part of the show from Silicon Valley, Iger said, Pitaro will work out of Los Angeles on Web initiatives and in upgrading the Disney online experience.
“We want to make Disney sites more of a community and entertainment center than a marketing hub,” said Iger. “Where is gets complicated is the levels of exclusivity and the other places we want to distribute our content.”
That includes being part of the premium Hulu online video site, as well as perhaps even creating a Disney-branded pay service, but also being open to working more with Netflix (NFLX).
And that means a multifaceted approach to all kinds of payment models for Disney online, from subscription to advertising-supported to pay-per-view.
“In certain areas, we will be very aggressive with our content and in others less aggressive, to the extent that each offers us revenues,” said Iger. “Obviously, where there is potential cannibalization, we will be a little more careful…but we are going to push forward.”
When asked about the most obvious management issue–the possibility of clashing with two heads of one division (MySpace, anyone?), Iger said that while there was overlap, he thought the jobs Pitaro and Pleasants had to do were also wide-ranging and different enough.
Plus, added Iger, “They both report directly to me and I am there to see to it that it works.”
In other words, as Disney continues to move forward into the digital future, the content and technology buck stops, as it should, at Iger.
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<b>News</b> Corp. Could Buy Yahoo
It's possible Rupert Murdoch could buy Yahoo if AOL doesn't. His tech isn't cutting edge, but he does hate Google.
Video: ABC <b>News</b> gets taken for a spin in Google's self-driving <b>...</b>
ABC News goes for a spin with one of Google's driverless cars – Click above to watch video after the jump Google's autonomous fleet has been.
iPad <b>News</b> Apps: 'NYTimes' Revamp, 'New York Post' In-App <b>...</b>
A pair of New York newspapers are making news themselves today with their recent iPad app releases, with The New York Times introducing a greatly-expanded application and The New York Post rolling out.
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<b>News</b> Corp. Could Buy Yahoo
It's possible Rupert Murdoch could buy Yahoo if AOL doesn't. His tech isn't cutting edge, but he does hate Google.
Video: ABC <b>News</b> gets taken for a spin in Google's self-driving <b>...</b>
ABC News goes for a spin with one of Google's driverless cars – Click above to watch video after the jump Google's autonomous fleet has been.
iPad <b>News</b> Apps: 'NYTimes' Revamp, 'New York Post' In-App <b>...</b>
A pair of New York newspapers are making news themselves today with their recent iPad app releases, with The New York Times introducing a greatly-expanded application and The New York Post rolling out.
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What Internet activism looks like
Anil Dash hits one so far out of the park it attains orbit in this response to a silly Malcolm Gladwell column that decried Internet activism as incapable of achieving meaningful change. It's all must-read stuff, but here's the bit that made me want to stand up and salute:
Today, Dale Dougherty and the dozens of others who have led Maker Faire, and the culture of "making", are in front of a
movement of millions who are proactive about challenging the constrictions that law and corporations are trying to place on how they communicate, create and live. The lesson that simply making things is a radical political act has enormous precedence in political history; I learned it well as a child when my own family's conversation after a screening of Gandhi turned to the salt protests in India, which were first catalyzed in my family's home state of Orissa, and led to my great-grandfather walking alongside Gandhi and others in the salt marches to come. Today's American Tea Partiers see even the original "tea party" largely as a metaphor, but the salt marches were a declaration of self-determination as expressed through manufacturing that took the symbolism of the Boston Tea Party and made it part of everyday life.
To his last day, my great-grandfather wore khadi, the handspun clothing that didn't just represent independence from the British Raj in an abstract way, but made defiance of onerous British regulation as plain as the clothes on one's back. At Maker Faire this weekend, there were numerous examples of clothing that were made to defy laws about everything from spectrum to encryption law. It would have been only an afternoon's work to construct a t-shirt that broadcast CSS-descrambling code over unauthorized spectrum in defiance of the DMCA.
