Once upon a time there was this terrific free promotion site called Facebook. FB users were happy. FB marketers were happy. FB execs were – or at least seemed – happy.
Then Facebook did its IPO thing and changed its policies, resulting in nobody being happy. If that isn’t a true reflection of the problem with our current business paradigm, then what is?
For example:
What? Confidential screener DVDs sent out to Motion Picture Academy members (and WGA and DG members too) are ending up on the web? The peeps within the Industry are betraying their golden geese? Biting the hands that feed them?
Maybe it’s just us, but this doesn’t seem like such a bad thing at all. Or as “enigmax” puts it on TorrentFreak.Com:
Proving that CBS has no respect whatsoever for those outstanding critters known as “writers,” CBS has announced that viewers of the January 14th episode of HAWAII FIVE-0 will be able to vote to determine who the killer of the show’s victim of the week will be.
That’s right, kids, it’s going to be up to the audience to decide if the murderer is the victim’s boss, his teaching assistant, or a student the victim, a college professor, caught cheating.
I’m young and naive, so a lot of things connected with showbiz awe me. As awesomeness goes, though, this is right at the top.
It seems that CBS has something called CBS Connect, which is a “social hub” aggregating Twitter and Facebook posts about CBS shows, and which lets fans chat live with each other and CBS stars. And now the network has added an iPad app for said hub.
Okay, we’ll tell you, cuz we’re those kinds of guys: Google and Yahoo, that’s who. Hypocrisy? Carelessness? Does the reason matter? Does the deed itself even matter?
Read on:
Report: Google & Yahoo May Be BFFs With Hollywood, But Both Place Ads On Piracy Sites – by Mary Beth Quick (Consumerist.Com)