July 11th, 2006
According to Hitwise, MySpace accelerated past Yahoo and Google…in terms of visits, that is.
No word yet on whether revenue growth has matched traffic growth. I’m on the edge of my seat to see the next News Corp quarterly earnings report. If the revenue curve matches the traffic curve, I’ll be the first to agree with Jeff Clavier and the many others who have declared News Corp’s acquisition of MySpace for $580M a “bargain.”
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BizBash | July 2, 2009
The Atlantic has been doing "salon" dinners for years with advertisers, journalists, policy makers, and Atlantic editors.
BBC News | July 2, 2009
You can now buy Twitter followers for the bargain price of $87 per 1,000. Better rates I assume for 100,000 user block.
econsultancy.com
there are around 700 advertisers worldwide who “routinely buy online display advertising”, compared with the 1.5 million companies who buy search keywords
YouTube | July 1, 2009
"Here's a newspaper, put it online...kept them from imagining an ONLINE NEWSPAPER"
BBC | July 1, 2009
A rather cool BBC site that tracks online conversation about their shows, and formulates a ranking based on the amount of buzz the particular episode is generating.
Fast Company
Jeff Bezos is trying to do to book publishers what Steve Jobs of Apple did to the music industry. With its iPod and iTunes Store, Apple carved out a largely virgin market so fast that it was able to wrest control of the digital-music distribution system and thus dictate what the record labels could do.
All Things Digital
Twitter and old media are complementary, and the former certainly has less value without the latter.
howardowens.com
James Gordon Bennett, Horace Greeley, E.W. Scripps and Joseph Pulitzer were not just earlier versions of Woodward and Bernstein. They were entrepreneurs, visionaries and risk takers who experimented and explored the capabilities of new technologies with a goal of meeting readers needs and growing audience.
Sky News | June 26, 2009
"So many people wanted to verify the early reports of Jackson’s death that the computers powering Google's news section interpreted the surge of 'Michael Jackson' requests as an automated attack."
Bloomberg News
Television programs such as “The Simpsons” and “CSI” are for the first time commanding higher advertising rates at Web sites including Hulu.com and TV.com than on prime-time TV.
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