» Foreign Startups Looking to U.S. Incubators for Help
09/02/10 22:40 from Read/Write Web
Entrepreneurship in Europe has a problem. A lot of their talent is \"crossing the pond\" to increase their chances of finding early-stage funding. A lot of venture firms in Europe tend to play the safer hands that they are dealt, investing i..
» College Humor’s LOLaid Raises Funds For Haiti
09/02/10 22:17 from NewTeeVee
White dude rap and prank war experts College Humor might not come immediately to mind when brainstorming altruism in the online video world. Yet today the comedy hub, using the Firstgiving fundraising service, launched LOLaid Haiti Relief ..
» 10 Ways To Better Use In-Stream Advertising
09/02/10 22:00 from Video Insider
n 2009 the IAB led the charge to develop standards and infrastructure to coax adoption and growth in the in-stream advertising space. Expect this standardization to find traction in 2010 and drive widespread industry adoption across all pla..
» Weekly Poll: Is A Private Cloud Just A Glorified Data Center?
09/02/10 22:00 from Read/Write Web
We are in our third week here at ReadWriteCloud. One of the weekly features we do is a poll about an issue related to cloud computing or virtualization. Last week we asked if you plan to invest in virtualization. This week we are asking: I..
» Ballad of Mary and Ernie Features a Strange Premise, But Charming Execution
09/02/10 20:45 from NewTeeVee
Those in search of some extra whimsy in their day could do much worse than checking out The Ballad of Mary and Ernie , a strange yet occasionally charming mash-up of Unforgiven and the first chapter of Jonathan Swift\'s Gulliver\'s Travels ...
» Information wants to be free my ass continued
09/02/10 20:37 from Rough Type: Nicholas Carr\'s Blog
Some followup on my earlier post: In today\'s New York Times, Jenna Wortham reports: It used to be that a basic $25-a-month phone bill was your main telecommunications expense. But by 2004, the average American spent $770.95 annually on serv..
» Can Google Buzz Succeed Where FriendFeed Couldn\'t?
09/02/10 20:20 from Read/Write Web
Google just launched Google Buzz , the company\'s new social networking service which will be tightly integrated with Gmail. There can be little doubt that Google Buzz looks a lot like FriendFeed, the social aggregation service that was acq..
» Why Many Successful People Become Jerks
09/02/10 20:09 from Aaron Wall's SEO Book.com -
Why Popular People May Seem Negative to Some I was chatting with a friend today about one of our projects and he mentioned how he stopped liking a few other internet marketers recently due to their negativity. Him stating that gave me a bi..
» Google Buzz = FriendFeed Reborn
09/02/10 20:02 from Are You Paying Attention?
FriendFeed was dead , now it is re-born as Google Buzz . I\'ve not been able to try the product yet, but philosophically and architecturally it seems superior to FriendFeed. Here are my observations so far: Consumption Tools Buzz is better ..
» How Google Buzz is Disruptive: Open Data Standards
09/02/10 19:31 from Read/Write Web
Google rolled out a social stream service today called Buzz . It looks on the surface like Facebook, FriendFeed and other stream reading and writing services. It will compete with Facebook and Twitter. Under the covers, though, this major ..
» GIPS Wants iPhone to Video Conference More Often
09/02/10 19:30 from NewTeeVee
GIPS , a San Francisco-based company that licenses intellectual property including codecs for audio and video, says it’s come up with a technology that would allow third-party developers to embed video chat in their iPhone-related applicat..
» Mobile Health: Will Network Applications Help Us Get Healthy?
09/02/10 19:30 from Read/Write Web
Last week, we were at the mHealth initiative conference in Washington D.C. The keynotes were all about the impact mobile health applications are having in shaping the future of the health care system. Nothing demonstrates that more than th..
» Foursquare Partners with Zagat, New York Times
09/02/10 19:17 from Read/Write Web
Foursquare has come out strong in recent weeks with partnership deals that look to put it at the top of the location-based app game. Last week, it announced a partnership with Bravo, the style and fashion-centric television network, and to..
» Live Blogging from Google: Launch of Google Buzz
09/02/10 19:11 from Read/Write Web
This morning, Google is announcing some exciting new features for two of its most popular applications. Team Red, as we affectionately call ourselves, is present at the Googleplex in Mountain View, and we\'ll be live blogging the event, giv..
