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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 7th, 2008 |
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Yesteday at Web 2.0 Summit, Mark Zuckerberg sat on stage and told John Battelle that the future of Facebook lies in advertising, when responding to the question of how Facebook is going to make money from Connect. In other words, Facebook has a future in advertising outside of their "walled [...]
All Facebook |
November 6th, 2008 |
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Facebook has moved one step closer to becoming the largest U.S. social network according to the latest data from Compete.com. Data from October shows that Facebook grew domestically by almost 4 million while MySpace continued their monthly decline, shedding over 1.58 million users, despite the launch of their highly buzzed [...]
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November 4th, 2008 |
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Today is Election Day in the United States and that means that by the end of the evening (if all goes well and doesn't repeat the past few elections) we should know who the next President of the United States will be. It's a historic election and that's why there [...]
—AOL's "Morning Rush" : AOL (NYSE: TWX) is slated to launch a new five-minute video show called "Morning Rush," which pulls highlights from five TV morning shows (including "Good Morning America" and "The Today Show"), Mediapost reports. "Morning Rush" will appear on AOL Living, where users will be able to [...]
In the opening panel at ContentNext Media's EconSports conference, moderator Will Leitch, founder of Gawker-owned sports news blog Deadspin, remembered the reaction among sports executives when they first saw his approach to covering sports. "They were surprised at how quickly we posted and the interaction with readers." Now, he added, [...]
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October 27th, 2008 |
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The Bradenton Herald announced plans to relaunch its website this week. The new design is set to aid in the integration of news, advertising and information-sharing between print and online editions.The Herald will expand multimedia capabilities and include original video content throughout the site.The new site will be simplified, more [...]
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October 27th, 2008 |
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Facebook has been viciously attacking spam but the battle is proving to be a hard one. The most recent strategy by spammers is logging into other individuals accounts and sending instant messages to everybody on an individual's buddy list. Just this weekend I received a few spam instant messages from [...]
GigaOM |
October 22nd, 2008 |
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MySpace Music has inked a deal with digital music distributor the Independent Online Distribution Alliance that doubles to around 2 million the number of independent label tracks offered on the site. MySpace Music's executive director of strategy and operations, Frank Hajdu, said the deal should clear up any misconceptions about [...]
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October 23rd, 2008 |
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Mike Arrington is reporting that Facebook has devoted zero resources to building an application for Android. Why exactly? Well much of it has to do with the bad blood between Google and Facebook sparked when Facebook banned Google's Friend Connect earlier this year. Looks like things are not so pretty. [...]
Fox Interactive Media (NYSE: NWS) is working with digital publishing company Lin TV to build up parent News Corp.'s local broadcast sites. So far, the FIM and Lin TV have launched two sites, for Rhode Island's www.wpri.com and Florida's www.fox10tv.com. Over the next few weeks, an unspecified number of other [...]
After offering a hint about its plans last month, female-centric Glam Media has released Brash, its new male-focused lifestyle and entertainment online hub. Brash is being targeted to men 18-49 years old and is beginning life with more than 25 sites including ArtistDirect, DigitalTrends.com, Squidoo and SpirlFrog. Samir Arora, Glam's [...]
Filed under: Motorola, AndroidLooks like it's been pulled, but AndroidGuys claims that job site Coroflot had been listing a "career opportunity" over at good ol' Moto for a Senior Staff Interaction Designer. What does that mean in layman's terms? Beyond fiddling with UIs, we can't say for sure -- but [...]
We're being bombarded with political ads on TV,and radio, but now, video games? Ads for presidential hopeful Barack Obama have turned up in the Xbox Live racing game, Burnout Paradise, GamePolitics.com first reported and GigaOm confirmed. The in-game ad takes its form as a billboard—complete with Obama's photo and a [...]
Universal Music Group CEO Doug Morris can never be accused of being shy, or, putting his foot in, oh well...in an extensive interview with Billboard, he talks about the digital piracy issues, UMG's efforts in digital music, working with YouTube and its plans for a Hulu-like music video site, and [...]
GigaOM |
October 10th, 2008 |
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Earlier this morning, Rich Greenfield, the scary smart media analyst at Pali Capital, slashed his price target on News Corp to $20 from $27, citing big concerns over slowing advertising revenues for newspaper and television stations. And since this is a global problem, there is little room for News Corp [...]
A link bait if there ever was one, and a flawed one at best, but then, always fun for the rest of us: a list of 11 online companies that may be in trouble in short to medium term as the economy falls apart: the first 10 are actually decent [...]
Veoh founder Dmitry Shapiro climbed on stage at a small theater in Manhattan to introduce a discussion on the changes online video has been experiencing. The company hosted a mini-conference and first up was a Q&A; between Michael Eisner, founder of The Tornante and backer of Vuguru and Veoh, and [...]
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October 7th, 2008 |
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Yesterday I wrote about how brands can succeed on Facebook. At the time I suggested that success for me personally is having an application within the leaderboard. Commenters immediately suggested that this position was a flawed one and after thinking about it further, I agree. The first step in launching [...]
PaidContent.org |
September 29th, 2008 |
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The search for MySpace Music CEO just got a bit more competitive: The longtime CEO of online music service eMusic David Pakman is leaving, and joining an as-yet-un-named venture capital firm as a partner. The music company, owned by Dimensional Associates, the private equity arm of JDS Capital Management, has [...]
The online ad market is not immune to the overall advertising recession, and growth has slowed. Many online media companies and ad networks are counting on targeting to help lift CPMs. But Julie Ruvolo reports from the Adweek conference last week that media buyers are still hesitant about highly targeted [...]
