May 22nd, 2007links for 2007-05-23
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“The CEO also focused on how the HBO Mobile and AOL-Time joint venture initiatives would poise Time Warner for growth in the coming years, implying the future of media would be carried on the heels of digital.”
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“A Hong Kong Customs investigation found that Chan had offered the films “Daredevil,” “Miss Congeniality” and “Red Planet” from his computer, and also placed a notice on an Internet forum inviting other users to download them.”
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“New York - Online social network Facebook plans this week to announce a new tool that will allow companies to market to its users via their own branded pages, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday.”
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“Suggestions include “Beautiful Day” and “City of Blinding Lights” by U2; “Ready to Run” by the Dixie Chicks; “Right Here, Right Now” by Jesus Jones; and “I’ll Take You There” by the Staple Singers.”
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“one outcome, … could be a Web-based offering that integrates some of Google’s online services such as email and instant-messaging with those of Salesforce.com, whose “customer-relationship management” tools help salespeople track their accounts. “
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“Listeners also will be able to use their phones to check lists of the last 10 songs aired on the station, find out what songs are coming up, look at traffic conditions in their area and download graphics and ringtones.”
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“Hot Trends, a list of the current top-100 fastest-rising search trends, will be refreshed several times daily, using data from millions of Google Web searches conducted up to an hour before each update…”
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“KFC evaluated 400 videos and got approval to use 35, before making the final cut to clips from 13 people, including a vegetarian.”
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“Yahoo is rumoured to be working on an attempted takeover of Bebo, Britain’s most popular social networking site, which could turn its British-born founder into the next internet billionaire.”
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“CNN announced a deal that will allow it to offer more local news on its Web site and, it hopes, land a bigger slice of the fast-growing market for local online ads.”
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“Sony and News Corp. are said to be interested in paying as much as $400 million to acquire Club Penguin, the online virtual world for youngsters from 8 to 14. [There's} growing attractiveness of immersive online worlds as takeover targets."
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"NatGeo is entering a deal with YouTube to offer a series of short-form videos that it has produced for NationalGeographic.com to YouTube's users. The agreement comes amid an ongoing debate among big media over whether to partner with or sue YouTube."
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"Google wants the FCC to let companies allocate radio spectrum using the same kind of real-time auction that the search giant now uses to sell advertisements."
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"Microsoft's plan to buy Web advertising firm aQuantive increases the likelihood that the software giant will also buy Yahoo, according to Goldman Sachs analyst Anthony Noto. Yahoo would plug a "strategic hole."
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"MoveOn, is calling MySpace a "serial censurer of user-generated content." Owner News Corp. is "creating a 'walled' public square -- disabling links to sites they don't like," such as Revver, and blocking ads that criticize Rupert Murdoch."
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"Yahoo is seeing an exodus of staffers,...amid worry that [low] morale could cripple efforts to turn itself around. One former Yahoo exec notes that the company needs a seasoned media exec in charge: “The question is: Is CEO Terry Semel the right guy?”
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“”Prom Queen,” an increasingly popular show, is backed by Eisner’s new company, Vuguru. “Actors realize they can get discovered here,” Eisner says of the Web. “Is it better to do off-Broadway theater or an Internet show that gets 8, 12 million views?”
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“Advertising rates during this year’s “upfront” season will take into account, for the first time, viewers who use digital video recorders to watch shows after their original airdates . A year ago, advertisers refused to pay [for] DVR viewership.”
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