» Penton goes under
09/02/10 19:07 from paulconley
Penton is bankrupt. The B2B publishing giant announced today that it is filing Chapter 11. And as near as I can tell, the entire industry responded with a great, big yawn. Because no one who pays any attention to B2B publishing could possib..
» Europe\'s 17 Golden Rules for Keeping Safe on Social Networks
09/02/10 19:05 from Read/Write Web
Are you using your real name on your social network profiles? According to the European Union\'s Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA), that\'s a big mistake. A new report , published to coincide with Europe\'s Safer Internet Day , ..
» Vid-Biz: Lost Premiere, Olympics, Rovi
09/02/10 18:30 from NewTeeVee
Online Video Views Are Not “Lost” on ABC.com ; over 580,000 episode starts were reported for last Tuesday\'s season premiere. ( WebProNews ) CBS Sports Coverage of Super Bowl XLIV Scores Highest Rating in 23 Years ; ratings for ..
» Flickr Co-Founder Unveils Glitch: \"The Greatest Game There Ever Was?\"
09/02/10 17:40 from Read/Write Web
Flickr co-founder Stewart Butterfield and his company Tiny Speck have come out today with a game they boldly assert could be \"the greatest game there ever was\". The massively-multiplayer, Web-based Flash game was unveiled this morning and ..
» After Success in Boulder, Open Angel Forum Marches Onward to San Francisco and New York
09/02/10 17:10 from Read/Write Web
The talk of the venture capital and entrepreneurial towns these days is the Open Angel Forum which after its second event in Boulder , Colorado is now announcing two more events in New York and San Francisco . Brainchild of Jason Calacanis..
» Amazon Simple Storage Service - Not So Simple Anymore
09/02/10 17:02 from Read/Write Web
Today Amazon Web Services announced the availability of a new feature of their Simple Storage Service (S3). Object Versioning now joins the ever growing list of features supported by S3. This proves once again that Amazon Web Services are ..
» Google Wave Coming to Google Apps this Year
09/02/10 17:00 from Read/Write Web
Google Wave , the maddeningly confusing yet highly innovative real-time collaboration tool, will become a member of Google\'s online office suite Google Apps later this year. The service, still in closed beta, is meant to be a modern-day re..
» Michael Kinsley to Enter Magazine Editor’s Hall of Fame
09/02/10 16:47 from Folio Magazine
The American Society of Magazine Editors announced that Michael Kinsley has been elected to the Magazine Editor’s Hall of Fame. Kinsley will be inducted at the National Magazine Awards for Digital Media in New York City on March 18. ..
» Google Exiting China? Not Just Yet
09/02/10 15:55 from Read/Write Web
Last month, Google received high praise from human rights supporters after threatening to exit the Chinese search market, claiming it was no longer comfortable with censoring search results per government demands. But here it is a month la..
» Morningstar Acquires Footnoted.org blog
09/02/10 14:49 from Content Matters
Morningstar (NASD:MORN) has acquired Footnoted.org , the blog-based financial research service that reads through footnotes of SEC filings, spotlighting the items that companies prefer investors not see. Footnoted also posts its \"worst foo..
» UPDATE: Penton Media to File for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy
09/02/10 14:42 from Folio Magazine
Trade publisher Penton Media Tuesday announced that it has reached an agreement with its lenders on the terms of a restructuring through a pre-packaged Chapter 11 plan of reorganization. If approved, the plan is expected to eliminate $270 m..
» ViralHeat: Social Media Analysis for the Budget-Minded Soul
09/02/10 14:00 from Read/Write Web
These days, the words \"social media campaign\" are on the lips of everyone around, from media professionals to small business owners to college students in coffee shops. While the idea of a social media campaign is becoming widespread, the ..
» How The Godfather Would Pick Enterprise 2.0 Champions
09/02/10 13:03 from Read/Write Web
From time to time, we look at how Enterprise 2.0 practices are reaching into companies. A recent post by Michael Idinopulos demonstrates how the premises for finding Enterprise 2.0 champions is often flawed. Too often the search is for the..
» The one where I get to lecture the Wall Street analyst about Howard Stern
09/02/10 13:00 from Hear 2.0
From Inside Radio: Lazard Capital analyst Barton Crockett believes Stern will stay put, although he could take a pay cut and sign for $80 million a year. Crockett tells investors, “That represents a fair compromise between the view that St..
» Top websites in France
09/02/10 10:07 from Hitwise Intelligence
Bonjour! It’s a very exciting day at Experian Hitwise towers today because we have announced the launch of Hitwise France! The Hitwise France service will provide clients with data on website industry and category rankings, Clickstream tra..
