Submitted by Badgergravling
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It’s shorthand for the chief problem of transitioning a local news operation’s business model from print to online: Newspaper revenue dollars become online pennies. Despite increasing readership online, advertisers continue to pay a much higher price when they place their ads in print.A lot of that has been laid to inertia (Read More)
SEO 2.0
CC: Cut here by Phoney Nickle.Kevin “cut teats” Rose, not only infamous for his sexist remarks but also as a failed entrepreneur who pownced his microblogging community is also known for his hate of SEO.In an interview he once explained that it’s a “whole industry dedicated to spam”. It’s (Read More)
: More and more, Kevin Rose's immaturity is revealed. Whatever fleeting fame he is enjoying today, it will disappear overnight unless he makes some big changes in his behavior.
Scobleizer
You couldn’t make this stuff up if you tried.OK, I’m on the phone with Joel Comm right now. He’s been doing business online since 1995. He’s the co-creator of Yahoo Games. He wrote the Adsense Code, which got onto New York Times best selling list. He hosted and produced the first Internet reality sho (Read More)
Submitted by Mcwflint
from Google Reader:
This is an updated re-post from the Next Newsroom Ning site.http://www.nextnewsroom.com/forum/topics/using-semantic-technologiesQuestion: Are newsrooms using semantic technologies for story development and reader engagement?One idea for the newsroom would be to use some of the social media mining tools developed for corpora (Read More)
Matteo - FriendFeed
Leyio, is launching a “Personal Sharing Device” in April 2009. The device which can transfer data up to speeds of 10Mbytesper second, and works on Ultra-wide band techonology, is promising to revolutionise how we share music, pictures, and social networking information.Shake, rattle and rollThe handheld device, works by sha (Read More)
digg.com: Stories / Technology / Popular
Google's Chrome browser is fast becoming the geeks' choice, as users all over the world tinker with it and explore its deeper capabilities. Not lacking essential functionality, Chrome is now proving that it can do everything: from starting in Incognito mode by default for better browsing safety to reverting to using a singl (Read More)
: If Chrome had extensions, it would become my default browser. There are too many extensions I cannot live without now. (LastPass, Foxmarks, Fastdial to name the majors I use the most.)
Google Operating System
CNet found from Gmail's Product Manager Todd Jackson some of the Gmail features that will be released in the next months, but hopefully the best new things are still a secret.The video chat plug-in for Gmail will show higher-quality videos and this is one of the reasons why Google chose not to use Flash. "Jackson says the p (Read More)
Delicious/codehound
SEO is no longer the sole key to good search engine rankings. Adapt and survive or deny and die. Remain a small component of an online marketing campaign or learn to run one. It’s your choice. 2009 will be the year of sharing tactics to market and brand websites from blogs to affiliate sites to regular business websites her (Read More)
Digital Inspiration
Learn how to embed almost anything in your web pages from Flash videos to Spreadsheets to high resolution photographs to static images from Google Maps and more.Embed RSS Feeds in Web PagesGo to this page, replace the feed URL with your own feed, use the default color scheme or change it to something else and then click Get (Read More)
TwitLinks
By Mike Fruchter of MichaelFruchter.com (Twitter/FriendFeed)Getting started with social media, whether for personal or professional use, requires learning the basic fundamentals. Social media is more than just creating a blog or Twitter account. The tools are great and give us big advantages, but they are simply extensions (Read More)
: I'm not so sure whether #mjberry is such a good example of a spammer on Twitter. He has got lots of followers who could unfollow him if they didn't value his tweets.
All News Feeds
Pretty much every product that Google works on has to go through gatekeeper Marissa Mayer, who decides whether it's ready to be released or needs more work. She even approves every single Google Doodle that adorns the search giant's homepages around the world. From being hired as the first female engineer nine and a half ye (Read More)
Mashable!
Feed Chronicle is a new site that lets you transform those RSS feeds into your very own online newspaper. It’s simple to use and setup. Just create an account, select the feeds (from drop-down menus) you want for each newspaper-like section, and the final result is your very own online newspaper.The site itself is pre (Read More)
Broadcasting Brain
Books, eBooks, white papers, you name it: bloggers and other social media practitioners are spreading their wings and going for long form content creation. It is starting to seem like writing and publishing long form content is one of those merit badges or resume bullet points that people are starting to collect like MBAs (Read More)