links for 2007-11-19
Posted on November 19, 2007
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DMGT’s diversification strategy is now being aped by Guardian Media Group. It is owned by the Scott Trust, whose remit is to preserve the editorial independence of the loss-making Guardian newspaper. Armed with £650m from the sale of a minority stake i
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Think about the different formats of books and newspapers — a book is generally just text. It’s really just one long scroll. But newspapers are broken up into discreet chunks presented in a way to feed into a broadsheet or tabloid. And ads are so impo
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To the extent there is a “collaboration” answer, it’s probably on the content side: namely, content- and traffic-sharing agreements designed to reduce content costs while maintaining similar coverage.
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For $2-$3 a month, SyncTV will allow viewers to subscribe to a particular channel and download any programme from it. The service makes a reality of a la carte programming, where viewers pay only for the channels they watch.
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From today, Google AdSense partners in the UK and Ireland will now be able to run video content from YouTube partners such as broadcasters on their own websites.
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Current employs 350 staff globally and claims to be the fastest growing cable TV channel. User content accounts for around one-third of the channel’s output.
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But the gap between television and Web-vision is closing fast: NFL preseason football on ESPN prime time had 6.2 million viewers. HBO’s Entourage typically gets about 3.8 million per episode. A recent video by the comedy duo Smosh — two 19-year-old gu
links for 2007-11-16
Posted on November 16, 2007
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Use this free Java application to explore the connections between related websites.
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By developing and selling a device for reading books in digital form, Amazon hopes to stimulate the sale of books, the first product the online retailer sold.
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The app will soon be rolled out to other sites signed up to OpenSocial, including Bebo, MySpace, Friendster and Orkut.
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Microsoft aims to capture 40 percent of all dollars coming through digital advertising platforms compared with around 6 percent now. In addition to investments in aQuantive, Microsoft said it will have to continue to invest in data centers and servers to
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The group’s regional titles performed less well, with advertising flat after ten months, although that was an improvement on the 1 per cent decline in the first half. But Ms Bailey said that a collection of jobs websites amassed in a series of acquisiti
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Richard Hitchcock, an analyst at Numis Securities, said: “Following the recent sell-off in newspaper stocks, including a near 30pc decline in the Trinity Mirror share price in the last three months, we believe this trading update should provide considerab
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Companies with fast-growing data centers, like banks and securities firms, are facing the same headaches as the large Internet companies, like Google and Yahoo. Efficiency, power consumption and management costs are mounting problems. And companies of all
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In many American towns and cities, the newspaper is an endangered species. At least 300 daily papers have stopped publishing over the past 30 years. Those newspapers that have survived are struggling financially. Newspaper circulation has declined steadil
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“We are now a significant force in quality speech programming, with hundreds of thousands of downloads a week. For the first time, the BBC has a serious rival in this area.”
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Holy cow - build and visit 3D worlds through Facebook. This is proper integration. And there are already loads on there. Will this be the bridge between social networks and the 3D web? It is a pretty prescient move. As one of Raphs’ commentators says, “Pl
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The malware-spiked ads have been spotted on various legitimate websites, ranging from the British magazine The Economist to baseball’s MLB.com to the Canada.com news portal. Hackers are using deceptive practices and tricky Flash programming to get their a
links for 2007-11-15
Posted on November 15, 2007
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The good news coming out of a media conference this week featuring private equity executives is that even with the current credit crunch there is still plenty of equity funding available, but the likelihood is that valuations will be lower and that Europe
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The Hot Desk will be free to viewers and funded through sponsorship. Sponsors have not yet been confirmed, but are believed to include a handset manufacturer.
