'Net gossip's It rag?
Agencies and Marketing Execs:
- YouTube co-founder Steve Chen is pursuing other pastures at Google — news that's nearly a year old, but that wasn't well-known until recently.
Biz Buzz:
- The Ford Foundation has just granted $300,000 to the Wikimedia Foundation. Funds will go toward growing Wikimedia Commons, a free educational media repository.
- Professional content hosting site Joost has kicked the bucket; the company is restructuring.
Legal, Government and Regulation:
- In an effort to keep government regulation at bay, a group of ad industry trade groups have introduced new privacy principles for online behavioral advertising.
Mobile:
Publishing:
- Entertainment news and gossip is booming over the 'net. The category is currently led by Yahoo's celebrity gossip site, omg!.
- In partnership with Overdrive Interactive, Boston.com launched a Facebook app that enables users to watch and interact with Globe 10.0, its daily sports video show, right on their Facebook pages.
Social Networks:
- A report finds social network users claim to be concerned about privacy, but their behavior suggests otherwise.
- Russia apparently has the world's most engaged social networking audience.
User Experience:
- Users are loudly displeased at recent news that Pirate Bay would be going legit, Napster-style.
