Trends
Social media is becoming an irresistible force drawing together media and enterprise content markets for professionals...
Source: Yes, LinkedIn and News Corp. are working on a deal
Venture Beat
OpenSocial Has Been Good To Plaxo
TechCrunch
Widgets make a big splash on the Net
USA Today

Memo to just about everyone: in a Google-shaped world is any business model safe...?
Yes, Google Is Trying To Take Over the World
Slate
Google Magazine?
TechCrunch
The Google Set-Top Box (Think Android For TV)
TechCrunch
Google Plans Service to Store Users' Data
WSJ Online*
Google and Other People's Content
BusinessWeek
Google U.S. Web search share jumps to 58.5 pct
Reuters

Facebook's surge in attention doesn't mean that it's totally tuned in to what works in social media...
MySpace Chief: Facebook "Substantially More Entertaining"
Reuters MediaFile
Facebook Stealing Google Employees At An Alarming Rate
TechCrunch
Facebook: We’re More Annoying than MySpace
Mashable
Facebook faces UK data probe
The Register
The Problem with Facebook's "Beacon"
Web Pro News
Cory Doctorow: How Your Creepy Ex-Co-Workers Will Kill Facebook
InformationWeek

Amazon's Kindle gets off to a quick start but is likely to hit a wall as its limitations become more apparent...
Kindle sells out in on Amazon in 5.5 hours
Engadget
Amazon’s Kindle ebook not so kind to reading rights
P2P Foundation
eBook’s future isn’t ebooks: the makings of Apple’s tablet
Gadgetell
5 Arguments For the Continued Viability of the Book
PC World
Tango Founder: Print Not Dead, But Going ‘Yearly’
FOLIO: Magazine

Ann Moore's Time Inc. plays hard to get at it tries to position itself as an online cash cow for its parent...
Time Inc. Bolsters Digital Brands
AdWeek

But Rupert Murdoch is focusing on developing the ability to reach far more contexts than traditional editorial output can create...
News Corp builds online ad network
Reuters

Yahoo is tuning up more competent me-too Web offerings, while AOL focuses more on mobile messagers...
Yahoo! launches stealth beta of myM: A Meebo competitor?
Download Squad
Yahoo deal lets users upload, edit music; Catching up with Google is impetus for new video deal
Chronicle via Content Agenda
AOL launches mobile assault
Mad.co.uk

Search engines that cannot adapt to delivering more specialized content are falling by the wayside...
Feedster Quietly Slips into the Dead Pool... So Which Blog Search Engine Do You Use?
Read/Write Web
Search 3.0: The Blended & Vertical Search Revolution
Search Engine Land

Slowly the music industry emerges from kicking and screaming at its customers to giving them what they want...
DRM-Free Classical Music: Deutsche Grammophon Launches Online MP3 Store
TechCrunch
IPhone Must Be Offered Without Contract Restrictions, German Court Rules
The New York Times
Criticism of Cdn pro-P2P study was sponsored by recording industry
BoingBoing

Good enough to use as a source of plagiarism, in any event...
Part of an Oil Book Relied on Wikipedia
The New York Times

One month's darling gizmo becomes another month's source of frustration...
Browsing With iPhone Is Abject Faliure
Web Pro News

Deck the halls with boughs of...emails...?
CyberMonday: A Gimmick Becomes a Real Trend
The New York Times*

In other major trends in content this week...
Making Social Connections and Selling Cookies
The New York Times
SCImago: a new portal ranking journals and countries
Really Simple Sidi
Wolters Kluwer €175 Million Share Buy-back Program
ABN Newswire
Study: Web Will Slow by 2010, Video a Culprit
USA Today
Newspaper Advertising Fell 7.4% in Third Quarter
WSJ Online

Best Practices
Online Video Ad Model Mimics TV Sales Approach
MediaWeek
Seth Godin's Meatball Sundae: How the Internet Changes Marketing
Web Pro News
Are You Sabotaging Your Social Stories?
Blogging Experiment
Wikis While You Work: Using Wikis in the enterprise requires a careful balance of freedom and control
eWeek
The Rise Of Hyperlocal Information
Read/Write Web
European vs. American Texting Cultures
Zephora.org
Books versus documents: what's wrong with so-called "e-books"
Ars Technica
An Important Lesson About Grassroots Media
Editor and Publisher
Digital Music Startups: Asking Permission vs. Begging Forgiveness
GigaOM
Losing the Journalistic Security Blanket
MediaShift
Could a Billion TinyURLs Go 404?
Micro Persuasion
Facebook To Drop 'Is' From Status Updates
Read/Write Web

Cool Tools
First Look: Amazon’s Kindle Reader: The Gap Between Description and The Device
paidContent.org
Flux Adds Content Sharing And Embedding
TechCrunch
Upload a Batch of Images to Flickr.com from the Desktop
Digital Inspiration
Screenshots And Details On Upcoming MySpace "News Feeds"
TechCrunch
Live Documents to Challenge Microsoft Office, Google Apps
eWeek
NBC Direct Sucked…Your PC Resources
NewTeeVee
SeeToo: Broadcast yourself. To one other person.
Download Squad
Google Maps goes wiki-style
Monsters & Critics
GPhone Pics! Open-Source 'Bug' Can Run Android
Silicon Valley Insider

Deals, Partnerships & Sales
SAGE and Hindawi announce landmark open access agreement
First Science
British Library Selects Apex CoVantage as Digitization Partner in Expanding the Repository of UK Pub
PR USA
Sony Attracts Dubai Cash
WSJ Online*
Dow Jones Renews Longstanding Licensing Arrangement with Bloomberg
PR Newswire via CNN Money
ABC News, Facebook Partner for Political Content
All American Patriots
Enterprise Communication Solution integrates with Facebook.
ThomasNet
Intuit Finally Buys Homestead for $170m
Read/Write Web
Lionbridge Launches CMS Alliance Program With Top Tier Content Management Partners
PR Newswire via CNN Money
blinkx Partners With Kiplinger.com to Bring Trusted Personal Finance Advice to Users Worldwide
IT News
Acxiom acquires MKTG Services
BtoB Online
Macrovision Buys Rights to Blu-ray Disc DRM Scheme
Daily Tech
The New York Public Library and Kaltura Team to Enhance Online Collaborative Rich Media
Marketwire

Products, Markets & People
Copyright Clearance Center Adds Blogs to its Licensing Programs
Ad-Hoc News
Reed Construction Chief To Advise Service Provider
PR Newswire via CNN Money
Elsevier Expands ScienceDirect College Edition
PR Newswire via IT News
Elsevier Announces Launch of 2collab, New Research 2.0 Platform
CNW Group
OCLC Enhances WorldCat.org
Weekly News Digest
RightNow Focuses on Customer Outreach With Syndication Widget
CRM Buyer
ProQuest Introduces Marketing Toolkit for Academic Libraries
PR Newswire via EarthTimes

Labels: summaries

Trends
Even as Google prepares to launch into a strong mobile stance...
Google Readies Wireless Bid
PC World
Google to acquire Sprint Nextel for Mobile WiMax?
Engadget
Google turns to X Factor's Fuller for push into TV
The Guardian

It is challenged to defend the value of search as it tries come up with the right mix of services for social media...
Google makes moves to protect organic relevancy
Scobelizer
Google Wiki, Where Art Thou?
eWeek
Inbox 2.0: Yahoo and Google to Turn E-Mail Into a Social Network
Bits - The New York Times
Connecting the Social Graph: Member Overlap at OpenSocial and Facebook
Compete

Amazon's new Kindle mobile platform debuts with eBooks, magazines and other downloadable content in tow and a $399 price tag...
The Future of Reading: Amazon's Kindle eBook Reader Debuts in Time for Christmas Shopping
Newsweek

Yahoo trims its portfolio as it begins to shift more earnestly towards partners and platforms that will help them to expand...
Yahoo Launches Open Source Program for Distributed Computing
ResearchBuzz
Yahoo Could Close Poorly-Performing European Properties; Third Party Search Partnerships Coming?
paidContent.org
Yahoo Adds 17 Newspapers To Online Publishing Group
WSJ Online*
NY Daily News Joins Yahoo Newspaper Consortium; Wants HotJobs Hookup
paidContent.org

As portals begin to aggregate micro-brands as well as familiar mainstream content sources...
Portals Think Small for the Latest News
WSJ Online*

Mainstream media companies begin to learn how to participate as members of a social media community...
John Markoff is Kicking Your Butt on Facebook
ValleyWag
Facebook Sponsored Pages Add Feeds: NY Times Gets it First
Mashable

In the love/hate relationship with social media audiences and marketers are still struggling to find effective ways to engage one another...
Content is Dead, Community is King?
Search Engine Watch
Facebook SocialAds - the missing feature
Deborah Schultz
New Facebook Ad Techniques Raise Privacy Concerns
PC World
It's official: I'm sick of Facebook
Connecticut Bob
IBM Predicts the End of Advertising as We Know It
IBM
Shelfari and the New Social Contract
O'Reilly Radar

They were for the war on consumers before they were against it - and now have to play catch-up to have some part of the online market...
Music boss: we were wrong to go to war with consumers
PC Pro/Macuser
NBC Direct launches: NBC's kind of lame video download service
Download Squad
DRM-Free Music Boosts Online Album Sales
PC World/ Macworld

The last major bastion of online subscription mass media is moving carefully to a more open model...
Murdoch: News Corp. Strong, WSJ.com Should be Free
CNBC
Free WSJ.com: Behind the math
Reuters MediaFile
Kevin Rose makes Wall Street Journal free for Digg users
ValleyWag

As newspapers race to balance old and new profitable models for online content...
Newspapers and ads: Missed delivery
CNET News
News aggregator one-stop-shops stay strong
IT Week
McClatchy on review for downgrade on declining advertising revenue - Moody's
Thomson Financial/ CNN

Database publishers still pour huge sums into new interfaces but will they really buy more use and productivity...?
Companionship is good:Thomson's new WebPlus web search engine
Really Simple Sidi

Time, Inc. sits pretty on a handful or elite content brands...
Ann Moore, CEO,Time Inc.: Bankers ‘Lust’ For Spinoff But Don’t See It Happening
paidContent.org

Circle the wagons, boys, there's only newspapers, television and radio left for ammo...
The Daily Show: FCC's Chairman Martin Argues for Consolidating Media Ownership
The New York Times
Media companies want more from the FCC
Reuters MediaFile
FCC Moves to Place Restrictions on Cable TV
Washington Post

Admitted that we were powerless over the Web, that our lives had become unmanageable...
In Korea, a Boot Camp Cure for Web Obsession
The New York Times*

Hey, mom and dad, why can't we get holiday presents like her kids do...?
Google Options Make Masseuse a Multimillionaire
The New York Times

In other major trends in content this week...
EMC opens Documentum up
eChannelLine
Overseas markets for information could outpace those in the Americas by 2010
BtoB Online
Why Are Founders and Execs Leaving Second Tier Social Networks?
TechCrunch
rssHugger Avoiding Technorati’s Pitfalls?
Mashable
What WebMD Can Teach Brands
AdWeek
STM publishers and Online Ad Spending
Really Simple Sidi
Yahoo, Jailed Journalists Settle Lawsuit
AP via SFGate

Best Practices
How Can Open Source Software Open Up Facebook?
SmartMobs
Microsoft Word Plug-in Will Aid Visually Impaired
eWeek
Leveraging the Power of Blogs in an Overcrowded Market
ProBlogger
Beware Dr. Google
San Francisco Chronicle
Internet users spend 47% time visiting Content
Virtual Cocoon
Banned User Abused Factiva
The Harvard Crimson
Google is Changing the Definition of a "Click" on AdSense Ads
Search Engine Roundtable
Newspaper Industry Group ABC to Change Circulation Rules
Bloomberg News
Implicit Web: a brief introduction
ZDNet Blogs
Wikipedia: University study explores content, editing
Shakopee Valley News
Survey: Users Trust Information On Social Networks Strongly
Web Pro News
The nautilus: where - and how - Open Access publishing will actually work
The Scientist

Cool Tools
VideoEgg Hatches Ad Platform for Publishers
Beet.tv
Social Networking Meets Video Microblogging On Seesmic Upcoming Platform
Robin Good
Google Android SDK is Live: Video Demo from Google
Mashable
Leveraging the Power of Blogs in an Overcrowded Market
ProBlogger
A breakthrough in database translation
PR Leap
OpenSocket Facebook app released in beta enables OpenSocial to run on Facebook
OpenSocket
Connect Google Talk With Yahoo! or Windows Live Messenger
Digital Inspiration
Jango Pumps Up the Social Radio Volume
eCommerce Times

Deals, Partnerships & Sales
AOL Acquires Israeli Social Search Start-Up Yedda
paidContent.org
Dow Jones Announces Distribution Agreement with InfoNgen
PR Newswire via CNN Money
Voxant, the New Media Network, Adds illumistream health to Growing Catalog of Fully Licensed Health
PR-USA
Edmunds.com Hops Into the Driver's Seat with Digital Element
BusinessWire via PR Inside
Springer And Portico Join Forces In Electronic Archiving For Scholars, Researchers And Students
Medical News Today
SirsiDynix Partners with Brainware, Inc.
Library Journal
Yahoo! Delivers Compelling Products and Services Designed for the Mobile Consumer in Asia
PR Newswire via CNN Money
Facebook Sponsored Pages Add Feeds: NY Times Gets it First
Mashable
A breakthrough in database translation
PR Leap
OpenSocket Facebook app released in beta enables OpenSocial to run on Facebook
OpenSocket
Zillow.com(R) and 11 Newspaper Companies Form Online Real Estate Partnership
PR Newswire via CNN Money
Mobifusion Releases Suite of Mobile Content Applications with Dialog Telekom
TMCNet
Aptara Announces $29 Million-Plus Contract Extension With Bowne & Co.
Marketwire via CNN Money
Sirius, XM shareholders approve deal
MarketWatch
IBM to buy Cognos for $5 billion
Blogging Stocks
ProQuest and Gale Reach Agreement
eContent Magazine
Forbes acquires Clipmarks, creates network of sites
BtoB Online

Products, Markets & People
Alacra Launches Alacra Content Marketplace
PR Web
Voxant, the Media Network, Extends Advertising Reach
Taxi
Bebo Launches 'Open Media' A New Vision for Social Media and Entertainment
PR Web
Google Starts Russian Version Of Video Web Site YouTube
The Moscow Times
Daily Kos Founder to Join Newsweek
Mashable
Baidu Debuts a Financial Information Service
Trading Markets.com
World's First Travel Bookmarking Site Launches
PR Urgent
Ascend Media shutters three medical titles
BtoB Online
Attributor Launches Online Content Tracking Subscription Service
Information Week
Wolters CEO not in market for major new deal
Reuters
AOL Uploads Tacoda's Morgan
Silicon Alley Insider

Labels: summaries

Trends
In a week of big announcements give the first nod to a tool that turns any Web site into a social media platform...
Details Revealed: Google OpenSocial To Launch Thursday
TechCrunch
MySpace, Bebo, and SixApart Adopt Now-Formidable OpenSocial
Wired Epicenter
Apps Already Coming for Google's New OpenSocial
PC World
MuseStorm Announces Gadget Based on New OpenSocial APIs
PR Newswire
Why Facebook Shouldn't Fear OpenSocial
Read/Write Web
OpenSocial Hacked In Minutes
Center Networks

Followed by a platform that could change how we pay for content on mobile devices and replace PCs...
Google Enters the Wireless World
The New York Times
Google to unveil 'Android' phone software
CNET News
Google Talks Up GPhone to Verizon
PC Magazine
Advertising Will Set Mobile Free
Wireless Week
PCs being pushed aside in Japan
SmartMobs

The runner-up? A platform that is perfectly aimed at what Facebook was a year ago...
Yahoo! Kickstart: LinkedIn for college students and alumni
Download Squad

Memo to CEO Tom Curley: AP has a great legacy, but it's time to move past a centuries-old distribution model...
AP's Curley: We Have Come to a 'Fork in the Road'
Editor & Publisher
AP Is Dead ... Killed By Blogs & Aggregation
Web Pro News

Quality news still draws audiences thanks to social media links - an idea that news sites are finally adopting...
Traffic Jam: Users at Newspaper Sites Still On Rise
Editor & Publisher
The New York Times Tries Bookmarking Links
The New York Times

When mass media no longer controls how money flows to those seeking power does it really have power...?
Schooled: Ron Paul Raises Record Sums for His Campaign Using Advanced Social Media Techniques
MyDD

Murdoch's plan for Dow Jones will leverage his ability to manage brands globally...
Murdoch’s WSJ Already Going Global
Reuters MediaFile

As old promises of synergies between old and new media begin to fade the winners start to shed the losers...
Parsons Out, Bewkes In - Talk of Time Inc. Spinoff May Intensify
FOLIO: Magazine
Hoping to Grow, Diller Prunes Empire
WSJ Online
IAC Split: Interview: Doug Lebda, COO, IAC
paidContent.org

And gear up to buy more winners...
AOL Purchases Ad Company Quigo For $300 Million
Mashable

