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FCC To Take First Crack at Neutrality Rules

As expected, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) yesterday voted to begin the rule-making process that will move the US toward network neutrality - a major shift from its earlier 'hands off' policy on web regulation. The theory behind this principle is that as the number of broadband providers grow smaller and more concentrated, these players will favor access to their own products and services - a deep concern to Web 2.0 companies that offer competing offerings. FCC Chairman Juliu  [...]
Posted: Friday, October 23rd 2009

Israeli Gov't Holds First Twitter Press Conference

On Dec. 30, microblogging service Twitter hosted its first governmental press conference on behalf of Israel's Defense Forces -- whose microblogging tag was @IsraelConsulate. Questions and answers were limited to 140 characters, the standard length of a Twitter message or "tweet." So even answers to the most complex questions -- about which entire books have been written -- had to be short and swe  [...]
Posted: Monday, January 5th 2009

Obama's Fireside Chats Hit YouTube

With what The Guardian called "an ultra-modern echo of Franklin D. Roosevelt's regular folksy radio broadcasts," President Elect Barack Obama has launched a weekly address to the nation -- via YouTube. Like Roosevelt's "fireside chats," Obama uses a contrived intimate setting to discuss issues plaguing the country -- the economy, energy, healthcare, education -- and outlines plans to resolve them:   [...]
Posted: Monday, November 17th 2008

Facebook Lexicon Now Tracks Personal -- and Political -- Sentiment

Facebook's new version of Lexicon sports features that let its user base play with aggregated data from. Lexicon was introduced last April as a way for users to gauge the "buzzworthiness." Lexicon searches all Wall, group and event posts for relevant words or phrases, then produces charts of their popularity. In a nod to   [...]
Posted: Monday, September 22nd 2008

Industry Buzz & Snippets: 6/17/08

Ad Networks and Analytics: 50 percent of respondents to an E-consultancy survey use two sets of analytics tools on their site, presumably because a stable average is considered more accurate than one or the other.The Internet Advertising Bureau released definitions of commonly-used digital video in-stream terms.   [...]
Posted: Tuesday, June 17th 2008

Spot Runner Bakes Up Ad Templates for Politicians

Spot Runner has launched a site designed for political candidates, reports Broadcasting & Cable. The political ad site is stocked with spots on education and taxes, all of which await tweaking from a creative but time  [...]
Posted: Thursday, March 27th 2008

Scripps, LIN TV Go Political With New Ventures

EW Scripps and LIN TV have launched respective initiatives to expand their political coverage and provide conversation hubs for political junkies. Scripps launched RedBlueAmerica.com, a new site featuring bi-partisan coverage of the political arena. The site is venue with message boards, blogs and other outlets for those seeking both perspectives on a story. They can also air their o  [...]
Posted: Friday, January 18th 2008

Yahoo Launches Election Dashboard

Yahoo has added a political dashboard to its 2008 presidential election site. The dashboard tracks each candidate's stats from four sources: Polls, buzz on the Yahoo search engine, total real-dollar bets placed on each candidate at Ireland-based Intrade, and   [...]
Posted: Monday, December 17th 2007

First Nielsen/NetRatings Data on New Zealand Online Display Advertising Issued

The first publicly released Nielsen/NetRatings AdRelevance insights for the New Zealand market reveal that 1,051 advertising campaigns were run during July 2007, consisting of 2,260 banners run by 532 advertisers, reports MarketingCharts. Online ad impressions for the month reached 1.58 billion, equating to nearly a quarter of total Austra  [...]
Posted: Tuesday, August 28th 2007

Presidential-Campaign Online Forays Getting Creative, Controversial

As democratic presidential announcements begin to pile up in a campaign cycle that is expected to reach $1 billion, the prospects of reaching voters online is putting campaign assets to more creative uses - not just the classic TV mudslinging that dominated the 2004 campaign between Bush and Kerry. Barack Obama, John Edwards and Hilary Clinton selected the web to announce the launch of their presidential campaigns: Edwards used YouTube, Clinton her website and Obama hired internet  [...]
Posted: Tuesday, January 30th 2007

