The website's co-founder Siobhan Freegard blamed a "toxic combination of marketing, media and peer pressure".
Last year, over half of brand communications was peer-to-peer, through earned media rather than paid media.
New media, most recently social media and peer-to-peer (P2P), offer ways for people to process transactions like payments that historically have required extensive intermediation by banks.
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Last year, the average person consumed more than half their media time via peer-to-peer.
In 1996 the paper was brought by Lord Hollick, a media mogul and Labour peer.
Whoa Nelly, here's a little sumtin' sumtin' to get the attention of the MPAA and RIAA litigation gestapo: Dutch company LamaBox is launching today what they are claiming to be the world's first media player with built-in peer-2-peer functionality.
The authors of the paper, the peer-review process at Health Affairs and the media all failed in their responsibilities to the public.
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And in his current tech startup, Jay Adelson, a co-founder of several tech companies, including the social-media site Digg, is experimenting with peer-based bonuses and clear salary bands to help employees feel they are getting paid equitably, although individual salaries aren't published.
Using its Community Impact Platform to create a fundraising challenge for two local animal rescues, Causecast leveraged social media, real-time reporting, peer recognition, instant donation processing, automatic tracking, micro and macro funding abilities, and good old competition with incentives to fire up the team and get them engaged in giving back.
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Instead, he wanted to "empower people" and "build self-esteem", adding that social media could be a useful tool in harnessing peer pressure.
The rise of social media has made it much easier for people to tap into peer reviews of products, brands and customer experiences.
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This personalized element adds customized social media integration and direct communication channels with their freshmen peers, peer academic advisors, housing information and roommates.
In assessing the direction of the company, one that is without a peer, the prevailing question continues to be, how much is social media worth?
The Lib Dem cabinet minister's announcement preceded a Lords debate on 4 November 2010, opened by Channel 4 deputy chairman and Labour peer Lord Puttnam, on "the case for maintaining a broad plurality of media ownership in the United Kingdom".
Data from online media measurement firm Big Champagne indicate that the most swapped shows on traditional peer-to-peer and BitTorrent networks tend to also be among the highest rated when aired on TV.
Fueled by the rise of easily accessible digital media tools, we noticed tremendous experimentation going on around the world in the peer to peer space this year.
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The debate will be a chance to consider the many responses to Leveson: the Letwin Royal Charter idea, the Lestor bill, the Labour proposals - and Labour peer Lord Lipsey, who'll be opening proceedings, has arranged for briefings from the Media Standards Trust and others.
While peer-to-peer sharing certainly gets its fair share of critics, the sharing, caring approach to distributing media definitely has its useful (and legal) benefits, and now NDS has announced "two new product enhancements of Synamedia Metro, the NDS IPTV middleware solution, " which looks to bring P2P technology to the DVR.
The social media genie escaped its bottle long ago, and I truly believe that the idea of peer-to-peer connectivity has immense promise for our lives.
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The tech entrepreneur brought down the wrath of the film and music industries after starting a peer-to-peer service in 1998 called Scour, which was similar to Napster in that it allowed consumers to swap digital media files with each other.
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