Facebook may not look like much in the short run but in the long run it could be the universal social inbox...
Am I Really Worth $300 as a Facebook User?
MediaShift

The Hulu hubbub has already died down as people realize that it's and old TV model in a new medium...
Hulu to Threaten Cable TV, Not YouTube
TheStreet.com

Then again, a lot of media companies seem to like the idea of old models...
Yahoo: 'IP Rules'
Internet News
eBooks making same mistakes as music industry
PC Pro

While others seem to have done just fine with new models...
Google Search Has 90% Market Share in France - Could This Happen Worldwide?
Read/Write Web
The Era of Bottom-Up Brands: Google is Changing the Rules By Which Brands Win Consumer Loyalty
WSJ Online*

The long tail eats up everything but the lowest of common denominators for mass market content...
What exactly is Britney Spears trying to tell us?
LA Times

In other major trends in content this week...
Thomson, Reuters Request 10-Day Extension for European Regulator to Review Acquisition
Candian Business
First WGA New York strike targets: media giants
The Hollywood Reporter
EU cracks down on fake blogger astroturfing
The Register
Oregon Attorney General Says No to RIAA; Files Motion to Quash on Behalf of University of Oregon
Recording Industry/ People
Thanks to BitTorrrent, Net neutrality debate reignites
CNET News
Do-not-track lists to shield Net surfers
CNET News
'Newsweek' to Cut 500,000 From Rate Base
Ad Age
Driving Traffic Online: Social Networking
FOLIO: Magazine

Best Practices
Pay Per Click Is Popular, But Results Vary
eMarketer
Africa: ICT/Web No Longer Luxury for Citizens
AllAfrica.com
The Peer To Peer Manifesto: The Emergence of P2P Civilization and Political Economy
Robin Good
A Social Networking Website for Writers
WebWire
Create Online Databases, Social Lists And Custom Interactive Atlases With Listphile
Robin Good
$199 gOS PC: Where Computers Are Headed?
TechCrunch
‘Fair Use’ guidelines for video remixes
P2PNet
A Brief History of the Book
Global Politician
Canadian Government Study Finds P2P Downloaders Buy More Music
Michael Geist
Well paid at The Wall Street Journal
Reuters MediaFile
Hitwise offers reports on new and returning visitors
BtoB Online

Cool Tools
Some might say Thoof can read minds
Austin Statesman
Retrofuturist builds "steampunk" laptop
ValleyWag
Sneak Peek: Seekler Community List-Building
Mashable
A Cloudbook on the Horizon
The New York Times

Deals, Partnerships & Sales
Best Buy Launches Mydeo-Powered User-Gen Video Portal; Takes Minority Stake
paidContent.org
TheStreet.com Acquires Financial Info Sites BankingMyWay and RateWatch for $25 Million
paidContent.org
Comtex Adds Online Video News Content With Multimedia ClipSyndicate News Products
PR Newswire via CNN Money
Internap Selects Pando Networks as P2P Co-Development Partner
PR Newswire via CNN Money
IAC Diller:Inked $3.5 Billion Deal With Google For Sponsored Listings
Dow Jones via CNN Money
Reuters buys Australian power and gas markets information provider
Thomson Fin. via Hemscott
Answers.com Adds HealthiNation Video Content to Answer Engine(TM)
PR Newswire via CNN Money
PodShow to Create 'Searchertainment' - Selects blinkx to Power Breakthrough Rich Media Search
PR Newswire
The Nielsen Company to Participate in Forbes Leadership Networks
BusinessWire
Generate Signs Three Leading Publishers to Deploy gClick Technology
PR Newswire
Fair Isaac, Think Partnership join forces on new ad marketplace
BtoB Online

Products, Markets & People
I, Robot: The Man Behind the Google Phone
The New York Times
LexisNexis to lay off local employees, send work overseas
Dayton Business Journal
AOL takes Truveo online video search international
Download Squad
Wolters Network Now Includes SEC Comment Letters
Metropolitan Corp. Counsel

Labels: summaries

Trends
In a world in which social media's power has become as ubiquitous...
Online Citizen Journalism Now Undeniably Mainstream
Read/Write Web
California Wildfire Coverage by Local Media, Blogs, Twitter, Maps and More
MediaShift

As its hype...
Second Life continues to soak up the media's attention
ValeyWag

Has Silicon Valley lost interest in anything except the funding race...?
The Web 2.0 World is Skunk Drunk on Its Own Kool-Aid
Micro Persuasion
Microsoft invests $240 million in Facebook
AP via CNN
Why Private-Equity Firms Are Suddenly Smitten With Digital
AdAge
After Succeeding, Young Tycoons Try, Try Again
The New York Times

While slow-to-move media companies accelerate their efforts to provide more openness...
Yahoo opening up home page to outside sources
CNET News
Mercury News Tries To Catch Up, After Being In the Perpetually Poised Position For Social Media
paidContent.org
First Look: Hulu Combines Ease of Use, Content, Advertising
Wired

Google readies a new social media platform to embed its content and applications everywhere....
Google’s Response to Facebook: "Maka-Maka"
TechCrunch

Media CEOs vie for best underperformance excuses...
Time Warner shares rise on CEO exit speculation
Reuters
CE-Oh no he didn't! Part XLVII: NBC Universal chief says Apple "destroyed" music pricing
Engadget

Or come up with new ones in the making...
Hearst pays $317 million for MediaNews stake
Reuters
In Canada, a New Newspaper Faces Off Against a Well-Established Family
The New York Times

As Washington rattles sabers more loudly on leveling the online playing field for content delivery...
Senators Threatening Telcos With Probe Over Net Neutrality
TechCrunch
Senate passes Internet tax moratorium extension: 7 more years tax-free
Ars Technica
Coming next week: A tax on your e-mail?
CNET News
FCC member requests formal inquiry into News Corp.-Dow Jones deal
BtoB Online

European regulators manage to open up Microsoft's platforms for more content and application access...
Microsoft to EU: You win, we'll change
Download Squad

Memo to publishers: it's not nice to try to make Google's organic search results sponsored content...
Yes, Google Admits Torching Your PageRank
Web Pro News

Hmm, a slowly dying distribution idea for a slowly dying distribution idea...?
Maghound: a Netflix for Magazines?
AdAge

Kinda makes you realize why all of those TV ads for love life products try so hard to get our attention...
Loving the Internet Survey: 24% of Americans say the Internet could replace a partner for a while
Computerworld

In other major trends in content this week...
OCA To Scan Orphan Works; Publishers Float Orphan Works Solution
Library Journal
TheStreet.com Steers A Long, Bumpy Road
IBD via CNN Money
ManiaTV Cancels User-Generated Content
BusinessWeek
Yahoo’s China Syndrome: Alibaba IPO Lifts YHOO
GigaOM
Why Facebook employees are profiling users
ValleyWag
Best Practices
The Google Page Rank Pendulum Swings…. Again
ProBlogger
Rich Media, Social Networks, Dynamic Content, and On-Demand
CMS Wire
Copyright Wars and Higher Education
The Cornell Daily Sun
Microsoft blocks FairUse4WM v2 after 3 months of DRM free music
ZDNet Blogs
Social Media Demographics Defined - Marketing to the Users Generating the Content
4Hoteliers
Mr. Know-It-All: Medical Blogging, Facebook Hustling, Email Policing
Wired Magazine

Cool Tools
iMooch: Social Networking Meets Content Marketplace
iMooch
Terabyte nanotech thumb drives around the corner?
Engadget
Mindtouch rising in the open-source wiki market
CNET Blogs
WikiPediaVision: Watch Realtime Wikipedia Edits
O'Reilly Radar
Skype and 3 announce Skype Mobile phone
Download Squad
News Flows, Consciousness Streams: The Headwaters of a River of Words
The New York Times
Search Aggregated Social Media Networks And Selected Content Sources With Lijit
Robin Good
Bridgestone shows off ultrathin, full-color e-paper
Engadget

Deals, Partnerships & Sales
Agence France-Presse Signs With Teletrax for Global Analysis of Video News Content Usage
PR Newswire via CNN Money
Gannett to Join Tribune and Partner on National Network of Local Entertainment Sites
PR Newswire
Wiley-Blackwell Journals Contribute To Council Of Science Editor's Global Theme Issue
Medical News Today
Tribune to Sell Two Papers In Connecticut to Hearst
WSJ Online*
National Geographic and MetaCarta Introduce CartaLens Geospatial DAM Solution
Marketwire
INSAR and Wiley-Blackwell to Publish Autism Research
Trading Markets

Products, Markets & People
Another Yahoo Exec Departs
All Things DIgital
MySpace exec gets the heave-ho
ValleyWag
Mansueto Launches Business Social Networking Site IncBizNet
FOLIO: Magazine
AviationWeek.com Launches Vertical Search Engine for the Aerospace & Defense Industry
PR Newswire via CNN Money
Acxiom board approves repurchase of up to $75M in stock over the next year
Thomson Financial/CNN
ScienceDirect Maximizes Research Capabilities, Enhances the Research Process
PR Newswire

Labels: summaries

Trends
Google's earnings soar on new ad channels as traditional channels for ads weigh how to build profits...
Google quarterly profit swells 46 percent
Reuters via ZDNet
Google Adsense Exploring Games
GigaOM
Magazine ad revenue up 5.6% through third quarter
BtoB Online

But impatient investors are tiring of traditional media earnings that disappoint as an ad recession looms...
Sulzberger 1, Elmasry 0: Morgan Stanley Sells of its New York Times Stake
Reuters MediaFile
Gannett Reports 11% Drop in 3Q Earnings
Editor & Publisher
Media General Profit Plunges 88 Percent
AP via The New York Times
Five Reasons Why a Pay Per Click Recession Looms
Micro Persuasion

Social media posts gains in authority and use...
Blogs as reliable as mainstream media - ACCC
AAP via News.com.au
Power Of Altruism Confirmed In Wikipedia Contributions
Science Daily
Current TV expands limits by having users create broadcast content
San Francisco Chronicle

New and old channels for publishing vie for the attention of friends in high places...
Plan Would Ease Limits on Media Owners
The New York Times
Democrats take aim at un-'friendly' wireless carriers
CNET News
Recipe for killing Internet in India
The Times of India
US Congress: Bloggers Are Journalists Too
Read/Write Web

Web 2.0 is enjoying the latest Silicon Valley bubble but there is more focus lately on deals than value...
Web 2.0 Summit 2007: Mary Meeker and Internet Trends
Read/Write Web
WordPress and Federated Media Being Hawked Seriously; Velocity Among Others In The Mix; WP Buys
paidContent.org
John Battelle wants to hike his rates
ValleyWag

As Web 1.0 companies reposition themselves for more a more open era in online publishing...
Yahoo Shedding Entertainment Baggage in Order to Gain Relevancy
Beta News
Yahoo! Making Strides in Search Marketing? A Result of Panama?
Read/Write Web
AOL to Trim 2,000 Jobs in a Continuing Overhaul
The New York Times
EBay's Founder Bets on 'Participatory Media'
WSJ Online*

The battle to protect copyrighted content moves towards cooperative enforcement using open tools...
CBS, Microsoft, and MySpace Unveil Copyright Guidelines
PC World
YouTube-Viacom lawsuit looms over antipiracy plans
CNET News
Led Zeppelin to sell music online
Reuters
Apple drops price of DRM-free iTunes
Webware
Can Google's Video ID System Secure YouTube?
Internet News

Facebook continues to gain momentum as a social media content platform that adults can take seriously...
FaceForce: Facebook Meets Salesforce.com
Programmable Web
Facebook to Crash the Online Advertising Party
eWeek
Has The MySpace To Facebook Switch Begun?
TechCrunch
Has Microsoft snagged a Facebook stake?
ValleyWag
Google News Now Available in Facebook
Read/Write Web

As competitors step up the pace to create competitive platforms for social media content and applications...
MySpace Founders Re-Up at News Corp.
Portfolio
News Corp. May End WSJ.com Fees; Opens MySpace Code
Bloomberg News
Napster to launch web-only music service
Download Squad

But the pace of traditional content markets migrating online challenges traditional producers...
Online TV Viewing Doubles, Replaces News as Top Web Content
Media Buyer Planner
NBC pulls YouTube channel
ValleyWag

While Google gets its mobile platform ready for launch competitors brace for a more open era...
iPhone, you'll be a computer, soon: Apple opens it up to developers
CNET News

If EPIC 2015 was science fiction to some a few years ago we should be disabused of that notion by now...
Futurists Envision the Newspaper in 2020
World Ass'n of Newspapers
News director wins newspaper of future contest
Aiken Standard

In other major trends in content this week...
Startup launches intellectual property site for scientific research
EE Times
Books clearing out to make way for Internet, computers on campus
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Candadian Copyright might follow U.S. model
National Post
More of us seek medical information online
Raleigh News & Observer
Guardian and Observer to launch online archive
The Guardian

Best Practices
The Google Way: Give Engineers Room
The New York Times
Information Design Principles For Web 2.0 Design: Simple & Social
Robin Good
Publish or patent -- or both
Business Review of W. Michigan
Sue the libraries - they're letting people get content on the cheap
The Guardian
How Many Site Hits? Depends Who’s Counting
The New York Times
TM Forum Members Unite to Deliver Content Commerce Standards
BusinessWire
RSS Ad Response Tops E-mail
Internet News

Cool Tools
Graphwise: Search the web for data
Emily Chang
Microsoft Launches Drag-And-Drop App Builder Popfly
TechCrunch
New App Merges Facebook and Second Life
Mashable
Radar Networks' Twine: Semantic Web meets information overload
WebWare
Microsoft launches social bookmarking/GTD/wiki service Listas
WebWare
Moo now offers postcards
Download Squad
ProgrammableWeb Embraces OpenSearch
Marketwire via CNN Money
Xerox Demos 'Intelligent Redaction'
eWeek
SpiralFrog DRM Issues
PC World

Deals, Partnerships & Sales
USA TODAY and Tribune Media Services to Launch New Weekly Edition of USA TODAY Abroad
PR Newswire via CNN Money
ALM Deploys Mark Logic for Enterprise Content Repository
Marketwire
AskMeNow Powers Answers for Ask Frank's Mobile Q&A Service
Marketwire via CNN Money
JargonFish(TM) Adds Publisher Partners
BusinessWire
Wolters Kluwer unit to acquire TeamMate from PricewaterhouseCoopers
AFX via Forbes
Yahoo's profit falls, but beats expectations
MarketWatch
The Wicks Group of Companies， L.L.C. Sells Daily Racing Form LLC
PR Newswire via JRJ.com
E.W. Scripps to Split in Two; Scripps Networks Interactive to be Spun Off to Shareholders
paidContent.org
Financial Firms to Benefit from Reuters and TIBCO Spotfire Partnership
PR Newswire via CNN Money
Facebook Users Can Now Create a Wetpaint Wiki to Collaborate
Marketwire

Products, Markets & People
TechTarget Launches ITKnowledgeExchange.com
BusinessWire
MedBioWorld Portal Significantly Expands Resource Content
BusinessWire
Mobile search service by Truvo
Let's Go Mobile
Dow Jones Significantly Increases Operating Income Again in Third Quarter 2007
BusinessWire
IDC Launches Green IT and Digital Marketplace Research Practices
ARN
Blackwell Boss to Quit
Oxford Mail
Yahoo marketing chief to leave
CNET News
McGraw-Hill Profit Up 18 Percent
Reuters via The New York Times
AME Info responds to Middle East business demands with launch of new dedicated Arabic content
AME Info
BBC to Cut 1, 800 Jobs as It Confronts Digital Age
Reuters via The New York Times
InfoWorld Editor Resigns Following CEO, Top Sales Exec
FOLIO: Magazine

Labels: summaries

Trends
For content in search of relationships events and online marketing are trumping traditional publishers...
And The Walls Came Tumbling Down: Madonna Dumps Record Industry
Sydney Morning Herald
EMI Releases George Harrison’s Solo Albums DRM-Free
Mashable
Supply Side Economics Fail Music Industry Again
TechCrunch

Traditional content syndication confronts the efficiency of search, mining technologies and social media...
AP Sues VeriSign's Moreover
PCWorld via Yahoo! News
Future may be murky for Yahoo and newspaper alliance
Reuters

More publishers turn to their investments in content technology to provide more revenues and margin...
Looking To Its Future, NYTCO Sees A Tech Services Company; Patents Pending
paidContent.org

Is combining social media with mainstream content good or bad for advertising? The jury is still out...
New York Times Puts Reader Comments on Main Page - Good Idea?
Read/Write Web
Interview: Henry Copeland, CEO, Founder of BlogAds: To Make Money At Blogging, Rein In Comments
paidContent.org

To catch up with born-on-the-web audiences for whom print is largely an accessory or an afterthought...
BusinessWeek - Imitating the Web, for the Busy Reader
The New York Times
Duty to buy a newspaper? Email This Entry
Corante
Wiley: publishers must push e-books
Bookseller.com

In a consolidating market for subscription content services it's as important to woo regulators as clients...
Thomson's bid for Reuters faces EU antitrust investigation
Hartford Business
Wolters Kluwer opens lobby shop in Washington
Media Marketing & Media

