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By Nellie Andreeva

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) – In summer 2008, four college friends pooled $6,000 to shoot a 15-minute presentation for a Web series.

A year later, the demo attracted Thomas Schlamme (”Sports Night,” “The West Wing”) as executive producer and sparked interest from a couple of TV networks as a comedy series, landing at ABC with a script commitment.

“Boyfred,” the single-camera comedy from Alan Schmuckler, Michael Mahler, Blake Silver and Jarrod Zimmerman, revolves around six twentysomething friends. It centers on Fred, a Web designer in Chicago whose girlfriend goes overseas, so he creates a Web site for their circle of friends to keep in touch.

“The theme of the show is how you stay connected when you’re a twentysomething in the 21st century,” Mahler said.

Music will play a major part in “Boyfred,” which will feature original tunes by Schmuckler and Mahler. Many of the show’s characters are involved in Chicago’s music scene, and their music blogs are central to the shared Web site, Boyfred.com.

Twentysomething quartet’s Web idea now a TV project | Entertainment | Television | Reuters

Interview with Brian Halligan, Co-Author of Inbound Marketing

October 21, 2009 by Bernie

Podcast interview with Brian Halligan, CEO of HubSpot.

Brian HalliganI interviewed Brian Halligan, CEO of HubSpot to discuss his new book, Inbound Marketing, Get Found Using Google, Social Media and Blogs, which Brian co-authored with his co-founder and fellow MIT alumnus Dharmesh Shah. First, I asked Brian to briefly describe HubSpot. In full disclosure, Find and Convert is a HubSpot partner.

HubSpot is an inbound marketing software company which is about three years old now. HubSpot helps companies transform their marketing strategy from the ground up through a methodology which is implemented and managed on their web-based software platform. HubSpot software helps marketers run their organic search engine optimization, PPC and social media strategies with analytics and lead intelligence to measure results.

Inbound Marketing – The Book

Brian describes his new book as a cookbook for marketers that provides the transformation from old style marketing to the new inbound marketing. The book describes how marketing has changed over the past 5 years. In his book, Brian and Dharmesh outline the five steps in becoming an inbound marketing centric business.inbound marketing book

1. Create lots of content
2. Optimize that content for Google and social media
3. Spread that content
4. Measure results
5. Convert website visitors to leads and customers

Brian Halligan, Inbound Marketing Book, CEO HubSpot : Inbound Marketing Strategies, SEO, Social Media Marketing

We’ve known for decades that humans have a limited ability to associate passwords with specific accounts, and compensate by using what might be termed worst practices. A new survey of IT users at a large organization shows that little has changed, and the most sophisticated users behave no different than an average one.

By John Timmer

30 years of failure: the username/password combination – Ars Technica

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From the bottoms of skateboards to London billboards, chances are you’ve caught a glimpse of the face of OBEY. There’s no telling where 38-year-old artist Shepard Fairey will hit next with his installations: a Wyoming water tower, the New York City subway, a dive bar in Chicago. You can’t find a pattern to his targets. Wherever he plasters them, one thing is certain – the live-and-die-hard Fairey is a man on a mission of grandeur.

Originally from South Carolina, Fairey attended the Rhode Island School of Design and promptly moved out to the West Coast to be with others who shared his initial passion in life, skateboarding. The long path to the OBEY kingdom began in 1989 as an inside joke. Fairey was teaching a friend how to stencil, and he suggested his friend use an Andre the Giant wrestling photograph to practice with. His friend refused, claiming it was “stupid.” Not one to let his intelligence be questioned, Fairey began his self-proclaimed “experiment in phenomenology.” He created an image of the actor/wrestler’s face, and began putting up stickers and stencils of the image all around the world in efforts to create a phenomenon.

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