links for 2007-06-29
Posted on June 29, 2007
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The sites, which TM says will be more flexible allowing adaptation to meet local needs, will contain with breaking news coverage, video and audio content, extended blogging forums and user-generated content.
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HMV is even devoting more space to selling iPods, the Apple music player that has helped break record stores’ traditional business model.
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Quigo is considered a direct threat to the corresponding text-based advertising activity by Google Inc (Nasdaq:GOOG) and Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO). Quigo has a 10% share of the market, but has won large clients and forced Google to change its tactics in t
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The Times saw a dip to 8,730,026 unique users from April’s figure of 8,905,701 - a fall of 1.9 per cent. The site has haemorrhaged users since its relaunch in February, having lost over two million users since its January high of 10,891,378.
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“In a nutshell, NGOs, charities and other organisations - as well as entrepreneurs active in developing countries - will be able to post tasks on Lughenjo asking for help in solving problems,” wrote Tom Shelley. “Qualified individuals can then provide suc
Quigo prepares for IPO after signing deal with Time Inc.
Posted on June 29, 2007
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Batya Feldman reports in Globes Online that Quigo has raised $30 million from Institutional Venture Partners.
One to watch - they have c. 10% of the contextual ad market already. I spoke with Quigo last year but it was slightly too early as they were not geared up to working in the UK.
If they get the service right I reckon this is where the majority of the large publishers will end up. The killer is that it allows publishers to retain and develop relationships with their existing advertisers - rather than pass them onto a third-party who may turn out to be a competitor (guess who?).
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links for 2007-06-28
Posted on June 28, 2007
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I would expect to see more niche sites adopting ad platforms like Openads, which put them in the drivers seat for sponsorships and display ads, and large sites adopt ad platforms like Quigo, which put them in the drivers seat for pay-per-click ads. (Large
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He added that Google was also working “full throttle” on developing its services for mobile devices, often using engineering teams based in Europe rather than at its US headquarters.
links for 2007-06-26
Posted on June 26, 2007
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Big John rides 81 miles in 04:38:46 for Diabetes UK
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This is because of the web’s great secret – what economists like to describe as a marginal cost of production and distribution that tends to fall to zero. In the online world, once media owners have written the necessary software code, added some con
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Welcome to Chronicling America, enhancing access to America’s historic newspapers. This site allows you to search and read newspaper pages from 1900-1910 and find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present.
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“Lawrence.com is my favourite of the three: it’s the local entertainment site that every city in the world needs, but very few actually have”
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Need to work through this … “I’ll give you the conclusion at the beginning so you can decide whether to follow the tortuous mathematical route I had to take to get there. Internet metrics substantially exaggerate the importance of the newspaper web aud
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Village Voice lustings
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I’ve modified an old newspaper box to deliver the latest headlines to my living room each morning, and I don’t even have to fumble around for quarters. It’s a simple home project that you can make with just a few used parts.
links for 2007-06-15
Posted on June 15, 2007
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Next week, in addition to sending early review copies of books to the usual recipients – book critics, booksellers, even bloggers – Random House will send free copies of five new fiction titles to 95 LibraryThing members in exchange for short reviews.
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Affiliate programs exploit such networks, as do permission e-mail lists. Learn to place your message into existing communications between people, and you rapidly multiply its dispersion.
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Then in 2027 Second Life evolves into ‘Spirit’, where people can become who they want to, via avatars. And then finally, the ‘Google overloads’ moment - when Prometeus buys Place and Spirit! By 2050 virtual life is the world’s biggest market and Google/Pr
links for 2007-06-14
Posted on June 14, 2007
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Openads gives high-end publishers the opportunity to take back control from ad networks. If done right, this can create more value for advertisers and more value for readers, particularly in highly specialized niches, where even Google’s massive stable
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“The marketplace is changing. Online is maturing. Advertisers are realising that not all clicks are equal,” said Ms Spring. The group announced interim pre-tax profits of £8.6m (loss of £1.6m).
links for 2007-06-12
Posted on June 12, 2007
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As with the other social network web success stories, its brilliance is in its simplicity - you don’t need to be a geek to benefit from it.
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Finally, a few weeks ago, Facebook turned itself into a platform. That is, it enables anyone to create applications on top of the service. Already there are scores of aps hooking up users’ information with other services such as calendars, maps, chat, mus
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“Marcus has played a key role in developing the website in recent months,” said a spokeswoman for the website. “In his new job he will be responsible for the day-to-day content on telegraph.co.uk and will be pushing forward all the changes to come in the
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Several London newspapers, including the Evening Standard and the Observer, have speculated that Mr. Thomson might take a senior role either at or overseeing the Journal if News Corp.’s bid for Dow Jones is successful. There also is speculation he could a
links for 2007-06-11
Posted on June 11, 2007
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Another area where News Corp. sees an opening for its business news is online. CNBC, after years of licensing its content to Microsoft’s MSN, only a few months ago introduced a new iteration of its own CNBC.com Web site. With 662,000 unique users in April
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“These labels are very talented at finding great artists, but they need an injection of experience, resource and guidance to get the acts out there,” he said. “Before we established Integral, they had nowhere to go but to the majors.”
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Many mobile phones are sold in conjunction with calling plans, with heavy subsidies for the phones, particularly in Europe. While some manufacturers would like to wean consumers off these arrangements, they make relationships between device makers and ope
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“A lot of times, patrons feel like they’re going to a library and admitting defeat because they don’t understand Dewey Decimal and can’t find the book they’re looking for,” said Marshall Shore, adult service coordinator for the Maricopa County Library Dis
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The site gets its traffic from search, email, social networks and retail websites. In May, 38% of UK visits to the site came from Search Engines (84% of which was from Google), 11% from web-based Email Services, 11% from Shopping and Classifieds and 7% fr
links for 2007-06-08
Posted on June 8, 2007
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“Each section is almost a website in its own right so a staged rollout is the best way to manage the launch - we have learned lessons from what has happened in the market trying to launch everything at once,” said the managing director of ITV Broadband, A
links for 2007-06-07
Posted on June 7, 2007
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Add the NBA Playoff schedule to the calendar or pick events from the Eventful database. Google’s new calendar gallery has listings from sources like Disney, Eventful, JamBase, Orbitz, the NBA, and Zvents.
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