links for 2007-08-15

“Looks like there’s an easily embeddable Google Maps feature that will be launching in about a week. The feature was unveiled at Google Australia.”

Online subbing goof at the Daily Mail …

Dow Jones & Co., which is being acquired by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp., reported late Monday that ad revenue for its flagship Wall Street Journal fell 7.2% in July on a 20.9% decrease in advertising volume.

“The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times may drop pay-to-read content. But online ad revenue alone won’t cut it.”

Washington Post man Craig Stoltz: “At a time when newspapers must reinvent themselves as New Media, it’s an ideal moment to do away with bylines.”

“AideRSS is a Godsend. It analyzes the activity around each item in an RSS feed — Technorati hits, comments, Del.icio.us links, traffic reports, etc. — and calculates a score for the item.”

“Comscore data for July reveals that Bebo is now the number one visited social networking site in the UK, overtaking MySpace. Sitting in third place is Facebook. “

Non-sk8er boi Jon Gripton recounts an unsuccessful attempt to interview Avril Lavigne in Second Life for Sky News.

Question marks in a headline usually mean “No”. Probably not in this case, though.