In spite of questions about their accuracy social media continues to grow in prestige and power...
Can science blogs save science journalism?
USC Annenberg OJR
New wiki targets federal IT community
FCW.com
Wikipedia Information on Surgical Procedures Generally Accurate: Presented at ACS
Doctor's Guide

Facebook tries to leverage proprietary strengths but competitors are beginning to focus on their formula...
Why Facebook s**ks
Dave Winer
Facebook Traffic Tanks - This can’t be real?
GigaOM
Google Gives Some Hints About Social Network Plan
Bits - The New York Times
eBay Builds Social Networking into Site
Marketing Pilgrim

Google's formula for advertising success still leaves significant niches for innovative competitors...
Internet Company to Let Consumers Profit From Posted Videos
The New York Times
Making YouTube Pay Off
Forbes
Google Shows Vulnerability After Losing Time Deal
Bloomberg News

In other major trends in content this week...
Frankfurt book fair: a meaty occasion
Information World Review
Open Access, But Who Really Pays?
The Harvard Crimson-Opinion
Yahoo! Recycles Old Content From SmartMoney, Offends Realtors
Realty Times
Hundt takes on wireless 'cartels'
Mercury News/ Content Agenda
Nielsen's new media push
CNET News

Best Practices
Information wants to be free. The database as the media of tomorrow
Hypernarrative
The viral boomerang of content and information
MediaPost
How To Design Effective And Usable Navigation Tabs
Robin Good
'Dark Web' Project Takes On Cyber-Terrorism
Fox News
Web 2.0 Economics 101
Micro Persuasion
Internet Marketing for Novel Writers
Read/Write Web
7 Rules for Social Media
HyperGene
Clooney Proves Private Health Records Not So Private
ABC News

Cool Tools
First Look: Google Earth with YouTube Video
PC World
Google Enterprise Search gets social
ZDNet
What can STM publishers learn from Shelfari's new widget
Really Simple Sidi
GOOG-411 graduates from Labs
Google Blog
Onstream Media Set to Introduce Visual Webcaster HD(TM) and iEncode(TM)
PR Newswire via CNN Money
Top Blogs On Google Reader
TechCrunch

Deals, Partnerships & Sales
TheMarkets.com and InfoNgen Launch Bullseye
PR Newswire
Regence Introduces Two New Plans Designed Especially for Small to Mid-Size Companies
PR Newswire
Wall Street Firms Buy $180 Million Stake in TradeWeb
Bloomberg News
Reed Construction Data Partners with RCMS Group
ThomasNet
CBS eyes gossip site for $10 million
ValleyWag

Products, Markets & People
Voxant Distributes More Than 43,000 Health News Videos, Articles and Images
PR Newswire
WallStreet Direct, Inc. Signs Publishing Agreement with Vibrant Media for Online Video Advertising
PR Newswire via CNN Money
Dow Jones Introduces Factiva Insight: Agency Analytics for PR and Communications Professionals
PR Newswire via CNN Money

Labels: summaries

Trends
As online contexts drive revenue the winners are the ones who can monetize more of them most efficiently...
U.S. Media Revenue Jumped 8% to $287 Billion
Advertising Age
U.S. Online Ad Spending Topped $5 Billion in Second Quarter
Bloomberg News
Google’s Share of U.S. Online Ads Hits 40 Percent
TechCrunch
Google raises temperature of health information market
Information World Review
For Google, Advertising and Phones Go Together
The New York Times
Zipidee Startup Looks to Sell All Things Digital
Red Herring

While those who build context without effective monetization models continue to struggle...
eBay: What to do with Skype?
CNET News

Blogs have become the universal tool for opinion-makers to get their messages out...
A Look at Federal Government Blogs
AP via Google
Blogs get the old-media habit
FT.com

Microsoft squirms, wiggles and tosses stones but can't seem to come up with what it really needs - a hit...
Microsoft Launches HealthVault For Personal Health Info Management
paidContent.org
Microsoft HealthVault: Who Are You Going To Trust?
Forbes
Microsoft Chief Ballmer Plays Down Facebook Reports
Bloomberg News
Keep an eye on: Microsoft
Reuters Media File

Yahoo tries to mimic Steve Jobs' product outlook, but are its product plans anywhere near insanely great...?
Yahoo's Revival Meeting: In Search of "Insane Greatness"
O'Reilly Radar
Upgraded Search Experience, 'Search Assist' & Multimedia Content In Results: Yahoo
Search Engine Land
Yahoo Changes Questionable Sponsored Search Policy. Can Anyone Tell?
Mashable
Yahoo Considering “Strategic Options” For Comparison Shopping Service Kelkoo in Europe
paidContent.org
Analyst says Yahoo worth more if broken up
Reuters

As Apple tries to wrestle with flashy technology that supports tame content options...
Is Apple losing some of its shine?; Recent moves to impose control risk alienating longtime loyalists
LA Times via Content Agenda
Apple DRM Patent Contemplates Media Sharing: Subscription Service Coming?
Information Week

Music publishers land a big verdict but it does little to change the verdict on how to make money online...
RIAA Jury Finds Minnesota Woman Liable for Piracy, Awards $222,000
Wired News
Car repair firm accused of infringing musical copyright because its employees listen to radios at work
BBC News

It's a bit like what's happening with Open Access - alienate your clients and they will go elsewhere...
Scientists, publishers and authors rage against PRISM
Information World Review
All for Open Access: Let’s welcome the end of for-profit academic publishing
The Harvard Crimson
Anti-Open-Access Effort by Publishing Group Loses Another University Press
Chronicle of Higher Education

Social media thrives in microcontexts - an opportunity for high-value marketing still largely unharnessed...
Media Less Trusted Than Other Consumers' Opinions
TVWeek
Good News, Bad News about Facebook Application Market: Long Tail Rules
O'Reilly Radar
How the Portals Will Win the Social Networking Wars
Micro Persuasion

Software metaphors don't define the online revolution that's more about people and content...
Web 3.0, the official definition.
Jason Calacanis

Sharing documents - the "Pong" of content collaboration - gets a new twist from Adobe...
Adobe plans online document sharing
CBR

In other major trends in content this week...
Centaur Media to discontinue Perfect Analysis service
Hemscott
Senate Bill Aims to Define Who Is a Journalist
Washington Post
Spiegel Rejects Purchase Of FT Deutschland Stake
WSJ Online*
BlackBerry Maker’s Profit Doubles
The New York Times
Facebook's legal issues escalate as N.Y. attorney general strengthens warnings
CNET News
Google Cuts Ads From Orkut Service
WSJ Online*

Best Practices
Goodbye to Splogs and Feed-Driven Blogs
Blog Herald
Google and IBM build 'cloud computing' data centers online
IHT
From The Information Age To The Connected Age
GigaOM
The Semantic Web Will Redefine Content Management
CMS Web
YouTube: The Big Copyright Lie
Coding Horror
Librarians Under New Management
AP via Google News
Research Trends:Scientific trends using bibliometric analysis
Really Simple Sidi

Cool Tools
Microsoft Looks to Social Networking for Zune 2.0
PC World
Social Suggester Launches Search Widget
Mashable
Service Helps Friends Share Their Online Discoveries
The New York Times
JargonFish(TM) the New In-Text Content Platform Launches
BusinessWire
More Features For Creating Your Own Digg: coRank
Mashable
Chris Harrison: Maps of Internet Connections
Chris Harrison
Upspring is LinkedIn, Facebook & Google Ads Rolled Up in One
Mashable
washingtonpost.com Launches "Election Collection '08" Widget, New Mobile Election '08 Channel
BusinessWire
Grazr is officially an OPML editor
Library Clips
Sony's PRS-505 eBook reader now on sale
Engadget

Deals, Partnerships & Sales
Voxant, The New Media Network, Signs on Getty Images, Adds News Feeds for the AP and Reuters
PR Newswire via JRJ
New York Times and A.D.A.M. Add Unique Site Depth To Online Health Content
BusinessWire
drugstore.com and Revolution Health Group Announce Breakthrough Deal
PR Newswire via CNN Money
Veronis Suhler Stevenson to buy Tranzact for $185 million
BtoB Online
MSNBC Interactive News Acquires Newsvine
AP via Google News
MuseGlobal-Groxis Partnership Transforms Content Into Information
Information Today
ROO Group Enhances Content Offerings Aimed at $79 Billion Online Travel Market with GeoBeats, Inc.
PR Newswire via CNN Money
Mixx Helps USAT, Reuters.com, Weather Channel to Deliver Personalized News, Images and Video
PR Newswire
Duke University Press Chooses the ebrary Platform to Sell and Distribute New eBook Collection
BusinessWire
Thomson Financial in data distribution deal with Paladyne Systems
Thomson Financial/CNN
Connotate Selected to Automate Knowledge Management Process at The Associated Press
BusinessWire via LivePR
American Anthropological Association Adds More than 20 Publications to Wiley-Blackwells Social Sciences
Presswire via Trading Markets
Aptara Partners With IOP Publishing in Production of Leading Astronomy Journals
Marketwire via Sys-Con

Products, Markets & People
Near-Time(R) Introduces User-Generated Solutions(SM)
BusinessWire
Mediasurface Solves Newspaper Publishing Dilemma
SourceWire
Worlds Largest Articles Announces 600,000 Article Database Software
PR Web
blinkx Goes Global, Offers Native Language Video Search for France, Germany and Spain
PRNewswire via EarthTimes
CCH Introduces New CorpSystem(TM) Suite of Solutions for Corporate Tax Professionals
PR Newswire via EarthTimes
Wolters Kluwer Health Appoints Gordon Macomber As President & CEO Of Professional & Education Unit
ABN Newswire
Business Objects Reaches into Unstructured Data
Enterprise Systems
ALM’s Real Estate Media Launches Enhanced Web and Magazine Offerings
BusinessWire
BusinessWeek Undergoes Redesign for '21st Century Appeal'
FOLIO: Magazine
Advertising and Media Executives Join Transpera Team
PR Newswire
BatchBlue - Contact management designed for the small business
Emily Chang

Labels: summaries

Trends
The robust online economy attracts mounds of private capital and creates optimism for mainline media...
Return of 1999? Dot-coms making a comeback
USA Today
Sling's CEO on being acquired by EchoStar: "We are going to rock"
Engadget
Is Sling Media acquisition good sign for IPTV?
CNET News
Time Inc’s Digital Revenues: Estimated Around $175 Million Mark Over Next Year
paidContent.org
Study Offers Surprising Numbers on Newspaper/Yahoo Deal
Editor and Publisher
Big media enters the spin zone: Big assets to be unloaded?
CNN Money

As newspapers adjust to falling print circulation they focus on delivering more value to their audiences...
The New York Times: It’s deeper than you think
Reuters Mediafile
FT.com Frees Up Content in Response to Murdoch's Announcement
Mashable
Balancing Bottom Lines and Headlines
The New York Times
Transforming the Newsroom Architecture
AJR
Journalism vets forecast changes in media conditions
XPress Online
Gannett and Web 3.0
Seeking Alpha

What's monetizable context? The horizons for advertising in valuable contexts continues to expand...
YouTube Puts AdSense in Embedded Players
Mashable
The View From Your Airplane Window Was Brought to You by ...
The New York Times

Social media's influence continues to surge but its platforms are still probing for the right formulas...
YouTube, Flickr Become Forces for Cultural Change
MediaShift
A Small Group Make Most Web 2.0 Content
CNET News
Facebook overtakes MySpace in the UK
VNUNet
Microsoft looks to Facebook if Yahoo Won't Play
New York Post
Facebook, Flush Under the Spotlight
Reuters MediaFile
Facebook To Launch Friend Grouping. Competition Can S**k.
TechCrunch
Wikinvest to Launch Monday, Betting Its Wiki Will Make Financial Sense
Wired - Epicenter

Is there really a GYM for search? Yahoo and Microsoft mine their niches well but fail to dent Google's brand...
Search Fulfillment: Yahoo! is best of breed
Compete Blog
Yahoo Search Updating Index & Algorithm
Search Engine Land
Microsoft plays catch-up on search
WebWare
Microsoft, Google square off in Washington over DoublClick
CNET News
Google: Search and Data Seizure
The Nation

Google continues to accelerate new technologies and markets to help it monetize contexts...
Google reportedly buying mobile social network Zingku
CNET News
Todays Takeover Rumor Bought to You By Google And Sirius
TechCrunch

Opinion-making on books moves away from newspapers into the long tail of online content...
AP Ends Book Reviews, LA Times Also Makes Book Changes
Publishers Weekly

Television producers widen their appeal to online audiences to compete with native digital video...
CBS creates 'EyeLab' to woo web surfers
WSJ Online*
ABC News Reorganizes, Focuses on Digital
Broadcasting and Cable

"Hey, guess what? Kids like downloading MP3s. I bet we could make some money selling them...or not..."
Amazon starts music store
Seattle Post Intelligencer
Radiohead Fans to Name Their Price for New Album
WSJ Online*

In other major trends in content this week...
Google's Eileen Naughton Says Advertising Types Will 'Converge'
Bloomberg News
EarmarkWatch.org Enables D.I.Y. Investigative Work
MediaShift
Web Apps Hit the Mainstream
Read/Write Web
AOL Quietly Cans Weblogs Inc Life Sciences Blogs
TechCrunch

Best Practices
What's More Important Page Views Or User Experience Satisfaction?
Robin Good
Develop Your Widget Strategy
Killer Startups
Turn Gmail (or any E-mail Account) Into a Social Network Hub
MicroPersuasion
Majority of U.S. Companies Have Not Conducted ROI Studies for Business Intelligence Investments
BusinessWire
Is Enterprise RSS the Next Killer App?
ServerWatch
Call It Wiki Law
Digital Trends
7 Reasons Why Second Life Should Matter For Biz Executives
GigaOM

Cool Tools
Acrobat Connect Professional Reviewed
Robin Good
Google Book Search Adds New Organization Features
Mashable
DemoFall wrap-up: Products most likely to make money, solve a problem, and creep you out
WebWare
iPhone 1.1.1 to 1.0.2 downgrade instructions released!
Engadget
Is Apple planning an e-card service? Seems so from this Patent application
ZDNet Blogs
Real Time Search Soon At Twitter
TechCrunch
Acrobat Connect Professional Reviewed
Robin Good

Deals, Partnerships & Sales
Demand Media Adds $100 Million More Funding; Total Comes To $320 Million
paidContent.org
Belo and Mochila Announce Strategic Partnership
PR Newswire via CNN Money
Simon & Schuster Adopts MuseStorm for Authoring and Syndicating Highly Interactive Intelligent Widgets
PR Newswire
RavenPack to Deliver Dow Jones News Analytics with API for Customers' Proprietary Trading Systems
PR Newswire
Mark Logic and RWD Technologies Join to Deliver Content-Centric Applications to Life Sciences Industry
Marketwire
LexisNexis provides content for Halsbury’s Law Magazine
Money Control
Portfolio.com to partner with HarvardBusiness.org
BtoB Online
Edmunds.com Selects Tubes for Automotive-Related Multimedia Content Distribution Platform
Marketwire
HealthiNation Teams up with Prevention.com to Expand Health & Lifestyle On-Demand Video
PR Newswire
YGS Group acquires RMS
BtoB Online
Financial Media Group, Inc. Partners with Leading List Management Firm
PR Newswire
Idearc Media and MagicYellow Sign Distribution Agreement
BusinessWire
ContentGuard Extends License With Zinio
Marketwire
Open Text Bridges the Gap Between Editorial and User-Generated Content with RedDot Modules
PR Newswire via CNN Money

Products, Markets & People
Blackboard's Social Bookmarking Service, Scholar, Enables Global Information Sharing Across Academia
Marketwire via CNN Money
LexisNexis Launches Lexis(R) Front Office Powered by Time Matters(R) 9.0
BusinessWire
Talking Things - Wiki-Encyclopedia for Products
PRWeb
Reader's Digest Names Jeff Wellington Publisher
FOLIO: Magazine
New Exalead Semantic Search Service to Help People Find, Organize, Share and Enhance Content Online
JRJ
mSpoke's FeedHub Eliminates the Information Overload Problem Plaguing the Attention Economy
PR Newswire via EarthTimes
Thunderstone Parametric Search Appliance Simplifies Retrieval of Text and Structured Data
Marketwire

Labels: summaries

Trends
It's official - you can't build Web revenues around news content that search and social media can't access...
Times to Stop Charging for Parts of Its Web Site
The New York Times (no *!)
Murdoch makes case for free WSJ online
Reuters via Yahoo! News
Online Newspapers Grab Ad Spending
eMarketer

Making getting content and ads in user defined contexts more important than ever before...
Information-Rich, Interactive, Engaging, Portable - These Are The New Google Gadgets Ads
Robin Good
Content is Dead. Community is King Now
Search Engine Guide

As the king of context prepares new heights to crown...
Google hits all-time high amid flurry of upbeat news
MarketWatch
Google Extends Search Lead Over Yahoo, Nielsen Says
Bloomberg News
Google phone rumors heat up
Crave
Google Launches AdSense for Mobile
InformationWeek
Google To “Out Open” Facebook On November 5
TechCrunch
GoogleNET Going Global
GigaOM
Google seeks EU approval to buy DoubleClick
Reuters via CNET News
Google Boasts Display Ads Raise Viewership Online And Off
paidContent.org

