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Footnote.com is a social networking site that allows users to do more than just find historical documents.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
links for 2007-11-29
Posted on November 29, 2007
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I can guarantee that I will unsuscribe from LinkedIn if Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation takes control. In my opinion, he’s one of the world’s most evil people.
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Google is set on Wednesday to launch a new feature in its Google Maps for Mobile program that automatically sets your location even in phones that lack a global positioning system (GPS) device.
links for 2007-11-28
Posted on November 28, 2007
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ntelligent Life is an engaging lifestyle magazine from The Economist. With spirited writing and bold design, it covers an eclectic range of issues from travel and the arts to fashion and philanthropy. With distinguished writers from around the world and e
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Ouch - not great news for thpos reliant on print classified revenues: “The firm forecasted that in three years, agents and brokers will be spending more on online media than on newspaper advertising. By 2012, Borrell anticipates that newspaper real estat
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As the enthusiasm and the incentive in the long tail begin to wear off, what would be the impact on the businesses that depend on them? Likely, the impact is going to be large.
links for 2007-11-27
Posted on November 27, 2007
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The latest incarnation, which Sedlin calls “Oodle 2.0,” centers around three main goals: make searching simple; make it easy for users to keep coming back and save their information; and give users the information they need to make a buying decision.
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FIM President Peter Levinsohn told the audience at the Reuters Media Summit today that the advertising network is already in discussion with other News Corp sites for ad sales and that an expansion outside News Corp could come as soon as the first half of
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Alexa seems to get everything wrong, no matter how large or small the site.
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I need to be able to have total transparency and control on when this is happening. Reigning in and policing partners like Overstock.com will be an essential — and tough — thing to do, especially if Facebook switches Beacon to be opt-in.
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This post is going to dig deep in Beacon and see what makes it tick from a purely technical perspective, but we’d be happy to do a follow-up post about the ethical question if there’s enough interest. Leave a comment and let us know!
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Brightcove works with a wide ecosystem of companies that help our customers be more successful.
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NME channel on YouTube
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British TV networks the BBC, ITV and Channel 4 will launch a new joint online TV on-demand service that will provide a one-stop shop of content from all channels.
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In several dozen nondescript office buildings around the world, thousands of hourly workers bend over table-top scanners and haul dusty books into high-tech scanning booths. They are assembling the universal library page by page.
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Issues around legality and index methodolgy still constrict certain resources. However the continued necessity of the library does not undermine the easy and powerful tool that databases like the online New York Times Archive provide to us all.
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Google Inc. wants to offer consumers a new way to store their files on its hard drives, in a strategy that could accelerate a shift to Web-based computing and intensify the Internet company’s competition with Microsoft Corp.
links for 2007-11-26
Posted on November 26, 2007
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Frank O’Donnell, the newly appointed news editor, and Alan Greenwood, the recently appointed Scotsman.com editor, will report to McNeill.
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While we can come up with a plethora of predictions for the future how TV might or might not look like, the near term meta-topics beyond mobility and hot applications are middleware, security, web2.0, and advertisement.
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Welcome to famfamfam.com, personal site and web playground of Birmingham (UK) based developer Mark James.
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So The Graph word has been creeping in. BradFitz talks of the Social Graph as does Alex Iskold, who discusses social graphs and network theory in general, points out that users want to own their own social graphs. He alo points out that examples of graphs
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Rule No. 1 in the transition from traditional to digital media company: Being an offline powerhouse doesn’t necessarily mean you’ll be blessed with online scale. That’s why many of those players are turning to vertical ad networks.
links for 2007-11-25
Posted on November 25, 2007
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SCOTTISH LABOUR’S new spin-doctor made a series of damning criticisms of his colleagues weeks before he accepted the job as the party’s head of communications. Gavin Yates used his blog to describe Wendy Alexander as “abrasive”, labelled shadow health min
links for 2007-11-24
Posted on November 24, 2007
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news organizations can speed up the news cycle by tweeting themselves on big stories as described above.
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Despite globalization, hyperlocal information is very valuable both to people and advertisers. In the coming years, we will be seeing the rise of a new way to look at information - geography. Inspired by utility and the promise of hyperlocal advertising,
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Soon, every call you make—from your mobile, home or computer—could be free, and you’ll see valuable information, entertainment and advertising based on relevant keywords spoken in a call.
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You are invited to take part in the premier British long distance endurance bicycle ride and join us in the experience of a lifetime.
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Let the world know what you REALLY think about your street!
links for 2007-11-23
Posted on November 23, 2007
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You will help build, populate and promote integrated local multi-media platforms serving Scotland⊘s cities, towns and villages. The digital department within S&UN will play a crucial role in shaping the future direction of our business.
links for 2007-11-21
Posted on November 21, 2007
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Revenue at Associated Northcliffe Digital grew 46% to £86m across its classified portals but operating profit fell £2m due to investment.
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Elliott has been working on a freelance basis at Emap since June, consulting mainly on the publisher’s women’s magazines such as Heat and Closer. He was previously at Brooklands Group for 14 months, where he worked on property titles and the launch of the
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A new research report form Bernstein’s Jeff Lindsay looks at some of the options available to Google, should the EU (or the FTC for that matter) ultimately come down against the acquisition. He lays out four scenarios: a) Forgo competing in the ad-excha
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TeamPages is an online social network for parents, coaches, and athletes of sports teams that helps all participants stay in touch with each other and keep up to date with the team’s schedule of games and events. TeamPages provides a central online loca
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Lawson said the desperation to boost advertising revenues in newspapers had led to a “dreadful corruption” in editorial standards, and said he had seen evidence of it in the Telegraph papers with “advertising masked as editorial”.
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Online Copywriting 101: The Ultimate Cheat Sheet — Part 2
links for 2007-11-20
Posted on November 20, 2007
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It will not disappear. But it will drastically change.
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Last week we launched our BBC Archive Trial, putting a 1,000 hours up online to 20,000 users. Immediate feedback has been excellent.
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There is now a conviction among television executives that the bigger opportunity for their industry is not digital downloads but streaming their programmes over the internet with advertising. Jeff Gaspin, president of the NBC Universal Television Group,
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Stuart Paterson of SEP said: “Skyscanner has the potential to become a world leader in the travel sector which is one of the web’s hottest consumer transaction areas. The company has a talented management team, underpinned by smart technology and a hi
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“I think we are doing the sensible thing. We are making sure we focus our digital investment on the areas that are really core to our radio proposition. Like everybody else in the business we have to make sure we can see the right return on our investment
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“Increasingly our mantra at NME is that our audience of 15- to 24-year-olds are incredibly promiscuous when it comes to media consumption so as a media owner you need to have an offering on every platform,” Cheal said.
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The report, from Opus Research, estimated that the combined value of the US and western European mobile advertising market would be $5.08bn by 2012, with the industry expected to be worth $106.8m by the end of the year.
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The Washington Post has built such a network for travel blogs, Reuters is doing the same with finance. Niche sites need to be part of larger networks so advertisers can buy them easily. They need a platform to build on and if big media sites are smart, th
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The LibraryHouse blog has a nice summary of recent acquisitions (July 2006 through June 2007) by Microsoft, Google, and Yahoo!, roughly color coded by category:
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“This is the most important thing we’ve ever done,” says Jeff Bezos. “It’s so ambitious to take something as highly evolved as the book and improve on it. And maybe even change the way people read.”
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