Trends With context as king... Internet Ad Spending Set To Overtake All Other Media By 2011: VSS Online Media Daily
Mass-market paid content takes a back seat...New York Times to end TimeSelect paid Web service New York Post
Google Video service to go black; Its movie and TV download store isn't catching on LA Times via Content Agenda
Universal Music to sell songs without copying constraints LA Times
News Corp undecided on making WSJ.com free Reuters
Amazon Invests In DRM-Free Music Site InformationWeek
Unless it's in the right package in the right place at the right time...Amazon Launches Lulu Competitor Read/Write Web
An Entire Bookshelf, in Your Hands The New York Times*
But don't count on old formulas for success in premium content... Yale dumps BioMed Central The Scientist
Online Ad Sales Growing, But Not At 'Premium' Sites Read/Write Web
NBC, News Corp. Weigh Sale of Stake WSJ Online*
Equity Firm Invests $100 million in NBC Universal-News Corp. Online Venture The New York Times*
YouTube killer hunts, does not find name Reuters MediaFile
As publishers and portals bulk up on social media to build context and audience engagement... Google News Gets Comments - With a Big Twist Mashable
Forbes may acquire social bookmarking site Clipmarks WebWare
Social Shopping Startup Kaboodle Acquired by Hearst - And It's Easy to See Why... Read/Write Web
Guardian Weekly site relaunches with social networking focus The Guardian*
Then again, you can always try aggregating other people's news editorially...oh, we've done that already...
Newser: Burned Once, but Starting Up Again The New York Times
Or keep on aggregating your own news - oh, we've done that already too... Now what, Rupert? CNN Money
Gannett CEO says company not for sale Reuters
SF Chronicle Trims Business Section; The Best Are Gone TechCrunch
Memo to mainstream publishers: there's plenty of growth if you're willing to embrace new models...TechTarget Online revenues increase to record $16.3 million; up 27 percent over prior year quarter PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance
First Profitable Year For FIM: $550 Million In Revenue, $10 Million Profit paidContentl.org via Forbes
Social media offers very personal endorsement value for advertisers but for some it's a little too personal... UK Government rejects Facebook as a friend Times Online
Facebook to give advertisers more control Times Online
New broadband mobile frequencies for Web content are creating a new frontier for high-value content... FCC Auction May Expand Cellphone Options, Services WSJ Online*
Converged Devices Doesn’t Mean Fewer Devices MediaShift
Well, commercial TV is mostly ads anyway, why not just do away with the programming...? NBC Universal launches Didja: Ad friendly video site to combat YouTube Variety
In other major trends in content this week... Plaxo Aims to Turn Address Book Into Social Network PC World
Taking on Google is 'tasty', says Ask.com chief executive Times Online
Google Confirms & Retracts Post on "Minutes" Crawl Time Stamp Search Engine Roundtable
Who Is Cloning Who? Business2.0, try again TechCrunch
Google signs on with Open Invention Network Ars Technica
Cable Operators Hope to Use TV Transition to Gain Leverage With Broadcasters MultiChannel News /C Agenda
Best Practices Plagiarism and falsified data slip into the scientific literature: The challenges of scientific integrity Ars Technica
Social Bookmarking Apps Provide a New Knowledge Management Platform eWeek
Study: More time spent on Web than newspapers CNET News
Eric Schmidt Defines Web 3.0 Read/Write Web
Online ad-serving tests Google Blog
Study Finds Event Producers Leveraging Online But Struggling with ROI FOLIO: Magazine
Read Books Online at the Open Library AppScout
Extending McLuhan: The 14 Messages of New Media MediaShift
Cool Tools Spock: Search's final frontier? CNET News
On the road and at home with Yahoo Go 2.0 Download Squad
Sumatra PDF viewer: free, fast, tiny, and open source Download Squad
Brightcove Aftermix Invites Mashable
Mahalo Launches Toolbar - Aims to Convert Google Users Read/Write Web
Edgeio Offers A Paid Content Widget Mashable
Find Related Wikipedia Content with Similpedia Micro Persuasion
David Pogue's Cutting-Room Floor The New York Times*
Deals, Partnerships & Sales Voxant's TheNewsRoom.com Site Now Offering MTV News to Thousands of Web Sites and Blogs PR Newswire
NYTimes.com to Be Exclusive Host of Freakonomics Blog BusinessWire
Taylor Woodrow uses Google to ensure compliance Computer Weekly
Wall Street Journal Enters Content Partnership With Brazil's Leading Business and Financial Daily Prime Newswire via CNN Money
Symyx to Buy MDL Software From Elsevier AP via Forbes
McGraw-Hill Higher Education and MERLOT Form Alliance To Enhance Online Content PR Newswire via CNN Money
Nielsen Completes Acquisition of Telephia, Inc. PR Newswire via EarthTimes
The Canadian Press Deploys Nstein Ntelligent Content Management Software TMCNet
Ingenio and LexisNexis Team Up to Bring Pay Per Call(R) Listings to Attorneys.com and Lawyers.com PR Newswire via CNN Money
News Corp. Plans to Sell Ottaway Newspapers Editor and Publisher
Google, Airtel Broadband join hands Business Standard
Products, Markets & People Autonomy Continues Record-Breaking Growth and Profitability PR Newswire via EarthTimes
Thomson says vice chairman Hall retiring Reuters via MSN Finance
VideoCafe To Offer Video Content To Bloggers Web Pro News
Nancy McKinstry, CEO of Wolters Kluwer CNN The Boardroom
Techocracy.Net Launches PR Web
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