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HuffPost UK advertises for bloggers

Published on Wednesday, July 6th by Tony Dennis

Rating: Comes with choice of 3 mobile apps

The Huffington Post UK officially launches today [July 6th 2011] and one of its first acts has been to advertise for bloggers. GoMo News spotted an advert for the news site on the back page of a free newspaper – the Stylist – in London, yesterday. Next to the headline, ‘Blog all about it’, the advert explained, “We’re looking for your contribution. Make your opinion count.” Don’t hurry, though, because the option to ‘Send us a blog-pitch’ is bugged. At least it does say the software is still in beta. Never mind because the news site does at least have almost a full compliment of mobile apps (where’s the Ovi one?). It’s hard to tell whether they point at the UK or US site at present. Continue reading →

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Legendary dance band Faithless gets Shazamed

Published on Monday, October 4th by Tony Dennis

Rating: Tags built into forthcoming TV adverts

Here’s another great technical crossover coming out of the music industry. Marketeers behind legendary dance band, Faithless, are attempting to mix traditional TV advertising with the power of Shazam‘s music recognition software for the mobile environment. If fans hold up their mobile phones to the TV screen while Faithless’ advert is playing, they’ll be able to tag the band’s latest album which is called ‘The Dance’ Continue reading →

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Syfy to offer TV clips via Shazam tags

Published on Thursday, September 9th by Tony Dennis

Rating: Special content from Warehouse 13 and Eureka shows

Syfy (formerly the SCI Fi TV channel) has combined with music recognition masters, Shazam, to offer video tags during two finale TV episodes. The shows in question are Warehouse 13 and Eureka and they’ll be aired on September 21st and September 10th (tomorrow) respectively. The Shazam logo will be embedded into the TV programs so that users can ‘tag’ the show using Shazam at any point during the TV broadcast to get the customized tag result. Shazam can also be used for cheating during radio show competitions. Continue reading →

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