brown-paper.net is Marc Van Norden's point of view on technology, social media, and development, with a little sports and politics thrown in.

Social Media Predictions for 2009 – an aggregation of the minds

2008/12/15
By Marc Van Norden

Peter Kim (former Forrester analyst) has taken the time summarize some thoughts from some leaders within this little phenomenon called social media. The document is worth a read. The opinions span the spectrum. From "social media being the best option due to dwindling marketing budgets", to "social media will receive less focus due to...
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Sponsored Blogging – The Oprah Phenomenon

2008/12/14
By Marc Van Norden

Corporations beginning to pay bloggers to provide opinions. K-Mart paid for someone to post their opinion. A service offered by Izea, a social media marketing company.
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FirstBorn Takes over Big Spaceships Website

2008/12/14
By Marc Van Norden

AdAge has a story about Firstborn and Big Spaceship. Apparently all girly men (and women) at Big Spaceship forgot their inhalers. Firstborn took them to school in an Olympic style competition (basketball, pingpong, and foosball). The site has been reverted (24hr takeover), does anyone have any more pics? See AdAge Article I know Sapient would work...
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Happy Holidays!!!!

2008/12/12
By Marc Van Norden

Holiday Greating Cards from Jib-Jab
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Yahoo Layoffs

2008/12/10
By Marc Van Norden
Yahoo Layoffs

It had been rumored for awhile, but it seems it is finally going down today. On one side it must be hard to go thru a month knowing that this is going to happen. On the flip side, it gives you time to get your ducks in order. What is sad/interesting…You can tell who is...
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JavaFX launches version 1.0

2008/12/05
By Marc Van Norden

JaveFX releases version 1.0. So what is it!
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Adobe Corporate Cutbacks

2008/12/05
By Marc Van Norden

TUAW (The Apple Unofficial Weblog) is reporting that Adobe is cutting back on its booth at MacWorld and 600 jobs.
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Barack Obama’s use of Technology for his campaign

2008/12/04
By Marc Van Norden
Barack Obama’s use of Technology for his campaign

There has been a lot of discussion of Barack Obama's use of technology to drive his campaign. In the end he walked away with Martketer of the Year. Here is a collection of links outlining the strategy.
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Idle hands are the devil’s play thing

2008/12/03
By Marc Van Norden
Idle hands are the devil’s play thing

Collecting API's that developers can sink there teeth into. This starts with a great list of Actionscript Cloud APIs compiled by Ted.
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RIP Pownce

2008/12/02
By Marc Van Norden

Pownce is ending service, acquired by sixapart. Pownce was one of the 1st Adobe AIR apps out.
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