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  • Biz Starz

    11 members Latest Activity: Oct 23 This is the group to join and post any Business promotion related topic. Yes we'll let you advertise on the site whatever you like, but it goes here.…

  • Viral Starz

    19 members Latest Activity: Jul 21 For all those viral ads, vids, jokes, whatever, plus any chat about how to create and distribute them.

  • Music Starz

    19 members Latest Activity: Aug 15 A group to discover, share and enjoy all the latest new talented bands, singers and djs you know either live, podcast, video or audio out there at the…

  • Web Starz

    35 members Latest Activity: Aug 15 A group for all those interested in the buzz of Web 2.0, Widgets, User Generated Content, Social Networking Media applications etc to discuss, share a…

  • Games Starz

    6 members Latest Activity: 1 day ago New games listed daily. Plus Xbox, 360, PC, Sony Playstation1/2/3, Retro, Wii, Nintendo DS, PSP, GameBoy Advance players to hook up and play Live on g…

  • Job Starz

    11 members Latest Activity: Sep 28 Site for all recruitment agencies, companies and individuals to post their contact details and jobs for other Media Starz to look at.

  • Pod Starz

    5 members Latest Activity: Jun 17 Podcasts, list your faves, yours too if you create them. A group for Podders and Podlisteners, hints & tips, how to create and download, new news, sem…

  • PR Starz

    10 members Latest Activity: Aug 25 PR online or offline a group to discuss the best ways to use this medium and a helpful directory for those looking

  • Outdoor Starz

    4 members Latest Activity: Jun 18 Poster, Urban Furniture, Bus, Taxi, Train, Forecourt, Mall, Installation, ATM, you name it, you discuss it. The group covers them all and more; paper,…

  • Creative Starz

    9 members Latest Activity: Jun 17 Geniuses, Artists, Thinkers, Producers, Directors, aspiring students, plus any other roles in the creative advertising process in whatever medium. Sha…

  • Search Starz

    24 members Latest Activity: Jul 21 A group for all those interested in and exponents of SEO and PPC Search to discuss, ask questions, offer tips and links

  • Mobile Starz

    23 members Latest Activity: Oct 30 A group for all those interested in Mobile/Cell Phone advertising, apps etc to talk about it, ask questions, offer advice and tips, links and videos

  • Sales Starz

    28 members Latest Activity: Jun 18 Calling all Sales Starz - A place to list your business, discuss strategies, vacancies, deals, news, promotions, books, info, Q&A and make friends

  • Video Starz

    4 members Latest Activity: Jun 17 For those who create video, use video or publish video on the Net and anyone who wants to know more about it and learn more

  • Twitter Chinwag Starz

    20 members Latest Activity: Sep 21 All things Twitter including some of the media industry's best Twits (!) from MediaStarz & Chinwag et al, plus apps, advertising solutions, discussion…

  • TV Starz

    7 members Latest Activity: Sep. 15, 2008 TV - those who work in it, trade it, create it, watch it. Terrestrial, Digital, Satellite, Cable, iTV, IPTV, Mobile TV, Reality TV, soap gossip, whate…

  • PinkChip

    6 members Latest Activity: Oct. 14, 2008 For the Business Women

  • Affiliate Starz

    3 members Latest Activity: Nov. 9, 2008 For all those Affiliate Starz out there to discuss, Q&A, make friends, have our own corner of the bar.

  • eMail Starz

    4 members Latest Activity: May. 6, 2008 For all your email needs and emailers to discuss issues. Growing directory of recommended in media forums, email software and email companies.

  • Radio Starz

    3 members Latest Activity: Oct. 14, 2008 Whether you are FM, AM, Digital or Internet, a group to discuss and list links on all radio topics, issues, Q & A, gossip, events, parties and info

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Happy New Homes Week

As the whole nation prepares to spend the next week enthusiastically celebrating the wonderful world of new homes, we thought this might be a good opportunity to take stock of the market and cross some optimistic fingers that we might all be headed in the right direction at last.

It can’t go unmentioned that the start of New Homes Week, September 12th, is two years to the day since the board of Northern Rock first asked the Bank of England for a “liquidity support facility” (a sub, to you and me), due to its exposure to bad debt in the American sub-prime mortgage market. Within a few days worried savers had withdrawn £2 billion from Northern Rock and in February of the following year the bank was privatised.

If we can see this event as the start of the enormous downturn we’ve all been enduring these last two years, perhaps it’s not too early to look back over more recent months and ask whether we aren’t starting to climb our way out of trouble: there aren’t many green shoots around yet, but are we starting to lay down their roots?

Housebuilder Magazine for one has found some fairly substantial reasons to be cheerful. Obviously there’s a vested interest here, but even considering the source, the news is significant nonetheless. Reported recently alongside a “reservation surge for Bovis”, a “sales boost for Taylor Wimpey” and a “reservations boost” for both Miller and Galliford Try, were the results of an online poll carried out by the magazine, according to which 86% of respondents believed the market had bottomed out.

For a less biased but still really rather positive view, we might look at the most recent figures posted by the Land Registry’s house price index, which recorded a month on month house price rise for August of 1.7%. Across the country the year on year movement is still in negative figures, but the performance in August has begun to chip away at this, and in Wales the average house price has even had a year on year increase, of 3.1%.

Elsewhere, the Nationwide has also reported a rise in prices, for the fourth consecutive month. The lender has recorded a 3.2% rise in the average sale price over the first 8 months of 2009 and highlights the quarter on quarter rise of 3.3% seen for August as the highest increase since February 2007.

So, we might not be all the way there yet, but good things do appear to be happening at last. A heady mix of low prices (an average of 17% down on January 2008’s peak), cheap - albeit still difficult to come by- credit, realistic valuations from private sellers, pent up demand and under supply seems to be doing the trick.

See you next time!!

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Today is the official launch of COD6 Modern Warfare 2, dubbed the most anticipated game of the decade by many gamers across the world. Oggs reviewer JC got his hands on a copy 24 hours early of the eagerly anticipated sequel to Call of Duty 4 – Modern Warfare and his verdict after 8 hours [...]

Future of Gaming: games bigger than films!

It was with great interest today that I viewed on YouTube the longest advert I’ve ever seen for a game. It wasn’t a walkthrough video, nor the developers talking about how they created it. It was in fact a 14 minute and 11 second epic film, setting the scene for the upcoming Assassins Creed II [...]

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Some of the world’s top poker players ended London’s three week poker fest in dramatic style this week. It was Peter Eastgate and Aaron Gustavson in the London leg of the European Poker League Tour and Daniel Negreanu and Barry Shulman in the final of the World Series of Poker Europe. Celebrity players were in attendance [...]

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