Musings on the new Internet
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 8th, 2007
According to Hispanic PR Wire:
MySpace, the country’s most trafficked website, and MTV, the leading global youth brand, teamed up with ImpreMedia as their Hispanic media partner for the 2007 series of Presidential Candidate Dialogues. ImpreMedia’s online channel, LaVibra.com, which targets hip urban Hispanics between the ages 18-34 years, will host the Spanish translated dialogues in […]
Posted in Citizen journalism, Media, New media on Oct 8th, 2007
The citizen journalism startup Newsvine has been acquired by MSNBC for an undisclosed sum.
According to Newsvine CEO Mike Davidson the citizen journalism site will continue operating independently, just as it has been since launching in March of 2006.
Newsvine gets about 1.2 million unique visitors, 80,000 comments and 250,000 votes per month.
In explaining why Newsvine […]
Posted in Mac OS X, Technology on Oct 6th, 2007
The number of students using Macs at university campuses continues to grow.
At Princeton 40 percent of students and faculty are currently using a Mac as their personal computer as compared to only 10% of Mac users on campus 4 years ago . A similar trend is seen at many other colleges: Dartmouth is up to […]
Posted in Quick bytes on Oct 5th, 2007
Internet advertising revenues for the first half of 2007 reached nearly $10 billion, setting a new record representing an increase of nearly 27 percent over the same period last year.
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Posted in Music, Peer-to-peer on Oct 5th, 2007
True. Sixty million Americans trade copyrighted songs on the Internet. At any given time, up to 10 million people are swapping music files on peer-to-peer networks.
Technorati Tags: audio, DRM, music, copyright, RIAA
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Posted in Beyond Web 2.0, Business models, Social networking on Oct 4th, 2007
IDC predicts that the social networking application market will expand 120% in 2007.
Estimated at $46.8 million in 2006, this market will grow to $428.3 million by 2009 “creating a new application segment and establishing social networking as a new communications tool used for many purposes other than consumer socializing.”
IDC identifies three social networking segments emerging:
self-service […]
Posted in Quick bytes on Oct 4th, 2007
El Mercurio Online launches a technology video channel where visitors can learn about “the latest in innovation and trends” and “the transforming effects of Web 2.0 and the new technological devices that captivate fans of these gadgets”.
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Posted in Media, Minorities on Oct 4th, 2007
As media consolidation continues to grow, women and minority ownership of media has largely declined.
A new study by Free Press reports that
for every female-owned radio station in the country, the average market has 16 stations owned by white men. For each minority-owned station, the average market has eight stations owned by white men
This means that although 51 percent of […]
Posted in Beyond Web 2.0 on Oct 2nd, 2007
After launching the real-time query suggestions last July, Yahoo! Search has now improved its search capabilities by releasing the new Yahoo! Search Assist.
Search Assist is an Ajax assistant pane that drops down to give you suggestions to complete the keywords, as well as related concepts that you might want to try.
The keyword suggestions appear in […]
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