» Unconference East: Moving Forward, Together
09/02/10 01:21 from Online Community Report
We are less than 48 hours from the Online Community Unconference East (yeah!). This is the third year we\'ve run the Online Community Unconference in New York, and we\'ve had great events both years. On think I wanted to be a bit more mindfu..
» How Digital Marketing Helped \'Avatar\' Break the Box Office
08/02/10 23:03 from MediaShift
Do you remember August 21, 2009? Moviegoers in more than 100 IMAX 3-D theaters worldwide watched 16 minutes of footage from a new James Cameron movie. That same day, Ubisoft debuted a trailer for a videogame based on the film, and Mattel u..
» Why The Anti-ROI Bloggers Are Wrong About Video
08/02/10 21:30 from Video Insider
If you\'ve been paying attention to the big marketing blogs over the past several months, you might have noticed the anti-ROI movement starting to gather momentum. In short, the popular marketing bloggers are spending quite a bit of energy t..
» Time in Which Content Retains Value is ‘Rapidly Compressing’
08/02/10 21:00 from Folio Magazine
Fulfillment providers need to think differently about what they do for media companies.
» Are 100 Ounces of Coke Enough for ANY Meal?
08/02/10 19:59 from ChasNote
A friend recently asked the experts at ChasNote what Coke means by “enough for your meal” in these billboards running in California. A tough question to answer, isn\'t it? When is 100 ounces really enough? What if your meal is t..
» Baby Boomers Quickly Increasing Usage on Social Networks
08/02/10 18:21 from ChasNote
“[A year ago] a Pew Internet and American Life Project study found that 20% of online adults 45-54 years old (the ‘younger\' Boomers) and 10% of online adults 55-64 (the ‘older\' Boomers) were participating in social networ..
» Paid Consumer Circ Continues Decline
08/02/10 17:38 from Folio Magazine
Consumer magazine circulation, as tracked by ABC’s latest FAS-FAX report released today, continued its decline. The report shows that overall paid subscriptions for the second-half of 2009 were down slightly by 2.23 percent. Single-copy sal..
» Study: Recession Aside, Sustainability Remains an Important Topic
08/02/10 17:24 from Folio Magazine
Green publishing within the magazine-industry supply chain, has taken a back seat the last 12 or so months to economic survival. However, a new study commissioned by IDEAlliance suggests that sustainability remains an important priority, es..
» The Rebirth of Print: Time for the New Aggregation Plays to Take Off
08/02/10 16:40 from ContentBlogger
Somewhere in the world today a printing press operation is preparing to go dark. Mind you, it\'s not a universal phenomenon; in markets such as India, where a burgeoning middle class is hungry for news and not yet equipped with an abundance..
» fanatic.fm Allows Fans To Sponsor Musicians
08/02/10 16:14 from Web 2.0 Asia
With the rise of internet advertising, there were lots of promises for free music, supported entirely by advertisement. (Remember Spiral Frog , anyone?) But the problem of such free, ads-supported music service was that the ads revenue was..
» Regional Publisher Sells One Title, Shutters Two Others
08/02/10 16:14 from Folio Magazine
Minneapolis, Minnesota-based Key Professional Media has sold its group of Super Lawyers magazines to Thomson Reuters. Super Lawyers—a listing of attorneys from more than 70 practice areas—is published as a supplement in newspapers and city ..
» It’s 2010. Do You Know Where Your Exhibitors Are?
08/02/10 16:06 from Folio Magazine
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08/02/10 15:32 from MEDIA 2.0
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» For everyone who thinks good ideas are hard and expensive....
08/02/10 14:28 from Hear 2.0
Did your station email something like this to your audience this morning? And if not, why not? Opportunity comes to those who are smart enough to recognize it. Hopefully, the link goes to a page where I can do what I\'m offered and not the ..
» Video IS the Radio Star
08/02/10 13:00 from Hear 2.0
No, video didn\'t kill the proverbial radio star, but video can BE the star of radio. As media meld into each other the question of \"who\'s in the moving picture business\" and who isn\'t becomes irrelevant. Thanks to the digital soup of media..
» Email Newsletter Distribution And Mailing Services: Guide To The Best Free Online Solutions
08/02/10 08:52 from Robin Good\'s Latest News
Communicating via email in a direct , intimate and informal way remains one of the best ways to market and promote your content, services and products online. This is why the most effective online businesses still rely on crafting quality ..
