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Industry Buzz & Snippets: 10/21/09

Web 2.0 News and Trends: Rumor has it that Google will launch a music initiative called One Box to offer song previews, artist bios, graphics, and video - but no downloads or subscriptions. One Box won't be limited to music, according to CNET's Stephen Shankland. There are several different kin  [...]
Posted: Wednesday, October 21st 2009

Google To Facilitate Indian Elections

Google launched the Google India Elections Center to help engage and prepare India’s 700 million eligible voters for next month’s general elections, reports TechCrunch. Google has organized similar web-based election centers in the US and Australia in the past, but Google India’s election center offers new features which  [...]
Posted: Wednesday, April 8th 2009

Indian Gov May Censor Google Earth

Following last month's terrorist situation in Mumbai, legal advocates in India demand that the country's High Court implement a "blur" on certain locations featured in Google Earth. Earlier this week it was revealed that the terrorists used a number of so-called "new" technologies, includi  [...]
Posted: Friday, December 12th 2008

Team Obama Tackles General Election with Gusto

Barack Obama's campaign made inquiries with NBC Universal about the cost of advertising in the Olympics. The move suggests Obama's earnest smile may appear alongside Beijing Olympic sponsors like Nike and Budweiser, reports Advertising Age. NBCU presented a series of options to the team, including packages ranging from $500,000 to $10 million. Obama's campaign did not reveal whether it purchased space, but Olympic promotion would ex  [...]
Posted: Friday, June 20th 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

Olympics Channel Launches Amid Strikes in Beijing, Torch Trouble in Paris

The NewsMarket debuted the Beijing 2008 Olympics Channel today. The destination will provide free news content about the Beijing games in both English and Chinese. It will also include video for use by journalists and bloggers. The page went live despite drama about the pending state of internet access over the course of the Games. According to   [...]
Posted: Tuesday, April 8th 2008

875MM Consumers Shopped Online, Up 40% in 2 Years

Over 85 percent of the global online population has used the internet to make a purchase, increasing the market for online shopping by 40 percent in the past two years, according to the Nielsen Global Online Survey on internet shopping habits,   [...]
Posted: Wednesday, January 30th 2008

Ten Key Online Predictions for 2008

eMarketer has issued predictions for 2008 in key online areas, including advertising, videos, social networks, e-commerce and entertainment. The forecast finds online advertising will ride out potential economic storms in the US -- and YouTube will decide political elections -- reports MarketingCharts. The 10 predictions  [...]
Posted: Monday, January 7th 2008

Influential World Citizens Just Not Happy with Big Corporations

Most of the world's most engaged citizens say large companies wield too much influence on government decisions. Furthermore, they want aggressive action against the activities and influence of national and multinational corporations, according to a new Ipsos survey. The poll of 22,000 people, covering 22 of the world's leading and burgeoning powerhouse economies, finds   [...]
Posted: Friday, January 4th 2008

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

Malaysia Tightens Fist Around Political Bloggers

The government of Malaysia has just released a statement informing citizens that anti-terrorism laws could be effected against bloggers that insult the country's king or the religion of Islam. The BBC reports that Raja Petra Kamarudin, editor of a political website and a major online personality in Malaysia, was questioned by police after the government filed a complaint against him. The anti-terr  [...]
Posted: Friday, July 27th 2007

Thai Gov May Lift Ban on YouTube

With national elections fast approaching, the Thai government has announced it would lift bans on YouTube, according to the Bangkok Post. YouTube was blocked in Thailand when, in April, videos depicting mockeries of the king appeared on the site. The Information and Communication Technology department banned the site, citing the crime of "lese majeste" or "violating  [...]
Posted: Wednesday, June 27th 2007

'Great Firewall' Marks Flickr its Next Victim

China's Internet censors are upsetting a new generation of Web-hungry users who, far from aspiring to cyber dissidence, merely want to check friends' photos, for example, reports NewScientistTech. Access restrictions in China have found a new casualty in Flickr, which was for the most part blocked after images of China's 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre appear  [...]
Posted: Thursday, June 21st 2007

Japanese Politician Dips Toe in Second Life, Risks Government Wrath

Kan Suzuki, a Japanese politician seeking re-election to Japan's upper house, has set up a campaign in Second Life, but the move may be against the country's campaign laws, reports BBC News. Suzuki will discuss policies with virtual world residents and give speeches to deliver his message and boost his popularity. However, the virtual campaign may be infringing on Japan's stringent Public Off  [...]
Posted: Wednesday, June 13th 2007

China Slackens Proposed Blog Restrictions

An Internet outcry over a proposed plan to require bloggers to register their identities with a government agency has convinced China to think twice, reports ZDNet. The government has opted instead to disseminate a self-discipline code that only encourages bloggers to register under their real names. Government officials advocated real-name enforcement to discourage the proliferation of slander, por  [...]
Posted: Wednesday, May 23rd 2007

Iranian Cyber-Feminists Get Jailtime

Four "cyber-feminists," so dubbed by the Iranian government, received prison sentences for online women's rights campaign efforts in March, according to Reporters sans Frontières. Fariba Davoudi Mahajer, a former contributor to several pro-reform papers, received a one-year sentence for "violating national security." Activist and editor Sussan Tahmessebi of the English version of   [...]
Posted: Monday, May 7th 2007

Rights Group Sues Yahoo, Alleging Help in China Torture

A human rights group sued Yahoo on Wednesday, accusing the Internet giant of abetting the torture of pro-democracy writers by releasing data that allowed China's government to identify them, writes The Washington Post. The suit, filed in U.S. District Court in San Francisco, says the company was complicit in the arrests of 57-year-old Wang Xiaoning and other Chinese  [...]
Posted: Friday, April 20th 2007

YouTube Reaches out to Offended Thais

YouTube will try an approach more subtle than outright censorship in limiting content deemed offensive to the king of Thailand, reports Reuters. Instead of blocking the entirety of YouTube, the video sharing site will now work to block access to individual pages containing offensive content. Videos ridiculing the Thai monarch had been posted to the site, leading the Thai government to ban the site its  [...]
Posted: Monday, April 9th 2007

Repressive States Chided for Net Censorship

Reporters Without Borders has compiled a list of the countries it says are the worst offenders in censoring the internet. The Paris-based group recently staged 24-hour protests in public spaces in New York and Paris to condemn 13 countries for their censorship of internet journalists, writes BusinessWeek. The 17,000 or so attendees of the protests v  [...]
Posted: Friday, November 10th 2006

Amnesty: U.S. Net Giants Violate Human Rights Declaration

Amnesty International has accused three of the net's largest players, among others, of violating the Universal Declaration on Human Rights by cooperating with China's censors. Microsoft, Google and Yahoo, and others, are colluding with China's efforts to censor the internet and are in denial over the human rights implications of their actions - and ignore their own stated commitments - Amnesty said, according to a Reu  [...]
Posted: Thursday, July 20th 2006