Making it that much harder to figure out what to do with portal aggregation models...
Neutron Randy Vaporizes AOL
The New York Times
Dick Parsons, CEO, Time Warner: No Spinoff Of AOL Yet
paidContent.org
News Corp. Plans to Save $100 Million From Dow Jones
Bloomberg News

And that much more important to get content in the contexts that audiences want...
NBC to offer a free video download service
The New York Times
Facebook backs fund to help find new apps
Mercury News
Digg turns its social networking up a few notches
CNET News

With SaaS building momentum enterprise content services and technologies face growing competition...
Salesforce targets enterprise content management
VNUNet
Salesforce to Launch Community Platform for Clients
Mashable

Media companies start to wrestle with how to give audiences more flexible use of premium content...
Macrovision: Legal DVD Copying On Deck
IBD via CNN Money
DVD burning finally approved
Content Agenda
One Anti-Piracy System to Rule Them All
The New York Times

If you can't beat them on the facts baffle them with a push to sway opinion makers and lawmakers...
Traditional Journal Publishers' Anti-Open-Access PR Plan Revealed
Wired Science

Print remains a robust medium as a fashion accessory for focused communities...
Magazines Eclipse Newspapers in Ad Revenue Share
FOLIO: Magazine

Big bets are still being placed on social media but in many instances it's the small bets that pay off best...
Yahoo adds wiki twist to Mash
VNUNet
MySpace to Discuss Effort to Customize Ads
The New York Times
Why Some Web 2.0 Sites Will Never Attract Big Ad Dollars
Micro Persuasion

With the Web economy a mainstay of the American economy lawmakers consider how to help it grow...
U.S. Senate considers extending internet tax ban
Download Squad
FCC: What to do with unused spectrum?
CNET News

Trade music for marketing information? Sounds like a great idea - if it actually works...
First Look: SpiralFrog Offers Free Music with a Hefty Price
PC World

Turns out that Web talking heads shouldn't confuse themselves with the production talent...
Amanda Congdon and ABC Part Ways
The New York Times

In other major trends in content this week...
Gannett Planning Newspaper Size Reduction At Several Papers
Editor & Publisher
Zillow Raises $30 Million More, Up To $87 Million in Venture Capital
TechCrunch
Man files best lawsuit ever against Google
Download Squad
Alfred A Knopf: How the great literary publisher proved to be the great rejecter
The Independent
China: Net spy damage has been 'massive'
Reuters via CNET

Best Practices
User Generated Content on Social Networking Sites Set to Go Pro and Boost Broadband Penetration
Newswire
Business Intelligence: One Version of the Truth
Computerworld
Semantic Web: Difficulties with the Classic Approach
Read/Write Web
Study: Internet Access at Libraries Crucial, but Lagging
Library Journal
Study says DRM counters Canadian privacy laws
IT World Canada
Comparing Mobile Ads In Google & Yahoo
Search Engine Land
How to Data Mine Google Reader Feeds for Trends
Micro Persuasion
Peer Review and a Proposal for Revision
E Pluribus Media
Economist Confused About the Semantic Web?
O'Reilly Radar
Bill Gates, the man with the remotest idea to change lives
Fairfax Digital

Cool Tools
Reuters Labs Launches Search People in Video Feature
Mashable
Yahoo Launches Map Mixer: Make Your Map
O'Reilly Radar
Hey Nielsen: Influence the Ratings through Social Networking
Mashable
NoseRub.com - Decentralising Social Networks
Killer Startups
Patent App would trigger Zune downloads based on user’s musical preferences
ZDNet
Bob Dylan’s Facebook App Rocks
Mashable
Google debuts ad creation tool for newspaper print ads
BtoB Online
Learn to speak a foreign language with Mango
Download Squad
Google Expands Google Gadget Ads For Advertisers Beta
Search Engine Land
NASA, Google Bring More of the Moon to Earth
PC World
iPhone Heads to Germany
TheStreet.com / Content Agenda
No more wallet needed with MobiBucks
Download Squad
Google Offers 'Collaboration in the Cloud'
eWeek

Deals, Partnerships & Sales
Mark Logic and Trinity Technologies Partner to Deliver XML Technology to Financial Services Industry
Marketwire
Cygnus Business Media Deploys iCopyright on 60 Web Sites
Marketwire
VMS Selects Autonomy to Support Real-Time Media
Intelligence
PR Newswire
Hearst Acquires 'Real Age'
FOLIO: Magazine

Products, Markets & People
Alacra Launches Research Recap
Ad Hoc News
Pearson Helps Break World Record for Largest Shared Reading Experience
PR Newswire
MSN and Variety Forge Distribution Relationship
PR Newswire via CNN Money
Multiply Selects Omniture to Enhance the Social Networking Experience
Marketwire via CNN Money
Borders(R) and Sony(R) Team Up to Promote e-books
PR Newswire via CNN Money
Tacit Software's illumio Upgrade Makes Sharing Knowledge and Monitor News, Blogs, and Wikis Easy
PRWeb
Thomas Technology Solutions and ThomComp, Inc. Merge to Form Content Data Solutions, Inc.
BusinessWire
John Wiley & Sons Ltd: Wiley-Blackwell to Publish Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine
Trading Markets
Business Objects Launches BI OnDemand
Intelligent Enterprise
InfoUSA to compile U.K. database
BtoB Online
Referex eBooks Database Launches 3 New Collections And Over 900 Additional Titles
WebWire
Google Formally Introduces AdSense For Mobile
Search Engine Land

Labels: summaries

Trends
Online efforts begin to lead in revenue growth, making for tricky questions in traditional media board rooms...
For Time Warner, a time to break up?
Fortune via CNN Money
Keep an eye on: Time Warner
Reuters MediaFile
More Restructuring at Time Inc.’s Business and Finance Network
FOLIO: Magazine
AOL HQ moving to New York, business model moving to advertising
Download Squad
As NY Times print revenues sink, online revenues soar in August 28.2 percent
The New York Times*

While online natives aim for higher horizons...
Google offers $30 million for robotic rover on the Moon
Times Online
How law enforcement uses Google Earth
CNET News

A few Web 2.0 efforts scale well but with most focusing on microcommunities investors are wary...
Has smart money abandoned U.S. Web 2.0 companies?
Venture Beat
Wikipedia: 2-million articles and counting
Download Squad
New Social Sites Cater to People of a Certain Age
The New York Times*

You can't just say that you've got Web 2.0 content and expect to make a mint these days...
Were Techmeme and Sphere too greedy?
Mathew Ingram

And you can't just say that you're a mashup and expect to impress people who know better...
Google as and Election Portal, With a Twist
The New York Times*
Yahoo's Presidential 'Mashup Debate' Won't Support Mashups
Wired News

Now that context is king social media is the place to befor both advertisers and publishers...
User-Driven News More Diverse Than Mainstream Coverage
Search Engine Land
Netscape Social News to be Relaunched as Propeller.com
Netscape
Interview: Ron Grant, President & COO, AOL: Time For A Network Approach
paidContent.org
Newspapers Are Going 'Widget'-Happy'
The Examiner
Youtube in Talks for Video News Service With Ads
Korea Times
Microsoft Patents Watermark That May Protect DRM-free Music
PC World
Leaked Google Video Discusses Google Reader, Social Efforts
Google Blogoscoped

But portals still have staying power - and powerful audiences...
Yahoo's audience slightly smaller than Google's, but far stickier
Business 2.0 Utility Belt

The once-hot iPod begins to confront the demand for more integrated platforms for mobile services...
In an iPod world, the future is always now
Toronto Star
Is the iPod (gasp) Doomed?
Reuters MediaFile

With an explosion of video destinations some are realizing that OEMing is a pretty good business...
Brightcove Ends Development Of Video Portal To Focus On Publishing Services
paidContent.org

Microsoft settles with the EU to get past policies behind them in a battle for online market share...
Microsoft plays nice with the EU
VNUNet via Content Agenda

Whose content is it, anyway? As governments want to pry into databases the answers aren't always easy...
Google promises to lead crusade for international privacy rules
Canadian Press
Does Facebook's privacy policy stack up?
Times Online

Subscription databases focused on enterprise integrationare seeing strong results...
Reed Elsevier's Feel-Good Friday
Forbes

Ah, for the days when a newspaper that was as dumb as TV seemed like a great idea...
USA Today: At 25, ‘McPaper’ Is All Grown Up
The New York Times*

In other major trends in content this week...
Thomson-Reuters Deal to Spark Race
WSJ Online*
Publications on Fitness and Health Head to Web
The New York Times*
Wall Street Journal to Launch Monthly Glossy Magazine
Prime Newswire via CNN Money
InfoSpace Surges on Switchboard.com Sale
WSJ Online*
Amazon Launches Web Startup Contest
Mashable
New Net taxes could arrive in November
CNET News
University-Press Leader Quit Publishers' Panel Over Anti-Open-Access Campaign
Chronicle of Higher Education
Google, DoubleClick Deal Challenged Again
Web Pro News
Office 2.0: Web 2.0's Higher Standard
Internet News

Best Practices
Google, duplicate content caused by URL parameters, and you
Google Blog
Taming the World of Unstructured Data
DM Review
Fear of Web 2.0
Read/Write Web
Making Real-World Noise about Online SItes: The Yelp Elite Squad
Bokardo
Organizing The World’s Push Content: The iGoogle Ecosystem
Search Engine Land
How to Optimize for Yahoo!
ISE DB
Is Googling for research "good enough" for your bottom line? Productivity of free and paid search tools
Really Simple Sidi
Don't Fall into the Pixel or Wiki Page Trap
Best Syndication

Cool Tools
WhoDoes: Online Collaboration for Project Managers
Mashable
Yahoo Invites Us Into Mash, Its New Social Network
TechCrunch
Not all that Wired about it: Communication technology gets the short end at NextFest
USC Annenberg OJR
Google Presently Set For Launch Next Week
Read/Write Web
Amazon Gets Widget With It
ResearchBuzz
reCAPTCHA: Using Captchas To Digitize Books
TechCrunch
Redefining the Architecture of Memory
The New York Times*

Deals, Partnerships & Sales
Yahoo wins exclusive ad deal for Bebo UK, Ireland
Reuters via Yahoo! News
Mark Logic Partners With Gimmal Group to Deliver XML Content Management to Finance, Manufacturing
MarketWire
Reuters Choses Attribtor to Protect Content
Mashable
Al Jazeera and iHorizons team up to win best 'Media & Education Implementation of the year'
AME Info
Yahoo Acquires Zimbra For $350 million in Cash
TechCrunch
Endeca Selects Bazaarvoice for Social Navigation Capabilities within New Endeca Discovery Suite
PR Database
Tubes Adds Diggnation, ScobleShow, Rocketboom and Other Content to Tubes Hub
Marketwire
Yahoo enters exclusive ad deal with Bebo
BtoB Online
Yahoo Buys BuzzTracker
Houston Chronicle
CME Group Renews Exclusive License of Dow Jones Industrial Average Futures Contracts
PR Newswire via CNN Money
Weatherbonk Mashup Acquired by The Weather Channel
Programmable Web

Products, Markets & People
Nstein Technologies announces clarification of previous press releases
CNW Group
Google launches array of India-specific Internet services
IndUS Business Journal
SixApart Has A New CEO, Chairman
GigaOM
SpiralFrog(TM) Launches Free Ad-Supported Music Service
BusinessWire
LexisNexis Adds TotalPatent to Its Suite of Solutions
Information Today, Inc.
Dow Jones Beats Reuters, Bloomberg and Thomson as Top News Provider: Tri-State Traders and IT Pros
PR Newswire via CNN Money
ALM and Courtroom View Network Join to Bring Online Courtroom Video to Litigators, Law Firms and Schools
BusinessWire
Juris from LexisNexis Launches New Business Intelligence Reporting Module
BusinessWire
Intellectual Property Professionals Manage Patents More Effectively using LexisNexis TotalPatent(TM)
TradingMarkets

Labels: summaries

Trends

The Web is now the leading ether for profit making..
Online Ads Surpass Radio Ads in a Historical First
Mashable

Complacent publishers are failing to move aggressively to save open Web access...
US Justice Department backing for two-tier internet
BBC News
Broadcasters Launch Ads Against Broadband Wireless Web Device
The New York Times*
Ten things that finally killed Net neutrality
CNET News

Even as technology companies seek to become the new media kingmakers...
Keep an eye on: Apple, Apple, Apple
Reuters MediaFile
After ditching Apple, NBC opts for flex pricing and more DRM with Amazon
Ars Technica

The bottom line in publishing is facing stockholders who know that the future is not rosy for old media...
Media Stocks Under Pressure
Reuters
Street blasts 'lame duck' Parsons, Time Warner
The Hollywood Reporter
WSJ Merges Print and Digital Sales Teams
paidContent.org
Business 2.0 Folds
FOLIO: Magazine
Newspapers, don't leave the Internet holdouts behind
Baltimore Sun

As old dot-com IPOs begin to face similar expectations for returns that hem in adventuresome investments...
Yahoo's Cautious Course
WSJ Online*

Facebook becomes a powerful networking tool for adults in communities large and small...
Facebook Profiles Will Appear in Google Results Next Month
Mashable
A Facebook for the Few
The New York Times*

The iPhone sets the stage for mobile Web access' growth but at what price to carriers' plans...?
US iPhone sales go ballistic in July
IT Wire
Four Mistakes Apple Made With The IPhone Price Drop
Wired - Epicenter

Scholarly publishing's talk about change may seem slow to some but the pace of change is quickening...
Scholars Embrace New Publication Modes in Theory More Than in Practice, Study Finds
The Chronicle of HIgher Education
A Medical Publisher’s Unusual Prescription: Online Ads
The New York Times*
AAP 'disinformation campaign' attacked by Open Access backer
Information World Review

Google's forays into social media content are still struggling to understand audiences as publishers...
Google News Adds Barely 100 Comments in 30 Days
Micro Persuasion
Google Wiki Relaunch May Arrive Soon
Web Pro News

Pretty soon they'll be selling hamburgers...
English Wikipedia Gets Two Millionth Article
Slashdot

In other major trends in content this week...
Law users irked by lacklustre service
IT Week
FEC Gives Pass to Blogs
Red Herring
China content sites key for Google
The Mercury News
Google Sued for Sponsored Search Ads
Read/Write Web
People search engine Rapleaf revises privacy policy
CNET News
Wikia’s ArmchairGM: Wiki Meets Social Network
TechCrunch

Best Practices
Search Illustrated: The Power Of RSS Feeds
Search Engine Land
Spam now 83% of all email
Real Tech News
Creating Google Custom Search Engines
ONLamp.com
UST libraries ask: Which resources should it cancel?
UST Bulletin
CIA works to break info-sharing barriers
FCW.com
Google Custom Search: Setting The Bar For Vertical Search Engines
Read/Write Web
Perspective: Fair use is not a consumer right
CNET News
A Bill of Rights for Users of the Social Web
Open Social Web
Why You Should Embrace the New Social Media News Release
Search Engine Guide
Semantec Search Right for the Enterprise?
ZDNet Blogs

Cool Tools
HotSwap Launches - Video Classifieds
TechCrunch
iPhoneSIMfree goes retail, let the unlocking begin
Engadget
MindTouch’s Open Source Wiki Releases 100 New Features
Mashable
Asterpix Says Forget Hypertext, Think Hypervideo
NewTeeVee
Google Books: Embed Book Clips Into Websites
TechCrunch
Adobe Media Player Drives Fusion of TV and the Internet
Streaming Media
Exclusive: Screen Shots And Feature Overview of Delicious 2.0 Preview
TechCrunch
Find a needle in a feedstack with Google Reader
Google Blog
Do the Mash (Even if You Don’t Know All the Steps)
The New York Times*
RapLeaf: This 2.0 site lets you check folks' reputations
Download Squad

Deals, Partnerships & Sales
Yahoo buys behavioral ad firm for $300 mln
Reuters
Leading Analyst Firm Deploys Near-Time Premium to Monetize Content and Community
BusinessWire
Internet Enterprise Search Firm Semantra Finds Funding
Red Herring
ScanScout Secures Strategic Investment from Time Warner and Announces Board of Directors
BusinessWire
Healthline, LocateADoc Provide First Aid to Patient Education
MarketWire
TheStreet and WSJ Diversify Content to Drive Ads and Steer Away from Subscriptions
ClickZ Network
Near-Time and The History Press Introduce True Richmond Stories, an Online Book Community
BusinessWire
Author Solutions to Acquire Rival Self-Publisher iUniverse
WSJ Online*
Mainstream Data to Distribute Lusa Content in Europe and Africa
BusinessWire
TEMIS and Mark Logic Enter Partner Agreement to Address the Publishing Market
PR Newswire
Lionbridge Signs Three Year Agreement With Hill-Rom as Premier Global Localization Services Provider
PR Newswire via CNN Money
Thomson to acquire Deloitte Tax LLP property tax services, terms not disclosed
AP via FindLaw