» 5 Cool New Blogs You Might Like
08/02/10 04:21 from Marshall Kirkpatrick
I\'ve been meaning to share links to some of the blogs I\'ve been coming across a lot lately and really enjoying. Check these out, you might like them as much as I have been. Got suggestions for other blogs that readers here and I should be ..
» What Did Zuckerberg Really Say About Privacy?
07/02/10 23:39 from Marshall Kirkpatrick
I just noticed some posts around the web questioning my characterization of Mark Zuckerberg\'s on-stage declaration that the age of privacy is over . I left a comment on one of those blog posts that I thought I should post here as well. I t..
» Toyota\'s US President Speaks to Digg Audience
07/02/10 23:27 from ChasNote
From Global Post : “Lentz has been on an old media blitz all week, yapping to everyone from the Today Show, to ABC News, to NPR about how it\'s safe to drive a Toyota. “But the Digg Dialogue is different. In essence, Toyota\'s U...
» Cyber-Terrorism vs. Cyber-Warfare: Defending The United Networks of America
07/02/10 08:19 from Media 3.0 with Shelly Palmer
Seven-year-old, Mark Fielding looked up from his computer. He was very annoyed. “Mommmm!” He yelled in a way that was sure to get her attention. “The Internet is down again.” It was the last thing she heard before t..
» The 'Information' Age
06/02/10 21:40 from Aaron Wall's SEO Book.com -
Relevancy is a good thing. It makes search and the world more efficient. Many attempts at relevancy, like search is getting more social , may just create more noise. But computers are getting better at understanding language is a good thin..
» branding problem: Apple ipad Mockery (Mad TV)
06/02/10 15:15 from MEDIA 2.0
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» Online News Content And Distribution Strategies: Content Curation And User Syndication Are Next
06/02/10 11:56 from Robin Good\'s Latest News
What future and opportunities for online news? \" After more than five years of Wikipedia building both its content and its brand as a \" go-to \" source for freshly updated topic-oriented content that dominates search engine results, it dawn..
» Rewriting Apple’s History
06/02/10 11:00 from Inside Digital Media
Video Insider Logo As Mark Twain put it, “Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest don’t happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.” Normally the winners write history, but Apple’s success and loft..
» People on the Move | 02.09.10
05/02/10 21:59 from Folio Magazine
Peter Macey has been promoted to national advertising director at Wired. Previously, Macey served as Northwest director.Hearst named Cortney Pellettieri entertainment editor at Good Housekeeping. Most recently, Pellettieri served as enterta..
» Johnson Repositions Ebony and Jet
05/02/10 20:59 from Folio Magazine
In the face of a difficult magazine market last year, Chicago-based Johnson Publishing has revamped the editorial brand strategies at Ebony and Jet magazines in an effort to attract new, younger audiences as well as to position the company ..
» Announcing The Conversation 2010, in New York: On Social Media, Digital Distribution, and the Future of Film
05/02/10 20:44 from CinemaTech
I\'m excited that we\'re finally announcing the date, place, and a few of the early speakers for the next edition of The Conversation , a gathering we first held in the Bay Area back in 2008. It\'ll be held Saturday, March 27th at Columbia Uni..
» Writing skill is no longer enough to sustain journalists
05/02/10 18:48 from Online Journalism Review
By Robert Niles: What\'s the value of journalism? The short answer is, of course, \"whatever someone will pay for it.\" But a more thoughtful response gets at why people are willing to exchange something of value for news information. Economic..
» Without Enough Inventory And Targeting Online Video Advertising Will Remain Dead
05/02/10 18:08 from The Business Of Online Video
With a major snow storm about to hit the Northeast, many folks like myself are probably using the web to check out the latest forecast on Weather.com. The site is a treasure trove for anyone who really wants to check out the storm from all ..
» Rent vs. Own: The Streaming Music Debate Continues
05/02/10 18:00 from MediaShift
The exponential growth of Internet bandwidth combined with the ability to significantly compress digital audio has impacted the music industry in numerous ways, for better and worse. Just as file trading created a massive network of pirate..
» 4 Minute Roundup: Facebook as News Reader; Engadget Comments
05/02/10 15:35 from MediaShift
This episode of 4MR is brought to you by GoDaddy, helping you set up your own website in a snap with domain name registration, web hosting and 24/7 support. Visit GoDaddy to learn more. Here\'s the latest 4MR audio report from MediaShift. I..
