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This article discusses how major brands are looking at their bottom line and deciding if catch all catalogues are a good use of money.  This show's Jc Penny, Sears and Barney's alternative offerings.

This could be a new trend in retail over all as we get closer to Christmas

used in daily 6.17

Ok so I thought this was sort of interesting when I first saw it, but now I think it's really interesting due to the following:    -"And this fall it will launch the Starbucks Digital Network, a partnership with Yahoo that will provide customers free unrestricted access to pay sites such as the Wall Street Journal. Additional content providers in the new, in-store network offering include iTunes, The New York Times, Patch, USA Today and Zagat." 

counter trend for the environmental scan on complaints via twitter

This is actually really cool. The vendor involved, Klout, is someone we could keep in mind for social campaign recos.

Discuss the "guide" the FTC published in regards to advertisers ensuring transparency into endorsements, now Twitter is categorized.

"Most restaurants that claim to be "kid-friendly" walk a fine line between being *too* kid-friendly-and turning off parents in the process-and being not quite kid-friendly enough, simply tacking a few fast-food dishes onto their menus as an afterthought. Aiming to better serve both parts of the family, French Les 400 Coups offers seasonal fare for both adults and children along with events and activities to keep kids happy."

daily 8.11

facebook places and now the acquisition of hot potato... facebook may offer check-ins to products, shows, etc. like hot potato does they will probably shut hot potato down and just use their manpower to further develop facebook

daily 8.23

daily 8.23 http://www.psfk.com/2010/08/rap-map-mapping-lyrical-content.html crowdsourced mapping project using rap lyrics to extract significant cities in the rap community and offer some background on them

daily 8.23 will offer downloads of the first two seasons on Amazon, Xbox Live, Playstation 3, iTunes and Sonic/CinemaNow because fans were so upset that they took the episodes off of Starz On Demand and Netflix 30 days after its cancellation

The main point here is the partnership creates a national audience on Satellite, larger than cable networks offer, 33 million homes.  

Weekly 8.13

Google Prediction API lets developers create apps and software that intelligently handles incoming data- sort out emails depending on content in the body, 

offers content from youtube, broadband video for like 5 bucks dvr and over the air receiver still no buy in from networks like ESPN though, but has expanded to 36 markets daily 8.4