Archive for May, 2009

Soft Serve and Pansy Leagues

Posted by Trey Ho | May 10, 2009

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The biggest difference between the NHL and the NBA today: The NHL rewards toughness. Lay a guy out with a good clean check and get celebrated by your coach and teammates back in the locker room. Spring right back up and continue skating AFTER getting laid out and you’ll earn your teammates’ and the other team’s respect for life. Same goes for the NFL.

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EA Sports – It’s in the Feed

Posted by Chris Blumberg | May 8, 2009

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EA made headlines last month when they announced their support for @aplusk in his quest to punk Ted Turner. The Madden publisher vowed to reward the former “Dude Where’s my Car?” headliner’s 1,000,000th follower with a copy of every game EA makes in ’09. While the media world (and my co-workers) ate this up, I think we may have missed the real headline. EA is on Twitter?

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DenuoFlash: The Wizard is Back

Posted by Mary DeBrunner | May 6, 2009

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While this photo may more closely resemble an enraged Christian Bale, as seen in “American Psycho,” this is actually a telling college photo of our good friend and colleague Tim Harris, who has recently re-joined the ranks of Denuo as senior vice president.

While no stranger to the agency – he was one of the founders after all – Tim will focus on the development and promotion of new Denuo products and services. He will also work with Denuo clients to help them better understand and interpret the changing, modern marketplace.

As a founding member of Denuo, Tim helped build our unique plug-and-play operating model that allows us to openly collaborate with the best talent and agency resources around. He also co-founded the agency’s best-in-class gaming expertise when he launched the once standalone unit Play, the industry’s first and most recognized agency unit dedicated to leveraging videogames as a consumer contact medium.

I’m guessing to say we’re glad to have him back is an understatement. Here’s a look at what some of his Denuo colleagues are saying about him and his return:

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From blog to book deal.

Posted by Caroline Chen | May 4, 2009

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I guess the Internets has done the same thing for unsigned artists as it has for moonlighting authors. More and more bloggers are seeing their creativity pay off not only in traffic, but also in book deals:

Stuff White People Like

Stuff On My Cat

I Can Has Cheezburger?

Hot Chicks With Douchebags

Tucker Max (NSFW, unless you have a conveniently inward-facing desk.)

Tiny Art Director

Keep reading about the Stuff Everyone Likes: cold-hard cash.

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