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• Amazon’s Twitter Sharing Utility is Smart Business, but Is It Legal? [FTC Violations]

  
  The SiliconANGLE — Authority: 143
  I noticed late last night a post from MG Siegler regarding the new social initiative from Amazon, in which they’re adding the ability for surfers and users of the website to tweet out a product recommendation from the site, and make use of their affiliate code in the process. I was impressed that Amazon finally ...
  5 days ago

• “Able” Mable pockets $1,500 from Norwood

  
  Fresh Loaf — Authority: 588
  "Able" Mable Thomas was paid $1,500 for "consulting services" by the Norwood campaign
  1 week ago

• Bey’s Dad Paying Off Radio Stations To Diss LeToya Luckett?

  
  HelloBeautiful — Authority: 579
  We all know that Mathew Knowles has a lot of pull in the industry but is he really that powerful where he can get radio stations to shut someone down??  According to bossip.com, a source in the Knowles camp says that Mathew truly despises LeToya Luckett and has been using payola to pay off DJ’s [...]
  1 week ago

• Whether it’s right or not to have in-stream Twitter ads…

  
  The SiliconANGLE — Authority: 143
  My firm GRP Partners recently funded a young LA based company named Ad.Ly that is an “in-stream advertising” company currently focused on monetizing Twitter.  This has prompted many people to question whether advertising “in stream” and on Twitter is a good thing or a bad thing.  We’re clearly in the ...
  1 week ago

• Khalahk Delivery Station

  
  Monster Commute - a Traffic Novel — Authority: 422
  STEAMCROWEEN went off as planned. Was a pretty great time. Our turnout at Red Hot Robot was the best that we’ve ever had. The crowd started earlier, stayed bigger longer, and was pretty sweet. We gave out a swag bag full of Steam Crow goodness for the best costume. Nobody had a strict Steam Crow costume, so we gave ...
  2 weeks ago

• Dylan up against Kings of Leon

  
  D210 TV | Dallas Texas | Entertainment | Celebrity News and Events — Authority: 151
  Kings of Leon will go head to head with music legend Bob Dylan in a battle to find the year’s best album. The eight-album list for the Uncut Music Award – an international equivalent of the Mercury Music Prize, judged by figures such as Radio 2’s Mark Radcliffe and Fleet Foxes star Robin Pecknold – is ...
  2 weeks ago

• Admin / A few notes on the FTCs new blogging regulations (Announcements)

  
  Cokemachineglow.com — Authority: 137
  We have a lot of fun here at CMG , but we’re also very serious about our position within the blogosphere and are mostly responsible journalists, as it applies. So it’s only right that we address the Federal Trade Commission’s recently issued new guides for truth in blogging. These guides ask that websites, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Payola, Extortion and Market Correction

  
  Technosailor.com — Authority: 98
  F or the last two weeks, I’ve been mulling this concept of market correction as it pertains to the web. There are a variety of stories that have been related, in addition to signatory bubble characteristics that I have observed for some time, but it’s all coming into a lot more focus as time has gone on. A market ...
  3 weeks ago

• FTC Requiring Bloggers to Reveal Perks

  
  JETLawBlog: The Official Blog of the Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment and Technology Law — Authority: 126
  Correction: the FTC cares about your blog The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) plans to punish bloggers who fail to disclose to readers their relationship with advertisers. The FTC has issued 81 pages of guidelines meant to inspire fair and transparent product reviews online. Bloggers who choose to ignore the new ...
  3 weeks ago

• IAB Finds the FTC Blogger Guidelines “Unconstitutional” – Calls for Reversal

  
  The SiliconANGLE — Authority: 143
  At first I thought this was pretty clear but then the FTC decided to complicate things by saying about their own regulations that they were “guidelines” and not “regulations”. However, in that same statement they said that advertisers would be required to adhere to the guidelines, so what is the difference ...
  3 weeks ago

• FTC goes after bloggers, tries to kill freedom of speech

  
  Computer & Internet - computer-internet.marc8.com — Authority: 461
  The FTC released guidelines to crackdown on the blogger payola, practice of paying people to write favorable things about products or company. The regulation will require bloggers to disclose payments, gifts, and professional interests for every tweet, post, or email that supports a given company or pay penalty of ...
  4 weeks ago

• FTC Guidelines on Online Disclosure: Bad for Bloggers and Business?

  
  Legal Geekery — Authority: 114
  You may have read the buzz earlier about how the Federal Trade Commission will be requiring disclosure from those who use social media (including blogging) for reviews or endorsements. As I’ve written elsewhere, I think these rules are bad for more than just bloggers who get free iPhones or baby toys, ...
  4 weeks ago

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