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ReferQuest.com and its Facebook version has launched, allowing its to state what they?re looking for, along with the reward they?ll pay the person who finds it for them.
Money can be earned also by promoting requests, finding matches, and earning the offered rewards. ReferQuest.com currently offers over $40 thousand [...]
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 Two-thirds of people who pirate music would buy digital downloads if the price was right, according to research from Ipsos MORI The music, film and video game industries are pricing themselves out the market, according to new research from Ipsos MORI. They found that creative industries could increase [...]
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Number of comments: 1 Did you know that you are for sale on Twitter already?
Yes, according to BBC NEWS a certain company has already started selling us by the 1,000
Australian social media marketing company uSocial is offering a paid service that finds followers for users of the micro-blogging service.
Followers are available in [...]
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 Voice-to-SMS provider Spinvox has landed its biggest deal to date with Telefonica in Latin America, but it might need more financing to grow if it lands more deals of that size  UK mobile voice-to-SMS provider Spinvox recently won business with Telefonica (NYSE: [...]
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 More than a week after his death the King of Pop, Michael Jackson, continues to light up the dancefloor of the Guardian Viral Video Chart. Along with dominating Amazon's top 10 bestseller list and taking over iTunes' download list, Jacko-mania continues to sweep the internet as fans flock [...]
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 What are you reading? Leave some links in the comments. ? In Defense of Social Media (At Least Some Of It) >> O'Reilly Radar ? Calling bullshit on social media >> Scott Berkun ? Gizmodo, Engadget Guys Launch GDGT (And Get Crushed By Traffic) >> Silicon Alley [...]
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 Google's Ed Parsons calls on government agencies to allow greater access to data, which he believes will spark a wave of new mobile mapping services. The rich data built up over time through mobile mapping technology and platforms will allow an explosion of mobile apps in [...]
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 Bradley Horowitz, a vice president at the search giant overseeing Google Apps, talks to paidContent's Robert Andrews about the company's culture and strategy.
At the Activate conference in London, we spoke to Google (NSDQ: GOOG) product management VP [...]
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 ? Facebook Simplifies Privacy But Wants You to Share More >> GigaOm ? StyleCaster Nets $4 Million For Personalized Fashion Community >> TechCrunch ? Newspapers: turn off your RSS feeds >> Online Journalism blog ? New Twitter site designed for journalists >> CyberJournalist.net ? YouTube and Google [...]
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 Comments at the Activate '09 conference show the strategic schism between Labour and the Conservative parties in their online campaign plans, writes Robert Andrews The 2004 and 2008 US elections pushed boundaries in online campaign strategy - but how well stacked are UK parties to follow [...]
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 At the Activate conference, Jay Parkinson discussed how web technology could radically cut the costs of healthcare in the US. If nothing changes, by 2016, the United States will spend $4.1 trillion on healthcare, doubling in a decade. In 2000, healthcare cost the average American about 7% of [...]
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 Ensuring campaigns to communicate with their supporters is more important than converting politicians into bloggers, says Thomas Gensemer, of the firm behind Barack Obama's online campaign Barack Obama's presidential campaign has been held up as the gold standard of modern internet-driven political campaign, but Thomas Gensemer said politicians [...]
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 Huffington tells Activate 09 conference the tenacity of online journalists is a contrast to mainstream media attitude Arianna Huffington, head of the blogging empire that bears her name, said that without the internet, Barack Obama would not have been elected - but added that to help him [...]
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 Werner Vogels, chief technology officer of S3 owner Amazon, makes cost and flexibility case for on-demand computing In the real world, people worry about throwing a party where no one shows up. But on the web, the fear is you throw a party and a million people show [...]
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 ? Can the (US) Coast Guard Get It Right on Social Media? >> Wired: Danger Room blog ? Updated: Google Wants Newspapers To Post Their Videos To YouTube >> paidContent ? Journalism Online announces first deal >> Crain's New York Business ? AOL Cracks Web Publishing -- [...]
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 Online video provider Joost has been struggling for a while - but it's really bitten the bullet now, by saying it's going to remake itself as a white label video provider, cutting a significant number of jobs and losing chief executive Mike Volpi. "In these tough [...]
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 Newspapers need to grow the range of information and services they offer, providing many for free and charging for premium services, says Wired editor Chris Anderson Wired editor and author Chris Anderson told the Guardian that they need to find a "pet for their penguin" ? things that [...]
