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“I’m obviously disappointed having worked so hard to get to where I was This is a setback but I’ll be back. It’s in God’s hands now,” Oden said in a statement released by the team. “I want to thank the fans, my teammates and everyone in the Blazers family for all of their good thoughts.”(ESPN).An unfortunate blow for Blazers fans as this was the first season Greg Oden had the opportunity to play a full season. He started off the season promising averaging 11.7 points, 8.8 rebounds and most impressively 2.4 blocks as a starter.Oden looked like he was 42 years of age going into the 2007 draft. Now he looks 47, I hope that the rest of his body doesn’t age this fast (which it looks to be) as he may be in for a short career if so.Continue Reading at MySportsPress.

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Company Experiences 138 Q4 Revenue Growth as Major Brands and Fortune 500Companies Launch Interactive Advertising Campaigns on Facebook, MySpace andOther Social NetworksNEW YORK(Business Wire)Buddy Media announced today that it has exceeded all of its 2008 customer andrevenue goals. In the past year, Buddy Media has built branded social mediaapplications, or "app-vertisement" campaigns, for 50 brands including more than15 of the Fortune 500. Buddy Media realized these aggressive goals by becoming the leadingapp-vertisment media company for top advertising agencies and major brands.App-vertisements developed by Buddy Media reinforce companies brand messages byallowing people on social networks, such as Facebook and MySpace, to interactwith brands in fun and entertaining ways and then share these interactions withothers in their network. The companys growth aligns with recent data from eMarketer, which estimatesthat $920 million was spent by American businesses in social media advertisingin 2007 and that this number is expected to grow to $2.7 billion by the year2011. In addition, people on social networks are ready to engage with this newform of advertising - in a September 2008 Opinion Research Corporation survey,85 percent of people on social networks responded that they are an idealplatform for brands to interact with consumers. "Over the past year brands such as American Express, New Balance and AnheuserBusch and agencies have discovered that they can use branded applications onsocial networks to emotionally engage people in ways that strongly reinforcetheir brand messages," said Michael Lazerow, CEO of Buddy Media. "This abilityto move beyond impression to engagement is the reason why 2008 is the year thatthe app became the new ad unit, and why 2009 will see exponential growth in thebranded social media application market." Buddy Media describes the growth of branded social media applications, and whythey have been embraced by brands and consumers alike, in its recent whitepaper, What Advertisers Need to Know about Branded Social Media Apps.

Buddy Media developsand promotes social app-vertising campaigns that increase engagement andinteraction between people and brands. Some of the worlds largest brands andagencies, including American Express, New Balance and Anheuser Busch, work withBuddy Media to create social brand loyalty. for Buddy MediaJoe Ciarallo, Copyright Business Wire 2009. In a day where Michigan doesn't hear it's name mentioned for a Bowl Game, they get even more bad news regarding a transfer and yes, it's on defense Brandon Smith has received his transfer paperwork.