Recently, nerd-do-well students, bloggers and window-shopping venture capitalists flocked to ITP’s Annual Spring Show. The Interactive Telecommunications Program, an alternative media school in New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, is part…

Despite the growing rivalry between Google and Apple, the FTC approval of Google’s AdMob purchase proves the tech giants are indispensable to each other on at least one effort — circumventing antitrust scrutiny. Despite tough talk from members of the FTC in recent…

Propelled by location based technology, mobile advertising is taking leaps forward right now. Projections from Juniper Research anticipate location based mobile marketing will jump to a whopping $12 billion dollars by 2014. Meanwhile, in the past four…

Travelocity made headlines this week when it revealed the metrics of its Chatroulette marketing campaign and declared the site to be a successful platform for reaching consumers. Other early pioneers of Chatroullette ad experimentation include Burger…

In another disappointment for U.S. music fans, Apple announced last week that it would shutter online music service LaLa on May 31st — only months after purchasing the company for over $80 million in December 2009. Started in 2006, the company allows users to create and share music…

A new short film provides a thoughtful look at the future of the world wide web. Technologists believe it’s a new take on the old refrain — a smarter web that understands requests for information and can return more relevant responses to our queries — called the semantic web…

Facebook recently unveiled a variety of new features. Among the changes was a subtle but important shift in the way Facebook lets users express their affinity for a brand. Prior to the update, users clicked the “Become a Fan” button in order to connect their…