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What a Twitter Shortener Could Mean for Marketers
Twitter users learned on Thursday that the site will begin wrapping all links posted through the service with its own t.co domain. Twitter had been discussing this proposal on its blog, so the announcement is not surprising. Now that it is official, though, it is safe to start speculating on what it means to various users.
For third-party developers, of course, the move is just more bad news from Twitter, which is stepping up its competition on many fronts [...]
Posted: Thursday, September 2nd 2010
Digg to Users: Don't Leave, v4 is Here
Much fuss was made over Digg's declining numbers earlier this year, with some commentators proclaiming Digg all but dead. But the site's next - and long awaited - iteration is almost ready, which, it is hoped, will stave off further drops. The changes, designed to help users connect and make deeper inroads in social networks with its new features, delivers an additional plus - it finally takes the reigns out of the hands of the power users, [...]
Posted: Wednesday, June 30th 2010
CBS to Experiment with 99 Cent Prices for Some Shows on iTunes
CBS has said that it has agreed to experiment with Apple in reducing the price of some of its shows on iTunes, cutting prices from $1.99 for most shows to 99 cents for some.
Les Moonves, chief executive of CBS Corp., said on a conference call with analysts last week that certain shows would sell for 99 cents, but he did not yet know which those will be. Those in the industry doubt the experiment will include newer episodes of top shows like NCIS, [...]
Posted: Friday, February 26th 2010
Skiff Gives E-Reader Market Viable Ad Strategy
Another e-reader device - this time from a major magazine publisher - will hit the market sometime this year. Hearst previewed its new Skiff Reader at this week’s Consumer Electronics Show along with the announcement that Sprint is providing 3G connectivity for the e-reader and will sell it at Sprint retail outlets and Sprint.com (via [...]
Posted: Tuesday, January 5th 2010
Streaming Olympics Coverage Foretells More Sports Specials – and Fees
TV Everywhere is still in its infancy but a new offering on NBCOlympics.com illustrates how easily it can - and probably will - be customized and segmented for specific viewers.
People who subscribe to cable, satellite or telco TV service will be able to view live streaming Olympics coverage on NBCOlympics.com. Called "Olympics Online Connect", the service, for which viewers have to register, will provide more than 1,000 hours of live Olympic streaming [...]
Posted: Tuesday, December 29th 2009
GOOG (and Copyright Holders) Make Good with YouTube's Content ID
Through Content ID, a service that protects copyright holders, enables them to profit from music appropriated by users, and lets them track user sentiment (via YouTube Insights), Google has found a way to monetize video socnet YouTube.
In general, Content ID enables companies, such as music labels, to track unofficial uses of their content, then decide whether to forbid that use (by stripping a video if its music, for example) or monetize it by adding music-purchasing buttons alongside the co [...]
Posted: Tuesday, September 29th 2009
Media Titans Prep E-Commerce Platform for Publications
Three media executives -- creator Steven Brill of Court TV and American Lawyer magazine; ex-publisher L. Gordon Crovitz of The Wall Street Journal; and Leo Hindery Jr. of private equity firm InterMedia Partners -- are embarking on an enterprise whose objective is to equip publishers with the tools to charge e-commerce fees.
The proposed company, Journalism Online LLC, would enable magazine or newspaper websites to demand payment from non-subscribers, once they've reached a certain point on th [...]
Posted: Wednesday, April 15th 2009
Sony Reader Signs Devil's Deal with Google Books
Sony and Google have reached a deal whereby Google will avail a half-million copyright-free books on Sony's own Reader device -- a rival to Amazon's Kindle e-book/blog/Wikipedia reader.
Google has been scanning books from major universities and research libraries since 2004. At present, it is able to [...]
Posted: Thursday, March 19th 2009
Microsoft Puts 'Instant Answers' on IE8
Internet Explorer 8 now reflects instant answers from Live Search in its search box, Microsoft announced.
Those using IE8 in the United States will have the Live Search feature on by default, reports Search Engine Land.
Queries related to finances, [...]
Posted: Thursday, February 5th 2009
Social Streaming, Site Sharing Unify Yahoo Products
To support its ongoing Open Strategy, Yahoo announced a handful of new offerings and enhancements:
Smarter Yahoo! Mail. Thought to be the broadest implementation of its Open Strategy initiative, enhanced Y! Mail "learns" which messages, data and activities users most care about and pushe [...]
