Springing to Colorado

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A few weeks back I was lucky enough to take a quick trip to Colorado Springs Yin and YangBroadmoor resort. I was attending a conference of DoubleClick clients, and had a great, although short visit to learn about upcoming product releases and confer with other users. The resort has quite a bit of history (Wikipedia), having been founded back in the heyday of the railroads and was at one time the home for major figure skating training and competition, and is just a lovely setting. Have to bring the family back sometime. Gallery of photos is here. I shot the photo at right (click here or on the image to view larger) of a black and white swan on the lake at the resort, and the image quickly reached page three of the Flickr ‘interestingness’ pages on August 2nd.

How not to act on J-Date

Oy this is a doozy. Darren meets Joan on J-Date, the online dating service for Jewish singles. They go to dinner at China Grill in NYC (yummy, by the way). Darren pays for dinner, despite Joan’s offer to split the bill. When Joan doesn’t call him for a second date, ‘DarrenStalker'(tm) emerges, hounding her to pay half the bill. Wonderful recordings of his messages to her in the link that follows…

Ads for the Kiddies

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I’m happy to say that we’ve succesfully moved our ad serving for Cartoonnetwork.com, sister sites CartoonnetworkYa.com (en espanol), TickleU.com (goo-goo) and AdultSwim.com (en slackerese). CRW_0046.CRW So please enjoy ads featuring pooting, meat beards, and boogers via our DoubleClick system. We’ve had a huge team including members in Atlanta, New York, Chicago and LA all working together to pull this off, and it’s come together nicely. Click here for the photogallery of images of the team in Atlanta.

C|Net: CNN.com getting jiggy with UGC

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From a story on Sunday on C|Net, pointing out new move towards adding an outlet for ‘citizen journalism’ to the flagship CNN.com site, called CNN Exchange.

On Monday, CNN is expected to announce the launch of CNN Exchange, a page on the company’s Web site that will feature user-submitted video, audio and articles.

CNN snatching page out of YouTube’s book | CNET News.com

In other CNN news, they have also launched a new 3-minute free preview of live streams from the premium Pipeline product. Nice way to sample this cool service.

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