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Over at Analytics Talk, Justin Cutroni writes about using the Google Analytics Event model to track users viewing and interactions with online video. Using the method Cutroni describes, an embedded YouTube player on a site can capture Google Analytics data not only about which videos users watch, but also their interactions with controls and how [...]

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Last year I was given the wonderful opportunity to contribute (about 2 seconds of rotoscoped animation) to the wildly creative and unique independent film Half-Life. No…not THAT Half Life. This is director Jennifer Phang’s feature film Half-Life,
…a supernormal tale about self-absorbed and disillusioned suburbanites who live in a futuristic time of natural disasters, suffocating air [...]

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Besides providing a fascinating chronicle of Google’s ascension to master of the world’s information, John Batelle’s The Search provides an important distinction — the strength of Google isn’t solely their powerful search algorithm, but their keywords-based AdWords advertising model which effectively monetizes language.
Noah Elkin over at Searchenginewatch points out in his post The Shifting Power [...]

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Steve Rubel gives a name to something I’ve been feeling in my gut for a few months now. In his post Attention Crash he ties the looming Web 2.0 financial downturn to a very human reaction to the information deluge the social networking has unleashed.
We are reaching a point where the number of inputs we [...]

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Alex Ceglia’s “The Intruder”, an animated short completed at USC, is now being shown at film and animation festivals around the world. Alex designed the interface for “Digital Dynamics Across Cultures“, a project we collaborated on for the USC School of of Cinema and Television’s Vectors Journal.

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