Hasta La Creative!

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RevResponse, a company that helps bloggers make money by selling and giving away white papers and magazine subscriptions, has a new nifty tool that converts a blog’s RSS feed into an email with automatically inserted promo offers.

RevResponse’s aptly named RSS to Email Tool is a welcome addition to the pretty small group of  RSS converters. A field once teeming with start-ups, it is now the domain of a few email newsletter providers, notably MailChimp,  and Feedburner,  a once innovative product that has become stale after its sale to Google and the departure of Dick Costolo to the greener pastures of Twitter.

Like other similar tools out there, RSS to Email takes your most recent posts and packages them into a template of your choice. The templates come in a range of colors, and while they are not likely to win any beauty pageants the tool does come with a fairly flexible scheduling system that allows you to send digests of your brilliance either once a month, once a week, or on any combination of days of your choice.

Importantly — and uniquely — the tool adds rather unobtrusive ads for contextually chosen whitepapers or other publications right into your blogomail: either a set of text links or an ad with a thumbnail of the publication’s cover. If you run a marketing blog, advertised publications could range from HubSpot’s white papers and something called Chief Social Marketer to the awesomely esoteric niche B2B pubs such as Perishables Buyer and Archery Business.

Les designers espagnoles de CuldeSac ont pensé cette excellente série d’objets “Paint Evolution” pour l’entreprise de peinture Valentine. Imaginant les évolutions du matériel utilisé en peinture, ces objets au design très réussi sont à découvrir dans la suite de l’article.

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• 100 years of Style
• Robert Josiah Bingaman

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A New York Times stork screams, “An Ad Engine to Put ‘Mad Men’ Out of business. it’s a story about PlaceLocal, a program that creates an ad simply from a person entering the name and address.
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Well, stranger things have been tried…and worked.

According to…yawn…worldwide data from comScore…zzz…, ACME ad network is now the…snooze…third largest in the world. Recently released technology provided by ACME…OMG…

YuMe, in partnership with MindShare, has introduced the iGRP or Internet Gross Rating Point, a metric allowing advertisers the ability to compare their online video metrics with their offline television metrics.

Cool tool alert: Mad Mimi, a rare example of the Web 2.0 techno-goodness put to productive use, is a recently launched tool for creating nicely looking email newsletters by dragging and dropping different design elements around the page. Subscription boxes for your site and usage stats are included. Sending to the first 100 subscribers is free. Not sure yet how well it handles multipart (HTML and text-only) messages, but I’ll report back after giving it a more thorough test drive. For similarly easy-made custom landing pages, I recommend Marketo.

It’s like ning, only for videos — start your own version of YouTube with StartYourTube.com.

Traders on MediaPredict give the Cavemen show on ABC a 6% chance of being renewed.

MediaPredict is a prediction market where traders bet play money on all sorts of media events that range from show renewals to season finales. (The Economist published a short write-up on the company a year ago.)

Earlier:
Advertising and Predictive Markets

Let me start by acknowledging that Twitter looks useful. I remain one of those who don’t get it (I tried), but there are many other things I don’t quite understand and in most cases my ignorance is due to my own limitations.

So, Twitter, it’s not you, it’s me. A few things have been bugging me about you ever since we met — readers are not sheep to be called followers — but really, you are cool. We’ll remain polite to each other even if entrenched in our respective worldviews. Who knows, maybe we’ll do business together one day.

What I can’t explain — nor calmly bear — is the nauseating giddiness that’s been bubbling in my RSS reader for the past year. Everywhere I clicked, it’s been twitter this, twitter that. High-school dramas over who tweeted what to whom. (Speaking of 2.0 dramas, here’s a great collection.) It was amusing for a couple of months, after which I hoped the spotlight would turn away. It never did, so I thought I’d do something about it myself. Now, everywhere I browse, the words “twitter” and its derivatives are replaced with what the whole thing really is – “madness”. All it took was a Greasemonkey Firefox extension and a slightly tweaked profanity filter.

It’s like one moment you have hundreds of canaries in your room, and then suddenly someone turns them all off.

It’s quieter, and everything makes a lot more sense, too.

The followers of GapingVoid’s author mourned his departure from madness in some 150 comments.