May 9, 2024
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Important Details: Circling the wagons to protect its core assets and values, the New York Times announced that it is closing a printing plant, cutting 250 more jobs, and reducing its page width by an inch and a half. Overall, the Times reported lackluster financial results, with profit ...
Read MoreWhat We’re Seeing: We’ve seen a pay-per-click revolution. We’ve seen Bill Gross, Google, and Yahoo! moving rapidly into the next frontier – pay for performance. That’s clearly where the sellers of goods and services want to go – paying a commission on ...
Read MoreWhat We’re Seeing: If AngiesList.com is the homeowner’s new friend for finding trustworthy service help, then Yelp is its hip, younger sister – an opinionated, often outrageous guide to everything outside those four walls. Get out of the house, condo, or apartment, and ...
Read MoreWhat We’re Seeing: Call it the Innovator’s Delight. Attend a conference of outsiders, those not consumed with protecting legacy news businesses, and you hear and see a whole other attitude. Last week’s Media Giraffe conference, held at the University of Massachusetts ...
Read MoreImportant Details: You have to use the Internet Archive to find the first BayArea.com. Now that idea – incorporating the soon-to-be-bought-by-MediaNews San Jose Mercury News and Contra Costa Times, and maybe the San Francisco Chronicle as well – has been reborn. ...
Read MoreImportant Details: The Tribune’s annual meeting, held on May 2, at first seemed unexceptional. CEO Dennis FitzSimons acknowledged that the company’s revenues and share price were troublesome, but said he was buoyed by the growth of the company’s Internet businesses ...
Read MoreImportant Details: Long-promised, it’s finally arrived: the socialization of news. News junkies have been using the main aggregators of news – Yahoo!, Google, MSN – as starting points to find a broad representation of news on topics they care about. Of course, they get a lot ...
Read MoreWhat We’re Seeing: In mid-afternoon, the news broke in Silicon Valley. Mayor Ron Gonzales, long ago damaged by behind-closed-doors activities, was being indicted on bribery and related charges. I saw it on a Google alert as I went about my work. MercuryNews.com did a speedy job of ...
Read MoreImportant Details: It’s clearly the season of the sequel. Call It “Would-Be-Viral Web Syndication, 2.0.” Voxant and Clip Syndicate are the newest kids on the block, joining earlier entrant Mochila. Both recognize the ascendance of video as the web culture is YouTube-ified. ...
Read MoreImportant Details: Think of it as detente of sorts. And cast The Associated Press as the peacemaker. With two recent announcements, AP is showing its willingness to get Web users what they want – more easily – and benefit its owner-publishers. AP’s new Technorati ...
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