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Create Your Own Tube Ad

We’re normally reluctant to cover viral campaigns, but this is an irresistible idea from advertising monolith CBS: a visualisation tool to make fake adverts on the London underground. Not so genius is the way the output video can’t be embedded at different sizes and plays …

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Interview: Martin Stiksel, Last.fm

It wasn’t so long ago that London-based “social music revolution” website Last.fm was bought out by American media behemoth (no, not the band) CBS. We asked co-founder of Last, Martin Stiksel what it meant for the site – and what on earth is going on …

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CBS buys Last.fm

One of Londonist’s favourite web 2.0 communities, last.fm, has just been bought up by American firm CBS for a rather tasty $280m (£142m). Whilst it may not have been sold for as much as other social networks (such as News Corp’s £294m MySpace purchase and …

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Friday Film News

This week: Good Night and Good luck, Casanova, Aeon Flux and all the film news and rumours (plus, Trailer of the Week). You’ve already heard what we at Londonist have to say about Good Night and Good Luck (which we’re going to call GNaGL from …