links for 2007-07-19
Posted on July 19, 2007
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In the first quarter, revenue for every major ad category — classified, national and retail advertising — was down. The sharpest declines were for classifieds, where spending dropped 13.2% — not so much a result of competition from the Web as of econom
links for 2007-07-18
Posted on July 18, 2007
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Media analyst Ken Doctor, at Outsell Inc., said including total readership is a good start, but advertisers and media buyers will need more information to gauge how effective their ads will be on newspaper Web sites. “What they’ve got to give media buyers
links for 2007-07-17
Posted on July 17, 2007
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t appears that LinkedIn still has early adopter appeal, just as Gmail does, and is poised for even greater growth as the word gets out.
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Google has apparently been working “for months with content providers — including large entertainment companies and smaller mobile-media aggregators” in preparation for the services launch. The report goes on to say that Google may also include a so
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For a moment I thought this was Brian Soutar …. “The new company is also backed by Scottish publisher DC Thomson, GLG Partners, one of Europe’s largest hedge funds, and Marv Partners, the media company set up by Vaughn and Matthew Freud’s former right h
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In surveys, young people say they like Internet news more than television news, but their behavior says otherwise. Young people say that the newspaper is more educational than other media, but they do not as a consequence use it as their news source. Inte
links for 2007-07-13
Posted on July 13, 2007
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Although the growing popularity of online poker in the rest of the world lifted net gaming revenues by 19 per cent to $47m in the first quarter, 888 has been the subject of persistent bid speculation since October.
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“Over the next few years, the shift of online marketing from experiment to mainstream will force marketing organisations and processes to change,” said Forrester senior analyst Rebecca Jennings. “As different types of social media like MySpace and peer re
links for 2007-07-12
Posted on July 12, 2007
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It remains a mystery to me why such perfectly targeted ads with highly relevant messages perform so badly on Facebook compared to other sites - often sites where the targeting is less precise.
links for 2007-07-10
Posted on July 10, 2007
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Google Apps has been signing up more than 1,000 small businesses a day and has been adopted by more than 100,000 businesses. It is still dwarved by Microsoft Office, which has about 240 million users, and Google executives say their system faces resistanc
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A spokesperson for Last.fm said the deal was a powerful marketing tool for Sony, allowing them to reach a new audience of music fans and build a powerful support base for new bands.
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“Based on everything that’s going on with the influx of Ajax and streaming, we feel total minutes is the best gauge for site traffic,” said Scott Ross, director of product marketing at Nielsen. “We’re changing our stance on how the data should be” used.
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Facebook, which says it has 29 million active users, has in the past rejected acquisition bids from suitors such as Yahoo Inc. and Viacom Inc., and is bulking up its management ranks. Facebook plans this year to have profit of close to $30 million on reve
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Despite enthusiasm for the newly released devices, health and safety pressure groups have voiced reservations, claiming that the electromagnetic rays emitted could be harmful to children. “The whole point of Kiditel is that it is always on, which can’t be
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New York’s barbecue scene may be missing a lot of things — like dirt roads and screen doors and decades of deep-seated tradition — but love for barbecue in the city is strong. And in the past couple of years the product has caught up to the passion.
links for 2007-07-09
Posted on July 9, 2007
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It follows a campaign by the National Union of Journalists to have the terms of the purchase looked at again in the wake of a proposed budget cut of three million pounds - which has led to both voluntary and compulsory redundancies and resulting fears tha
links for 2007-07-06
Posted on July 6, 2007
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links for 2007-07-05
Posted on July 5, 2007
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“We’re targeting young people and young families looking for bargains locally,” Durzy said. “For now it’s a free service and our focus is on building the user experience.”
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T in the Park 2007 - Running Times - Music
links for 2007-07-04
Posted on July 4, 2007
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Local search companies have already started having patent fights. London-based Geomas, owner of patent 5,930,474, which enables users to select information from a map, is using the patent in a suit against Verizon.
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Obviously, my preference would be for soft sections to erode faster than hard ones as newspapers retool and that the future newspaper ends up looking like its cousin from the recent past. I’m rotten at predictions, so I really shouldn’t venture a guess as
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Ouch… “Mike Amos should not have been given Sports Journalist of the Year since all he does is write highly stylised whimsical pieces about obscure and mildly amusing sporting teams. He does not …”
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The archives and the British Library have set up pioneering projects to capture daily exchanges of information almost entirely now transmitted by emails and texts. Government departments are already storing emails and archiving them at Kew, and the Britis
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Of course I would like to see changes in our foreign policy and have marched on the streets (with thousands of non-Muslims) in protest on many occasions. But blaming foreign policy in the face of suicide attacks is not only tactless but a cop-out that fai
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