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Peter Gabriel: Digital Entrepreneur

Fast Company Staff — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 17:45:53 -0400

THE FILTER This site uses artificial intelligence to select music and movies tailored to a visitor's tastes.

WE7 A music-streaming site that embeds advertisements at the beginning of songs, allowing users to download tracks at no cost.

THEMEMORY A social network to honor the dead where loved ones share memorial wikis.

GABBLE Still under wraps, this is described by Gabriel as "a new visual language for the Web." Stay tuned.

Peter Gabriel’s YouTube for Human Rights: The Hub

David Kushner — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 17:45:52 -0400

It was an ordinary day of skateboarding dog videos on YouTube last November when a harrowing clip appeared. The grainy shots from Egypt showed police officers beating and sodomizing a man with a nightstick. The clip had been distributed by Egyptian bloggers Wael Abbas and Hossam el-Hamalawy as a call to action against police brutality.

A Little Help, Please

Tim Manners — Wed, 28 May 2008 07:46:42 -0400

Earlier this week I was on the phone with a reporter from a local newspaper who was interviewing me about a piece of research I had conducted on "shopper marketing." The survey was done as a joint venture between my magazine, The Hub, and a consulting firm called Hoyt & Company, and in association with the Promotion Marketing Association.

The methodology was simple -- we asked agencies and brand marketers to rate each other in ten areas critical to success in "shopper marketing."