And if we put the making movement in the context of other social and political movements, it's had amazing success. In city after city, year after year, tens of thousands of people pay money to show up and learn about taking control of their media, learning, consumption and communications. In contrast to groups like the Tea Party, the crowd at Maker Faire is diverse, includes children and adults of all ages, and never finds itself in conflict with other groups based on identity or politics. More importantly, the jobs that many of us have in 2030 will be determined by young people who attended a Maker Faire, in industries that they've created. There is no other political movement in America today with a credible claim at creating the jobs of the future.
Make The Revolution
[On weekends, we will be re-posting some pieces from the previous week that we wanted to call attention to again that some readers might have missed.]
After Disney named two longtime Internet execs–Playdom’s John Pleasants and Jimmy Pitaro of Yahoo–as co-presidents of its Internet unit, BoomTown did a longer interview with CEO Bob Iger about the entertainment giant’s next Web moves.
I always enjoy talking digital with Iger–who is pictured above in an interview I did with him in 2006 at the fourth D: All Things Digital conference–since he has been one of the old media moguls who seems unafraid of the challenges of new media.
While appropriately wary, Iger acted early and often in exploring digital initiatives at Disney (DIS) that others in Hollywood’s and New York’s media worlds were loath to consider.
“I have tried to keep two obvious philosophies,” Iger said in a phone interview yesterday. “First, that our current business not get in the way of adopting new technologies, and, second, that our business belongs on these new platforms.”
Easy to say, of course, but it’s still nice to hear, given the longtime, incessant and ultimately wearying push-and-pull between those who make bucks making content and those who make bucks making technology.
“My premise is that technology is about an opportunity for us,” said Iger. “And we cannot will it away and should not…because you can’t stop these things from happening.”
That’s presumably the impetus behind the hiring of Pleasants and Pitaro (picture here, left to right).
With an assist by recent Disney board member and Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, Pitaro came to his attention earlier this year, Iger said.
Pitaro left his job as SVP of Media at Yahoo (YHOO) last week.
And Pleasants was CEO of Playdom, the online social gaming company that Disney acquired for $763 million in late July.
The pair, who will report directly to Iger as co-chiefs of the Disney Interactive Media Group, replace outgoing head Steve Wadsworth.
The shift is a big move by the entertainment giant and yet another attempt to clarify and bolster its Web strategy, which has had a long and often rocky history.
Under the previous regime of former CEO Michael Eisner, for example, Disney bought search engine Infoseek and tried to create a portal called Go.com.
That failed, and was one of many efforts to define the media company’s Web goals.
More recently, in 2008, Disney gathered most of its Internet properties within DIMG under Wadsworth.
Still, money-making has not been part of the mix. In its most recent quarter, DIMG lost $65 million on revenue of $197 million.
In the interview about the new structure, Iger said: “I think we’ve built a framework of assets, and now is the time to create a structure in a more focused way. In splitting the divisions, we can focus more on them better and in a way they deserve.”
He outlined the new set-up, which will have Pleasants focus on the online gaming and mobile landscape and Pitaro on the Web arena.
Iger said he felt Pleasants and Pitaro brought different backgrounds to the task, as well as longtime experience in the Internet arena.
He said that upon considering a fresh approach, he felt that Wadsworth was “spread too thin,” given all the various online arenas for Disney.
In fact, today, Disney owns a number of big Internet properties, including Disney.com, Family.com and Club Penguin, although there does not seem to be a particularly cohesive strategy among them.
Of course, that’s no surprise, given it is all part of a multifaceted media company with a variety of businesses.
Due to its powerful content assets, said Iger, it might be a perfect time for a more cogent plan. With the explosion of devices, such as the Apple (AAPL) iPad and others, the importance of cooperation between content and technology is more critical than ever.
“I think a lot of technology companies are really finally ready to handle more premium content in a way that is beneficial to all of us,” said Iger.
And, he added, it was time for Disney to get more involved in technology, which was the reason for the purchase of Playdom. The move has made it more a publisher than a licensor.
“If we wanted to get significant in size, we need the investment to be greater,” Iger said about the big payout to get into the fast-growing social gaming arena.
And that has meant less emphasis on console games, on which he said Disney had focused too much in the past.