NYT Publishes Censored Pearl Harbor Story 64 Years Later

Last week, The New York Times posted digital versions of censored - and therefore unpublished - articles written in 1942 to commemorate the anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor. The 15,000-word series, written in 1942 by Times reporter Robert Trumbull, detailed the Herculean engineering feat of raising and repairing four heavily damaged battleships. Sixty-four years later,   [...]
Posted: Monday, December 11th 2006

Stealth Browser Hides IP Addresses

A group of human-rights advocates and computer security experts has released a Firefox-based fully portable browser designed to allow anonymous web surfing. Called Torpark, the browser created by the Hacktivismo organization establishes an encrypted connection to the TOR (The Onion Router) network, which supplies a succession of different IP addresses,   [...]
Posted: Thursday, September 28th 2006

Forbes Launches Business/Beltway Politics Section

Forbes.com is expanding its coverage of business-oriented news from Washington, D.C., with the launch of a new section, Business In The Beltway (www.forbes.com/beltway) and will also carry feeds from RealClearPolitics.com, featuring political news, commentary and analysis from "the nation's thought leaders," it said. "The convergence of business and po  [...]
Posted: Tuesday, April 18th 2006

Microsoft Revamps Blog Censorship Policy

After the backlash resulting from its shuttering the blog of a well-known Chinese journalist, Microsoft has revamped its policies for shutting down MSN Spaces blogs, reports the Associated Press. The company said if it is compelled by local laws to ban content, it would nevertheless make that content available to users elsew  [...]
Posted: Wednesday, February 1st 2006

Vivisimo, MSN to Power Government Portal

Vivisimo has been awarded a government contract to provide search technology to the U.S. government's FirstGov.gov portal, with MSN Search playing a major role, writes SearchEngineWatch. Vivisimo plans to use its own crawling technology for focused/targeted crawls of some federal and local government material, then combine those results with MSN results. FirstGov will offer new features, including government-wide news and i  [...]
Posted: Monday, September 26th 2005

GENI Project Aims to Reengineer the Internet

The National Science Foundation is planning to re-engineer the internet to overcome its shortcomings and create a network better suited for a computerized world, reports the New York Times. The new project, the Global Environment for Networking Investigations (GENI) was publicly described last week. The new network would focus on security; "pervasive computing" environments consisting of mobile, wireless and sensor netwo  [...]
Posted: Monday, August 29th 2005

Japan Wants to Feel, Smell TV

Aldous Huxley must be turning over in his grave... If Japan has its way, we could all one day be enjoying feelies and scent organs: "The Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications will set up an industry-academia-government research and development unit this year that will work to commercialize virtual reality television by 2020," writes Japan Today. VRTV would generate three-dimensional, high-definition images that can  [...]
Posted: Thursday, August 18th 2005

NSA, CIA Building Better, Smarter Search

As powerful as they may be, search engines can be time sinks - and sometimes "pathetically weak," according to a New York Times article - for anything other than simple keyword queries. And they certainly can't answer searches in question form, despite the current best efforts of Ask Jeeves and others, because they don't really understand the questions. That's where a government effort, the unclassified Aquaint proj  [...]
Posted: Monday, June 13th 2005

Cookie Death Causes Search for Successor

As online media researchers argue over whether or not there is a serious problem in ad tracking due to cookie deletion, several firms are lining up in hopes of providing an alternative, according to ClickZ. One of the stronger candidates to take over the mantel of counter-of-visitors is a particular type of Flash program ("shared objects") that ca  [...]
Posted: Thursday, March 31st 2005

FTC to (Finally) Use Anti-Spam Laws Against Spam, Not Fraud

While the Federal Trade Commission to date has focused exclusively on fraud schemes in its anti-spam enforcement efforts, with an occasional dabbling with pornography, that might be about to change. Recipients of spam consider the junk email more of a convenience issue, where the government has typically focused more on the narrow category of criminal enterprises that happen to use spam. In the meantime, legitimate companies have been able to make non-fraudulent offers via spam with near impunit  [...]
Posted: Monday, January 31st 2005