Quote from: buffalodoge on June 01, 2014, 03:41:47 AM

Quote from: kactech on May 31, 2014, 12:22:47 PM

May 24, facebook.com/brock.rector pic

Fatal1ty is also Rutkowsky's rockstar.

Looks like Ken "Rutkowsky" and Fatal1ty go back quite a ways...

Fatal1ty was a speaker at the Billboard Digital Entertainment (Network?) & Media Awards in LA, 2005, where Kenny was Master of Ceremonies:
http://www.digitalentertainmentawards.com/awardsshow.htm

And again at the LA Games Conference, 2008
http://www.lagamesconference.com/index06.html
http://www.digitalpodcast.com/podcastnews/2008/05/22/professional-gamers-professional-athletes/

4:00pm4:30pm
Featured Interview · Conference Center
Interview with
Jonathan Fatal1ty Wendel, Professional Gamer, Auravision/Fatal1ty
Interviewed by:
Ken Rutkowski, Founder, Media Entertainment Technology Alliance

Also in 2008, Kenny and Fatal1ty went on a trailblazing tour of South Korea together, where they got to meet a lot of kewl people (and if Ken's face is any indication, imbibe heroic amounts of soju):

Maybe Will.i.am was involved in the mysterious death of Kim Kardashian's cat, maybe even the Mollochification of poor Justin Bieber?

THE PUBLIC DESERVES TO KNOW! JAJAJA

bitcointalk.org image proxy: Invalid image no more, Buff. (edit: when I published this post, I see that Buff's images do work now)

Surely, everybody remembers this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjXyqcx-mYY

Wanna take a guess as to who was responsible for the above video going viral, having 25,113,222 views - and counting?

None other that Mr. Neosporin (with apologies to Neo & Bee's customers) himself.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4X6o8Qeg5Q

http://publishingperspectives.com/2009/06/bonus-material-making-obamas-video-viral/

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One person who understood how to leverage social media was Barack Obamas campaign manager David Plouffe. Obamas campaign inspired numerous digital campaign messages produced on their own by Obamas supporters. One of the most popular was musician Will.i.ams video Yes We Can. Michael Terpin of SocialRadi.us was hired to promote it online.

Here, he describes his very successful strategy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4X6o8Qeg5Q

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4X6o8Qeg5Q: The video was uploaded on May 29, 2009, and Bloomberg's Edward Nawotka's Bonus Material: Making Obamas Video Viral article was published on June 1, 2009.

In that video, Michael Terpin mentions a pre-release of a new service geared toward book publishers. Funny thing is, is that if never took off, and booknewswire.com is deader than a door nail. Even funnier is http://web.archive.org/web/*/booknewswire.com

http://web.archive.org/web/20030701135325/http://www.booknewswire.com/

Note that the text was embedded in the image, thus wasn't searchable via ANY search engines back in the day.

http://who.godaddy.com/whoisstd.aspx?domain=booknewswire.com&prog_id=GoDaddy&k=B0PSjrsEso6vCLRE60l1a4xThOC5HoztvKV32SJnbrYV4gIEi8TsIjczlcHBb1DK

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Domain Name: BOOKNEWSWIRE.COM
Registry Domain ID:
Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.networksolutions.com
Registrar URL: http://www.networksolutions.com/en_US/
Updated Date: 2010-05-10T00:00:00Z
Creation Date: 1999-05-17T00:00:00Z
Registrar Registration Expiration Date: 2015-05-17T00:00:00Z
Registrar: NETWORK SOLUTIONS, LLC.
Registrar IANA ID: 2
Registrar Abuse Contact Email: abuse@web.com
Registrar Abuse Contact Phone: +1.8003337680
Reseller:
Domain Status: clientTransferProhibited
Registry Registrant ID:
Registrant Name: TCI
Registrant Organization: TCI
Registrant Street: 41 Quail Run Road
Registrant City: Henderson
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Registrant Postal Code: 89014
Registrant Country: US
Registrant Phone: 702-672-7314
Registrant Phone Ext:
Registrant Fax:
Registrant Fax Ext:
Registrant Email: mterpin@TERPIN.COM
Registry Admin ID:
Admin Name: Terpin, Michael
Admin Organization: The Terpin Group
Admin Street: 4676 ADMIRALTY WAY STE 520
Admin City: MARINA DL REY
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Admin Postal Code: 90292-6606
Admin Country: US
Admin Phone: 310-821-6100
Admin Phone Ext:
Admin Fax:
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Admin Email: mterpin@TERPIN.COM
Registry Tech ID:
Tech Name: Hostmaster, InternetWire
Tech Organization: null
Tech Street: 5757 W CENTURY BLVD
Tech City: LOS ANGELES
Tech State/Province: CA
Tech Postal Code: 90045-6401
Tech Country: US
Tech Phone: 310-846-3600
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At first, booknewswire.com redirected to http://web.archive.org/web/20001016165911/http://www1.internetwire.com/iwire/about_company

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About Us

INTERNET WIRE.
The Internet Leader in Company News Distribution

COMPANY OVERVIEW

Internet Wire is the leading Internet-based distributor of direct company news and other business communications materials.

Internet Wire distributes corporate news, including press releases, financial announcements, graphics, audio and video files, and other time-critical business communications materials across an array of industry-specific channels.

In February 2000, the Company announced the closing of its first preferred round of venture capital, a total of $17.5 million, led by Sequoia Capital and Hummer Winblad Venture Partners. Also participating in the Series A round were seed round investors Osprey Ventures, Montreux Equity Partners and Mindful Partners, as well as Stanford University's Daper Fund and Perkins-Coie, LLP.

The Company's board of directors includes, Ann Winblad, partner, Hummer Winblad Venture Partners; Sameer Gandhi, Sequoia Capital; Chris Kitze, CEO, NBCi; Stuart Rudick, partner, Mindful Partners; and Michael Terpin, chairman/CEO, Internet Wire.

SERVICES

As the recognized leader in company news distribution on the Internet, Internet Wire can greatly increase the effectiveness of distributing your news, audio/video and marketing materials in a fully interactive format. The Multipoint Internet Distribution(TM) platform gets your message to a targeted, worldwide audience in real time. In addition, Internet Wire lets you increase the impact of your news with company logos, graphics, spreadsheets, rich media and promotional Webcasts.

Content distributed on Internet Wire is published on hundreds of sites around the Web and syndicated online, real time, on Bloomberg, NewsReal, iSyndicate, Screaming Media, Wavo, Stockpoint and COMTEX News Network. In addition, Internet Wire distributes a targeted, daily email feed of direct company news to media, analysts, business professionals and consumers worldwide every business day. The Company serves more than 2,500 clients around the globe, including more than 300 public relations firms.[/size]

Again, I bring it up because in the interview, Michael Terpin speaks of Book News Wire as some sort of new service (time stamp here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4X6o8Qeg5Q#t=155), when in fact an iteration of said service was available 15 years ago.

According to http://web.archive.org/web/20030501000000*/http://booknewswire.com, the site's last archive was in 2003, in spite of Michael dedicating a talk to his next new thingie.