links for 2007-03-30
Posted on March 30, 2007
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“DoubleClick provides a web-publishing platform for internet ads that we believe would provide a boost to Microsoft’s online services ambitions which have so far been lacklustre,” said AG Edwards analyst Kevin Buttigieg. He said buying DoubleClick would c
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So I took a bunch of screenshots (29), gathered some (rough) stats and posted them all below. The list of sites is by no means an exhaustive catalogue of contemporary news design, merely a sample of what is currently out there in late 2006.
There were a
links for 2007-03-29
Posted on March 29, 2007
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Under the agreement, select LG phones will come loaded with one-click access to Google’s search services, as well as applications linked to its maps, Gmail and blogger services. Mobile operators that sell handsets to their subscribers often have such prei
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What lies ahead for enterprise search? Ms Alairys of Accenture sees four developments. First, advanced analytics and monitoring which will make it possible to tap information in real time and provide rapid responses. Second, sentiment analysis which uses
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We offer multiple editions of Google Apps to meet the needs of different organizations. So whether you’re a small business or a Fortune 500 company, Google can power up your organization with the right services and support, for the right price.
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Some Wikipedians aren’t laughing. “This is getting out of hand,” huffed disgruntled editor Shanes in 2005. “It seems as if every Wikiuser feels they should have their own April Fools’ prank somewhere. I’m thinking maybe the best joke would be to let Wikip
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Google’s stranglehold on the paid-for search market has increased from 63% in 2005 when it made in UK revenue and the UK online paid-for search market was worth £768.4m.
“Google has not just invented a better mousetrap, it’s created a whole new marketin -
It’s a far cry from when giving away two megabytes of data was considered a big deal, said David Nakayama, Yahoo’s group vice president of engineering and developer of RocketMail, which Yahoo acquired and relaunched as Yahoo Mail in 1997.
In a posting to
links for 2007-03-28
Posted on March 28, 2007
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Unlike a debit or credit card, NFC-enabled phones give users access to interactive internet-based information, open an audio file, or download content directly to the handset.
Consumers can hold their phone close to a poster or advertising billboard, buy -
“The pioneers of search have done a great job in maximizing indexing technology but the future of search is not about retrieving information, it is about understanding the text, the queries and the web pages,” she said. As Ms Pulatkonak says, only time wi
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7Digital is behind “indiestore” - an online do-it-yourself download site that has already attracted 5,000 artists. It will be integrated into Bebo Bands, providing indiestore artists with wider exposure and Bebo Bands users with a method to sell music dir
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Looking to provide 10,000 stories per day - “We will integrate our news and web news,” said Ms Rowlands. “We found out during our research that financial professionals spend a lot of their time on the open web. Rather than fighting a battle to keep
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The UK spends a bigger share of ad money online than anywhere else, even the US. In 2006 the share was 11.4%
UK online advertising in 2006 was worth £2.061bn
The growth in online ad spending in 2006 was 41%
The national newspapers’ share of advertisin -
Last week, I gave a users’ perspective overview of the OpenID decentralized single sign-on system, and described how to take the first step: getting your own OpenID identity. Once you are comfortable with OpenID as a login method for the sites that you vi
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The company planned to announce Tuesday that it was creating a mobile advertising network that would allow marketers to place ads not only on its mobile services, but also on those of other online publishers. And Yahoo is offering tools to help publishers
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Paragraph Four - “Online listings magazine The List has announced a commitment to broaden its online presence with the appointment of four former key members of The Scotsman’s award-winning website. The new team, to be based at the company’s head office i
links for 2007-03-27
Posted on March 27, 2007
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Yahoo is looking for more content to feed a three-month-old service called “oneSearch,” which is designed to provide vital information to mobile-phone users without requiring them to sift through the stack of results that pile up in a traditional Web sear
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Useful service - would also be good to allow site comparisons.
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As books go digital, new questions, both philosophical and commercial, arise. How, physically, will people read books in future? Will technology “unbind” books, as it has unbundled other media, such as music albums? Will reading habits change as a res
links for 2007-03-25
Posted on March 25, 2007
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Stv.tv is also developing its journalistic content, which currently falls under sections for news, entertainment and sport. To this end, it was announced earlier this month that Henry Eagles, head of sport, will also oversee online journalism.
At present
links for 2007-03-24
Posted on March 24, 2007
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The former general manager of Scotsman.com is teaming up with three other former colleagues to launch a new entertainment website.