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 Cedric Tournay will replace Ian Brotherston as DailyMotion CEO, reports Mediapost. Ian got the job less than three months ago.
Tournay joins Dailymotion from Doctissimo, one of Europe's largest health and medical websites.
Brotherston will continue with the company as of EVP International Strategy.
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Posted: July 03, 2009, 6:27pm EDT
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 The iPhone 3GS jailbreaking app Purplera1n is here, reports CNET.
Teenage hacker Geroge Hotz, who was first unlocked the iPhone, released Purplera1n yesterday in a blog post titled "I make it ra1n."
Technicallly, this is bad news for AT&T and Apple -- for [...]
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Posted: July 03, 2009, 6:12pm EDT
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There are several disadvantages that come with unemployment. But their are some great pleasures, too. Time, for instance.
A working newspaper editor has time for little more than the job, a 24/7 pressure cooker with no place to release the steam. It’s a daily battle for institutional and even personal [...]
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MySociety, the non-profit organisation led by Tom Steinberg, has redesigned their TheyWorkforYou.com website with data about UK Parliamentary politics.
The site provides easily accessible records of the UK Parliamentary process, and now contains data going back to 1935.
The immediate benefit for journalists is that the records [...]
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To many in the Silicon Valley developer crowd, Bing stands for “But It’s Not Google”. Even at its very announcement, Bing was thunderously upstaged by Google Wave. Even the public equates search with Google, so much so that searching is “googling”. Despite Ballmer’s chair-throwing hatred of Eric Schmidt, Bing [...]
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Number of comments: 1 The UK’s Independent has attempted to map the discussion about the future of newspapers. I’m not sure I get the benefit of the form, but give it a whirl:
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A few weeks ago I attended a press event that the San Francisco Giants and Shoretel put on. The audio isn’t that great because we’re in the server room for the San Francisco Giants baseball team. Here SF Giants’ CIO, Bill Schlough, is showing off how the Giants saved [...]
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In a recent post (see How Will Twitter Be Governed?), I pondered the potential for conflict between the aspirations of social tool developers and the communities using those tools. I have started to think about a set of principles for social tools that might somehow serve as a foundation [...]
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Number of comments: 3 When she pushed her dangerous agenda to change copyright law through Congress to protect her industry, company, and job, Plain Dealer columnist Connie Schultz got all huffy with me when I suggested that she should register as a lobbyist because she was trying to influence legislation in [...]
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UPDATE: The match is over. It was excellent (live). We won't wreck the outcome for you. But in case you don't want to waste the rest of your afternooon watching the tape-delay on NBC TV, just search for the results anywhere online, turn on the radio, visit [...]
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Posted: July 03, 2009, 1:24pm EDT
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Nobody else appears to have reported this - at least not anywhere I can find - but last week marked a major turning point for China's engagement with ICANN. It was probably also a major turning point in China's strategy on Internet governance.
The Chinese government sent Cui Shutian, Deputy [...]
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Despite widespread allegations of fear-mongering tendencies in British science and health journalism, the minister of science and innovation, Lord Drayson, has praised the high standard of reporting in this field. The reporting of public health issues by mainstream publications has come under heavy criticism for its inflammatory tone and exaggerated content. [...]
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Posted: July 03, 2009, 12:39pm EDT
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For its July magazine, Press Gazette has compiled the top 50 best scoops in UK journalism from 1922 to 1995. The original impetus for the list was the Daily Telegraph's stunning work covering the MPs' expense reports, and draws from suggestions by Press Gazette readers. Unfortunately, the [...]
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Posted: July 03, 2009, 12:31pm EDT
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Number of comments: 3 Hey, fellow armchair copyeditors, do you see anything wrong with this sentence at the Los Angeles Times website??Two senior Los Angeles Times editors were given new responsibilities today as part of an effort to create a 24-hour newsroom serving multiple mediums.?The blunder, of course, is the inappropriate use of ?mediums? [...]
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Posted: July 03, 2009, 12:12pm EDT by Newsosaur
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Posted: July 03, 2009, 11:35am EDT
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UPDATE: Good news, tennis fans. No thanks to NBC, you can watch the semifinal live here, on ustream (ESPN Spain). And here's another, better one, in English.
UPDATE 2: It's noon ET, and NBC has finally started broadcasting. As expected, however, the network idiots have decided [...]