Products, Markets & People
MediaLink Launches Online Content Management Platform for Communications Professionals
PR Newswire via CNN Money
Groxis, Inc. Appoints New CEO
PR Newswire via EarthLink
Pharma Companies Overcome Legal and Regulatory Obstacles via New Social Media Marketing Framework
MarketWire

Labels: summaries

Trends
Traditional syndication is losing its luster as content brands try to build unique value through search...
CNN to stop using Reuters news service
Reuters
CNN to Reuters: buh-bye
Reuters MediaFile
Google News licenses wire news agencies
Reuters
Online News: Big Deals Made, Broken
Poynter Online

As Google continues to create more new valuable contexts for content than any other online brand...
Waiting for Google to Exhale
Search Engine Watch
Google phone coming in two weeks?
WebWare
Google is working on a mobile OS, and it's due out shortly
Engadget
Google explores beyond searches
Cox News via Palm Beach Post
Google Patent Points to Marriage Between Search and E-mail
InformationWeek

Stock analysts push for higher performance at media companies wedded to older business models...
Yahoo In Need Of Rapid Turnaround
Hartford Courant
Yahoo’s New President Oversees a Shake-Up
The New York Times*
Yahoo Reorg: Sue Decker’s Memo
paidContent.org
Yesterday’s news tomorrow: Wall Street catches up with print realities
Reuters MediaFile
Media stocks and the credit crunch
CNN Money

As traditional media outlets and the platforms that rely on them continue to lose market share...
Nielsen Finds Drop In TV Usage Is Real, Not Methodological, Heavy Viewers Impacted Most
MediaPost
Vint Cerf, aka the godfather of the net, predicts the end of TV as we know it
The Guardian
Business Media Ad Revenue Slips Nearly Two Percent
FOLIO: Magazine
Grim Outlook: Ziff Davis Quarterly Revenues Down 30 Percent
FOLIO: Magazine
TiVo, hurt by writedown, swings back to net loss
Reuters via CNET

They are becoming more aggressive in trying to craft premium profits in online and mobile markets...
News Corp and NBC Universal name video site Hulu
Reuters
Apple Retaliates; Says NBC Wanted Double The Wholesale Price; Will Stop in September
paidContent.org
Amdocs' Qpass Digital Commerce Solution Reaches $2.5 Billion Milestone
PR Newswire
Internet Radio Saved - For Now
Read/Write Web

If the demand is for cross-network mobile devices how can carriers succeed in suppressing this demand...?
Teen 'unlocks' iPhone from AT&T network
AP via Yahoo! News

Scholarly publishers launch PRISM to advocate against free access to government funded research...
Astroturf Spreads to Science Journals: Publishing Industry Forms PRISM
Wired Science

As Web access becomes ubiquitous and publishing a social tool its egalitarianism leaves some flat...
The Internet is Dead and Boring
Blog Maverick
The Internet Is As Dead And Boring As You Want It To Be
A VC
Yahoo!, Microsoft ink web pact with Chinese government: 'The end of anonymous blogging'
The Register
Yahoo files to dismiss China human rights suit
CNET News

But egalitarians are growing in numbers - and in motives...
Slide Users Adding One Million New Widgets Daily: That’s a Lot Of Widgets
TechCrunch
Would You Share Your Search History? Google Lets You Do it On Facebook
Read/Write Web
Open source court ruling impacts debated
Content Agenda
Florida Papers Post Searchable Database on FEMA Aid
Editor & Publisher
IMS, Wolters Kluwer and Verispan Challenge Laws Restricting Access to Critical Healthcare Information
PharmaLive
Google: censorship is not up to us
Times Online
Defend Fair Use Initiative
Google Blogoscoped

Muni WiFi networks struggle to become relevant as broadband mobile networks gain strength...
First year of Google WiFi
Google Blog
S.F. citywide Wi-Fi plan fizzles as provider backs off
The SF Chronicle via SFGate

Ad networks flourish in an era of context-driven value but in social media advertisers are still wary...
Facebook plans to offer targeted ads
USA Today
Magnify.net Launches Video Focused Ad Network
TechCrunch
FM Raises Another $4.5M; Are They Having Difficulty Filling Inventory?
CenterNetworks

In a search for social media legitimacy will Microsoft turn to a Facebook acquisition...?
Why Are Microsoft Execs So Active on Facebook? Plus: Is Bill G. Hot, or Not?
TechCrunch

As the news business becomes an audience engagement business publishers try to reach out...
Google Adding YouTube Video to its News Site
The Alpha Marketer
NYTimes.com makes ‘My Times’ available to all users
Editor & Publisher

Newspapers - still the fancy of gentlemen with nothing better to do...
Afternoon papers, the handyman’s dream
Reuters MediaFile

In other major trends in content this week...
'Second Life': The promise and paradox
CNET News
Changes at Google Scholar: A Conversation With Anurag Acharya
Information Today
WSJ/IAC Personal finance web site FiLife closer to reality
TalkingBiz News
Lawmaker proposes piracy warning
Content Agenda
As competition looms, Bloomberg TV cleaning up its on-air act
IHT
Cameroon: Issowa Iyoni Samuel - "Computer is Still Luxurious"
AllAfrica.com

Best Practices
Online Video Advertising And Monetization Guide
Robin Good
Copyright Protection To Move From Cable To In-Home Networks
GigaOM
Using Research And Experience Keywords To Avoid Customers Design Ambitions
Robin Good
Americans Blogging Habits
Web Pro News
Does Google Apps own your content?
CNET News
Web 2.0 content sites are better for marketers
BizReport
On the Advantages and Disadvantages of BI Search
Enterprise Systems
Is the Future of Legal Scholarship in the Blogosphere?
Law.com
Using Atom and XML with Graph Data Structures
Jeni's Musings
Windows Genuine Advantage Crashes: Everyone's a Pirate
Stephen's Web
The Tangled State of Archived News Footage Online
MediaShift
16 Core Observations of Social Design
Borkado
A Report on Scholarly Publishing Gets the Web 2.0 Treatment
The Chronicle of Higher Education

Cool Tools
Google’s Blogger Adds Support for Video
NewTeeVee
ProfileBuilder Launches Profil.es with More Control Options for Your Online Presense
Mashable
Google Earth’s Easter Egg: A Flight Simulator
TechCrunch
OneSite.com - Software for Building Social Networks
Killer Startups
Can data be stored on single atoms?
CNET News
FeedM8: Access web content through your mobile handset
Emily Chang
What would the iCar be like?
Engadget
Your Content Is Calling
MediaPost
Contest aims to reward mobile 'mash-up' entrepreneurs
The Boston Globe
Google May Start New York Transit Guide to Boost Ads
Bloomberg

Deals, Partnerships & Sales
Hearst loses shares to investors Corp.: Had offered $600 million for TV stock
Variety
IntelliSearch and Groxis Form Strategic Partnership Enabling Discovery-Oriented Enterprise Search
PR Newswire
'Wash Post' and CBS News to Share Campaign Content
Editor and Publisher
Knovel Announces New Content Partnership with Brill Academic Publishers
PR Newswire
GoFish Partners With adap.tv to Deliver Integrated Online Video Ads
BusinessWire
SpiralFrog Licenses Universal Music Publishing
BusinessWire
EBSCO Publishing Acquires Ten Print Indexes from SAGE
PR Web
Tele Atlas Partners with Zagat Survey to Deliver Ratings and Reviews to Consumers 'On the Go' PR Newswire
MSNBC.com, CondeNast in partnership
MarketWatch*
Phone book maker teams with Yahoo
The News Observer
FTC Clears News Corp.-Dow Jones Deal
AP via Forbes
NBC Buys TV Group Overseas
The New York Times*
Scripps to Sell Albuquerque Paper
WSJ Online*
CNN.com Inks Multi-Year Advertising Agreement with Google
BusinessWire
NewspaperARCHIVE.com Partners With World Vital Records, Inc. for Access To A Half-Billion Records
SBWire
blinkx Announces 28 New Media Partnerships to Serve Niche Audiences
PR Newswire
R.H. Donnelley and Yahoo! Local Expand Relationship
PR Newswire via CNN Money
JISC members from Higher and Further Education libraries to access Knovel engineering knowledge
Information World Review
Wolters Kluwer to Buy Dealer Tech Firm AppOne
BankNet360

Products, Markets & People
Web Content Resource, Helium Marketplace, Expands Network
Web Site Host Directory
Yahoo Adds Features to Popular E-Mail
AP via Forbes
Thomson Scientific Launches the New Face of Research
PR Newswire
EMC Launches New Information Management Consulting Practice
PR Newswire via CNN Money
Google CFO George Reyes retires
Download Squad
Dodge leaves 'BusinessWeek' to join Salesforce.com
BtoB Online
LexisNexis Launches Lexis(R) Back Office Powered by PCLaw 9 to Help Law Firms Improve Cash Flow
BusinessWire
Wikipilipinas founder aims for 'long tail' effect
Inquirer. net

Labels: summaries

Trends
Google's ability to power applications anywhere with unique content is helping it to grow beyond its portal...
Google gains, Yahoo loses under ComScore changes
CNET News
Big is over, portals are past
Buzz Machine

As ad-driven revenues and open source content overshadow paid content models in media...
A Quest to Get More Court Rulings Online, and Free
The New York Times*
The Hollywood Reporter, ESQ calls it quits
LA Observed
Free Newspapers Lead Way Online in Europe
MediaShift

Contextual advertising takes on a new twist with Google's opt-in video ads...
YouTube Reinvents Video Ads
Mashable

As Google gets ready to twist people's expectations for mobile content services...
Google 'probably' to bid for 700MHz spectrum
CNET News

Publishers focusing on maximizing the value of their inventory turn to systems delivering broader demand...
PubMatic Aims to Maximize Revenue for Web Site Publishers
Read/Write Web

University presses are falling behind as journals seek out more sophisticated channels for marketing...
Publishing and Values: Is AAA's Move from UC to Wiley Hurting Less Profitable Science?
Inside Higher Education
Two Studios to Support HD DVD Over Rival
The New York Times*

Social media is becoming the content platform of choice for knowledge-intensive applications...
CIA 'launches Facebook for spies'
BBC News
Crowdsourcing Reaches Facebook Users in First Collaborative Online Course
PR Web
Stocks.us: A TechMeme Clone For Stock News
TechCrunch

As traditional sources turn to social media channels to gain relevance and audience share...
Internet news: alternative sources growing fast, but big brands dominate
Ars Technica
Entertainment Biz Now Uses P2P For Branding
GigaOM
In the Cut and Paste Era, Traffic Happens Elsewhere
Micro Persuasion

These days the biggest winners in traditional media deals may be the ones who didn't play...
Tribune-Deal Worries Remain Despite Approval
WSJ Online*
Investor Doubts Put Deals in Jeopardy
WSJ Online*

In other major trends in content this week...
An update on Google Video feedback
Google Blog
Viacom And NBC Inject Themselves Into Online Video Litigation
TechCrunch
infoUSA Gains $11.2 Million Litigation Settlement
BusinessWire

Best Practices
How Will Universal Search Affect SEO?
ISE DB

Cool Tools
Vlingo, a new voice-to-text service launches
WebWare
Blogger Ads Inline AdSense Widget
ProBlogger
SolutionBase: Build your own CMS with TikiWiki
Tech Republic
Hitchhikers Guide to Google Sky
PC World

Deals, Partnerships & Sales
Business Objects, Thomson partner on SaaS
InfoWorld
Elsevier to Sell MDL to Symyx Technologies
Information Today
ebrary announces partnership with YBP Library Services
DM Asia
Amazon Consulting, LLC + eChannelLine Publishing Form Alliance for First IT Channel Specific Job Site
PR Newswire
Fraunhofer Society Signs Multi-Year Contract With Thomson Scientific's ISI
PR Newswire
Former Cygnus Execs Acquire Healthcare and Medical Communications Company
FOLIO: Magazine
'Stars and Stripes' Buys Atex Content Mangement System
Editor & Publisher
Vivisimo and Datawatch Enhance E-Discovery and Compliance with Integrated E-Mail Archiving Search
BusinessWire

Products, Markets & People
Interwoven Introduces Universal Search for Professional Services Firms
PR Newswire via CNN Money
Zagat Launches ZAGAT.mobi Advertising-Supported Mobile Website Brings Free Content to Mobile Phones
PR Newswire
Bankrate.com Content Offered on CNBC.com
PR Newswire via CNN Money
Ask.com debuts TV ad campaign to promote Ask3D
BtoB Online
CrossFire Beilstein Database Exceeds Ten Million Compounds
PR Newswire via PharmaLive
New LexisNexis(R) CaseMap(R) Enhances Strategic Link between Discovery and Case Assessment
BusinessWire

Labels: summaries

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

Labels: summaries

Trends
The soap opera is over - now on to the real deal...
News Corp. Is Poised to Win Dow Jones
WSJ Online*
Bancrofts' Jockeying Over Murdoch Deal Goes Down to the Wire
WSJ Online*
New Opposition Arises to Dow Jones Deal
WSJ Online*
Dow ponders free finance news site
Australian IT

For a decade traditional news outlets have not moved quickly enough to build new revenues....
New York Times Co. earnings fall 49 percent in second quarter
BtoB Online
Free Fall From Tribune Tower: Profit Down 58% In 2Q
Editor & Publisher
Tribune Sale at Issue as Newspaper Woes Mount
Editor and Publisher
Can the Washington Post survive?
Fortune via CNN Money
Tabloid Eaten by Aliens! Fake Columnist Loses His Job! World Weekly News Ends its Run
The New York Times*

And for a decade publishers have dragged their heels on making the Web a universal medium...
Cuban: The Internet is dead
Multichannel News/CAgenda
U.S. Internet dominance fading fast
Download Squad
Who Still Reads Magazines? Just About Everybody
TV Week

Google tries to bust open the wireless Web with hungry partners and lobbies for mobile openness...
Google kicks WiMax goal with Sprint Deal
CBR Online
FCC shuns Google plans for open mobile network
CBR Online
Google plans search service for mobile content
WSJ via Pantagraph.com
Bloggers Invited to Collaborate on Writing Broadband Legislation
PC World
The U.S. May Get A Free Mobile Service Before Europe
TechCrunch

With revenues from its own intellectual property waning Microsoft turns to brokering ads for others' content...
Ballmer: We are 'hell-bent' on succeeding in ads
CNET News
Microsoft acquires ad exchange company
InfoWorld
Microsoft Signs Digg To Exclusive Display, Contextual Ad Deal; Google Loses Out, FM Keeps Hand In
paidContent.org

As ad-supported content makes greater inroads premium content thrives in high-value B2B contexts...
Advertisements demolish the paywalls
The Guardian
Thomson Corp. Q2 revenue up 11 per cent, net more than doubles to US$377M
CP via MSN Finance
Thomson results please as Reuters merger looms
Financial Post

B2B media thrives in niches but the margins hoped for in recent acquisition sprees may not materialize...
IDG’s CIO.com Audience Increases 19%
BusinessWire
Latest Reorg Leaves Observers Wondering About Cygnus
FOLIO: Magazine

Copyrighted content gets more protection online as portal producers line up major licensing deals...
The Net Gets Real On Copyrights
BusinessWeek via WTOV.com
Google to filter copyright videos by September
CNET News

Which is little comfort to artists seeking beyond-the-grave rights to their works...
Musicians' copyright pleas fall on deaf ears in UK
The Guardian

Google remains the contextualizer in chief, but a broader array of venues are capturing the action...
They dont know you, they don't know us, but they know Google
Sail World
From Search to (Re)Search: Searching For The Google Killer
Read/Write
Ad Networks: Why it’s better than ever to be a targeted content site
VentureBeat

Social media is thriving but business models to monetize it are still works in progress...
Facebook: What's In It For Journalists?
PoynterOnline
Wanted: Experienced, passionate citizens for hyperlocal sites: Earn $$$ from your home!
USC Annenberg OJR
Calacanis asks deep questions about social networks
Scobelizer
A Social-Networking Service With a Velvet Rope
The New York Times*

Open access scientific content gets major boosts from the U.S. and scientific markets...
House Bill Mandates Public Access To Research Results
C&EN
Momentum for Open Access
Inside Higher Ed

And plain old television online should get us excited...why?
Joost to launch with million users by year's end
Engadget

Memo to Fox Interactive: Wonder why people are moving over to Facebook in droves...?
MySpace Finds 29,000 Sex Offenders
AP via Content Agenda

In other major trends in content this week...
ComScore refines web metrics system
FT.com
Businesses Can Benefit From The Boom In Consumer Digital Content
InformationWeek
YouTube video debate actually worked
CNET News
Federal Appeals Court Holds Email Content Is Constitutionally Protected
Ctr Democracy & Technology
Congress is considering a law to stop Social Security Numbers from being posted in unsafe places
American Chronicle
No Contest: eBooks Are Winning!
American Chronicle
XM, Sirius plan a la carte offerings
USA Today