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Bebo President Joanna Shields told Reuters. “By opening up our platform to media owners, who gain free access to our community while retaining control over their brand, their content, and their revenues, we are creating valuable new inventory for advert
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Vuze will appeal to independent producers who want to distribute their content at zero-cost and up-to HD-quality. While the option to charge for content is only currently available to those who’ve signed formal licensing deals, an upcoming version of th
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Bebo’s flexible architecture enables media companies to join Open Media on their own, without protracted licensing negotiations. Uniquely, partners are able to distribute their content using their own video player which can carry their own advertising, wh
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Blyk is an invite-only free mobile network. Once you’re on the network you can invite your friends to join. To seed the network we have street teams working at colleges, universities and gigs, talking with people about Blyk and signing them up. We have
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Today, Scoop08 launches with a team of student correspondents and commentators dedicated to providing in-depth and innovative coverage of the 2008 presidential election.
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“Companies will need to shift from collecting personal data about individual customers toward collecting more-complete and more-relevant data around online customer behavior and influence on others,”
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Wu-Tang Clan’s RZA Breaks Down His Kung Fu Samples by Film and Song
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Peter Horrocks, head of the BBC newsroom, wrote of yesterday being “a very big day for BBC news” because it marked the end of separate editorial decision-making by three different news departments - radio, TV and interactive - and the creation of a wholly
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Seattle based Jobster will announce the acquisition of brand new startup Jobby on Wednesday morning. Terms are not being disclosed -
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Every week in the ukrecruiter newsletter we publish statistics from Hitwise showing the top 10 recruitment sites in the UK.
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Something I’ve been told many times by recruiters, is that they hate being forced to pay what they see as over-inflated prices for print advertising. To put it another way, when you’ve got no choice for something you need, you might moan about the pri
links for 2007-11-14
Posted on November 14, 2007
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ZEDO Third Generation Ad Serving™ for publishers is a fully featured ad serving platform. Easily schedule and manage campaigns, deliver impressions, monitor performance reports, and handle your advertiser accounts. Our unique architecture allows ZEDO to
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“Quite a few of these ‘teenage scribblers’ in fact have buy notes out on newspapers but it hasn’t stopped the share price going down. They are not the ones who buy and sell the shares – that’s the institutions.”
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I wrote about a presentation by Yahoo’s Usama Fayyad from this summer where he talked about some of the experiments that they were conducting following users across this sales funnel. Their case studies showed that people who saw banner ads on one of Ya
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But as responsiveness declines, ad targeting grows more attractive. Marketers see increases of 30% to 300% in click rates when ads are customized based on criteria such as the location, content of Web pages visited, or information researched on search eng
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The women’s digital-entertainment market officially got more crowded this week with the arrival of two female-targeted community sites with established brands and broad reach on their side.
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The data from Harris Interactive seem to suggest that kids and teens are reasonably skeptical about what companies tell them. Fewer than one in 10 survey respondents believe that advertisements tell the truth, and more than half (57%) say they often notic
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“The inbox you have today is based on what people send you, not what you want to see,” Mr. Garlinghouse said. “We can say, here are the messages from the people you care about most.
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We are currently in Pilot Phase to digitise 50,000 pages. It is intended that an additional 500,000 pages will be digitised by mid-2008, selected from the newspaper titles listed below. Newspapers are being selected according to their significance rating
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Contact your Councillors, MP, MEPs, MSPs, or Northern Ireland, Welsh and London AMs for free
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The new Times database holds comprehensive information about the nature of errors made by reporters and editors. The editors fill in a number of fields, starting with where the error occurred (in a column, an article, a caption, a headline, a photo, or ev
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Another reason to advertise online …”It’s an essential tool for all organizations and companies interested in reducing their environmental footprint,” says a Noughtilus statement. “It captures every dimension of an organization or company’s marketing ac
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From - Hold the Front Page - Top Ten Regional newspaper grups by weekly circulation.
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Once an embarassing offshoot of marketing, these publications are now one of the burgeoning sectors of publishing.
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Guardian News & Media has appointed two senior technology directors to help drive the company’s digital media strategy and transition to a 24/7 news business.
