Saw an interesting little piece on Kotaku today about the upcoming Simpsons flick and the great lengths the production is going to in order to create what I’m calling “reverse product placement” at 7–11s across the country. While the deal hasn’t…

For the past 2 days, a 23 year old San Franciscan named Justin has been running around with a web cam on top of his head. The feed is available live at www.justin.tv. The camera is on 24X7. His mobile number is on the site so viewers can call him or text him on his mobile phone…

Back in the summer, Doritos asked its fans to submit their best video game ideas to the cool ranch chip manufacturer with the intention of creating the first user-generated game available for download on the Xbox 360. Now, the company has just released beta…

Well, folks, CBNews and Reperes have released a study on the perception of real-world brands in Second Life and the consensus is in: either they like you, or they just don’t care.

Well, K-Fed has gone done and got himself a search engine. Yeah, you heard that right. Kevin Federline, Britney Spears’ aspiring rap artist ex-husband, has created a branded search portal that awards prizes to people…

Anybody who thinks Big Media can keep hackers from learning how to crack DRM should go to Digg and look at the top Diggs. There is a new all time record for most dug story (http://blog.digg.com/?p=74) where the owners of Digg agreed to stop trying to pull down links to articles that provide the hack to…

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Google, which is already expanding its advertising arm to include print and radio, may also be looking at finalizing a deal to acquire San Francisco-based Adscape Media this month. If they do acquire the fledgling in-game…