Best Practices
'S.F. Chron' Announces Newsroom and Web Changes
Editor and Publisher
Counterpoint: 'Content Made for a Handful of People'
NewTeeVee
Ideas to Shake Up Publishing
Inside Higher Ed
End Mobile Browser Sniffing and Give Consumers Choices
MicroPersuasion
Robots Exclusion Protocol: now with even more flexibility
Google Blog
A checkpoint on Web 2.0 in the enterprise
Dion Hinchcliffe
Mobile Weather Information Is Most Popular Among Americans, While Europeans Prefer Browsing Sports
Marketwire via EarthTimes
Interview: Peter Suber On Copyright Law and Free Online Scholarship
Global Politician
New Technology Tools Have High Acceptance Rate in Public Relations
BusinessWire
Free information for the taking
CNET News
Google Tussles With Autonomy Over Search Criticism
InformationWeek
The Problem with Web Measurement, Part 1
MediaShift
Syndication Wars 2007: Atom's Time is Nigh, With Google on its Side
Read/Write Web
US info pros plug into Web 2.0 computing
Information World Review

Cool Tools
Screencasting Gets Easier With New Screen Capture And Desktop Recording Tool: Jing Project
Robin Good
Near-Time Premium Is Creating Online Businesses
dBusiness News
Tool reclaims time for journalists, researchers
Scoop
Engagd with an Attention Platform
Download Squad
Digg Launches Digg Widgets
Mashable
Find old colleagues with WorkedHere
Download Squad

Deals, Partnerships & Sales
AOL To Acquire Online Ad Net Tacoda For Around $275 Million
paidContent.org
WashingtonWatch.com and PR Newswire Announce Content Partnership
PR Newswire
Real Cities Network and DotConnect Media Announce Partnership
PR Newswire via CNN Money
Answers.com & mtvU Launch Interactive Reference Tool on Over 500 Online College Newspapers
BusinessWire
Penton’s Truck Blue Book to Partner with DealerManage
BusinessWire
Jobster Launches New Application on Facebook Platform in Partnership with Hundreds of Employers
BusinessWire
Twitter Takes Funding from Del.icio.us Investor
Mashable
Hearst expected to announce the acquisition of UGO Networks
Forbes
DeSilva + Phillips' Client Mediabistro.com Acquired by Jupitermedia for $23 Million
PR Web
TomTom to buy map supplier Tele Atlas
Reuters

Products, Markets & People
Factiva SalesWorks from Dow Jones Offers New JavaScript-based Web Service Capability
PR Newswire
Thomson Learning to become Cengage
Norwalk Advocate via Topix
Getty Images Liberates Its Footage Collections
PR Newswire via CNN Money
LexisNexis Launches ExecRelate(TM) for Relationship Management
BusinessWire
Marchesano Named Jordan, Edmiston Group’s New Managing Director
FOLIO: Magazine
Dow Jones NewsPlus -- Capital Markets Report Edition Expands Fixed- Income and Currency News
PR Newswire via CNN Money

Labels: summaries

Trends
The Dow Jones deal gets a few wrinkles but Murdoch appears to be ready to smooth it all out...
In a Bid for Dow Jones, an Entrepreneur Again Finds Murdoch as Rival
The New York Times*
Dow Jones Pact Would Protect Three Top Editors
WSJ Online*

Scientific publishers search for a golden mean between timeliness and profitability...
News Ages Quickly: Scientific publishing moves into the 21st century at last
Reason
Scientific publishers's changing role in today's online world
Really Simple Sidi
Elsevier Has No Fear Of Google Scholar
Web Pro News
'Open access' opening wider
The Scientist

Social media is booming but it's moving away rapidly from its primitive roots into sophisticated services...
User-Gen to Grow Into $4.3 Bil. Business
MediaWeek
Is This The Twilight of Blogging?
The Blog Herald
Pivots of the Web: What's Next After Social Networking?
Read/Write Web

Word to the wise: when your investor is in the same line of business keep your cards close to the vest...
Craigslist grapples with competitor on board
CNET News

Yahoo's short-term horizon appears problematic but it's sticking to plans that augur well for the future...
Once-sunny future turns mostly cloudy for Yahoo
Chicago Tribune/ Content Agenda
Can she turn Yahoo into, well, Google?
CNET News
Yahoo launches customizable ad tool
CNET News

Bringing the meaning of "friendly courts" to a new level...
Belgian ISP Held Responsible for File Sharing
IDG Via Content Agenda
Google appeals Belgian copyright law, talks ongoing
MarketWatch
Google - DoubleClick Deal Draws Criticism
The New York Times*

The iPhone's debut is really about paving the way to a more robust mobile Web across all carriers...
iPhone: Ruining the mobile Internet for everyone
WebWare
YouTube, LG Electronics to jointly develop mobile phone
AFP via Content Agenda

Media companies are beginning to understand that exclusive platform deals only choke off their options...
Universal confirms non-renewal of iTunes contract
Engadget

Need to talk back to Michael Moore? Why not do it through Google ads...?
Google vs Michael Moore
TechCrunch

In other major trends in content this week...
Thomson to Sell Prometric to ETS for $435 Million
Bloomberg
All the News That’s Fit to Print Out
The New York Times*
Content Providers, Web Portals Battle For End-User Control
MediaPost
Google Makes FeedBurner Services Free
TechCrunch
Goldman Sachs Issues Negative Note on State of Newspaper Industry
Editor & Publisher

Best Practices
Why StumbleUpon Sends More Traffic Than Digg
ProBlogger
How Print Publishers Can Expand Online Revenues
ClickZ News
How Hoover's Keeps Leads Hot: 5-1 ROI Test Results
Marketing Sherpa
Open standards for social networking
CNET News
A new journalism tool? Twitter?
Scobelizer
NY Times opens more stories to comments
Journalism.co.uk

Cool Tools
Miniblogging:8 Pownce Rivals Compared
Mashable
Librarian: A new facebook application for library information resources
Really Simple Sidi
New APIs: Printing and US Gov Documents
Programmable Web
TwitterGram - speak your mind on Twitter
Download Squad
Mister Wong Launches Social Bookmarking Tool in U.S.
Mashable
Switched On: Comparing Apples and Blackberrys
Engadget

Deals, Partnerships & Sales
Incisive Media To Acquire ALM
PR Newswire
Opinion Research(R) Acquires NWC Research in Australia
BusinessWire
Autonomy pays $375m for US online search leader Zanataz
The Independent
Nielsen Company Agrees to Acquire Telephia Inc.
TMCNet
Convera, SearchChannel form strategic partnership
BtoB Online
News Corp. Buys Two Weeklies, Expanding New York City Reach
The New York Times*
McClatchy, Tribune Sell Newscom to Mainstream Data
Editor & Publisher
Blackwell Book Services and Ebooks Corporation Announce Enhanced Strategic Collaboration
Digital50.com
Vivísimo Velocity Connector Unifies Desktop and Enterprise Results
Information Today, Inc.

Products, Markets & People
ProQuest changes name to Voyager Learning
Crain's Detroit Business
Elsevier Unveils New Information Resource Package for Engineering Schools
TMCNet
Journal Of Nuclear Medicine's Impact Grows, Remains Consistently High Over Past 5 Years
Medical News Today
SirsiDynix’s Horizon/Corinthian Merged into Symphony
Library Journal
Ilumen Rolls Out Aggregator Service
WebCPA
Interactive Data’s Low Latency Feed Benefits from Greatly Enhanced Global OTC Content
BusinessWire
Copyright Clearance Center Announces Annual License for Academia
Information Today

Labels: summaries

Trends
While Google focuses on a major new healthcare initiative Yahoo focuses on keeping hands on deck...
New advisory group on health
Google Blog
Google’s next stop: $600 a share?
CNN Money
The Yahoo! Exodus: Who's Next?
Forbes

Though Google's legal challenges get more contentious by the day...
YouTube copyright fight hinges on whether it controls its content, says US court
Out-Law
Google sued over defamatory postings found on web search
The Independent

News Corp's bid for Dow Jones is near a deal but will there be an editorial team left to support him...?
Tentative Dow Jones Sale Pact Said to Give Murdoch Power to Hire and Fire at The Journal
The New York Times
Murdoch: No plans to raise Dow Jones bid
Reuters
Dow Jones, News Corp. Agree On Set of Editorial Protections
WSJ Online*
Wall Street Journal reporters protest Murdoch bid for Dow Jones
AP via Topix
Murdoch on 'WSJ' Deal: 'Vitriol' and 'Page 3 Girls'
Editor & Publisher

Meanwhile social media continues to carve out new ways to share content some effectively...
Social Networks as A Place Where Content Finds You
MicroPersuasion
Kevin Rose’s New Startup: Pownce
TechCrunch
MySpace to follow rival FaceBook’s lead
FT.com
Konnects Launches Network of Communities for Business Professionals
Mashable
Newspapers pin survival hopes on user content
The Enquirer

Memo to private equity speculators: the canary in the coal mine has a bad cough...
Sources: Divestment of Remaining Two Ziff Units 'Going Nowhere'
FOLIO: Magazine

What happens when the FCC won't listen to you? Try the FTC...
Blow dealt to network neutrality; FTC says rules sought for broadband providers could hurt innovation
LA Times via Content Agenda

Lots of hype but iPhone's biggest contribution will be making broadband wireless Web more ubiquitous...
Not much going on at San Fran's Apple Store
Engadget
iPhone's disappearing spacebar
37 Signals
iPhone rate plans revealed, at-home activation announced
Engadget

Music producers put the squeeze on Internet radio but they're mostly likely to push more artists to indies...
Internet Radio Protests a Rise in Royalties
WSJ Online*

In other major trends in content this week...
AOL Relaunches News Site In Blog Format
paidContent.org
Global Digital Copyright Project on Schedule
World Assn of Newspapers
Live questions and answers with Fluther
Download Squad
Is Endeca really the next Google?
CNET News
Same name and same office, but new ProQuest isn't like old
Crain's Detroit Business
User-generated content, privacy and subterfuge tackled by news chiefs
Hold the Page

Best Practices
What Social Networking Sites Do You Use? How Do they Benefit Your Blog?
ProBlogger
Face-to-Face Networking Trumps Supernova Panels at Conference
MediaShift
Enterprise 2.0: Thirty Corporate Uses of Wikis and Blogs
Social Computing
Ask.com Takes Lead In Designing Display Of Search Results
WSJ Online*
Walled Gardens and the Lesson for Social Networks
Micro Persuasion
Social sites reveal class divide
BBC News
Reader Voices: Who Pays for Content?
InfoWorld
What To Do When Your Company Wikipedia Page Goes Bad
Search Engine Land
How To Format Online Content For Maximum Legibility: Chunking Information
Robin Good
Reconceiving storytelling at the Associated Press
USC Annenberg OJR

Cool Tools
NewsVine Launches ElectionVine: Widget Based Election Polling
TechCrunch
Xerox Reignites Interest in Semantic Networking as a Search Tool
BetaNews
New dictionary translations
Google Blog
Digital newsstand saves paper, quarters
Engadget
TwitterMail Lets You Tweet from your Email Account
Mashable
Shifd: A Clever Mobile App From The NY Times
TechCrunch
Frengo Launches Buzz Platform: Create Your Own Twitter Network
Mashable
Spock - Vertical Search Done Right
Read/Write Web

Deals, Partnerships & Sales
infoUSA(R) to Acquire Guideline, Inc.
BusinessWire
CondeNet Selects Kiptronic to Power Downloadable Media Ad Campaign Management
BusinessWire
Reuters Signs Content Agreement With Chinese Video Site
Pacific Epoch
Acquire Media Corporation Buys NewEdge Division from Thomson Corporation
EContent Magazine
Kosmix Partners with Revolution Health to Deliver the Most Relevant Health Content on the Web
BusinessWire
Ingram Micro will distribute several Google enterprise search tools and services
PC World
AP Signs Group For Hosted Online Content
Radio Ink
ConnectivHealth buys information provider Relegent
Nashville Business Journal
Microsoft and Houghton Mifflin Form Strategic Alliance to Simplify Delivery of Educational Resources
PressZoom
Ziff Davis Sells Enterprise Group
FOLIO: Magazine

Products, Markets & People
Groupe La Provence makes content management efficient with Nstein to launch new regional portal
CNW Group
McGraw-Hill Professional Launches Customizable Curricular Tool for Surgical Residency Programs
BusinessWire
LexisNexis Enhances atVantage Law Firm Business Development Solution
BusinessWire
blinkx Launches AdHoc, the First Contextual Online Video Advertising Platform
Streaming Media
Onstream Media Announces Being Added to Russell Microcap(R) Index
Insurance Newsnet
Xrefer Changes Name To Credo Reference
Managing Information
Answers Corp's WikiAnswers Ranked Second Largest Q+A Site
PR Newswire via EarthTimes

Labels: summaries

Trends

Yahoo searches for its future in a world that has thinning alliances to mainstream content...
Yang replaces Semel as Yahoo CEO
CNET News
Yahoo's Yang Digs in for 'Long Haul' Against Google
Bloomberg
It’s Official: Yahoo Acquires Rivals.com; Not Official But True: It Cost About $100 Million
paidContent.org

As the reality of a deal with NewsCorp begins to sink in at Dow Jones...
Murdoch Said to Be Close to Terms on Journal
The New York Times*
Dow Jones Board Takes Over Talks On Firm's Future
WSJ Online*
Few Choices for Workers at Dow Jones
The New York TImes*

Long discounted by business information providers Web 2.0 platforms may be the ticket for enterprises...
The Enterprise 2.0 Conference: Web 2.0 Continues Its Move To The Workplace
Dion Hinchcliffe
ReutersInteractive debuts
Supernova
A Story on User Generated Content within the Firewall
FAST Blog
TechDirt Builds Community of Bloggers to Offer Corporate Analysis
MediaShift

Publishing as the seminal event to monetize research gives way to more evolutionary models...
Nature Precedings: Early Access to Scientific Results
O'Reilly Radar
New site pits 'published' vs. 'posted'
The Scientist

The battle for online video heats up as visual content begins to play to broadband-equipped users...
Truveo Growing 50% Per Month, Says Video Search Becoming More Important
TechCrunch
Fox locks deal with Web TV service Brightcove
Variety via Content Agenda
IPTV chugs along
CNET News

Social media portals are becoming key bargaining chips for those seeking content's future...
Facebook is the Winner of MySpace-Yahoo! Talks
Read/Write Web
News Corp explores swap of MySpace site for Yahoo! stake
ContentAgenda
Upstart Websites Aim to Consolidate Social Networking
Advertising Age*
Jaiku/Twitter/Facebook/Kyte/Plaxo = something happening you should pay attention to
Scobelizer

Google fights for less censorship in the long run but has its bets hedged for the short run...
Google fights global internet censorship
AP via Yahoo! News
Google cleared to provide Internet content in China - report
AFX via Forbes
Blocked China Web users rage against Great Firewall
Reuters via Yahoo! News

About the only thing that broadcasters seem to agree on these days is that their business model is tanking...
Talks on global broadcast treaty fail
AP via Yahoo! News

Before it's even launched the iPhone is becoming a new magnet for digital media...
Hollywood Seeks Ways to Fit Its Content Into the Realm of the iPhone
The New York Times*

eBook enthusiasm still abounds but is web-first book publishing taking the momentum away from them...?
eBooks: The Next Page for iPod?
Tech News World

As print revenues and audiences recede news organizations are focusing on relevant online content...
At NAA, Newspaper Execs Tout New Media, As Print Struggles
paidContent.org
'Cup Is Overflowing' for Future of Journalism
Media Shift
McClatchy Web Site Revamped -- From Iraq Blogs to Dave Barry
Editor & Publisher
CMP Aftermath: Are Techies the Canary in the Coal Mine?
FOLIO: Magazine
The Times Is Raising Newspaper Prices
The New York Times*

Hope springs eternal for business information aggregators...
ProQuest plans to grow
Ann Arbor News

In other major trends in content this week...
Adsense Publishers Report Massive Dip in Earnings and CTR
Digital Inspiration
The Revolution Will Not Be Socialized -- The Homogenization of Social Media
Newsvine
Google the Vote: How Google is Changing the American Political Landscape
Read/Write Web
DRM drags down economy, Linden CTO says
Computerworld/ Content Agenda
Silcon Valley's Valley
Micro Persuasion
Glossy Insert at Gannett, and Maybe Dow Jones
The New York Times*

Best Practices
The Opaque Value Problem (or, Why do people use Twitter?)
Borkado
Consumers More Likely to Act on Video Ads Viewed on Media Sites, According to OPA Study
PR Newswire
Use LinkedIn more productively
Lifehacker
Web 3.0 - The Rise Of The Information Product
BlogTrepreneur
Business : Content ownership versus Information ownership
eacademy
The 10 Second Rule: How to Write for Diagonal Readers
Copyblogger
Study Finds Web Users Also Like Dead-Tree Editions
Editor and Publisher

Cool Tools
New "Wetpaint Please Touch" Virtual Painting Website Fosters Online Expression
Marketwire
Adobe Delivers New Document Generation Solutions
BusinessWire
Building Public Library Websites with Drupal
LITA Blog
New Yahoo! Go 2.0 available on 22nd June
OneCompare
Crave about iPhone
Really Simple Sidi
Jaiku Launches Channels Feature for Topical Messaging
Mashable
Iriver's mystery device
Engadget
Another Attempt to Match Readers and Relevant News
The New York Times*
Apple prepping a cheaper iPhone? Probably.
Engadget
IBM bringing Web 2.0 to corporate workers
Computerworld
Mindtouch: The Wall Strett Journal Discovers Enterprise Wikis
ebizQ