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Posted: July 03, 2009, 11:21am EDT
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Hey, Eric Kuhn summarizes the conference briefly, and this does give you at pretty good idea of the deal. My contribution: Craig Newmark: Nerd + Wonk = Nonk (I guess that's #nonk for you Twitter fans.) Better stuff, just a small part: Mark McKinnon (McCain 2008): "Democratization means campaigns are losing control." Joe [...]
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The Federal Trade Commission announced plans last week to monitor blogs for payments and claims. Deborah Yao of the Associated Press reported: "The practice has grown to the degree that the Federal Trade Commission is paying attention. New guidelines, expected to be approved late this summer with possible modifications, [...]
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Posted: July 03, 2009, 11:00am EDT
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I had gotten excited about Google?s timeline search before, but hadn?t seen this: Google is mining not just text for the dates of more recent stuff, but everything, stretching back into the mists of time, culled from Google Books: The result is an odd [...]
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"The point I was trying to make was that there didn't seem much point having RSS icons in your header (Express) or by your search box (Mirror), or offering a brilliant RSS mashup feature (Guardian), or having RSS icons by each section of your news area (Independent) etc etc - [...]
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Do you My Yahoo? I still do, occasionally, though I iGoogle more these days. I have been using My Yahoo for over 10 years, but what's great is that they haven't stayed still. Now My Yahoo is getting more social.
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Posted: July 03, 2009, 10:33am EDT
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This is something I have been thinking about lately: as smart phones (pick one, any one) get more sophisticated, can one get away traveling for business sans laptop? For me the answer to date has been: sort of. Basically, if the trip is less than two nights and I know [...]
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Posted: July 03, 2009, 10:17am EDT
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As people in the U.S. and get ready for the holiday weekend, I hope that you have a chance to enjoy friends and family and to celebrate the role that content has played in making our world a better place. Below is a video capturing my relfections on the role [...]
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Posted: July 03, 2009, 10:12am EDT
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 The British tabloid, the Daily Mirror has confirmed that it will launch its own stand-alone football website. Mirrorfootball.com will be up and running for the start of the next football season in August. Fans of the beautiful game can expect to enjoy a wealth [...]
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Posted: July 03, 2009, 9:45am EDT
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"Location-based applications are quickly becoming the hot new thing on phones. .... The whole reason the web revolutionized the world was that it rendered geography irrelevant. People connected worldwide based not on location but on their common interests ... Now mobile phones are inverting everything again, in the other direction [...]
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Murdoch on micropayments for news: "I don't think people will pay for it. We're still thinking our way through this and there will be micropayments as part of it, but I'm thinking much more along the lines of subscriptions like The Wall Street Journal does." [...]
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When Michael Jackson died, I wondered how quickly the conversation about him would fade online and how long it would persist on TV “news.” Well, it didn’t take long to see the divergence: TV thinks we’re still buzzing about MJ. But online, we’re not.
Here’s Blogpulse on mentions of Michael [...]
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Posted: July 03, 2009, 9:00am EDT
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This 5-minute video has Google Chairman Eric Schmidt describing fundamental change that needs to be made for industries to genuinely be transformed into the future. After describing how most of the money is still going to the incumbents, Schmidt says: “Change has to occur from the private sector; it has [...]
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 Online advertising's biggest players to government: Please stay out of our business.
Google, AOL, Yahoo and Microsoft, along with a host of other advertising, agency and marketer associations, took another step in pressing their case that the government [...]
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Posted: July 03, 2009, 8:00am EDT
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Duncan Riley has announced the addition of Paul Montgomery as the in-house sports writer on The Inquisitr. Montgomery is a journalist by trade, and with the addition the site now features a dedicated sports category.
Riley also announced a syndication deal with BANG Showbiz, which means that The [...]
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There is a page on wordpress.org that promotes a select few premium theme marketplaces, as we reported yesterday. The only criteria is that the themes need to be GPL and provide professional support a well as give a professional impression.
I caught up with Matt Mullenweg for some [...]
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 The Economist magazine is refashioning its image through a major new advertising campaign to appeal to a wider readership. It has launched a cinema commercial, its first in eight years, to dispel preconceived ideas about the magazine's content and ethos. The commercial is [...]
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Posted: July 03, 2009, 6:45am EDT
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 The Washington Post has decided to cancel its plans to host private, off-the-record dinner parties for political lobbyists at the home of its publisher after criticism from the newsroom at the suggestion that their services were effectively been sold. Publisher Katharine Weymouth was to host dinners [...]
