New York Times: Internet Users in Developing Countries Drag on Sites’ Profits
Tuesday, 28 April 2009, 06:50
"Web companies that rely on advertising are enjoying some of their most vibrant growth in developing countries. But those are also the same places where it can be the most expensive to operate, since Web companies often need more servers to make content available to parts of the world with limited bandwidth. And in those countries, online display advertising is least likely to translate into results."
The Economist: Making the web pay – The end of the free lunch—again
Saturday, 21 March 2009, 14:42
"Internet companies are again laying people off, scaling back, shutting down, trying to sell themselves to deep-pocketed industry giants, or talking of charging for their content or services. … [Quite] how Facebook or Twitter will be able to make enough money to keep the lights on for their millions of users remains unclear."
Poynter Online: Roanoke, Poynter Develop Ethics Guidelines for Journalists Using Facebook, MySpace and Twitter
Tuesday, 20 January 2009, 16:34
"In Roanoke, the journalists grouped the pressure points into three categories: How to use Facebook and MySpace as a reporting tool, how to use the sites as a promotional tool and finally, how to balance your personal and professional images."
Friday, 21 March 2008, 12:35
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"[A] next big thing—web-mail then, social networking now—can indeed quickly become something that consumers expect from their favourite web portal. The non sequitur is to assume that the new service will be a revenue-generating business in its own rig
Monday, 17 March 2008, 11:55
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"The Eliot Spitzer sex scandal has created an unintended victim — a preacher’s daughter with the misfortune of sharing the same name as the notorious prostitute who brought down the New York governor."
Saturday, 15 March 2008, 12:23
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It seemed [Ashley Alexandra Dupre] was trying to stay one step ahead of journalists, attempting to limit what information they could access [on her MySpace page].
Saturday, 15 March 2008, 12:11
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"Much of the background information on [22-year old Ashley Alexandra Dupre, otherwise known as Kristen.
], as well as photos, have come from social networking sites, such as MySpace."
Thursday, 14 February 2008, 16:11
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"The SlingShot Labs venture is designed to spawn Internet startups for News Corp. and also likely to help MySpace compete with Facebook"
Saturday, 9 February 2008, 15:45
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"The MoD warns that "more discipline" and "greater enforcement" of military conduct rules is necessary to tackle "the publishing of unauthorised content on unofficial channels . . ." [like YouTube and social networking sites]."
Monday, 14 January 2008, 16:32
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"The most recent–and seemingly unlikely–election coverage team is CBS News and Digg, … Under the partnership, political stories from Digg will appear in a box on the politics section of CBSNews.com."
Thursday, 20 December 2007, 10:05
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"35 percent of all online teen girls blog, while only 20 percent of online teen boys do so … The Internet for them is much less about consuming content than it is about interpersonal communications. … BlufftonToday.com, is dominated by females."
Monday, 17 December 2007, 16:04
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"Hachette Filipacchi has launched a new social networking and social bookmarking website for its teen title Sugar, and plans to introduce widgets to integrate the site with Bebo and MySpace."
Thursday, 29 November 2007, 16:45
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"although national news outlets from Fox News to The New York Times have since revealed the identity of Lori Drew who apparently posed as a teen boy online and harassed Meier with insults until her death, the St. Charles Journals of St. Peters, Mo., remai
Monday, 26 November 2007, 17:04
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Tim O’Reilly promotes mathematical literacy with a discussion of trends in major websites’ traffic growth.
