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Point of Purchase or Point of Sale? POS has quite a different meaning to Gen X and Y…

Similar to how traditional advertising people love to interchange “Digital”, “Interactive” and “Online” to mean, well basically anything Interactive..I’ve also noticed lately that Point of Purchase (POP) and Point of Sale (POS) seem to be used interchangeably as well.  However, is it just me or do younger generation (X and Y), interactive people seem to favor POP while the older traditional people seem to still favor POS? I have a feeling there’s an aversion to calling it POS from the younger generation as like most 3 letter acronyms, it has quite a different meaning socially than what it might be intended for professionally…

What’s New In Interactive – 4/15/09

What’s New In Interactive is our weekly round-up of links we pass around to each other.

Here’s the latest list of links that caught our eye…

• AC/DC premieres a new web series (kinda like what Beastie Boys have already done)
• Twitter has now jumped the shark by passing Britney’s popularity
• Destroy Your Friend’s house with this Day The Earth Stood Still Interactive Google Earth Mashup
• Seems like Gen X’ers and Boomers are cutting back the most during the current recession
• Internet Ads Growing Faster Than Any Medium In History
• CNN and Ashton Kutcher in a Twitter Fight / Race to get to 1 million followers first
• Facebook needs to stop redesigning their site or risk losing their app developers
• Men visit more sites and stay online longer, use social networks as much or more than women and are more likely to access the Internet from a mobile device
• What Twitter is to blogging, 12 Seconds is to consumer generated online video (and it’s already integrated into Tweetdeck)
• Students who use Facebook have a lower GPA and study less than those that don’t… um, correlation may not equal causation on this one