Glam Media has always impressed me with their cutting edge ideas for content aggregation and ad sales. This is their new marketing widget platform for advertisers. They're partnering with a long list of widget tech providers. Here's an example of it's customization: if VentureBeat wanted to offer a widget of its full news stories to the New York Times, we could do so using one widget. VentureBeat could then use a second widget to offer its news content in a different way (perhaps just the first two paragraphs) to three or four other top publishers.

Funny reality check by Dave Sarno at Web Scout. Too many on her case already, but reading the site, and then their comments, it's hard to disagree. Lesson 2.0 here: Honesty in social media is good, but maybe not right for every brand personality (and yes, celebs are perhaps the ultimate in 'brand personalities').

On the other hand, the metrics aren't in yet on this one.

The apparel industry has been avoiding risky styles for a few years, hoping that will help them weather a U.S. economic slump. But industry insiders see that as the surest route to failure, pointing to a few success stories of outlets willing to try bold fashions.

The head of her own agency once thought her stylists should hang back. Now she arranges licensing deals, branding partnerships and clothing lines for them.

You don't have to read the article. It's a simple post. Nadal's been on a winning tear and doesn't want to switch to a new tennis outfit Nike has been developing.

I'm sure the Nike execs, designers, production managers, etc, have been working crazy to meet this deadline. And I wouldn't be surprised if more than a couple people were feeling like this will be a big leap forward in their careers.