» Streaming Media East Program Done: Now Looking For Speakers
05/02/10 05:05 from The Business Of Online Video
Yesterday I finished the advance program for the Streaming Media East show, which will take place May 11th-12th in NYC. We will have 110 speakers across more than 30 sessions over two days covering a wide range of business, technology and c..
» Facebook and the future of News
05/02/10 01:03 from Are You Paying Attention?
Marshall Kirkpatrick has written a thoughtful piece over on Read/Write Web entitled ‘ Facebook and the future of Free Thought ‘ in which he explains the hard facts about news consumption and the open subscription models that we..
» 5 Minutes of Facebook Celebrity
05/02/10 00:00 from Hitwise Intelligence
Notice anything different about your friends on Facebook ? Suddenly they all look a bit more like celebrities! The latest trend to hit Facebook has been to replace your profile picture with one of your celebrity doppelganger. Last week, th..
» Interview with Andrew Shotland
04/02/10 23:33 from Aaron Wall's SEO Book.com -
Today I get to interview one of my favorite reads in the SEO blogoshpere, Andrew Shotland. Andrew runs the Local SEO Guide blog and has graciously taken some of his time to share with us his thoughts on Local SEO. 1. You have an enjoyable,..
» Blogging: a great pastime for the elderly
04/02/10 22:23 from Rough Type: Nicholas Carr\'s Blog
I remember when it was kind of cool to be a blogger. You\'d walk around with a swagger in your step, a twinkle in your eye. Now it\'s just humiliating. Blogging has become like mahjong or needlepoint or clipping coupons out of Walgreens circu..
» Demand Media Can Go To Hell
04/02/10 21:36 from Folio Magazine
No magazine should accept content from a company that treats content with such disrespect.
» Where We Go From Here: Content and Commerce
04/02/10 20:04 from Folio Magazine
NEW YORK—Investors want to see paid content models while publishers express their doubts, and some dotcoms say the advertising model isn’t done yet—provided publishers can tap into marketing and promotion budgets.
» Why Ask Why When You Can Plan How
04/02/10 19:00 from Online Publishing Insider
When you learn your site didn\'t make a buy and then report this news to your sales manager, your manager usually responds by asking, \"Why?\" Your sales manager must know you could not feel worse about not making the buy, but that going throu..
» Presenting the \"Ed Wood Award for the Worst Radio Station Website\"
04/02/10 18:08 from Hear 2.0
What\'s the worst website for a radio station you\'ve ever seen? I mean something so mind-numbingly bad that it threatens to tear at the very fabric of space/time. Here\'s your chance to nominate some candidates. Just make sure you provide y..
» SUXORZ recap and preview
04/02/10 15:58 from Blogads -- the ad engine for opinion makers.
Thank you for rocking the SUXORZ last night at at the Roger Smith Hotel as part of Social Media Week NYC! For those of you who didn\'t make it, you can rewind the tape here: http://search.twitter.com/search?q=suxorz Here\'s the current map o..
» Paid Subs Are Up for Women’s Titles
04/02/10 15:17 from Folio Magazine
According to estimated figures provided by publishers to ABC’s Rapid Report, the women’s category saw meaningful improvement in paid subscriptions during the second-half of 2009, while total paid and verified circ remained relatively stable..
» End to Tax Cuts Could Cut into M&A Profits
04/02/10 14:40 from Folio Magazine
Barring any action this year by Congress, tax cuts enacted under former President George W. Bush that put federal taxes on capital gains and dividends at 15 percent are set to expire on December 31, 2010. Next year, those taxes would revert..
» Google News to Publishers: Let\'s Make Love Not War
04/02/10 14:11 from MediaShift
In the view of some traditional media execs, Google is a digital vampire or a parasite or tech tapeworm using someone else\'s content to profit. As that rhetoric heated up in the past year, Google has responded not with equal amounts of inv..
» Ogilvy On: Facebook for Business
04/02/10 13:32 from MEDIA 2.0
Check out this SlideShare Presentation: Ogilvy On: Facebook for BusinessView more presentations from 360digitalinfluence. Your Fortune 1000 business brand resource vehicle for driving new media, PR and marketing. Copyright © Since February ..
» Five Things Your Digital Staff Is Dying To Tell You
04/02/10 11:39 from Folio Magazine
What they want to say but usually can't.