US industry buzz and snippets 28 July 2009

29 July 2009
MarketingVOX

•    Disney is using millions of dollars on technology at a research facility in Austin, dedicated exclusively to determining when users look at banner ads across different platforms.
•    After Apple released an update that makes iTunes incompatible with mobile units like the Palm Pre, the latter released an update enabling users to circumvent the block.
•    For all the news of it losing ground to Facebook, MySpace remains a contender in its own right: its Events platform beats Evite by a significant margin, sending around 700,000 invitations daily to the latter's 600,000.
•    Search Engine Land gives tips on researching, creating and distributing highly-linkable content.


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Posted on Jul 30, 2009 - 10:32 AM
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