Sony to offer Hulu Plus preview on PlayStation 3

Sony PS3 to offer Hulu Plus preview immediately

LOS ANGELES — Some PlayStation 3 users in the U.S. will be able to try out the $9.99-per-month video subscription plan from Hulu right away.
Sony Corp. says that means the PlayStation 3 will be the only game console able to play streaming videos from Hulu this year.
Hulu plans to launch its Hulu Plus subscription service on Microsoft's Xbox 360 early next year.
Invitations will be sent to certain subscribers of PlayStation Plus, a $49.99-a-year service that offers gamers select downloads and game trials. A wider rollout to all U.S. PlayStation 3 users is expected in the next few months.

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Family Movie Night Is Back: Make Sure To Watch The Jensen Project This Friday!

As you guys have probably already heard, Walmart and P&G have partnered to bring back family movie nights and are making a series of made for TV movies that the entire family can enjoy together. The first movie--“Secrets of the Mountain” was an enormous success - more than 7.4 million households tuned in to watch! NBC will air the latest installment of their Family Movie Night series, the action-packed made-for-TV movie “The Jensen Project” on July 16th. That's this Friday! If you happen to miss the movie, a combo pack of the movie DVD and a soundtrack CD produced by Randy Jackson and featuring Brooke White, Jordin Sparks and Alisan, Ilsey & Jordan will be available exclusively at Walmart the next day.

About The Jensen Project:
The thrilling science fiction plot of 'The Jensen Project' focuses on the Thompson family, who are reintroduced to The Jensen Project, a secret community of geniuses conducting advanced underground research to solve the world’s most difficult problems. The family is forced into a frantic pursuit to keep a potentially dangerous technology from falling into the wrong hands, and rediscover the importance of honesty, courage and being there for one another. The film features Kellie Martin, Brady Smith, Justin Kelly, LeVar Burton, Patricia Richardson and Alyssa Diaz.
In anticipation of the movie release this Friday, I have a giveaway for you guys!

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One Jolly Mom reader will win The Jensen Project DVD/CD Combo Pack!

How to Enter:
1. Leave me a comment telling me what is your family's favorite family night movie.

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This giveaway will end on July 28th, 2010 at 11:59  PM EST. Winner will be drawn using random.org and will be announced on this post. US entries only, please.

 

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PopCap teases Plants vs Zombies sequel

Plants vs. Zombies 2 may be on the way to the iPhone. PopCap sent an email this morning, inviting journalists to an event in San Francisco on August 2. The teaser image, pictured to the right, features a zombie hand from the popular game for the iPhone. PopCap co-founder John Vechey guaranteed that a sequel will eventually be released. However, he also implied to Kotaku that the sequel wouldn’t be out anytime soon:

“I promise your readers there will be a Plants Vs. Zombies 2 in the next one to 10 years.”

If the San Francisco event isn’t a teaser for the sequel, it could just concern the upcoming downloadable version of Plants vs Zombies for Xbox Live, announced last summer.

Read more at Escapist Magazine.

Harvey Pekar, 'American Splendor' Creator, Dead At 70

Harvey Pekar's life in and out of comics cultivated his well-earned, thick-skinned reputation for speaking his mind and perpetually questioning the world around him. Whether it was kicking off his recent webcomics series "The Pekar Project" or provoking David Letterman, Pekar never seemed to hide what was on his chest, and for that he'll be remembered long after his death this week as a unique and adaptive voice in the world of comics.
Pekar was found dead just before 1 AM at his home in Cleveland Heights, OH, according to Cleveland.com. Cleveland and Pekar's world there became monumental in and of themselves within his work, as did Pekar's feelings on mortality in his story "Our Cancer Year," which he co-created with his wife Joyce Brabner.
Pekar managed to transcend the world of underground comics where his work began amassing an audience, and he remains one of a handful of talents to cross over into more mainstream publishers such as Dark Horse, DC/Vertigo and even Houghton Mifflin, where he guest edited their 2006 Best American Comics anthology.
Outside of comics, he'll probably be remembered best as the basis for Paul Giamatti's character in Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini's 2003 Oscar-nominated "American Splendor" film, but for readers and colleagues, he'll be discussed long into the future as a conversationalist and brilliant mind who discussed the world exactly as he saw it.
How will you remember Harvey Pekar? Which of his books stand out for you in his career? Share your thoughts in the comment section below.

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Blog Advertising? Why Not?

Advertising is a form of communication intended to persuade an audience (viewers, readers or listeners) to purchase or take some action upon products, ideals, or services. It includes the name of a product or service and how that product or service could benefit the consumer, to persuade a target market to purchase or to consume that particular brand. These brands are usually paid for or identified through sponsors and viewed via various media. Advertising can also serve to communicate an idea to a mass amount of people in an attempt to convince them to take a certain action, such as encouraging 'environmentally friendly' behaviors, and even unhealthy behaviors through food consumption, video game and television viewing promotion, and a "lazy man" routine through a loss of exercise . Modern advertising developed with the rise of mass production in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Mass media can be defined as any media meant to reach a mass amount of people. Several types of mass media are television, internet, radio, news programs, and published pictures and articles - wikipedia.org

Since the world has the Internet, everyone can not escape from this. From the start just making news, download music, making friends, until they also expanded their business on the internet.

One of the most famous business in this virtual world is the advertising business.
A small company for example, has a product that should be known by all people on the world so that the product will sold and distributed. How do they inform the entire population of earth that amount does not count?

Advertisement. But what kind of advertising they need for consumers around this world?

One way to advertise the product is Blog Advertising Store.

Blog Advertising Store is an advertising service. It inform and give review about product from Advertiser (Internet Marketers) to consumers via blog directly.

"You wouldn’t send a catalog full of bath soaps and candles to a man whose information you got at a sporting goods store! Instead you may send it to ladies whose information you obtained from a candle shop or a store that specializes in bath soaps. If you do not choose the right target audience you will end up with a bunch of people angry for you sending them a bunch of junk. However, if you pick the right target audience, you will have people just itching to see what your business, service, or product is all about!" - from http://www.blogadvertisingstore.com/blog/

Yeah, With blog advertising stores, marketers will have no trouble marketing their products, they also do not have to worry about choosing the wrong target. Bloggers, as the man behind the advertising media to help marketers choose their targets.

On the other hand, with good cooperation between marketers and bloggers, bloggers can raise their income from the marketer's product marketing services. In addition, there will be friendship between marketers and bloggers.

So, other than business factors, Blog Advertising Store also help in social activities.

Join Blog Advertising Store? Why Not?