<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><!-- generator="WordPress/2.9.2" -->
<rss version="0.92">
<channel>
	<title>Red Tail Blog</title>
	<link>http://www.redtailmedia.com</link>
	<description>Marketing and media in a new era of engagement</description>
	<lastBuildDate>Thu, 08 Nov 2007 06:40:24 +0000</lastBuildDate>
	<docs>http://backend.userland.com/rss092</docs>
	<language>en</language>
	
	<item>
		<title>Facebooks Ads</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Facebook&#8217;s recent announcement of a new marketing product that allows businesses to join Facebook and users to become their fans is according to Facebook representative the Holy Grail of marketing. Lets do a quick reality check to see why this may not be quite accurate. 
First, for those who do not know or can&#8217;t see [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.redtailmedia.com/?p=59</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Who owns your pictures?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Virgin Mobile in Australia is causing a stir with their ad campaign that reuses photos from Flickr. CNN reports of a person who is going to sue Virgin Mobile for using her picture in the ad campaign. It would be a good time for the Flickr users to pay attention to a feature that lets [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.redtailmedia.com/?p=58</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Free Me &#8211; a free culture DVD</title>
		<description><![CDATA[To build awareness of Free Culture movement a collection of best free books, free movies, free audio and free software has been made available to download. This DVD shows what value free culture has to offer and many issues around it. Some excellent videos on it are Mix Tape, Who Owns Culture? and Trusted Computing. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.redtailmedia.com/?p=56</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>DRM vs consumers, HD-DVD edition</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently the HD-DVD copy protection scheme was hacked and a 16-bit decryption key was published on a forum. This is very similar event when the DeCSS code was released that could decrypt the DVD encryption. The code was published on multiple sites within days and eventually ended up being printed on t-shirts and mugs. Now [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.redtailmedia.com/?p=55</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Great article on Vista&#8217;s DRM</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This article does a great job detailing what kind of benefits consumers may experience when they upgrade their computers to Windows Vista. Are you Vista ready? No, thanks.
]]></description>
		<link>http://www.redtailmedia.com/?p=53</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Kids, internet and communication</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s not uncommon to find a lot of parents who think their kids do not need to use computers and can &#8216;learn those skills later&#8217;. What computer skills and internet represent to kids is likely to be substantially limited to these adults as playing violent video games and anti-social activity. Truth is, however, that the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.redtailmedia.com/?p=52</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>The greatest generation gap since rock&#8217;n&#039;roll</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There is a very insightful article on New York Magazine on a very important impact the social media has created. Parents often have romantic ideas of providing their kids an ideal innocent dream childhood. One that closely resembles their own, except the time has cleaned away any bad memories and painted everything in washed tones [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.redtailmedia.com/?p=51</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Noka chocolates PR trainwreck</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Noka sells extremely expensive chocolate. The brand promise is based on exclusivity and purity of their product. And then this article came out on dallasfood.org questioning their misleading marketing and revealing how these products are actually created. Shortly after it was referred to on Boing Boing and the word-of-mouth quickly stormed on the internet.
It appears [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.redtailmedia.com/?p=50</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Gartner predicts blogging will peak in 2007</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Blogging and community contributors will peak in the first half of 2007. Given the trend in the average life span of a blogger and the current growth rate of blogs, there are already more than 200 million ex-bloggers. Consequently, the peak number of bloggers will be around 100 million at some point in the first [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.redtailmedia.com/?p=49</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>The Meaning of Friendship</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here is a piece of good writing from Danah Boyd on social networks and how they model, or fail to, relationships between people. How can someone have over 10000 friends? Who are their best friends? Why people create fake identities? The real question is do the social networking sites actually work in the intended context [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.redtailmedia.com/?p=48</link>
			</item>
</channel>
</rss>