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The music section - ITV.com/music - combines exclusive footage from programmes with the site’s seven-day catch-up service and a downloads service that plugs tracks related to ITV content.
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Use this list as an assistant when selecting what media to buy and use. It shows what generally works as the best media. Individual results may very, depending on the burner and how the media chooses to cooperate, though typically not by much. Read the ad
links for 2007-11-13
Posted on November 13, 2007
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“They don’t want the books to appear in anyone else’s search engine but their own, which is a little peculiar for a company that says its mission is to make information universally accessible,” Kahle said in an interview with the Associated Press last yea
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$9.99 a month or $59.88 a year, Marvel Digital Comics Unlimited products will be viewable only in a Web browser and not downloadable.
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The University’s $100,000 one-year contract with the Internet Archive includes the Scribe scanner and an operator.
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The study also found phone users welcomed advertising as long as they had opted to receive it and they received something of value in return. Two-thirds of respondents globally found branded content was an acceptable form of advertising. Ads that appear i
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So Multimedia - we’ve only just started, and it’s highly likely that it will undergo more metamorphosis as we just about grapple with waht we can do now.
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“If this happens for another year, significant clients will want to walk,” Brien said at an Interactive Advertising Bureau conference on Monday in reference to a general climate of discontent due to increasing viewer fragmentation, disruptive technologies
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His multi-disciplinary perspectives of science and technology, communication, and organization studies allow him to address the connections between technical, editorial, and work facets of new media.
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European internet users also evidently enjoy sharing information online too; the number of people contributing to rating and review sites has seen a growth of 42% since 2006 and over a quarter (26%) now share their thoughts on forums – further evidence
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Evan Cohen, the Bebo director of strategy and operations, said the platform was not just an distribution tool, but an opportunity for media companies to exploit Bebo to cultivate the community around their brand.
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Audio clip catches: The killer quote from Murdoch, though a bit unfair: “It is odd that in UK, we decided to nationalize the Lonely Planet Guides” (he said, in reference to BBC Worldwide buying Lonely Planet earlier last month).
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Ad networks are flavor of the moment, and Glam Media, a vertical ad network itself, is going into developing custom ones on behalf of other companies.
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Typically, people who really need something are the highest-value users because they’re more likely to turn into paying customers. That’s why I recommended writing articles instead of blog postings.
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Great resource: The recordings and transcriptions featured here are just a small selection of the huge number of events at the Edinburgh International Book Festival every year. The recordings are unedited and last for approximately one hour.
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“The idea is that it becomes a global platform for people to go and show their art,” said MacBain, a wealthy businesswoman who has invested heavily in the arts in Britain in recent years. “With MyArtInfo people can post for free their art–not only visual
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We also compared our system to the maximum achievable given the human labeling, and found that on one measure, our system was in the same range as human levels of performance.
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Hell on here … this teases out some great issues regarding ad networks … and also some interesting debate: “Last time I did not comment but did read that you were an investor in Sugar Publishing. If that’s correct I think full disclosure is due”
links for 2007-11-12
Posted on November 12, 2007
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To make matters worst, two agencies that buy huge amounts of ads — Starcom MediaVest Group and the MindShare unit of Group M, part of WPP — threatened major Web sites last spring that they would slow the money flow if the Web publishers did not get wo
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The idea is that you can drag around the Google Map, and then when you click on a location, it will generate a QR code for Yelp’s website which allows you to see what kind of restaurants and nightlife are around that exact point on the map. Pretty cool,
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A decade on, the fear is back. This time around, though, some members of the original dotcom generation of disruptive internet companies are among those that are starting to run scared.
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“Given the rising power of individuals and communities, media and entertainment industry players will have to become much better at providing permission-based advertising and related consumer-driven ratings services.”
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This website attempts to walk you through the long and diverse history of a particular aspect of human endeavour: The translation of ideas, stories and concepts that are largely textual and/or word based into a visual format, i.e. visual communication.
