admin3 | March 30, 2009 | Uncategorized
Two years ago, Facebook had its fastest growth in Canada, with Toronto having its highest per-capita audience in the world. Now Facebook has appointed...
AIM Group | March 30, 2009 | Uncategorized
Here's an interesting commentary in AdAge worth reading about why advertising agencies need to reinvest in newspapers. "To begin with, it would be good for our...
carla | March 30, 2009 | Marketplaces
Trinity Mirror, one of the U.K.’s largest publishers with 100 Web sites and over 140 print titles, has quietly released a new online directory site called...
Brian Blum | April 01, 2009 | Uncategorized
It’s April Fool’s Day and in honor of the spirit of the day, MediaPost has a mischievously disheartening report from a “study” reporting...
ray marcano | April 02, 2009 | Uncategorized
Would you spend less than sixty cents a day to know what’s going on in your community?Most people would. That’s the approximate cost of an average home...
Peter M. Zollman | April 02, 2009 | Uncategorized
The newspaper conference business has been in the dumps, so smart associations are combining and...
Brian Blum | April 03, 2009 | Uncategorized
Will Google buy Twitter? That’s what the rumor mill is all abuzz about today. The news apparently comes from two separate and unnamed sources that claim...
admin3 | April 03, 2009 | Uncategorized
Canwest's National Post has started printing "Scanlife 2D bar codes" that enable mobile phone users to scan and connect with content, in partnership with NYC-based...
ray marcano | April 06, 2009 | Uncategorized
Media companies should pay heed to two products that could help solve the woes that ail newspapers.The products --- e-readers --- promise to be a flexible,...
Peter M. Zollman | April 06, 2009 | Uncategorized
HERSHEY, Pa. --- America East is “the little conference that could.” Even though it’s in a sort-of out-of-the-way place, and it’s a smallish event, it...
Brian Blum | April 08, 2009 | Uncategorized
Protesters taking to the streets to fight Google? It sounds like an unlikely scenario but that’s exactly what happened last week in the British town of...
Peter M. Zollman | April 08, 2009 | Uncategorized
HERSHEY, Pa. --- It was about halfway through our panel at America East this week when the inevitable (and persistent) question came up: “We’re a small...
ray marcano | April 09, 2009 | Uncategorized
There’s a lot of discussion about whether e-paper sites should charge for online content. Reflections of a Newsosaur reports that a group of publishers...
Mark Whittaker | April 09, 2009 | Uncategorized
ser-en-dip-i|ty - 1. a seeming gift for finding something good accidentally 2. luck, or good fortune, in finding something good accidentally.At least that's the...
Brian Blum | April 10, 2009 | Uncategorized
In another sign that Twitter is becoming mainstream, Google is now letting advertisers add a stream of their “tweets” into its popular AdSense network....
Brian Blum | April 10, 2009 | Uncategorized
YouTube is doomed. That’s the headline for an op-ed penned by Benjamin Wayne, CEO of Fliqz, in Silicon Valley Insider.It’s not the first time...
Peter M. Zollman | April 12, 2009 | Uncategorized
Classifieds and the Internet --- and some bad (very bad!) decisions by management --- get the blame for damaging The Boston Globe to the point where it's losing...
Brian Blum | April 13, 2009 | Uncategorized
Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg says that the social networking site’s much maligned recent redesign is actually good news for marketers.Sandberg explained on...
ray marcano | April 13, 2009 | Uncategorized
You might have missed this interesting nugget. For the next few weeks, The Star Tribune won't make all of its content available online, holding back certain...
Peter M. Zollman | April 13, 2009 | Uncategorized
Two tidbits of note about EBay today:...
AIM Group | April 13, 2009 | Uncategorized
The New York Times featured a story on hyperlocal news sites, profiling -- among others -- the 2-year-old EveryBlock.com and its 28-year-old founder, Adrian...
Brian Blum | April 14, 2009 | Uncategorized
The Wall Street Journal has long been successful charging for content. Now it plans to charge for more. Executive Editor of the Journal Online Alan Murray told...
Peter M. Zollman | April 15, 2009 | Recruitment
Updated 04/15/09 4:55 pm EST Will Yahoo sell HotJobs? The New York Times is reporting that Yahoo HotJobs is for sale because "Yahoo "doesn't consider [it] core to...
Peter M. Zollman | April 15, 2009 | Uncategorized
It was 10 years ago that Rosental Calmon Alves, a professor at the University of Texas, held the...
ray marcano | April 16, 2009 | Uncategorized
<!--> <! st1:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } --> Information reinvention is happening right before our eyes. Detroit started it with its home delivery cut...
Brian Blum | April 16, 2009 | Uncategorized
Charging for content online works for newspapers like The Wall Street Journal and the Financial Times. But will it work for smaller publications? Industry analysts...
Peter M. Zollman | April 17, 2009 | Uncategorized
AUSTIN, Texas --- Three rules about generating revenue online, from Marion Streckler of UOL, the...
Peter M. Zollman | April 18, 2009 | Uncategorized
AUSTIN, Texas --- More notes-n-quotes from the 10th International Symposium on Online...
ray marcano | April 20, 2009 | Uncategorized
<!--> <! st1:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } --> There are three digital and technology transformations happening very soon that have the potential to...
Brian Blum | April 20, 2009 | Uncategorized
Twitter has released its version of Facebook Connect. It’s called "Sign in with Twitter" and it allows Web users to sign into participating third-party sites...
