Lots happening this week

No common thread but a few interesting articles / releases this week:
* Millennials and homeless people, can't live without internet
@ WSJ

* Googe unveils Wave: to share photos, e-mails, IM and docs. All in one, all at once
@ WSJ

* Digital music trends: how to make music, listen to music, buy music, buy concert tickets, in today's world
@ mashable

* How to build a succesful social / digital marketing campaign. See case study from Adobe
Creative Suite
@ imediaconnection

* More on Hulu's desktop
@ WSJ allthingsD

Hulu desktop

Hulu desktops is here. Remote controllable. If you have a large PC / MAC screen in your house, this is the perfect replacement to TV...
* Read @ CNET
* Download @ Hulu

Steal our ideas

In the same vein than the last post: Corky, funny, creative, interesting ideas:: to steal;; Steal our ideas

Ignore everybody

A personal favorite entrepreneur / creative / humorist / self-help / blog & piece of advice:
From gapingvoid.com, how to be a successful entrepreneur while drawing on the back of business cards and ignore everyone who tells you not to do it...

The Ovi store is up

The long awaited Ovi store is up: check it out

Some comments: from exhaustive, to conservative, oto very negative... as techtree says: hell breaks lose.

Nokia owners feedback??

Hulu Going Global

As everyone knows, Hulu, the market leader for professional long-form video in the US, is not announcing it's going global, not announcing with a great buzz.
* See good opinion piece on the Kangaroo failure and Hulu arrival to the UK market
@ Netimerative

More on Twitter

* How 60 % of twitterers don't come back
@ Nielsen blog

* Big news in the TV world:: How twitter will be the subject of a new reality series
@ latimesblog

* And how Ashton will pull away from Twitter threatening to bring with him his 1.9 million followers if the TV show stalks him...
@ news.com.au

* Even Elizabeth Taylor is on twitter from her hospital bed. Makes me wonder if stars indeed have friends...
@shewired

Are you appnoxious?

Funny article on how smartphone apps make our life better / or worse?
@ msnbc

The Webbys are here

If you're in need of web inspiration, check out the state of the web. My personal favorites: the personal site, video, activism and television categories
@ Webbyawards.com

Story Telling 2.0

Will the Digi-Novel help the print business? Not sure but it's a great idea to change the story-telling paradigm. From the creator of the CSI franchise: Anthony Zuiker's
Read @ deep media

Pepsi on Social Media

Good interview from Bonin Bough at Pepsi on how to integrate social media in market & comm activities
@ Brandweek

Loads of Hopes & Contradictions on the International Digital Landscape

After last week's NYT article I blogged about on the difficulty to monetize video traffic outside of the US, two statements this week are highlighting that non US media is a growing opportunity that US companies should tackle asap.
~ Download a great free white-paper from Global Internet Advisors on America's shrinking presence on the Global Internet and learn that US internet traffic used to be 50% of the global traffic 10 years ago and is now a mere 15% .
~ Read on recent moves from numerous US cable companies to tap into more international tv and digital growth potential.
@ Broadcasting & Cable

On Hulu and Disney

By now everybody knows that ABC took a 28% stake in Hulu against providing them some Long Form content on an exclusive basis for Hulu.com and for third party distribution for the next two years.
Read an overview of the deal @ NYT.

For an interesting insight, read @ VideoNuze: OK, now Hulu has NBC but when will it prove its business model