Deals, Partnerships & Sales
TechTarget Acquires TechnologyGuide.com and Ajaxian.com
BusinessWire
Blinkx signs up RealPlayer as battle for online video heats up
The Independent
infoUSA(R) Acquires expresscopy.com: Sales Leads, Printing and Mailing – All Under One Roof
BusinessWire
LinkedIn to Open Up - How It Can Take On Facebook
Read/Write Web
Google To Acquire GrandCentral
TechCrunch
Access Intelligence acquires TradeFair Group
BtoB Online
OverDrive Signs Pop Music Label for Downloads
Library Journal
BookSurge, an Amazon Group, and Kirtas Collaborate to Preserve and Distribute Historic Archival Books
PR Newswire
LexisNexis Taps Ernst & Young to Exclusively Feature International GAAP(R) 2007 Online on Tax Platform
Presszoom
LexisNexis(R) Offers Exclusive on Potomac Publishing Company(R) Tool via lexis.com(R)
BusinessWire
NewsGator Extends Social Capabilities to Microsoft SharePoint(R) 2007
Marketwire
ILS and AVIATION WEEK Partner to Offer the World’s Premier Aviation Search Engine
BusinessWire
OneSource Chosen by National Library Board in Singapore for Public and Private Company Profiles
BusinessWire
The New York Times, NYTimes.com and Monster Launch Co-Branded Recruitment Web Site
BusinessWire
Wolters Kluwer Law & Business Acquires MediRegs
PR Newswire
EBSCO Acquires Top ABC-CLIO Databases, To Distribute Others
Library Journal
LexisNexis To Distribute Fairfax Media Content to Subscribers
IT Wire
Reuters signs with Wireless Ronin for digital signage
Digital Signage Today
Nstein Technologies signs a deal with La Dépêche du Midi, a leading regional newspaper in France
CNW Group
infoUSA to Combine Millard Group with Mokrynskidirect
BusinessWire
Fast Search & Transfer wins deal with US computer group Lenovo
Thomson Financial via AFX

Products, Markets & People
Newstex Adds Blogs Covering Global Financial Markets to Blogs on Demand(TM)
PR Newswire via EarthTimes
Search Engine Module for Energy Related Intelligence, Developed by MetaCarta
Web Site Host Directory
Interactive Data’s Financial Market Information and Tools Now Available on SF.com’s AppExchange
CRM DIrectory
Netvibes Universe Spans the Globe: Over 500 Official Content Partnerships With Leading Institutions
BusinessWire
RR Donnelley Unifies Printing And Related Services Offerings Under RR Donnelley Brand
PR Newswire
Wolters Kluwer Financial Introduces Bank Secrecy Act and Anti-Money Laundering Regulatory Consulting
PRN/ Insurance Newsnet
YouTube begins rolling out international sites, new mobile support
Ars Technica
Yahoo! to Combine Search and Display Advertising Sales Teams to Better Serve its Advertising Partners
PR Newswire
CMP Technology Announces Editorial Management Changes to Accelerate its Electronics Group
PR Newswire
Widevine Sees DRM For All
Red Herring
Adobe announces important ereading software - Digital Editions 1.0
GizMag
Comtex Launches SmarTrend(R) 2.0 at NY Securities Industry Technology Management Conference
BusinessWire
Interactive Data Now Offers Robust Risk Analytics Content Powered by BondEdge(R) in North America
BusinessWire
Mark Logic Granted Patent on Key Technology in MarkLogic Server
Marketwire
infoUSA(R)’s New Movers Database Touted as "Substantial and Accurate"
BusinessWire

Labels: summaries

Trends

Where is the growth in publishing? Along the long, long tail of online content...
The Long Tail Is Getting Fatter
TechCrunch
Future of Media Video: Google Takes Over the World by 2050
Read/Write Web
Can Blogs Become a Big Source of Jobs?
The New York Times*
Google wins 'race to bottom' on privacy
Reuters via CNET

Which has become far more adept at monetizing context...
'Widgets' May Snag More Ads
WSJ Online*
Brainstorming an Out-of-the-Box Approach to Blog Monetization
ProBlogger
Google Launches Content Placement Reports
SearchViews
Emory Announces Plan To Scan, Sell Books from Its Library
Library Journal

Paying attention to Long Tail content takes time and effort - and better monitoring tools...
Zen and the Art of Attention
Web Worker Daily

Round two of the Dow Jones selloff features provisos, positionings and a long shot offer from Pearson...
Bancrofts Set Revised Safeguard Proposals
WSJ Online*
Fox drops TV stations for Dow bid
Variety
Pearson Weighs Dow Jones Bid
WSJ Online*
Crovitz, 'WSJ' Publisher, Addresses Editorial Changes -- Urges Staffers to Stay 'Focused' During Sale Talk
Editor and Publisher
WSJ completes merger of print and online editorial efforts
Lost Remote
More On MarketWatch Status
paidContent.org

Print-oriented publishers are beginning to cede lost ground and to focus on which titles are worth saving...
CMP Slashes Jobs, Shutters Some Pubs, Merges Others
Media Buyer Planner
Traditional Media Expected To See Decline in Ad Revenue
WSJ Online*

Google Video focuses on becoming a universal video search while YouTube builds a content collection...
Google to use YouTube to amass video database
Silicon Valley
Google Video Search in Frames
Mashable
YouTube Sets Tests of Video Blocking
The New York Times*
YouTube Co-Founder Explains New Video ID System
Wired

As the battle for protecting IP on the Web pushes Hollywood and broadband carriers together...
Will H'wood take a stand on Net neutrality?
Variety
Hollywood's YouTube frustration grows
CNET News
AT&T to target pirated content
LA Times
MPAA, others call for new anti-piracy laws
Content Agenda

Though the potential for high-quality video downloads being a real financial threat may be limited...
Panelists: Downloads 10 to 20 years from mainstream
Video Business /Content Agenda

As subscription database brands fade into merger-land is the Google brand going to gain leverage...?
ProQuest CSA Now just ProQuest Again
Library Journal
Does Google’s Universal Search Foreshadow Enterprise Search?
IT Business Edge

The most hyped content appliance in recent memory has cachet, scarcity - and not a single sale yet...
iPhone APB: Walt already has one
Engadget

What to know what the inside of many news media minds looks like...?
'Copy!' - A tour of The New York Times as it was
The New York Times*

In other major trends in content this week...
YHOO Annual Meeting: Attempt To Reform Exec Pay Loses; Directors Elected With Low Majority
paidContent.org
New York Times May Ad Revenue Drops; Advertising Revenue Down 8.5 Percent, Internet Ad Sales Up
AP via Yahoo! News
Howard Stringer on new media: Peace in the Valley?
FT.com
Updating Maps on the Spot and Sharing the Fixes
The New York Times*
Shield's Down: Administration Still Fights Law Protecting Media
Editor and Publisher
Agents debate posting listings info they don't represent
Inman News

Best Practices
The Implicit Web: Last.fm, Amazon, Google, Attention Trust
Read/Write Web
The Antiquity of our Healthcare System: Rafael Sidi Reports
Really Simple Sidi
Google takes baby step to protect your privacy
Download Squad
Social Media Most Trusted Source for IT Purchasing Decisions
Environmental Leader
Study shows effectiveness of rich media
BtoB Online
Ensure that Google Knows It's Your Content
WebProNews
The New Metrics of Scholarly Authority
Chronicle of Higher Ed.*
The Attention Crash
Micro Persuasion

Cool Tools
The Ultimate RSS Toolbox - 120+ RSS Resources
Mashable
Apple invites Windows users to Safari
CNET News
Share Notes, Media And RSS With Zoho Notebook
Robin Good
Try out new Blogger features like video upload
Download Squad
Google Co-op: Power-up your custom search engines
Lifehacker
Joost Major Contender Puts Independent Producers Content First - Meet Babelgum
Robin Good
Safari Coming to Windows; iPhone Runs AJAX Apps
Read/Write Web
New YouTube API = YouTube Mashups
Mashable

Deals, Partnerships & Sales
blinkx Partners with Turning Point TV
Huliq
LexisNexis Expands Online Collection with New Digital U.S. Serial Set Maps Collection
BusinessWire
CQ and NY Times To Publish Library Reference Books
Library Journal
IHS Acquires Jane's Information Group
Epicos
MarkLogic Chosen for Satyam's Integrated Digital Publishing Platform
MarketWire
Summit Business Media To Buy WBI
FOLIO: Magazine
ISYS(R) Search Software Signs Leading Channel Islands Law Firm Carey Olsen
BusinessWire
Burst Media and Reed Business Launch New Online B-2-B Advertising Network
BusinessWire
MetaCarta Signs Agreement with IHS to Provide the Oil Gas Industry with Geographically Relevant data
GIS User
ABC News and USA TODAY Announce Content Partnership for 2008 Election
PR Newswire via DMN Newswire
Demand Media Acquires Expertvillage.com
TMCNet
ProQuest and Scopus Announce Partnership
Information Today, Inc.

Products, Markets & People
Clarabridge Launches Content Mining Service
B-Eye Network
AviationWeek.com Launches New Online Networking Tools
PR Newswire via Digital 50
Industry Moves: Peggy White Out At Yahoo; Circumstances Unclear
paidContent.org
Penton’s American Trucker’s Redesigned Web Site Delivers Faster, Detailed Search Results for Users
The Auto Channel
Macrovision Corporation Announces New Organizational Structure
WebWire
Hoover's Launches ConnectMail - a New One-to-One E-Mail Address Discovery Tool
dBusinessNews
New LexisNexis(R) Academic Brings Easy-to-Use, Professional-Strength Features to Academic Market
BusinessWire
GlobalSpec debuts industrial ad network
BtoB Online
News Filter for Institutional Investors Debuts
Wall Street and Technology

Labels: summaries

Trends

If you're not wired, you're not in the content economy...
Online ad spending surges: Internet display ad spending jumped 17% Q1 while total ad spending fell
CNN Money
Papers Still Dominate Local Online Ad Spending -- But Are Losing Share
Editor and Publisher

If you're not syndicating everywhere you're not in the content economy...
How Google's Acquisition of FeedBurner Will Change RSS Marketing
Marketing Studies

If you're not connecting people with their peers and their outlooks you're not in the content economy...
In 2010 over $2 Billion Will Be Spent on Social Network Advertising in the US: Report
BusinessWire
LinkedIn: LinkedIn not looking to connect with a buyer
LinkedIn
Aggregating Content by Perspective
MicroPersuasion
Salesforce.com, Google form alliance
BtoB Online
With Covestor, everyone is a money manager
GigaOM
Yahoo to buy Facebook?
Guardian Unlimited

If you're not willing to be agnostic about content sources you're not in the content economy...
CNN and Wall Street Journal Embrace Aggregation Of Third-Party Content
Publishing 2.0
Interview: Ann Moore, CEO, Time Inc.
paidContent.org

If you're not focusing on user-defined aggregation you're not in the content economy...
Ask.com Relaunches As Ask3D With More Widgetized Look & Feel and Personalization
paidContent.org
Making money from the personalised web
Times Online
What Is Web 3.0?
Sys-Con

And if you're not willing to admit that search is the present revenue driver, the future may not be coming..
Yahoo!: The Web's Future Is Not In Search
Read/Write Web
Google Scan Plan Expands, Gaining the 12 CIC Universities
Library Journal
Google launches YouTube’s money machine
ZDNet
Google Sites Ranked by comScore as Top U.S. Video Property in March 2007
PR Newswire
Microsoft's Live Search Books Adds Copyrighted Content
Wired
Yahoo plots AdWords death by a 1000 cuts
GigaOM

Meanwhile, the publishing economy pokes ahead with deals and drama galore but limited innovation...
Dow Jones shares drop as Bancrofts, Murdoch meet
MarketWatch
Other possible Dow Jones bidders surface
Reuters
Dow Jones Union Seeks Billionaire’s Help in Finding Alternative Bidder to Murdoch
The New York Times*
New Life for Brian? Tierney Wants to Join Fight for Dow Jones
Editor & Publisher
Dow Jones Chairman Emerges As Key Player in Bid
WSJ Online*
Dow Jones, Weighing Offer, Extends Severance Plan
Bloomberg
M&A Activity Heating Up
FOLIO: Magazine

Publishers' unwillingness to confront global online censorship only weakens the markets for their wares...
Censorship 'changes face of net'
BBC News

Print publishers begin to recognize that their specialty is making the most of a physical medium...
Publishers Creating Their Own In-House Ad Agencies
The New York Times*
National Geographic’s John Griffin: Magazines Suffer From Troubles of their Own Making
FOLIO: Magazine

You know, this Web thing is beginning to catch on, maybe we should do something...
Waxing Philosophical, Booksellers Face the Digital
The New York Times*

In other major trends in content this week...
How Big Will the iPhone Be?
BusinessWeek
Proxy Advisers Target Yahoo CEO's Pay
SmartMoney
Warner Group in Deal to Offer Free Music via Internet Site
The New York Times*
A penny for your song?; Proposed royalties are far less, but still too much, Webcasters say
Newsday via Content Agenda
'omg my mom joined facebook!!'
The New York Times*
Commons copyright targets scientists
Information World Review
Click.TV Player Joins the Deadpool
TechCrunch
The Twitterization of Blogs
BusinessWeek

Best Practices
Commentary: Why DRM won't ever work
ZDNet via Content Agenda
Impediments to seeing information as a task
CMS Wire
Social Software: Challenges, Risks, Issues And How To Confront Them
Robin Good
Googles Universal Search Confirms Information in Newly Released Book
eMediaWire
Where's Your News? Finding User-Created Content
Poynter Online
Ontology of Folksonomy: A Mash-up of Apples and Oranges
Tom Gruber
Ryan Sholin: The Ten Commandments of Online Journalism
SmartMobs
Part of content is context: lessons from the newsroom
AZCentral
DRM: A Half-Step Forward, More Steps Back
InformationWeek

Cool Tools
New Version of Movable Type Suits Business Bloggers
News Factor Network/Yahoo
Sourceforge adds wiki functionality
Tectonic
WordPress vs. Movable Type: Open Source Blogging Software Showdown
Publishing 2.0
Coming Soon: Microsoft Kitchen
TechCrunch
Flickr Facebook App is Now Available
Mashable
JetBlue to Offer In-flight Tracking on Google Maps
Mashable
'Grand Theft Auto' meets Google Street View
WebWare
SocialPoster Is a One-Stop Bookmarking Tool
Mashable

Deals, Partnerships & Sales
Dow Jones, Nielsen Co. partner on media and money conference
BtoB Online
Fast Search & Transfer wins search platform deal with Vietnam's Tinhvan Group
Thomson Fin. via Hemscott
Image Capture Engineering, Inc. Becomes Part of LexisNexis
BusinessWire
Hearst-Argyle Television Reaches Innovative Content Agreement With Google and YouTube
PR Newswire
Eli Lilly Selects Copyright Clearance Center's Rightsphere for Global Workforce
BusinessWire
Tullett Prebon Teams with CQG Data Factory to Launch Historical Market Data Web Portal
Bob's Guide
Autonomy Enhances Search for Sharepoint Server 2007 as Microsoft Enterprise Search Partner
PR Newswire
UpSNAP Expands Mobile Search with LinkConnector
dBusiness News

Products, Markets & People
Elsevier's Inteleos Poised to Launch Integrating Technology for Drug Tracking and Analysis
PharmaLive
OneSource Announces New Product Search and Content Enhancements to Global Business Browser
BusinessWire via TMCNet
Dow Jones Introduces Synaptica 6.4 for Improved Business Semantic Management
PR Newswire via Sys-Con
Hoover's Announces Latest Integration Milestone Resulting from First Research Acquisition
PR Newswire via Sys-Con
Law.com Introduces Vertical Search Engine For Legal Web - Quest Search
Law Fuel
Dow Jones Adds Multimedia Content to Its Factiva Products
PR Newswire
WallStreet Direct, Inc. Launches Interactive Tools to Enhance User Experience and Expand Distribution
PR Newswire via EarthTimes
ProQuest Partners with Scopus; Finalizes Company Name
EContent
Nielsen to track mobile phone users’ media consumption
FT.com
NBC Universal Launches Widgets to Expand Distribution of Content on Digital Platforms
PR Newswire
Incisive Media Taps Kevin Ryan to Direct Search Engine Strategies, Search Engine Watch
BusinessWire
Macrovision Announces Solutions for Information Publishers to Expand Online Content Revenue
BusinessWire
Intellext Morphs into MediaRiver to Flow Publishers’ Content
Information Today, Inc.
Thomson Scientific Releases EndNote X1 For Windows
PR Newswire

Labels: summaries

Trends
Murdoch's deal for Dow Jones gets the Bancrofts and other key holders to admit that it's time to cash it in...
Bancrofts Open Door To a Sale Of Dow Jones
WSJ Online*
Bancroft Family Statement
BusinessWire

