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November 23rd, 2008 |
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The BBC has been blocked from beginning a £68 million ($101 million), four-year program to add video bulletins to its 65 local UK websites - a proposal that had been vigorously contested by concerned commercial publishers. After a five-month inquiry, the BBC Trust regulator said on Friday the plan would [...]
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November 23rd, 2008 |
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A senior News Corp (NYSE: NWS) exec has a new deal with the company and it's not Peter Chernin. Roger Ailes, who had two years to go on his current agreement, has a new five-year lease on life at News Corp which starts immediately. He will continue as chairman and [...]
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November 23rd, 2008 |
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Gigaomni Media (GOM), the parent company of the popular network of tech sites including Gigaom, is parting ways with its long time ad partner Federated Media, and moving to a more enterprise-focused IDG TechNetwork, IDG's tech ad network, we have learned and confirmed from the two companies. The new deal [...]
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November 23rd, 2008 |
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The Federal Trade Commission is likely to issue its recommendations on behavioral targeting rules within the next few weeks, and while the Online Publishers Association expects the FTC to keep its policy of industry self-regulation intact, it is not taking any chances. It has created a new government affairs office [...]
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November 23rd, 2008 |
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I am the honoree of an attempted hatchet job by Ron Rosenbaum in - what's the name of that site? Salon? no, Slate (I always get them confused). I'll spare you his three pages of bluster (O, for the days of scarce space on paper) and get to his point: [...]
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November 23rd, 2008 |
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I can't wait to get the Google iPhone app that answers questions asked by voice: Tim O'Reilly called this one a year and a half ago, I think, when he said that GOOG-411's core purpose or fringe benefit was that Google would harvest our voice samples and out of them [...]
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November 23rd, 2008 |
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My Guardian column this week argues that we're witnessing not just the collapse of the financial (and auto and newspaper…) industries but the birth of a new economy best seen through - you guessed it - the lens of Google: The financial crisis might be damaging countless companies around the [...]
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November 23rd, 2008 |
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Good on Richard Perez-Pena for reporting on new sites doing strong local reporting and investigations - and good on The New York Times for playing it on page one: "As America’s newspapers shrink and shed staff, and broadcast news outlets sink in the ratings, a new kind of Web-based news [...]
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November 23rd, 2008 |
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A friend sent me a link to a Facebook group called, Don't let newspapers die. It's cure: "Help spread the word and encourage people to pick up a newspaper today!" So newspapers have become pathetic charity cases. I'd rather join a group called, Reinvent newspapers. : In the comments, the [...]
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November 23rd, 2008 |
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Here's video of my presentation at the NPR Intelligence Squared debate on whether Google violates its "don't be evil" motto: I am responding to Siva Vaidhyanathan's inspired recitation of Google's execution of the seven deadly sins; I answered with eight virtues. More videos are here. Here's a transcript. The audio [...]
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November 23rd, 2008 |
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Alpha Media, the Quadrangle-owned media company that is holding for Maxim Magazine and Blender, may be turned over to the creditors, reports WSJ, another bad sign for the media investment fund by Steve Rattner. Last week came the news that Quadrangle was closing down its media hedge fund. Things have [...]
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November 10th, 2008 |
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We've already seen video games like Guitar Hero and Rock Band dramatically change the way music is sold and marketed. Will virtual worlds bring about even more transformation? The four major record labels are gambling on just that with an online music store on IMVU, which comes out of beta [...]
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November 10th, 2008 |
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A strange launch at a strange time, and comes from a strange source: AT&T; (NYSE: T) rolled out a beta version of VideoCrawler, an online video search and aggregation engine. The public beta comes about three months after an even softer launch designed to help the company work out VideoCrawler's [...]
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November 10th, 2008 |
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If there were any lingering doubts about people’s desire to get television anywhere, anytime, and on any device, then the recent success of the BBC’s iPlayer service has put them to rest. As our team at NewTeeVee has repeatedly pointed out, in the British Isles, the iPlayer is a phenomenon. [...]
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November 10th, 2008 |
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Social media studio SpectrumDNA has acquired Revyver, a Seattle-based digital design firm. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but Revyver will operate as the studio's subsidiary. SpectrumDNA was founded in 2006 by former Warner Bros. exec Jim Banister, and develops white-label and branded "enginets" (or custom websites, applications and [...]
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November 10th, 2008 |
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It's ridiculous to think that in four days I could get a true sense of a nation or region I've never been to before. I think I could spend 40 years in this desert and not figure it out. I've never seen a clearer case of there being no there [...]
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November 7th, 2008 |
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Amazon Web Services' platform is increasingly gaining popularity beyond Web 2.0 and video companies. Case in point is the Amazon Web Services Start-Up Challenge, whose seven finalists are a diverse group of companies, among them Knewton, which provides live online educational testing prep services; remote health record management software firm [...]
Goes to the point that P2P is not a business model in itself, and then of course bad management will even make it worse: BitTorrent, the San Francisco-based commercial company that has been trying to develop an online video service and company around the open source P2P delivery technology, has [...]
Gene Simmons' No Good TV (NGTV), which has had money problems in the past, has a new financial backer in reality-TV powerhouse Mark Burnett Productions. Variety reports that Burnett has taken an equity stake in NGTV and will help port some of its Web series to TV. Burnett is no [...]
After a string of high-profile ad exec departures, including the loss of Kevin Johnson, President of Platforms and Services, and Digital Sales GM Lisa Utzschneider, Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) has made a key hire: former Time Inc. vet Robin Domeniconi. Starting January 1, Domeniconi will serve as VP of U.S. ad [...]
Given the economic climate, the primary focus in today's Disney earnings call—particularly in the Q&A;—was on the company's parks & resorts business. But after the call, CFO Thomas Staggs agreed to provide some insight into Disney's digital media efforts, which came close to producing a billion dollars in revenue for [...]
