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MIPCOM: pitch your content

Icon Written by Adam on August 17, 2007 – 2:43 pm

MIPCOM is an annual event that connects people working in entertainment so they can sell and purchase new projects, and best of all it happens in Cannes this October.
MIPCOM is best described on their site:
MIPCOM is the global content event for co-producing, buying, selling, financing and distributing entertainment content across all platforms. It provides the [...]



List of Stuff Aug. 14

Icon Written by Adam on August 14, 2007 – 4:54 pm

TechCrunch has more ways to grow your own social network.
Emmys go interactive. I get the feeling I should care more about this than I do

MySpace’s first mobile initiative in Canada launched on Rogers Wireless. Glad I’m with Telus.

Business want to pay for custom video games! This is an interesting article that is really worth reading, [...]



Friday Night Lights - Good Marketing

Icon Written by Adam on August 14, 2007 – 3:31 pm

The other day I went to go contemplate in a coffee shop, and I had one of those chance encounters with someone I barely see. It proved frutiful as those meetings always tend to. I was made aware of a show call Friday Night Lights. Apparently it’s a well written show. I wouldn’t know since [...]



List of stuff Aug. 10

Icon Written by Adam on August 10, 2007 – 4:56 pm

ABC is now streaming shows online in HD I’m willing to bet that this is only available in the states. While ABC is starting to understand modern entertainment wants, Blockbuster is trying to play catch-up.

You can now buy Google hardrive space. I really question the usefulness of this for someone like me.
A very detailed [...]



A challenging idea

Icon Written by Adam on August 3, 2007 – 12:08 pm

I think that this would be great as a challenge on TV. “Figure out how to pull this vehicle up a hill, pulleys are your friend.”

How To Pull A Van Uphill (with Only A Rope) - video powered by Metacafe
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Discovery Endurance

Icon Written by Adam on August 1, 2007 – 11:13 am

Discovery Kids has a series called Endurance that has teams of kids competing against each other to win a free trip to Hawaii. The goals along the way to winning is to collect “pyramid pieces” that are based on simple character traits like trust and commitment (somehow respect isn’t on the list). The premise:
Leaving behind [...]