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- The organizers of the Olympics really blew it this time. Not showing the unbelievable comeback of Michael Phelps in the 100-meter butterfly race, which he won by one-hundredth of a second, is evidence of cowardice. And a total lack of commercial savvy, in the digital age. Can...
- Blog posts 2008-08-22
- Does Facebook really need users to tell them that the ads suck?
- These days Internet users get to vote on anything and everything -- news, people, startups etc. - so why not advertising? Imagine being able to give online ads the thumbs down or up, a feature that social networking site Facebook has reportedly begun rolling out. I say...
- Blog posts 2008-06-05
- Schmidt: Google's social ad strategy is "trial and error"
- Google's strategy for monetizing the social web is one of "trial and error", says CEO Eric Schmidt in a recent interview with German publication FAZ.net. "That's the way we do it at Google". When asked specifically about Google's arrangement with MySpace in which the search giant has...
- Blog posts 2008-05-28
- Section 230 to Twitter and others: Delete away
- Community and content management don't void a site's immunity under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. Participation in an unlawful act does. I was thus taken aback by the legal analysis included in Wired's/Betsy Schiffman's post about Ariel Waldman and Twitter...
- Blog posts 2008-05-24
- How much are your friends worth?
- News Corp. revealed yesterday that its new media subsidiary Fox Interactive Media FIM has missed this year's revenue target of $1bn by 10 per cent. FIM's portfolio is dominated by MySpace which accounts for the majority of its revenue, bringing into question once again the ability to monetize the huge...
- Blog posts 2008-05-08
- News to know: Microhoo; Adobe; MacBook Air; OLPC; RIAA
- Notable headlines: Microsoft: We'll raise our bid for Yahoo, but can't make up our mind yet. Techmeme Jason O'Grady: Excess thermal paste causing high temps in MacBook Air Ryan Stewart: Adobe Open Screen Project Dan Farber: IBM...
- Blog posts 2008-05-01
- Can AOL solve the UGC and advertising problem?
- I've written before on how User-Generated Content and advertising don't always get on. Or more specifically, how social networking sites, even on the scale of MySpace, are having difficulty monetizing their traffic because major brands are wary of placing ads alongside the unpredictable content created by users. ...
- Blog posts 2008-04-30
- Report: MySpace turning News Corp. stock toxic; advertisers shy of UGC
- Report: MySpace turning News Corp. stock toxic; advertisers shy of UGCMyspacedidnt know advertisers are shying away from the anarchy of User-Generated Content UGC.interesting. kodyhttp://dude56112.wordpress.com/
- Discussion threads 2008-04-21
- Report: MySpace turning News Corp. stock toxic; advertisers shy of UGC
- While I don't normally comment on matters relating to Wall Street here on The Social Web, a Bloomberg article published today raises a number issues relating to News Corp.'s attempts to extract profit from MySpace. After Fox Interactive Media FIM, the company division that runs MySpace, said...
- Blog posts 2008-04-21
- Meanwhile back at the Yahoo ranch, Flickr Video is coming soon
- Updated 3:33 PST: With the unsolicited bid by Microsoft, and potentially other suitors (TechCrunch reports News Corp. trying to put together a bid) who want to derail the combination, Yahoo has its hands full. I expect that ultimately Microsoft will succeed in its two-year quest to bring Yahoo into its...
- Blog posts 2008-02-02
- User-generated content and birth control attitudes
- According to comScore, second only to consulting physicians, women turn most often to the Internet for health information. 85% of women using the Internet have researched women's health issues online while 63% have used the Internet specifically to learn about birth control options. Respondent Attitude Percent of Respondents...
- Blog posts 2008-01-27
- Who is afraid of the GGG?
- Dan Farber was one of the first to cover the Giant Global Graph, here on ZDNet. A few days on, though, there's value in taking a look at how these ideas are being discussed across the blogosphere. The GGG, or Giant Global Graph....
- Blog posts 2007-11-26
- "MySpace Fashion" launches
- After over a year of existing in "Beta" status, MySpace has launched a revamped version of its fashion community, dubbed "MySpace Fashion", to co-inside with start of next week's New York Fashion Week. As with the official MySpace communities for music and film, MySpace Fashion is hoping to build on...
- Blog posts 2007-08-28
- Advertising's tentative relationship with UGC
- Advertising's tentative relationship with UGCWhat ads?I just use Firefox and AdBlock and I don't have to deal with 99.9% of the adverts on the Internet. So, let the advertisers do what they wish, I won't see them.
- Discussion threads 2007-08-06
- Advertising's tentative relationship with UGC
- It was fascinating to see Facebook plastered all of over the UK mainstream media this weekend, albeit for the wrong reasons. The headline news was that a number of companies -- including First Direct, Vodafone, Virgin Media, Halifax, AA, and Prudential -- had pulled advertising from the social news...
- Blog posts 2007-08-06
- YouTube: How to win with User Generated Ads
- Is User Generated Content a panacea? Need one even ask?Nevertheless, Scott Karp headlines his reaction to a New York Times story on one particular company's foray into the User Generated Ad game with the "news" that "User Generated Content is not a panacea."Of course not. THEREFORE, all the more opportunity for savvy companies...
- Blog posts 2007-05-27
- NBC takes (no) 30 second video pre-roll ad stand
- How committed is NBC Universal to capturing the “rising currency” that is broadband video on the Web?Peter Naylor, SVP, Digital Media Sales, NBC Universal, reaffirmed NBC is in to win, as the kick-off speaker, and principal sponsor, of yesterday’s Interactive Advertising Bureau IAB Leadership Forum on Digital Video that took...
- Blog posts 2007-05-08
- Sling Media to Old Media: 'Can't we all just get along?'
- Sling Media, Inc. is a “different kind of consumer electronics company.”What kind? “One thats working to demystify convergence technologies and to create empowering experiences for the digital media consumer,” according to Sling Media. Jason Hirschhorn, President, Sling Media Entertainment Group, addressed the Interactive Advertising Bureau IAB Leadership Forum on Digital...
- Blog posts 2007-05-07
- Hollywood execs still cautious about user generated content
- Not every Hollywood studio or entertainment giant looks at YouTube as a kind of video pirate ship. "YouTube is a great marketing platform. A lot of the time my producers and writer are submitting [video] to the site," said Stefanie Henning, senior vice president of Fox Television Studios."YouTube is a...
- Blog posts 2007-05-02
- Want to know what I'm doing now?
- Want to know what I'm doing now?No milk pleaseDon't put milk in your tea, please.... It's a filthy English habit, it spoils most of the fragrance and the aroma of the tea. Tea should be drunk pure, no sugar, nothing added.... :-)Greetz, Pjotr.another cup of teahey guys -- i'm making...
- Discussion threads 2007-05-01
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