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Posted: July 03, 2009, 6:14am EDT
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- Justice Depart officially begins investigation into Google Books [PaidContent]
- New York thieves target iPhone owners more [Reuters]
- Analyst says Apple's app store revenues are"a few hundred million dollars at best" [WSJ]
- Yahoo is "a place where people make and manage the important connections they have," says CTO [...]
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Posted: July 03, 2009, 5:39am EDT
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Number of comments: 2 While Google may be looking into making Twitter searchable, Microsoft has already started implementing its own real-time search into Bing.
At present it’s a fairly limited offering, indexing “some of the more prominent and prolific Twitterers from a variety of spheres”.
It seems that you can only search for the latest [...]
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Borrell: Local Online Ad Market Will Be Bigger Than Expected This Year – paidContent
US: "The research firm now expects the market to grow by 11 percent, up from its initial projection of 8 percent in January."
(tags: internet business advertising local stats forecasts analysts borrell)
Aggregate, Curate, Publish To Create Local Media [...]
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"What really stinks about now-aborted salon-for-dollars scheme is that Katharine Weymouth appears to have contemplated the sale of something that wasn't hers to sell?the Post's credibility."  [...]
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Posted: July 03, 2009, 1:20am EDT by amonck
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Here?s another appearance on Radio Australia?s Breakfast Club which is pretty much every Friday?around 1.15 GMT?and here are some links to the things I talked about this week. Here?s the audio of the segment (about 10 minutes? worth).
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Shortly after our team had met Brian Greenspun, the Las Vegas Sun president and editor asked us if we could please work with him to figure out a way to inform those who didn’t want to be informed, or who didn’t even know they needed to be informed.
It was one [...]
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Posted: July 02, 2009, 11:02pm EDT by Rob
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Gary Vaynerchuk’s dad came to the United States with nothing in his pocket. He worked for less than minimum wage and built up a business, Wine Library, that today sells $50 million a year in wine in a sizeable store in New Jersey.
Today Gary is building on top [...]
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Hailey Branson is afraid of microwaves. She plays paintball, the piano, and the marimba. And she also oozes reporting talent and a passion for journalism that borders on life affirming.
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As a former j-student colleague gushes: “In an age of constant technological advances and increased cynicism, you would be hard pressed to [...]
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Number of comments: 2 Here’s video from the Aspen Ideas Festival responding to my question about what follows the industrial age. It’s much better than my limited report on it below:
More of Kai Ryssdal’s very good interview with Schmidt here. [...]
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Recently, we ran a series of tests to evaluate how well on-air program promotions do at actually driving viewers to watch specific television shows. We analyzed anonymous set-top-box data through TNS's Infosys Media System. The results we found were pretty enlightening, so I thought that I would share some of [...]
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Posted: July 02, 2009, 7:45pm EDT
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I’m heading for the airport, anticipating meeting up with the Traveling Geeks. Look for posts, pix, maybe streaming video next week.
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Venkatesh Rao suggests that Enterprise 2.0 isn't taking off until the cool kids start pushing it:
[via Can Enterprise 2.0 Afford to be Boring?]
The exciting people, by and large, are missing. One part of the reason [...]
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By Robert Niles: Newspaper columnists ought to be the perfect bloggers - the best write in a lively voice and forge a strong connection with their readers. Their work build an ongoing conversation with the communities they cover. Frankly, they've been blogging (in print) since long before anyone other than [...]
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Posted: July 02, 2009, 6:41pm EDT
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"Johnston Press has set the clock back to 2007 and informed staff at The Scotsman and its other Edinburgh papers that Facebook is banned except in special cases." [...]
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"During the panel?s Q&A, Gawker Media?s Nick Denton sarcastically thanked the American newspaper industry for being so unaggressive, making it possible for ?thugs? like him to succeed. Conversely, Denton said he?d never set up shop in England. ?Every single day, those editors get up and try to kill each other,? [...]
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Number of comments: 1 Photos by Todd Zeigler
TBG lounge space
TBG?s Anupam Shah and Andrew MacDowell
Twitterslurp, powered by The Bivings Group
More of The [...]
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Posted: July 02, 2009, 5:45pm EDT by amatsui
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This is one in an occasional series on MediaShift where I discuss issues in-depth with thought leaders in online media. The format has changed to give you a profile of the person, as well as more of our dialogue -- including video clips. If you have suggestions for future [...]
