paidContent.org:
I am at the Paley Center in midtown Manhattan, for their big yearly powwow on the future of global media and entertainment, listening to Katie Couric interview Jeff Bewkes and Les Moonves. Among the other questions, an audience member asked about the low ratings of CNN, compar (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
Research firm Gartner has just put out a list of the top ten mobile applications of the future. Well, not the distant future, but the far off year of 2012. Nothing on the list is all that surprising or, in many cases, even all that new. Instead, the list includes the sorts of technologies that are just now coming into their (Read More)
Daily Kos:
Our friends over at the Economic Policy Institute hosted a live Webcast Tuesday featuring six speakers. The key conclusion? Progressive leaders warn of lasting damage from jobs crisis. One speaker was Richard Trumka, president of the AFL-CIO. Here's what he had to say: If you prefer to read than watch, here's a somewha (Read More)
TechCrunch:
We’re here at Dreamforce, Salesforce.com’s annual cloud computing event in San Francisco. CEO Marc Benioff is delivering the keynote and we will be live-bogging the news below. Salesforce has had a banner year, reporting strong earnings yesterday for the third quarter, launching a new version of their fastest growing produ (Read More)
readwriteweb:
Digg CEO Jay Adelson told FOX Business tonight that ever since rolling out Digg Ads, the social link-sharing service has been making money and that profitability is right around the corner.Although advertising continues to be the only seemingly reliable model for monetizing content-centric websites, Adelson reports that cli (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
When you launch a make or break initiative like Windows Azure, you better get it right.Well, from our vantage point, Microsoft got it right. How? In front of a sea of developers at the Professional Developers Conference, Microsoft trotted out a group of geek all-stars who showed how they are using Azure to do some pretty co (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Old habits die hard. Rupert Murdoch believes that the future of the newspaper business is subscriptions—electronic subscriptions. He’s done with giving away his news for free on the Web and to search engines like Google. Instead thinks that Kindle-like tablet computers can save the media industry. It’s a notion that’s b (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
Superfeedr, a service that transforms a wide variety of feeds into normalized XMPP or Pubsubhubbub format, announced a seed round of funding from some very high-profile backers this morning. Betaworks, backers of Twitter, Bit.ly, Tweetdeck, Twitterfeed, Tumblr and more, and Mark Cuban, have invested in Superfeedr's parent (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
After 18 months of negotiation, the Open Web Foundation, a group made up of 106 employees of Yahoo, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, some small startups and their lawyers, today released a legal document template for licensing open web technology specifications. The result could be greatly accelerated time-to-market for new t (Read More)
paidContent.org:
Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) will shut down its four-year-old Yahoo Go service at the beginning of next year, so that it focus on building services in the browser and applications for high-end smartphones, like the iPhone and Android. Yahoo Go was a downloadable application that provide (Read More)
Daily Kos:
A new Washington Post-ABC News poll "shows Americans deeply divided over the proposals under consideration and majorities predicting higher costs ahead." But, while overall support for the bill is essentially tied with overall disapproval--48 to 49 percent, a strong majority still supports the public option and employer man (Read More)
paidContent.org:
» News Corp (NYSE: NWS) readers are polled about Murdoch’s pay-wall ideas. [AdAge]» Small and medium-sized businesses are abandoning banner ads for SEM, social media and email marketing. [Marketing Pilgrim]» Is Canonical working with Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) to bring an iTunes-l (Read More)
paidContent.org:
If it’s Tuesday—or any day of the week lately for that matter—it must be time for Rupert Murdoch to hit the tube. Today’s conduit: his own Fox Business Network. The News Corp (NYSE: NWS). chairman and CEO hit some of the usual subjects, but with a few variations. Some excerpts (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
Most text excerpts that appear on search results pages aren't very useful. Imagine if instead your search engine showed a list of clear sentences summarizing the contents of each link on that search result page. That's what a new service called Factery Labs aims to provide for any service that utilizes the API it's launch (Read More)
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As Slate’s DoubleX prepares to wind down after a nine-month stint as a standalone, Peggy White is leaving the company as publisher of the women’s news and analysis site, she tells paidContent. She’ll be on hand for a short period to help out with the transition of DoubleX back (Read More)