Brian Blum | July 31, 2009 | Uncategorized
Mark Potts, co-founder of the defunct hyperlocal citizen-journalism experiment BackFence, shared some thoughts on lessons he learned during his tenure at the...
Brian Blum | August 03, 2009 | Uncategorized
Hyperlocal is coming to YouTube. The Google-owned video-sharing giant has invited the more than 25,000 news sources listed on Google News to become video...
Sharon Hill | August 03, 2009 | Recruitment
"Interested in running a Human Resources social network? Lance [Haun] and I have great news. We are auctioning off HRM Today on eBay, later this week. We have...
Brian Blum | August 04, 2009 | Uncategorized
There have been some very funny social media parodies that have swept the web. CollegeHumor’s Web Site Story and the BBC’s What if Facebook Were Real...
Dave Lafontaine | August 05, 2009 | Uncategorized
A tectonic shift in advertising could happen this weekend, and most people in the media industry haven't heard a word about it. Which is the point. The...
Brian Blum | August 05, 2009 | Uncategorized
San Diego News Network, the local news startup that landed former San Diego Union Tribune and Las Vegas Sun exec Chris Jennewein as president (we reported in June...
Sharon Hill | August 05, 2009 | Recruitment
In a very glass-half-full announcement, Careerbuilder reported on its survey of laid off U.S. workers. The announcement concluded that 48 percent of those...
ray marcano | August 05, 2009 | Uncategorized
There's been a lot of buzz in the e-reader industry about the soon-to-be released Sony e-readers. They'll be much cheaper than Amazon's Kindle --- news reports put...
Brian Blum | August 06, 2009 | Real Estate
Move, Inc. has reported financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2009. Net income was up to $3.2 million in Q2, compared with a $2.2 million loss in...
admin3 | August 06, 2009 | Automotive
AutoHound.ca -- the used-vehicles site from Boost Motor Group, partnered with The Globe and Mail -- is playing to the User-Generated-Video audience with...
Peter M. Zollman | August 06, 2009 | Uncategorized
In all the comments about paid content for newspapers, and the silly proposal by the Associated Press to charge bloggers who use as few as five words of an AP...
Sharon Hill | August 07, 2009 | Uncategorized
ShortTail Media is working with Online Publishers Association to give publishers and advertisers an Internet revenue opportunity that monetizes the...
Dave Lafontaine | August 10, 2009 | Uncategorized
Amidst the daily gloom&doom dispatches about the crisis facing large metro newspapers, it's easy to miss that down on the smalltown level, newspapers are doing...
Sharon Hill | August 11, 2009 | Marketplaces
We paid $65 on Tuesday for the privilege of hearing Craigslist founder Craig Newmark tell us he has sparrows, finches and mourning doves outside his window. Some...
ray marcano | August 12, 2009 | Uncategorized
We all know that lots of publishers are trying to determine if users will pay for the content they create. The Boston Globe has just announced it's in the field...
Sharon Hill | August 13, 2009 | Marketplaces
Local search engine optimization (SEO) consultant Andrew Shotland has just posted his list of top Internet Yellow Pages sites according to their SEO efforts. He...
Peter M. Zollman | August 13, 2009 | Automotive
In the “damn, wish we’d been as clever as they are” department for today comes this: The Onion’s take on GM...
AIM Group | August 14, 2009 | Uncategorized
Here's a newly improved Web-based CRM tool we use daily keep tabs on clients, prospects and friends: Network Hippo, formerly called Dex. (The old name created a...
Dave Lafontaine | August 16, 2009 | Uncategorized
The best of the bunch is the back-and-forth between billionaire Mark Cuban, and the bete noire of many print publishers, Michael Wolff, who runs the Newser.com...
Sharon Hill | August 17, 2009 | Uncategorized
I recently attended LaidOffCamp -- a live recruitment event held in Phoenix that we'll be telling you more about in an upcoming Classified Intelligence...
Sharon Hill | August 19, 2009 | Uncategorized
Pete Cashmore, founder of Mashable, has unashamedly dubbed himself the Online Media God for this article in which he shares links and resources that will help...
Dave Lafontaine | August 21, 2009 | Uncategorized
Just when it seems like the free-vs.-paid argument has reached its peak, it somehow manages to ratchet up to an entirely new level. This week has seen Murdoch's...
Peter M. Zollman | August 21, 2009 | Marketplaces
It's almost irrelevant at this point, and Jim Buckmaster hasn't even mentioned it on the Craigslist blog, but Craigslist has launched in 140 new communities...
Dave Lafontaine | August 22, 2009 | Uncategorized
AIM Group | August 25, 2009 | Uncategorized
Stop what you're doing. Go get a coffee. Maybe a pastry or a bagel. You're going to want to read Wired Magazine's "Why Craigslist is such a mess" without...
Sharon Hill | August 25, 2009 | Real Estate
Ask a Realtor, a new online question and answer feature recently launched by Move's Realtor.com, offers homeowners, sellers and buyers answers to real estate...
admin3 | August 25, 2009 | Marketplaces
Vancouver-based Canpages Inc. is receiving glowingly uncritical coverage in Canadian media for its acquisition of GigPark, a Toronto social media site, and its...
ray marcano | August 25, 2009 | Uncategorized
Yet another company has come out with an e-reader. E-Ink Corp has created a device with a six-inch screen that shows only black and white text, and has no...
Sharon Hill | August 26, 2009 | Marketplaces
Thanks in part to an idea from one of his Twitter followers, California's governator is having a garage sale on EBay. He's cleaning out the state's closets and...
Sharon Hill | August 27, 2009 | Uncategorized
Just in case you weren't completely convinced of the value of social networking... John Mancini, president of the non-profit Association for Information and Image...