No longer–now Iger said he has planted Playdom, as well as its purchase of the Tapulous music app start-up, in a spanking new facility in Palo Alto, Calif., right in the heart of Silicon Valley.
“We need to be part of the culture and world there in a significant way,” said Iger. “And I believe I have convinced the senior team within Disney that Playdom is a huge opportunity for them.”
That includes online gaming related to units such as sports at ESPN, as well as other Disney brands, such as the theme parks or Marvel, into Playdom games.
While Pleasants will run his part of the show from Silicon Valley, Iger said, Pitaro will work out of Los Angeles on Web initiatives and in upgrading the Disney online experience.
“We want to make Disney sites more of a community and entertainment center than a marketing hub,” said Iger. “Where is gets complicated is the levels of exclusivity and the other places we want to distribute our content.”
That includes being part of the premium Hulu online video site, as well as perhaps even creating a Disney-branded pay service, but also being open to working more with Netflix (NFLX).
And that means a multifaceted approach to all kinds of payment models for Disney online, from subscription to advertising-supported to pay-per-view.
“In certain areas, we will be very aggressive with our content and in others less aggressive, to the extent that each offers us revenues,” said Iger. “Obviously, where there is potential cannibalization, we will be a little more careful…but we are going to push forward.”
When asked about the most obvious management issue–the possibility of clashing with two heads of one division (MySpace, anyone?), Iger said that while there was overlap, he thought the jobs Pitaro and Pleasants had to do were also wide-ranging and different enough.
Plus, added Iger, “They both report directly to me and I am there to see to it that it works.”
In other words, as Disney continues to move forward into the digital future, the content and technology buck stops, as it should, at Iger.
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<b>News</b> Corp. Could Buy Yahoo
It's possible Rupert Murdoch could buy Yahoo if AOL doesn't. His tech isn't cutting edge, but he does hate Google.
Video: ABC <b>News</b> gets taken for a spin in Google's self-driving <b>...</b>
ABC News goes for a spin with one of Google's driverless cars – Click above to watch video after the jump Google's autonomous fleet has been.
iPad <b>News</b> Apps: 'NYTimes' Revamp, 'New York Post' In-App <b>...</b>
A pair of New York newspapers are making news themselves today with their recent iPad app releases, with The New York Times introducing a greatly-expanded application and The New York Post rolling out.
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<b>News</b> Corp. Could Buy Yahoo
It's possible Rupert Murdoch could buy Yahoo if AOL doesn't. His tech isn't cutting edge, but he does hate Google.
Video: ABC <b>News</b> gets taken for a spin in Google's self-driving <b>...</b>
ABC News goes for a spin with one of Google's driverless cars – Click above to watch video after the jump Google's autonomous fleet has been.
iPad <b>News</b> Apps: 'NYTimes' Revamp, 'New York Post' In-App <b>...</b>
A pair of New York newspapers are making news themselves today with their recent iPad app releases, with The New York Times introducing a greatly-expanded application and The New York Post rolling out.
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<b>News</b> Corp. Could Buy Yahoo
It's possible Rupert Murdoch could buy Yahoo if AOL doesn't. His tech isn't cutting edge, but he does hate Google.
Video: ABC <b>News</b> gets taken for a spin in Google's self-driving <b>...</b>
ABC News goes for a spin with one of Google's driverless cars – Click above to watch video after the jump Google's autonomous fleet has been.
iPad <b>News</b> Apps: 'NYTimes' Revamp, 'New York Post' In-App <b>...</b>
A pair of New York newspapers are making news themselves today with their recent iPad app releases, with The New York Times introducing a greatly-expanded application and The New York Post rolling out.
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<b>News</b> Corp. Could Buy Yahoo
It's possible Rupert Murdoch could buy Yahoo if AOL doesn't. His tech isn't cutting edge, but he does hate Google.
