Since the DomainFest party is once again for the 3rd year going to be held at the Playboy Mansion, I keep an eye on the stock and today Playboy announced that it would be going private. Here is the press release: Playboy Enterprises, Inc. today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement with Icon Acquisition Holdings, L.P., a limited partnership controlled by Hugh M. Hefner, … [Read more...]

According to the WSJ Facebook will begin disclosing financial information or stage an initial public offering by April 2012, according to a new 100-page private-placement memo now being distributed to potential investors in the company. The social-networking company said in the document that it intends to breach a critical 500-shareholder limit this year. Under SEC rules once a company has … [Read more...]

MediaPost.com just published a post entitled Long Tail Advertisers Are Back". The blog post which cited a report by Kantar Media said: ""While much of the 2010 ad expansion has been coming from the biggest advertising categories - especially automotive and consumer packaged goods , Kantar's analysis shows that the so-called "long-tail" of advertising, smaller brands and companies ranking … [Read more...]

Mashable.com just published its "6 Predictions For Digital Adverting in 2011 and is well worth a read. I'm can't go into details (you will have to read the story for that) but here are the six predictions: Local Advertising Becomes Relevant Again With Location Silicon Valley Will Be the Next Madison Avenue Influencers Will Be the Celebrities of the Social Web Small Will Be the New … [Read more...]

Since 1927, Time Magazine has been naming a "Person Of The Year". This year, Time named Mark Zuckerberg the founder of Facebook as the Time's Person of the Year. For connecting more than half a billion people and mapping the social relations among them; for creating a new system of exchanging information; and for changing how we all live our lives, Mark Elliot Zuckerberg is Time's 2010 … [Read more...]

According to various news sources the Founder of Wikileaks Julian Assange was arrested today in London. Scotland Yard said Mr Assange was arrested by appointment at a London police station at 0930 GMT, meaning that he turned himself in. The arrest is not for his activities on Wikileaks but based on a warrant issued in Sweden accusing him of one count of rape, one of unlawful coercion and … [Read more...]