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Posted: July 02, 2009, 5:36pm EDT
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"AOL?s new political news and blog site, PoliticsDaily.com has surpassed rival Politico.com in unique visits in May, after being launched only a month and a half ago." [...]
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I spoke with Rubel a couple months ago when he was visiting San Francisco for the Ad:tech conference. We met at B Restaurant near Moscone Center and I interviewed him with my Flip camera.
Mark Glaser writing for Mediashift on pbs.org
Timestamps of the interview are on the PBS site if [...]
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Posted: July 02, 2009, 5:18pm EDT
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"Nonprofits tend to be values-driven. They are concerned about the beliefs and motivations of their employees. This means that these organizations ask themselves questions such as: Are we doing what we ought to be doing in the way we ought to be doing it? What's the impact on our communities [...]
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Posted: July 02, 2009, 4:59pm EDT by amonck
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[via A VC, Saying No In Less Than 60 Seconds]
[...] my goal: to minimize the amount of time I spend on things I don?t care about which allows me to maximize the amount of time I spend on things I care about, [...]
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 MacDailyNews obtained an internal AT&T (T) memo that lauds all sorts of milestones related to "iLaunch"-- the day Apple's (AAPL) new, speedy iPhone 3GS went on sale.
The memo also mentions that AT&T saw 65,000 texts per second on June 25, the day Michael Jackson died.
Here's your [...]
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Posted: July 02, 2009, 4:42pm EDT
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I took a quick trip uptown today to learn more about Tumblr and meet with their team. (I will have a video interview next week up with Tumblr's co-founder, David Karp.)
While I was there I shot this five-minute interview with Marco Arment, who developed [...]
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Posted: July 02, 2009, 4:18pm EDT
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As more local media struggle to find financial models for local coverage of big league and non-big league sports objective coverage may suffer.
Will the future editorial decisions be made at the CEO/CFO level? Maybe an advertiser will get input along with a sales manager?
This post from Justin Rice at the Nieman [...]
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 Evite, a unit of Barry Diller's IAC (IACI), has undergone a restructuring and cost-cutting meant to right the struggling ad-driven business.
Nine of 38 employees were laid off, paidContent reports, Rosanna McCollough, GM, and Lariayn Payne, VP of Marketing, were among the casualites.
The online invitation service [...]
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Posted: July 02, 2009, 3:57pm EDT
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 The Washington Post has canceled plans to host a series of "salons" that would have mixed Obama Administration officials and Post reporters with reps from companies and nonprofits paying as much as $250,000 to attend.
Politico reported the plans this morning after obtaining [...]
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Posted: July 02, 2009, 3:45pm EDT
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 An Australian company uSocial is offering to get people Twitter followers for a fee, reports BBC.
The going rate is $87 for a 1000 followers.
While Twitter itself has yet to convert its hype into revenues, here is yet another business that's making money off the micro-blogging [...]
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Posted: July 02, 2009, 3:29pm EDT
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 Virtual currency is turning into a multi-billion dollar economy, and much of that money sits in virtual banks that exist outside normal government regulation.
So what happens when fraudsters wake up to the laissez-faire virtual economy?
And worse, what if the one of those fraudsters [...]
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Posted: July 02, 2009, 3:17pm EDT
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 Bling Nation -- a real company -- has raised $8 million, reports Venturebeat.
Bling's RFID-based mobile payments program, Redi Pay Bling, allows users in the U.S. to pay for goods in stores with their phones.
Redi Pay Bling took two years to develop. It will compete [...]
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Posted: July 02, 2009, 3:04pm EDT
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The deadline to enter the Online Journalism Awards has been extended to Wednesday, July 8.
The 2009 categories are:
The Knight Award for Public Service
General Excellence in Online Journalism
General Excellence in Online Journalism, Non-English
The Gannett Foundation Award for Technical Innovation in the Service of Digital Journalism
Breaking News
Specialty Site Journalism
Investigative Journalism
Multimedia Feature [...]
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Fetched: July 02, 2009, 2:47pm EDT
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With many auto dealers closing their doors or cutting back on advertising, AutoTrader has announced that it has laid off a ?modest percentage? of its field representatives to keep the company stable.
In a video addressed to the AutoTrader community, CEO Chip Perry and Sr. [...]
