{"id":5751,"date":"2010-11-23T16:40:45","date_gmt":"2010-11-23T21:40:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bhgrealestateblog.com\/?p=5751"},"modified":"2024-12-30T11:24:24","modified_gmt":"2024-12-30T16:24:24","slug":"the-report-29","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bhgrecareer.com\/bebetterblog\/the-report-29\/","title":{"rendered":"The REport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Lights, Camera, <em>Amazon<\/em>? Last week, <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/entertainmentnewsbuzz\/2010\/11\/amazoncom-going-into-movie-producing-with-new-website-first-look-deal-with-warner-bros.html\">Amazon<\/a> announced it is entering Tinseltown with the unveiling of <a href=\"http:\/\/mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com\/2010\/11\/16\/amazon-puts-on-its-sunglasses-and-goes-hollywood\/\">Amazon Studios,<\/a> a service which accepts scripts and movies from <a href=\"http:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2010\/11\/17\/amazon-studios\/\">budding screenwriters<\/a> and filmmakers with the ultimate goal of producing <a href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-1023_3-20023050-93.html\">\u201cfull-budget commercial films.\u201d<\/a> If you think <a href=\"http:\/\/www.walletpop.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/18\/amazon-launches-movie-studio-for-the-everyman\/\">you missed<\/a> your calling, you now have an opportunity for stardom. Cool!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Location-based services are scoring big partnerships as of late. Foursquare has teamed up with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/1703807\/exclusive-foursquare-partners-with-pepsi-unveils-linked-loyalty-rewards-accounts-facebook-pl?partner=homepage_newsletter\">PepsiCo and Safeway<\/a> with a new program that builds upon the retailer\u2019s existing loyalty program. Essentially, users can earn extra rewards from check-ins. <a href=\"http:\/\/bits.blogs.nytimes.com\/2010\/11\/18\/gowalla-goes-to-disneyland\/\">Gowalla<\/a> also scored big by inking a deal with <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2010\/11\/18\/disney-gowalla\/\">Disney<\/a>, creating a partnership which focuses on custom Passport pages and a photo and check-in stream. (Also scoring big this year with location-based services are <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2010\/11\/16\/charity-checkins\/\">charities<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">If you have ever gotten hungry while perusing friends\u2019 pictures and newsfeeds on Facebook, you will be happy to hear that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediapost.com\/publications\/?fa=Articles.showArticle&amp;art_aid=139643\">Exit41 launched a service<\/a> for restaurants which allows users to order food without leaving the site. The merging of food and beverage and social media\/mobile is only expected to explode in the New Year. In particular, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediapost.com\/publications\/?fa=Articles.showArticle&amp;art_aid=139931\">be on the look out for<\/a> \u201ckiosk ordering, tableside payment systems, couponing Web sites, location-based social media and a burgeoning number of consumer apps.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Sure Facebook has 500 million plus members, but how many actively use it? According to Mark Zuckerberg, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2010\/11\/16\/facebook-social\/\">250 million members are logging on daily<\/a>. Wow.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The <a href=\"http:\/\/authorityempire.com\/baby-boomers%D5-wake-up-call-to-younger-marketers\/225182\">Baby Boomer <em>Spending<\/em> <\/a>Generation. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/money\/advertising\/2010-11-16-1Aboomerbuyers16_CV_N.htm\">Spending by 50+ consumers<\/a> was $2.9 trillion last year, a 45 percent increase in the past 10 years. Impressive. Ignored in the past by advertisers, marketers are now courting the group of big-spenders by making them feel good, sexy and hip among other things. It appears to be working&#8211; the group is now the biggest buyer of new technology and cars.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Happy Thanksgiving! What are you thankful for this year?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lights, Camera, Amazon? Last week, Amazon announced it is entering Tinseltown with the unveiling of Amazon Studios, a service which accepts scripts and movies from budding screenwriters and filmmakers with the ultimate goal of producing \u201cfull-budget commercial films.\u201d If you think you missed your calling, you now have an opportunity for stardom. Cool! Location-based services [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[1751,1761,3091,5831,7561,7671,11721,13881,14041,15541,15771,18551,24631,25631,27281,27901,29051,31001,31331,36591,37591,38121,38131,39901,41001,42811],"class_list":["post-5751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary","tag-amazon","tag-amazon-studios","tag-baby-boomer","tag-budget","tag-charity","tag-check-in","tag-disney","tag-exit41","tag-facebook","tag-foursquare","tag-friends","tag-holidays","tag-location-based","tag-mark-zuckerburg","tag-mobile","tag-movies","tag-newsfeeds","tag-passport","tag-pepsico","tag-restaurants","tag-safeway","tag-screenwriters","tag-scripts","tag-social-media","tag-stardom","tag-thanksgiving"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The REport - Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate Be Better Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/bhgrecareer.com\/bebetterblog\/the-report-29\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The REport - Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate Be Better Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Lights, Camera, Amazon? 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