Video: ABC <b>News</b> gets taken for a spin in Google's self-driving <b>...</b>
ABC News goes for a spin with one of Google's driverless cars – Click above to watch video after the jump Google's autonomous fleet has been.
iPad <b>News</b> Apps: 'NYTimes' Revamp, 'New York Post' In-App <b>...</b>
A pair of New York newspapers are making news themselves today with their recent iPad app releases, with The New York Times introducing a greatly-expanded application and The New York Post rolling out.
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<b>News</b> Corp. Could Buy Yahoo
It's possible Rupert Murdoch could buy Yahoo if AOL doesn't. His tech isn't cutting edge, but he does hate Google.
Video: ABC <b>News</b> gets taken for a spin in Google's self-driving <b>...</b>
ABC News goes for a spin with one of Google's driverless cars – Click above to watch video after the jump Google's autonomous fleet has been.
iPad <b>News</b> Apps: 'NYTimes' Revamp, 'New York Post' In-App <b>...</b>
A pair of New York newspapers are making news themselves today with their recent iPad app releases, with The New York Times introducing a greatly-expanded application and The New York Post rolling out.
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It's funny how a few years ago money was not hard to come by! I was a successful business woman climbing the corporate ladder with dreams of reaching a salary in the six digits. Fortunately, about a year and a half ago I was blessed with triplets. I knew that this would not only change my lifestyle, but it would also change my bank account.
Although I am qualified to work at many positions, I calculated that by the time I added in daycare expeses and travel for three kids, working outside of the home would not be beneficial to me or my family. I immediately started researching ways to make or save money on the internet.
Like many work at home moms, there is that satisfaction involved in being able to "do it all". Although I cannot provide a whole salary for a family of five, I have found plenty of ways to earn incentives and free items on the internet. This search also has allowed me to work with various companies and earn a few dollars here and there.
With one simple search through google (on free items), I was directed to two of my favorite websites. Fatwallet.com and Slickdeals.net have created less stressful times, especially during the holiday season. These two websites, particularly, are forums that categorize things such as "freebies", "contests", "finances", "hot deals", "deal discussions", etc. My foremost favorite is the freebie section of these sites.
On these sites people will post free items or samples they found (from major companies), while searching the internet. How do I know they are legit? Trust me; people will let you know if they are a scam by ratings they will leave on the poster. Many of the posters are intelligent people, like you or I, that are experiencing financial difficulty for one reason or another. On average I receive about 5-10 free items in the mail, daily. Needless to say, my mailman probably hates me, but my wallet loves me! I have enough household products such as toothpaste, lotion, cleaning supplies, laundry detergent, etc. to last me a year. Although some are sample trials, they sure add up! I have also made a few dollars and scored several gift cards from major retailers for completing company surveys or doing product reviews. These are opportunities I found on these two websites, as well.
Mentioned above, I have found many freebies, but from these sites I also found many coupons saving me plenty of money along with many opportunities to buy items and get full rebates back. Can anybody say "EBAY". Yes, you heard it right! Some of these deals were too good to pass up due to the fact that I was able to re-sell them on Ebay for a nice little profit. I have actually received many products for free with usage of various coupon and rebate codes found on these websites. Some of the best freebies I have received were 5 playtex bras valued at $30 a piece, several $5-10 gift cards from starbucks, target, walmart, etc. These are items one can use, save for presents, or resell for a profit. I also have received $80 toothbrushes from testing companies, free dinners, ...and the list goes on and on.
Lastly, there are sections on these sites for contests and sweepstakes. There are many listed, however, I steer more towards the instant win prizes. I have already won over $300 dollars in gift cards, a few board games, free food items from various restaurant chains, movies/dvds, traveling miles, i-tune codes, movie passes, and straight up cash!
I have heard several times that there is plenty of money to make on the internet, but never wanted, or shall I say, "needed" to explore those options. I would consider myselft a "newbie" to the money making opportunities on the internet, but I have to say that I had a great year exploring and have saved/made quite a few dollars. If you are a stay at home mom or just plainly need to save and make a few bucks, I highly recommend these two sites to start from. I have learned all about scams from the 'posters' on these boards, and also have broadened my knowledge on various money making opportunities on the Internet.
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