O'Reilly Radar:
Top E-Tailers Profiting From Scams -- Vertrue, Webloyalty, and Affinion generated more than $1.4 billion by "misleading" Web shoppers, said members of the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation. [...] The government says the investigation shows that [the companies] "trick" consumers into entering the (Read More)
BBC:
What kind of technology does the modern multimedia reporter need to master - and where is the boundary these days between the professionals and amateurs? Two questions I've been debating over the last couple of weeks with journalism students at the Cardiff School of Journalism, and with colleagues from other broadcasting or (Read More)
Scobleizer:
It started as a little joke that I said on stage at the BlogWorld Expo. One of my fellow panelists said she didn’t like people who told other people that they were doing Twitter wrong. So, of course, I blurted out “Chris Brogan is doing Twitter wrong.” Mostly as a joke, but partly because, well, I think he’s doing Twitter w (Read More)
Silicon Alley Insider:
Terrifying? Inevitable? Harbinger? In any case, it’s a first: Police in Long Island, New York have arrested a man for not using Twitter. Someone named Justin Bieber, who apparently is a teenage singer, was supposed to appear at the Roosevelt Field mall on Friday, but didn’t because the...Continue reading »Join the conversat (Read More)
New York Times:
A group of start-up marketers see value in getting regular people to send a sentence or two of text to their friends and admirers.
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Scobleizer:
Twitter’s COO, Dick Costolo, today, at the TechCrunch Real Time Crunchup (live video of the conference is live now on building43, there will be lots of news all day long from this event), told the audience that Twitter is, indeed, going to turn on an advertising model.This is a huge shift in what Twitter is saying publicly. (Read More)
Lifehacker:
Brizzly, the web-based social media manager that ranked as one of our readers' favorite Twitter clients, has dropped the invite code requirement and is available for anyone to log into. It's still technically in "beta," but mostly to keep up the fairly rapid pace of feature development. [via TechCrunch]
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Lifehacker:
The preview edition of Gina and Adam's new book, The Complete Guide to Google Wave, is now available in PDF form for your offline, ebook-reading pleasure. Google Wave is a young tool that's not terribly easy to understand for a lot of folks, but at least a couple of your Lifehacker editors are completely nuts for Wave and i (Read More)
Silicon Alley Insider:
The hot story in tech right now is "real-time," thanks to Twitter and Facebook, so you're going to hear a lot of noise over the next few years about "real-time" tech startups. Most of them will be useless and will flame out.Read the rest of this story »See Also:Salesforce Shows Off Chatter: Twitter For Corporations (CRM)Her (Read More)
Silicon Alley Insider:
ESPN is suspending its hotshot writer Bill Simmons from Twitter for two weeks.The reason: He started mouthing off at Boston sports station WEEI on Twitter. WEEI is an ESPN partner.Read the rest of this story »See Also:The Next Twitter: Pay Attention To Hot Potato, A New 'Real-Time' StartupHere Come Twitter Ads, Says Twitter (Read More)
Wall Street Journal:
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Bloomberg L.P. plans to close its Bloomberg Press operation, a small unit that publishes books, following its acquisition of BusinessWeek magazine, spokeswoman for the parent company said on Friday afternoon.
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Silicon Alley Insider:
Music videos from Sony and Universal on YouTube have more advertising sold against them than any other group, according to analysis from TubeMogul.Below is an approximation of the daily share of YouTube's monetized views based on the number of videos that carry ads in YouTube's daily top 100 most-viewed.This is why Sony, Un (Read More)
Silicon Alley Insider:
The explosive growth of the Facebook games business has left a small number of companies with a lot of cash.Zynga has raised $54 million. Playdom has raised $43 million and Playfish now has the resources of a billion dollar public company, Electronic Arts (ERTS).Read the rest of this story »See Also:Facebook Named In Federa (Read More)
New York Times:
Morgan Stanley is handing over Crescent Real Estate Equities to Barclays Capital, winning forgiveness of a $2 billion loan that financed its acquisition of the real estate business in 2007. (Read More)
Lifehacker:
Being attached at the hip to your smartphone doesn't mean you're productive, just attached. The I Will Teach You To Be Rich blog showcases how three workers put a real fence around their work time and ended up more free. Writer Ramit Sethi's first example, Jim Collins, might be familiar to those read up on productivity tech (Read More)