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LOS ANGELES – MySpace has won a landmark $230m (£118m) claim against a pair of persistent spammers, who sent hundreds of thousands of unsolicited and inappropriate messages to the site’s users.

LONDON – Blyk, the ad-funded mobile network, has ramped up its commercial activity by appointing media agency Vizeum.

(TrendHunter.com) Summer means warm, sunny weather, outdoor barbeques….and pesky flies. Frred and Friends’ clever version of a necessary summer tool also comes with the wittiest product description ever:

“DELETE: there’s no esc for flies! This handy flyswatter works on windows or Macs…just think of it as a bac…

My buddy True pointed me to the new “Miami Expressions” campaign, which is an attempt to rebrand the city as a place where people from all walks of life can express themselves through the arts, fashion, and other cultural activities. Artists from Miami are featured in the campaign.

But more significantly, the website for Miami Expressions is in 6 languages. That’s impressive, and very important for a city that seems to attract people from all walks of life.

Miami agency Turkel (there ARE other agencies in Miami besides a certain famous one, you know) created the campaign.

The tech blogosphere has been fascinated by this cleverly edited video by digital filmmaker Dennis Liu. Essentially it’s a music video for the song Again and Again by The Bird and the Bee using all sorts of cool software, utilities and programs running on an Apple Mac Leopard operating system.

Ther…

(TrendHunter.com) This Koenigsegg CCR supercar is on display at the 2008 F1 & SuperCar Show being held at the Kim Dae-jung Convention Center in Gwangju, Korea from May 9 to May 18 2008. The shiny, orange luxury vehicle can reach a top speed of 395km/h and I don’t know the price of this ultra sleek sports car, but I…

LONDON – Jamie Oliver and Armando Iannucci are among the guests due to make an appearance on stage at this year’s MediaGuardian Edinburgh International Television Festival, organisers have confirmed.

It’s no real surprise that international ad folks like to pick on President Bush. But the scope of their satire is pretty impressive when you see it all in one place, which you can over on the graphic-design blog CreativeBits. If you’re a fan of Ads of the World, you’ve likely seen these all before. But why not revisit them for a nice round of reasoned, insightful commenter debate on the state of international relations? Or maybe a knives-out partisan flamewar?

—Posted by David Griner

(TrendHunter.com) Having the appropriate lighting is one of the most fundamental parts of setting the right mood. BettyLou gets it just right, with their warm, bright and safe Wine Lights.

The wireless lamps, which are meant to be placed inside a wine glass, use lithium ion batteries which will provide that sensuou…

In the course of his Presidency, George W. Bush has both enraged us and made us laugh, often at the same time. We’ve seen plenty of ways where his unique talent has manifested in reactionary advertising. Sometimes the results are funny, sometimes they piss us off, and often they do both at once.