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The arrangement is made possible via the Yelp API, which the company created to more aggressively syndicate its reviews.
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Glam is also and advertising network that supports the creation of content.
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“Certainly the feedback has been very strong in the market where typically advertisers will wait and see what the product looks like,” said Richard Bogie, the group advertising director at Scotsman Publications. The first issue had “virtually sold out” of
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Why shouldn’t subeditors, supplied with relevant style guides, sit in Mumbai? Since an estimated 40% of UK press content comprises rewarmed press releases, couldn’t hacks in Calcutta do the job?
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“If you were fortunate enough to be given 300 journalists and $20 million a year to pay them and run a newsroom (a ballpark editorial operating budget for a 300,000-circulation paper), what kind of newspaper would you make?
links for 2007-11-11
Posted on November 11, 2007
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Here we look at the best comparison sites. The results are based on Resolution research that only compared general sites. The recommendation for car insurance is based on the Defaqto report while energy is based on reports from industry insiders.
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I think most commentators would agree we are looking at radical change rather than the death of newspapers: “The internet is fantastic. My students will learn to use it for audio, visual and text-based reporting. But I am convinced the convenience of pri
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Guardian Media Group and GCap, owner of Capital Gold, may also be interested in the radio assets, which are valued at up to £600m.
links for 2007-11-09
Posted on November 9, 2007
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The choice was heavily criticised by corporate governance experts who questioned whether she would be an effective check on the company’s senior executives. After much infighting, the Bancrofts had nominated Michael Hill, an environmental scientist, but N
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YouTube launched a multi-video uploader that lets you upload videos that are up to 10 minutes in length and up to 1GB in size. You need to install a software (Windows-only, for now), but you’ll upload videos from your browser.
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He argued that the Federal Communications Commission should mandate that providers allow consumers to use any cell phone with any wireless operator, and install any programs they want on their phones as long as they were not illegal or harmful. “It would
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Where there’s pain there’s money … a relatively positive piece on the state of the UK newspaper market - would be interesting to see some analysis on how each of the UK publishers is dealing with recent changes in the market and how they are preparing f
links for 2007-11-07
Posted on November 7, 2007
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Newspaper executives struggling to find ways to compete against their new online rivals are increasingly coming to the conclusion that they may be stronger in partnership than they can be alone. Companies are considering joint call centers, joint printing
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Over the next couple of weeks I’m going to be looking at the accessibility of the websites of eight major British newspapers - The Daily Express, Daily Mail, Daily Mirror, The Guardian, The Independent, The Sun, The Telegraph and The Times.
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A recent Google search found more than 80 blogs and political Web sites that lifted a few hundred words of the article or more, verbatim or nearly so. Some attributed the material to The Post, but offered no link to the original article; others offered a
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Facebook says that many of its 50 million active users already tell friends about particular products or brands they like, and the only change will be that those communications might start to carry ad messages from the companies that sell them. Facebook i
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“Microsoft is the exclusive third-party provider of IAB (Interactive Advertising Bureau) standard ads on Facebook. This program that we’re launching, it’s just a different format–they’re not IAB-standard ads.” Zuckerberg added that Facebook had worked th
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Companies will now be able to use library books to market their products to their target markets more effectively. While it is unfortunate that one of the few remaining non-commercialised public spaces is to be invaded by advertising, it is interesting to
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Just spotted this: “The purchase is designed to help the Time Warner unit better compete against the stepped up online ad initiatives from Google (NSDQ: GOOG) and Yahoo”
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Sometimes, there is just no substitute for hard work, especially hard work carried out by experts. I think we need to remember that before we charge off towards, and possibly over, the cutting edge.
links for 2007-11-06
Posted on November 6, 2007
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Response from MS: John O’Rourke, general manager of Microsoft’s Windows Mobile business, said he was skeptical about the ease with which Google would be able to become a major force in the smartphone market. He pointed out that it had taken Microsoft mor
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