links for 2008-06-21
Posted on June 21, 2008
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Schachter’s social bookmarking tool Delicious was bought by the web firm in 2005. He told the technology blog TechCrunch today that he had no job to go to, but had decided to make the move because of the current turmoil in the company.
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Coronation Street leads the list of most viewed full-length programmes, with 5 million views since August last year, followed by series three of Dancing on Ice, Benidorm, Britain’s Got Talent, This Morning, Gossip Girl, Secret Diary of a Call Girl, Headca
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With Spoonfed, you create your own ongoing customised events guide. When you register, we’ll feed you with the widest and deepest variety of events based on the preferences you specify. If electro house, death metal or cheesy pop aren’t to your tastes, we
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He noted that Rightmove lost 300 estate agent clients in May alone, as more struggling firms went out of business. He forecast that, at this rate, Rightmove will lose 2,760 members this year, hitting revenues hard.
links for 2008-06-13
Posted on June 13, 2008
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It’ll be a fabulous day when a cellphone-friendly version of Firefox finally lands, and judging by the video and details in the read link down there, that day is getting ever closer. Granted, this whole thing is being dubbed a “concept” for now, but we’re
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This functionality will now be part of TVGuide.com, an asset the company is keeping despite the planned disposal of the physical magazine. Besides the consumer-facing aspect to it, it also builds out Macrovision’s metadata capabilities, which includes the
links for 2008-06-12
Posted on June 12, 2008
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The paper looks at the companies which have lost the most value since their peak in the last three years. The regional press giant has lost 84 per cent of its stock market valuation since a peak of 374.6 - and currently stands at 60.
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At the London meeting, led by ITV’s other joint head of programme publicity, Zoe McIntyre, staff are understood to have been told that there would be about 25 redundancies across the programme PR operation, with details of the remuneration package expecte
links for 2008-06-11
Posted on June 11, 2008
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Disney.com announced today that for the first time ever the site will stream full-length movies online, featuring selections from the Wonderful World of Disney. The films will first air on ABC as part of the network’s weekly Wonderful World of Disney pr
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Valuing phrases based on conversion helps prioritize the importance of terms and identify keyword rankings to focus on for short-term growth. From a search frequency perspective, these keywords may fall near the bottom of your list, but understanding conv
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“Newspaper newsrooms are great for producing newspapers, but we can do so much more with the rich specialist resources across the Guardian, guardian.co.uk and the Observer. It’s not a time for cutting back; it’s a time to unlock the creativity at our disp
links for 2008-06-10
Posted on June 10, 2008
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But just because someone dumps at bunch of gear on you doesn’t make you video journalist. It takes training and a lot of hard work to master the fundamentals of video and audio production.
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Doubts were heightened by the announcement last week that several directors, including chief executive Tim Bowdler had sold some of their rights to new shares although the company said this was simply to fund the take-up of the remainder of the rights.
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Ondrejka’s appointment comes after the hiring of Douglas Merrill, formerly one of Google’s most senior executives, as president of its digital business. The pair will be charged with utilising technology to make it easier for people to find and consume mu
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The start-up has yet to address how it will make money from the site, although the co-founder says advertising relevant to the context of the conversations in FriendFeed is an obvious route to take.
links for 2008-06-09
Posted on June 9, 2008
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Spotted by Bruce - I’ve long wanted House of Commons debates made available in ways which take best advantage of the wonders of t’Interweb. The accessibility and searchability of the web transforms our ability to hold our elected representatives to accoun
links for 2008-06-08
Posted on June 8, 2008
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Buzzd (http://buzzd.com/m) is a location-sensitive entertainment listings service with branded editorial and real-time user generated content on the mobile device.”Your city, in real-time,” buzzd allows consumers to know what’s happening at any venue righ
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The Linkup is a place to easily send & receive files with friends and store massive amounts of files. Link with friends, create private or public groups, store files for later access – it’s all inside and just a click (or two) away.