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Posted: July 02, 2009, 2:40pm EDT by Peter
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I have been cleaning out some old files and came across a speech I delivered in 2001, shortly after becoming editor in Salem, OR, and after six months of unemployment following my firing in Colorado Springs.
The speech was specific to its time in some ways but still works for [...]
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 We get a lot of questions about how Facebook makes its money, so here are our best estimates.
We've heard from a couple reliable sources that when it was looking for its latest funding, Facebook told investors 2009 revenues would reach $550 million.
If that's true, Facebook [...]
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Posted: July 02, 2009, 12:49pm EDT
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ReportingOn 2.0 is live and ready for your questions. And answers.
It's still the backchannel for your beat, but it's an absolute re-imagining of the network.
For those of you who haven't been keeping score, ReportingOn is a project funded by the Knight News Challenge, and it's a place for [...]
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Posted: July 02, 2009, 12:38pm EDT
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Frédéric Filloux: "there are already many private entities who make a nice living processing public data. Why not the newsmedia? Take the education market: Why not having editorial products, designed by professional journalists, capitalizing on powerful label such as Le Monde, VG or The Guardian to address this audience with [...]
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 News Corp (NWS) chairman Rupert Murdoch's media tour continues, and he gives Dan Freed at TheStreet.com some typical juicy morsels to gnaw on in a Q&A.
On buying the New York Times: "Nonsense. . . I haven't even thought about it. I would imagine that [...]
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Posted: July 02, 2009, 12:31pm EDT
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 One of the latest products to appear on the market for newspaper publishers looking to improve their revenue is Circulate, from new start-up CircLabs. The Editors Weblog spoke to co-founder and executive vice president Martin Langeveld, former newspaper editor and executive who now also writes [...]
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Posted: July 02, 2009, 12:31pm EDT
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 Craigslist is being sued by a Texas real estate company First Call for trademark infringement, reports Mediapost.
First Call began to place ads on Craigslist in March. Soon after, its rival AAA Apartment Locating began posting ads using the key words "first call," "call first," and [...]
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Posted: July 02, 2009, 12:24pm EDT
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 The Chinese government is a little worried about how much virtual cash is being traded in the country, The New York Times reports.
In fact some virtual currency, like the QQ coin, is actually affecting the market for the renmibi, China's actual currency.
Much [...]
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Posted: July 02, 2009, 12:20pm EDT
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 Future iPhones might have a Karaoke application, fingerprint ID and RFID, reveal Apple patent applications MacRumors dug up.
Apple also filed a patent for something called "haptic tactile feedback," which will help users operate their phones without looking at the screen.
The patent claims that with [...]
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Posted: July 02, 2009, 11:43am EDT
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 In a bizarre new venture, the Washington Post had promised lobbyists a chance for off-the-record meetings with policy makers and newsroom staff for the price of a $25,000 sponsorship, according to a flier shown to Politico by a health care lobbyist. These "Washington Post Salons" would [...]
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Posted: July 02, 2009, 11:41am EDT
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 The Printcasting model is on its way to "democratise" print publishing in more cities in the US, it was announced last week. The initiative, financed by the winnings of the 2008 Knight News Challenge, has made its first newspaper partnership with Denver-based MediaNews Group. [...]
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Posted: July 02, 2009, 11:23am EDT
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 A Twitter Sponsored Definition
There has been so much conjecture as to how Twitter will start monetizing. Well, it looks like there have been a few baby steps in the form of “sponsored definitions” that cycle through right above [...]
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With the rise of new media comes the fall of old media, and with the fall of old media comes the fall of old advertising models. Mad Avenue Blues brilliantly laments that fall, to the tune of American Pie.
When it comes to earning ad dollars in this technologically-enabled age of [...]
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 News Corp.'s new President and COO Chase Carey could earn $43 million this year, says WSJ.
Carey resigned as COO of News Corp (NWS) after an eight-year stint in 2002, and later joined DirecTV Group as CEO.
WSJ provides details of his compensation:
Read the [...]
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Posted: July 02, 2009, 10:56am EDT
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Hey, I've just heard about a group representing California business people known as the Bay Area Council. These guys have just called for a "limited" constitutional convention in California. By "limited", they mean it would be empowered to get into and to propose ballot measures only for matters related to governance, [...]
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Local and regional newspapers will have the opportunity to further develop the visual content on their online editions, with use of a new multimedia wire service. 
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