Salon Responsible for Another Major Book Deal
Book publishers told author Gwen Cooper that her idea to write a book about her blind cat, Homer, and how he changed her life was not distinguished enough. That all changed when she posted a blog about the cat entitled “Night of the Hunter” on Open Salon.
http://opensalon.com/blog/gwen_cooper/2008/10/01/night_of_the_hunter [...]
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Growing Local Shopping Website Will Deliver Customers to Businesses and Millions in Savings to Consumers Through the Power of Group Purchasing
Groupon (http://www.groupon.com), a shopping website offering a daily deal on the best local goods, services, events, and culture, will launch in Phoenix on August 17.
Groupon negotiates unprecedented deals with top businesses through its [...]
Emergency Preparedness Leaders, Health and School Officials, Public, Community and Business Executives to Access Best Practices and Latest Research to Improve Preparedness and Response Efforts
Tribal, local, state, federal and other leaders in the field will share best practices and current research with more than 700 delegates already registered, including participants from 32 countries at [...]
Organizing Committee adds more sessions to conference as a result of delegates input
The International Swine Flu Conference organizing committee has responded to the needs of the ISFC delegates by adding more breakout sessions to the upcoming event. Sessions added include presentations on the school/university pandemic planning, continuity of operations (COOP) and government planning, Infectious [...]
Comcast, the nation’s leading provider of entertainment, information and communication products and services, announced today two new senior hires in its Federal Government Affairs office in Washington, DC. Joe Trahern has joined the company as Senior Director of Federal Government Affairs, and effective July 27, Rudy Brioché joins the company as Senior Director of External [...]
Time Warner Inc. (NYSE: TWX) announced that its Board of Directors has elected William P. Barr to join the Board, effective today. Mr. Barr, 59, is a former Attorney General of the United States and a former senior executive at Verizon Communications Inc.
Jeff Bewkes, Chairman and CEO of Time Warner, said: “I’m delighted that [...]
Hutchinson Plays Washington D.C. on Saturday with Jason Mraz and Hits the Road with Kelly Clarkson Next Week
Latest Single “OK, It’s Alright With Me” Is #6* At Triple A Radio
Warner Bros. Records recording artist Eric Hutchinson will perform his Top 10 single “OK, It’s Alright With Me” on “The Tonight Show with Conan [...]
The Top Celebrity Attraction Brand – Madame Tussauds, is Opening in the Global Home of Celebrity – Hollywood on August 1st – a Perfect Partnership
Global visitor attraction operator Merlin Entertainments (Merlin) is opening its newest attraction, Madame Tussauds Hollywood, on August 1st. The $55m attraction is the ninth Madame Tussauds to open worldwide and [...]
KavaSoft today announced KavaMovies 1.3, an update to their Mac movie database. KavaMovies lets you organize the movies you’ve seen, the movies you want to see, and the movies in your collection. It connects to the internet and downloads tons of information about each of your movies in realtime. Click a movie to see who’s [...]
KavaSoft today released HyperImage 2.1, an application for downloading web photo galleries. HyperImage is an industrial-strength tool for downloading entire websites worth of pictures all at once. Just point HyperImage to any website, and watch as thousands of pictures stream down to your computer. HyperImage includes a built-in image browser with infinitely resizable thumbnails, so [...]