Posted: Tuesday, December 16th 2008
Most B2B Tech Companies Don't Use RSS Feeds
Some 70% of B2B technology marketers are missing valuable opportunities to directly influence sales decision makers by not incorporating Really Simple Syndication (RSS) into their company's online marketing strategy, according to a report from MarCom Ink, writes MarketingCharts. [...]
Posted: Friday, October 17th 2008
Photo Overkill, Souped-Up Image Search, Characterize LIFE.com
Time Inc. and Getty Images partnered to launch LIFE.com, a website that, put simply, tries serving what the tagline promises: "Your world in pictures."
"Only three percent of the LIFE archive has been seen by the public," says LIFE.com editor Bill Shapiro. "This site will put everything on display."
The photo collection draws primarily from Getty photographers and archived images from LIFE magazine, a property of Time Inc, from the 1930s to the 1990 [...]
Posted: Wednesday, September 24th 2008
Nokia Acquires Aggressively to Expedite Its Own 'Net Services
To expedite the unveiling of a broader online offering, Nokia is purchasing a number of established internet services.
The company purchased Navteq, a digital maps firm, for $8.1 billion last July. 10 smaller firms have also been absorbed.
"We're not done," emphasized Niklas Savander of Nokia in an interview with Reuters. Future targets shall include small firms whose services Nokia h [...]
Posted: Wednesday, September 10th 2008
Ad-Supported Widgets Go Live for BlackBerry
Mobile widget firm Zumobi launched a widget app for BlackBerry units. It is fully ad-supported.
To promote the new BlackBerry functionality, industry weblog BlackBerry Cool will launch a proprietary widget. (On the Zumobi site, "widgets" are called "Tiles.")
"With Zumobi available now on BlackBerry devices, we will be able to reach our audience directly with news that is important to them while they are on the go [...]
Posted: Thursday, July 17th 2008
Microsoft 'Echoes' Liberates Personal Contact Info to Networking Circles
Microsoft is preparing a platform that enables mobile carriers to provide Windows Live and other software to subscribers.
Code-named "Echoes" and headed by Microsoft's Israeli Strategic Development Center, the premises are simple: broaden the reach of Microsoft software, unite users, and maybe "get rid of phone numbers" -- according to a speech Bill Gates recently made.
Echoes p [...]
Posted: Friday, May 30th 2008
Yahoo Gives Sneak-Peek of BrowserPlus Web Tool
BrowserPlus, a Yahoo tool that enables users to add site features on the fly without reloading a page, has been released in limited beta.
According to Search Engine Journal, BrowserPlus is toted as a tool so simple that even non-developers will be able to swap site features at will.
Demo applications included in the BrowserPlus beta include an on-site [...]
Posted: Friday, May 30th 2008
AT&T Mobile TV Goes Live -- Really, This Time -- On Sunday
AT&T has announced it will launch its mobile TV initiative this Sunday.
After a handful of delays, last March the company conservatively arranged a May debut.
The service is available on LG Vu and the Samsung Access, across 58 markets including New York, Las Vegas, Philadelphia and Chicago.
Powered by Qualcomm's MediaFLO, the AT&T Mobile TV lineup includes CBS Mobile, ESPN Mobile TV, Fox Mobile, NBC 2Go, Co [...]
Posted: Friday, May 2nd 2008
BayTSP, NTT to Launch DIY Copyright Protection Technology for Online Video
BayTSP has formed a partnership with NTT that enables publishers to use video and audio fingerprinting technologies to learn whether their content is misused online, particularly on sites like Google Video, YouTube or Daily Motion.
BayTSP provides content authentication technology; NTT's content recognition platform has not, up until this point, debuted in the US.
NTT has pro [...]
Posted: Wednesday, April 23rd 2008
Digital Media Screens in Quick-Service Restaurants Get Attention
Millions of US adults visit quick-service restaurants each month, and they constitute a prime audience for in-store digital media, according to an Indoor Direct study conducted by Arbitron at Wendy's, Denny's, Hardee's, Arby's, and CiCi's Pizza stores, [...]
Posted: Thursday, April 10th 2008
imeem Opens Back-End -- and Music Catalog -- to Developers
Following the examples of MySpace, Bebo and Facebook, music-streaming social network imeem will avail its back-end to software developers.
Programmers can customize the existing imeem media player an [...]
Posted: Wednesday, March 26th 2008