Alistair Brown left the newspaper in December 2006 after six years at the title. He will now head up digital strategy for T
links for 2007-03-23
Posted on March 23, 2007
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It seems that The Guardian and Telegraph have loyal readers who follow them online. Also, the political persuasion of these two publications is well known and so consumers might be less likely to change allegiance. I have a hunch, this also has something
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Accepting GeoRSS and making KML a standard are very significant moves for Google and the geoweb. It’s long seemed odd to me that Google, a company built on opensource software and such an avid supporter of open standards, did not follow a similar path in
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Google Calendar doesn’t get much love or attention these days. Some users are wondering if Google’s forgotten about it. Still, it’s a pretty cool web app, especially if you learn the ins and outs and use it collaboratively with colleagues, friends,
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But perhaps the most alarming ingredient in a Chicken McNugget is tertiary butylhydroquinone, or TBHQ, an antioxidant derived from petroleum that is either sprayed directly on the nugget or the inside of the box it comes in to “help preserve freshness.”
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In software, as in politics, it it not enough to be right, and sometimes it is a disadvantage. What really matters is that you should get on with everyone else, especially the powerful. The story of Opera shows that the real standards bodies on the web ar
links for 2007-03-22
Posted on March 22, 2007
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Indeed, large cable companies such as Comcast have stressed that the growing demand for internet video is good for them, not bad, as it is one of the factors fuelling consumer willingness to pay for faster broadband connections, many of which are provided
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This trick works only when you are logged into a Google service, like Gmail or Google Talk. Otherwise, you have no way to control Google’s data collection; its logs are automatically generated every time someone does a search.
Here are the steps I took f -
So if you’ve got an entrepreneurial itch, but don’t have a technical insight you want to pursue, give some thought to what it would take to re-work an existing model to capture more value for yourself and for customers.
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It’s important to remember, though, that finding and reading out of print books is just the beginning of the benefits of digitization. (That’s why it’s important for at least the out-of-copyright books to be available in more open formats.) Last year, Gre
links for 2007-03-21
Posted on March 21, 2007
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“But Hachette is making sales, not profit. The economics of online publishing, though lower-cost because no paper or printing is used, are still daunting for companies like Hachette and Axel Springer of Germany, because most Internet-savvy readers expect
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The business is the second Scottish internet venture to receive the backing of SMG in less than a year. Last summer, financial services guru Jim Spowart launched the price comparison website Peopleschampion.com, which is majority-owned by the Glasgow-base
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OneSearch, as Yahoo calls its mobile phone service, differs from how computer Web search delivers raw sets of links.
Instead, Yahoo serves up a list of actual information, such as news headlines, images from Yahoo’s Flickr photos site, business listings, -
The Express does this really well, allowing online readers to filter its already localized articles by state, city, or neighborhood. For example, readers can view the news articles that are specific to DC, Maryland, or Virginia. Online poll results can
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“For publishers, it increases the complexity of their business,” said Mark Mahaney, an analyst with Citigroup. Publishers have limited space for ads and need to maximize the revenue they generate. A cost-per-click model is risky, since it provides no
Viewing User Generated Content seventh most popular online activity in UK …
Posted on March 21, 2007
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iLevel Internet Usage statistics - the “Activities on the Web” category is quite interesting - UGC (I guess this covers MySpace etc. as well as reading comments on news sites etc.) is seventh most popular category:
| Using e-mail | 25.00 million | Nov-06 | BMRB Internet Monitor |
| Sourcing Info on Activities/Interests | 21.27 million | Nov-06 | BMRB Internet Monitor |
| Making Travel Plans | 17.05 million | Nov-06 | BMRB Internet Monitor |
| Looking at Cinema/Theatre/Concert Listings | 14.88 million | Nov-06 | BMRB Internet Monitor |
| Listening to Music | 12.12 million | Nov-06 | BMRB Internet Monitor |
| Looking at Job Opportunities | 11.59 million | Nov-06 | BMRB Internet Monitor |
| Looking at User Generated Content | 11.13 million | Nov-06 | BMRB Internet Monitor |
| Downloading Music (whether paid or free) | 9.98 million | Nov-06 | BMRB Internet Monitor |
| Instant Messaging | 9.41 million | Nov-06 | BMRB Internet Monitor |
| To watch video clips | 9.30 million | Nov-06 | BMRB Internet Monitor |
| To play games | 9.05 million | Nov-06 | BMRB Internet Monitor |
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