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As MySpace and Facebook beef up their mobile efforts, so are other, smaller social net competitors, including those that started out on the mobile phone. How are the mobile-first social networks differentiating themselves in their efforts to grow? What types of users are they attracting?

Although mobile advertising isn’t mainstream just yet in the U.S., the market is growing much larger. According to the Kelsey Group, U.S. mobile advertising revenues will grow to $3.1 billion in 2013 from $160 million last year.

Bambi Francisco interviews Joe Kennedy, President and CEO, Pandora. For those who don’t know, Pandora is an iPhone application that essentially acts as a personalized radio station. You tell it what kind of music you like, it plays songs for you, you let it know which songs you like and dislike as they are played, and Pandora learns your tastes so it can deliver music that you like.

Several mobile carriers, device manufacturers and mobile service providers—including Palm, RIM, Nokia, Google, Samsung and Microsoft—recently unveiled an app store or announced plans for one. Hear the developers’ perspectives on this new flood of app stores.

The ever sexy Bambi Francisco interviews Ron Conway, Angel Investor, Baseline Ventures, at the EconSM conference. Ron answers the question on everyone’s mind, “how will Twitter (a company Ron invested in) make money?”

While the debate over legal issues in music and movie distribution of content continues, the P2P and distributed computing industry is making strides in taking its technologies into the mainstream. Many evolving solutions are on the way from paid-for-pass-along along with various DRM solutions and advertiser based options.

How are converging media technologies redefining traditional distribution methods? How are interactive and on-demand services changing the way entertainment and news video is being consumed?

With the attention of the consumer being assaulted by a host of great technologies – from games and broadband to PVRs – devices as well as content programming, the task of the client, the agency and content provider raising their message above the clutter is daunting.

New Rules for the Film, TV, Broadband & Mobile Video Industry – Deals, Advertising and Commerce

Back in the early days of online video advertising, say 2007, when short form video ruled supreme as the only accepted form of online video, I often found myself waiting through a 30 second ad to watch what eventually turned out to be a minute long video.