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I think looming even larger is the culture inside Google, one that does not support traditional approaches to supporting brand marketing. In other words, YouTube is a very large branded media play inside a massive engineering/direct response machine. YouT
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Loveable songstress KT Tunstall made her return to Scotland on Tuesday to give an exclusive concert at Edinburgh’s Hard Rock café as part of the Road to Hard Rock tour. Three songs were recorded live exclusively for stv.tv. All three will be available
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The logo change was only applicable to the UK version of the search engine. Google has introduced a number of UK-specific logo changes for Guy Fawkes Day, a special daffodil version for Wales’ St David’s Day and a dragon and knight for St George’s Day. Th
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The Sunday Telegraph has learned that United Business Media (UBM), which has a market value of £1.5bn, has approached £1.6bn Informa about a merger that would establish a powerhouse in the increasingly competitive world of business-to-business media.
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In the letter, seen by The Sunday Times, Time Out founder Tony Elliott says he fears that the BBC will provide Lonely Planet with “an inexhaustible fund of factual, technical and editorial information and expertise quite beyond the resources of any priv
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The big cat camera project, which will cost several hundred pounds per location, is being partly funded by big cat enthusiast Martin Whitley who runs a hawking centre in Dartmoor. The rest of the money will come from donations to the BCIB.
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In return for allowing networks to subsidise the iPhone, it is thought that Apple will take a higher proportion of the ongoing revenues from customer usage of the phones.
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“We would be particularly concerned if their content was not made available on similar terms to competing services, or if Kangaroo were to benefit from free cross-promotion on public service channels.” The fiercest criticism has come from Joost, the Londo
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Griffiths became full-time finance director at Emap in October 2005. He held a number of other finance roles within the group including head of finance for Emap Communications, the B2B division of Emap, from 1995 to 1999.
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The speaker who impressed me the most was Jessica Greenwood, Deputy Editor of Contagious magazine in UK, who is all of 28 years of age I believe. She gave a great presentation on Digital Marketing Innovation, and generated a lot of case studies and ideas
links for 2008-06-07
Posted on June 7, 2008
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Google is obsessed with making sure its users never fail, no matter how “stupid” they are. Google makes users feel smart. That’s why they keep coming back.
links for 2007-12-04
Posted on December 4, 2007
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But if you toil in newspapers, magazines or radio, ZenithOptimedia expects you to lose share. Even TV, still the biggest and most powerful way to reach a lot of customers at once, is projected to essentially hold its ground on the global stage, taking a 3
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The San Francisco-based company was founded in June 2004 by Philip “Pud” Kaplan, who had been best known for dotcom obituary site FuckedCompany.com. The initial vision was simple: Let online publishers interact directly with text and html advertisers,
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One wild card in mulling the future of print is circulation revenue. Pulling the plug on the paper product would also sacrifice a newspaper’s circulation revenue (typically about 20 percent of the total currently). There would be savings, maybe commensura
links for 2007-11-30
Posted on November 30, 2007
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Footnote.com is a social networking site that allows users to do more than just find historical documents. Footnote.com enables people to interact with history by providing tools that help users showcase their discoveries and share their insights with oth
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Trinity Mirror will fold the acquisition into its growing online property business, Smart Media Services, where it will sit alongside sites such as smartnewhomes.com and email4property.co.uk.
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New York Times page on Facebook
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The Digital-Scotland network includes some of Scotland’s busiest websites. Our unique mix of focused vertical sites and distinct socio-economic profiles combine to offer national coverage and an almost unlimited variety of targeting options. See the Adv
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The agreement commits all journalists “to be available to work across different media within all GNM editorial departments as assigned by their editors”. “The chapel notes that it has had to take several issues on trust and based on broad assurances from
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That most of these companies have ligh profile links with old media - e.g., the Yahoo Newspaper Consortium - isn’t the point; it’s that none of these companies achieved stellar growth as a subsidiary of a traditional media company. “When one of them
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But ⊘convergence,⊘ once the buzzword
around which many new media efforts swirled, is beginning to slow
online sales as the pool of prospects among existing print or broadcast
advertisers is drained. Pursuing non-traditional advertisers is becoming -
Decades of arrogance have put newspapers at death’s doorstep. Newspapers have blamed television for their pending demise….the internet for their pending demise. Arrogance will eventually pull the trigger…arrogance and the inability to accept change. T
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