Though Murdoch's "hands off" stance is questioned...
Murdoch May Make Concessions, Up to a Limit, in Dow Jones Talks
WSJ Online*
Nocera: Murdoch Will Break Promise and Meddle In 'WSJ'
Editor & Publisher

Jobs keeps the hype cycle in full gear - and pushes mobile phone carriers out of the content game...
Fever Builds for iPhone (Anxiety Too)
The New York Times*
Apple says YouTube coming to Apple TV
AFX via Content Agenda
Apple Will Bring YouTube Videos to Its TV Service
Bloomberg News
iTunes 101: Apple brings college to the iPod
CNET News

What a simple solution to electronic copies - make people responsible for their own actions...
iTunes Plus DRM-free, not free of annoying glitches
Engadget
iTunes supposedly DRM-free music not so DRM-free?
ZDNet
Apple iTunes Plus Borders on Spyware
Yahoo! Tech

With users becoming the most effective aggregators publishing focuses on local content for success...
Growth Slows For National, Traditional Media But Local Online Ad Spend Continues To Rise: Report
paidContent.org

What to make of user-embedded content widgets? How about making money...?
Web, computer "widgets" offer branding opportunities
Reuters via Topix

What happens if you put every idea for social media and search into a blender? You get Mahalo...
Jason Calacanis Launches Mahalo: Human Powered Search
TechCrunch

Social media platforms are becoming all-purpose tools for aggregating many kinds of content...
eBay Acquires StumbleUpon
BusinessWire
Opportunity for STM publishers in Facebook
Really Simple Sidi
Facebook is Microsoft Office of Social Apps
Infectious Greed

On-demand video may be the next new frontier for business news...
BusinessWeek explores 'Business YouTube venture
BtoB Online

Google focuses on tools that can make the most of valuable contexts...
Google Announces Feedburner Deal; Look For AdWords Integration
TechCrunch
Google Keeps Tweaking Its Search Engine
The New York Times*
Google CEO: Mobile Devices Are 'Interesting Ad Platform'
Dow Jones via SmartMoney
Developers Press Google on Future YouTube Features
PC Magazine

eBooks are growing steadily, but can they grow quickly enough to compete with Web content...?
Book Expo America 2007: The State of EBooks
Gearlog

Meanwhile the Redmond gang needs to set aside some time for target practice...
MSN Soapbox goes public again, now with copyright filtering
Download Squad
Zune: not headed for Europe this year?
Engadget

Earth to America: your content technology leadership is choking on your politics...
FCC to examine net neutrality: issue could affect content providers,consumers
Macworld via Content Agenda
FCC, cable set to collide; Industry: Feds are overreaching
Cox Washington/ Content Agenda
How U.S. policy can help reduce the broadband gap
Mercury News

In other major trends in content this week...
Selling Web Advertising Space Like Pork Bellies
WSJ via Content Agenda
Google Universal and Its New Navigation
Information Today
AP CEO says Internet hasn't changed news gathering fundamentals
AP via The Mercury News
Marketers Cozy Up to NBC Program Chief
WSJ Online*
Should Google Subsidize Journalism?
Publishing 2.0
Tribune debt may force asset sales
LA Times
Mass deletion sparks LiveJournal revolt
CNET News

Best Practices
Science nixes submissions in Microsoft's new Word format
Science
Community-Edited News Sites Abound in Other Languages
MediaShift
LexisNexis Releases Survey on InfoPros Reveals Use of Web 2.0 and Knowledge Management
BusinessWire via TMCNet
Donations on Blogs - Do They Work?
ProBlogger
Social Software And Its Possible Future Uses
Robin Good
Open Text Applies Social Networking to Connect Corporate Content with Customers
Social Computing
You Can't Fake Real Content
Search Engine Land
User-Generated Visual Content -- Understanding the Supply-Side Motivations
MarketWire
DIY PR: Bob Villa Doesn't Always Know Best
Micro Persuasion
Can History Survive The Internet?
InformationWeek
FISD Announces Release of MDDL 3.0 Beta
PR Newswire via EarthTimes

Cool Tools
Google Launches Street View Maps
Read/Write Web
Google Mapplets and Google Gears announced
PC Authority
Comparison of Yahoo Pipes to Microsoft’s PopFly
Scobelizer
Google Launches Directions API
Mashable
Give a content key for Xmas
Engadget
Fatdoor introduces you to your neighborhood without stepping outside
Download Squad
Freewebs Launches a Widget Bank
Mashable
Real Networks announces new offline player for YouTube
PodTech
Hewlett-Packard Will Offer Printing Kit for Web Sites
Bloomberg News
The 3D Maps Are Coming: EveryScape and Virtual Earth
Read/Write Web
Garmin Publishes API Library Opens Communication Between Third Party Websites, Garmin GPS Devices
GIS User

Deals, Partnerships & Sales
Ovid Partners with Springer Science+Business Media to Add Ebooks
Information Today
Bridgepoint Capital buy of Wolters Kluwer's education unit cleared by EU
Thomson Financial via Hemscott
LexisNexis(R) Martindale-Hubbell(R) and Spot Runner Team Up to Deliver First Local TV Ad Program
BusinessWire via TMCNet
Attributor Is Tapped by The Associated Press to Track Use of AP Content Across the Internet
BusinessWire
NEWS Corporation/NBC Universal Joint Venture Inks Deals with Troupe of Premier Content Partners
CNW Telbec
AskMeNow to Introduce Natural Language Wikipedia Desktop and Mobile Search
MarketWire
ebrary Signs Five New Publishing Partners Including ABC-CLIO and Temple University Press
BusinessWire
Advanstar Announces Completion of its Acquisition by Veronis Suhler Stevenson for $1.14 Billion
BusinessWire
Over 250 Autonomy Partners Rally Behind Meaning Based Computing
PR Newswire
Dow Jones Wealth Manager Solution Now Available on Salesforce.com's AppExchange
PR Newswire
CBS to buy Last.fm social network
LA Times via Content Agenda
YouTube makes a deal with EMI
Reuters via USA Today
Google To Acquire Panoramio
Mashable

Products, Markets & People
LexisNexis Introduces Concordance(TM) 2007
BusinessWire
New Information Portal Makes Business Intelligence More Accessible
eMediaWire
New Platform, Products from Gale
Library Journal
infoUSA Launches Salesgenie.com/Lite for Sales Executives on a Limited Budget
BusinessWire
New Information Portal Makes Business Intelligence More Accessible
Business Intelligence
Former Cisco Exec Mike Volpi In Line To Be New Joost CEO
paidContent.org
Blinkx indexes 12M hours of Web content
DM News
Exalead Enhances One:Search Platform With Vertical Search Capability
Web IT PR

Labels: summaries

Trends

As online advertising storms into a leadership role in marketing as the rising tide lifts electronic boats...
Online Ad Revenue Sets Record
Information Week
Advertising's Brave New World
WSJ Online

And sinks others...
San Francisco Chronicle layoffs
O'Reilly Radar
Gannett, Lee Enterprises, Ad Revenues Down In April
Editor & Publisher

Microsoft beefs up its ad infrastructure to compete with Google as speculation rises about a Yahoo alliance...
Microsoft buys aQuantive for $6 billion
CNN Money via Content Agenda
Microsoft Has "All the Pieces" for Its Ad Business
Bloomberg News
Microsoft Deal Makes Yahoo Buy More Likely, Noto Says
Bloomberg News

Google pushes on aggressively into new venues and relationships for advertising...
Google Testing AdSense for Videos
Mashable
AOL The First In Google Search Ad Network Allowed To Sell Own Ads
Content Agenda

And pushes further into being a universal search source that tests proprietary barriers...
Keeping Up With Google. Universal Search: It's Still About Relevance
Creative Search Media
Google Gets Trendy
Read/Write Web
Google stands firm behind News search site
InfoWorld
Google Denies Content Re-Use Deal With UK News Publishers
paidContent.org

In the battle for business information supremacy SaaS may prove to be the route of greatest efficiency...
Google, Salesforce.com Weigh Alliance to Battle Microsoft
WSJ Online*
Salesforce.com Announces AppExchange Venture Network
PR Newswire
Prepare for the Combination of BI and Search
Intelligent Enterprise

Personalizing online content is a powerful business model but it's a dance to do it respectfully...
Google outlines data collection plans
Evening Standard
eBay to Serve Targeted Ads Based on Users' Information
Auction Bytes

If a picture's worth a thousand words what's the value of text services in the face of millions of videos...?
Can video save the book-publishing star?
CNET News
Joost hires scouts to lure Hollywood programs
Reuters via CNET News

Technorati finally "gets it" - it's not about blogs but about everything that can be called social media...
Technorati Relaunches: "Everything" Search
Read/Write Web

Who is who on the web? Inquiring governments want to know...
MySpace to turn over names of convicted sex offenders to AGs
Computerworld
China to decide against forcing 'real name' blogs
The Scotsman

Note to business information companies chasing user workflows: talk to the machines about what they want...
Algorithms Finding A Foothold In Fixed-Income Markets
Advanced Trading

As media companies wrestle with sustainable online business plans who's minding quality standards...?
Where is U.S. Journalism Headed?
ePluribus Media
Wikipedia Revisited
TechNewsWorld
Welcome to the era of gullibility 2.0
CNET News
Apple's hype phone
Pop Matters

Like sands through the hourglass - so are the days of our deals...
News Corp. bid for Dow hits wall
Variety
Dow Jones's Bancrofts Set Private Meeting Over Offer
WSJ Online*
Judge Won't Stop Sam Zell Deal For Tribune Co.
Editor & Publisher

They had chamber music on the Titanic, Ann; calmness is no assurance of our fate...
Ann Moore: 'Everybody Stay Calm'
Advertising Age

In other major trends in content this week...
The Inside-Out Web
Forbes
Madison Avenue Says Hello to 'Hello,' Again
The New York Times*
Politicians weigh renewal of Net access tax ban
CNET News
SignOnSanDiego Deploys Wiki Community for AmplifySD, San Diego-Oriented Internet Radio Station
BusinessWire
U.S. is home to a surprising number of Luddites
The Gazette
Doing More Than Just Twittering Our Lives Away
MediaShift
Google loses China search partnership
VNUNet via Content Agenda
Page Six Covers Itself, a Bit Painfully
The New York TImes*

Best Practices
Print vs Online -- Should Your Marketing Have the Same Content Online and Off?
Marketing Sherpa
Making Money From User-Generated Content
ClickZ Network
A Public Library Tries LibraryThing
Library Journal
Libraries of Alexandria burn all the time
Contra Costa Times
Copying HD DVD and Blu-ray discs may become legal
InfoWorld via Yahoo! News
How User-Generated Content Drives In-Store Sales for Grocery Chain
Marketing Sherpa
In a Web 2.0 World, Who Gets the Credit?
InformationWeek
The Unblogosphere
The RSS Blog
5 Ways Twitter Can Make You an Industry Expert
Free Resources Network
Study Finds Increasing Global Internet Censorship
CIO Today
Will Steve Arnold Scare IT Into Taking Search in the Enterprise Seriously?
Gilbane Group
Standing Up for Open Access
Inside Higher Ed

Cool Tools
FlickrSlidr - Embed Flickr Slideshows into Your Blog
Mashable
Pandora brings internet radio to Sprint cellphones
Download Squad
Next version of Windows to be 'fundamentally different'
CNET News
Facebook Spins Out Widgets; Spins Everyone
paidContent.org
Google's Translation Engine Now Live
Mashable
Microsoft takes on Yahoo Pipes with new Popfly web app
Ars Technica
Google AdSense Preview Sandbox 1.0
Download Squad
Buzka: Social Bookmarking With a Business Function
TechCrunch
Google Coop Embeds Gadgets in Search Results
Micro Persuasion

Deals, Partnerships & Sales
Acxiom Corporation and Acuity Mobile Partner to Power Targeted Mobile Marketing Solutions
PR Newswire
Business Objects Buys Inxight, Upgrades EPM
CIO
WallStreet Direct, Inc. Partners With Answers Corp. to Enhance Content With 1-click Reference Information
PR Newswire via PR Inside
ProQuest CSA Partners with LexisNexis for Genealogical Data
Information Today, Inc.
CBS Partners with Meebo, RockYou, YourMinis, Slide, VideoEgg and More
Mashable
CBS News and the CBS TV Stations Group Team Up With Voxant to Distribute Viral News Clips and Feeds
PR Newswire
Forbes.com Launches New Stocks Application on Facebook(R) Platform
BusinessWire
Buzznet Lands $6 Million Round of Financing Led By Redpoint Ventures and Anthem Venture Partners
PR Newswire
CNN, Internet Broadcasting Enter Strategic News, Advertising Relationship
PR Newswire/ EarthTimes.org
Amazon.com Buys Brilliance Audio, Maker of Audiobooks
Bloomberg News
Zacks Investment Research Chooses RealTick(R) as a Preferred Real-Time Market Data Partner
PR Newswire
DRM-free music giant EMI agrees to takeover
Playlist
PennWell acquires 'Utility Products'
BtoB Online
YuMe, somagirls.tv in First-Ever 'Any Device' Ad Distribution Deal
PR Newswire via PR Inside

Products, Markets & People
Mark Logic Announces Mark Logic (UK) Limited
MarketWire
Compete API Open For Business
TechCrunch
Wolters Kluwer Health to Launch The Patient Later This Year
PR Newswire
Viyya Technologies Readies Web 2.0 Product Release for Business
BusinessWire
Journal Of Nuclear Medicine Releases New Research Faster
Medical News Today
Bango eliminates final hurdle to selling on mobile with free "Starter" service
Phone Content.com
Wiki Inventor Ward Cunningham Joins AboutUs
PR Web
Thomson Learning and Gale Under New Management Following Sale
Information Today, Inc.
Vivísimo Introduces Mobile Search Solution
Information Today, Inc.

Labels: summaries

Trends

About all those little betas - they add up now into one stunning central contextual content product...
Google's search engine goes universal
AP via Yahoo! News
Google Book Search becomes more comprehensive
Google Blog

As Yahoo searches for the soul of a content company in an era of passionate user-generated content...
Yahoo’s search for itself
ZDNet
Yahoo Can Bring Differentiation To The Social Web
Seeking Alpha
Yahoo!'s New Mission: It's About the People
Read/Write Web

Ad-supported online video is the hot ticket but nobody really knows how to do it effectively yet...
The Race to Conquer Video Advertising
Read/Write Web

The Thomson/Reuters merger is on track to reinvent business information in the image of Wall Street...
Reuters agrees 8.7 bln stg Thomson takeover bid
Thomson via Hemscott
Thomson's $17.2 Billion Pact For Reuters to Face Reviews
WSJ Online*
Tom Glocer: “This may scare some of you…”
FT.com

By contrast, Murdoch must tread lightly to appease ownership that's concerned about change...
Murdoch Hones Pitch to Bancrofts
WSJ Online*
Dow Jones Board Won't Act As Bancrofts Deliberate
WSJ Online*
At Journal, Slim Margins Open Door to Murdoch
The New York Times*

As the newspaper industry searches for an elusive formula for long-term success...
New York Times Revenue Declines in April
AP via Yahoo! Finance
Briton Bullish on Buying Small Newspapers in Europe
The New York Times*
Panel discusses future of the newspaper
Stanford Daily

Social media challenges publishers and aggregators to come up with more compelling contexts for content...
MySpace launches video channels
AP via Content Agenda
NBC Jumps on the MySpace Train
Mashable
Are Social Bookmarking Sites Better at Search than Google?
Read/Write Web
The most important blog on your newspaper's website
USC Annenberg OJR
Twitter Founders Thrive on Micro-Blogging Constraints
Media Shift

But even when you find a valuable context is the hunt for search engine positioning compromising quality...?
Forbes: Revolt of the Page Slaves?
The New York Observer

In content as in real estate it's all about location, location, location...
Positioning phones to create new social networks
Reuters
BBC Bets Its Future On Location-Based Services, Names New Mobile Content Head
Moco News

The U.S. government seeks out stringent controls for intellectual property but fair use prevails in the courts...
Justice Department Focuses on Efforts to Protect Intellectual Property Rights
Media Newswire
Google wins part of photo suit
LA Times via Content Agenda

EMI's DRM-free strategy will unfold at an Amazon search result near you...
Amazon.com to Open DRM-Free Digital Music Store
TheStreet.com / Content Agenda

The moral of the story: "helping" audiences to build news that agrees with your outlook usually backfires...
Why is MySpace News a ghost town?
ZDNet

OK, time to chill out on the social media, we're going on maneuvers now...
Military blocks MySpace, YouTube
IT News
YouTube pioneers challenge Pentagon
AP via Yahoo! News

In other major trends in content this week...
Reuters Media Summit Roundup: Lagardere’s Acquisitions; WPP Digital; AT&T Ads; Sling Broadband
paidContent.org
infoUSA Calls on Shareholders to Reject Hedge Fund’s Baseless Allegations
BusinessWire
Ebook Readers Grow Up
Library Journal
Viacom CEO: no "splashy" purchase in sight
Reuters
New, searchable index of more than 5,000 vintage LA news photos
BoingBoing

Best Practices
How Scoble Reads 622 RSS Feeds Each Morning
Tim Ferriss
Web 2.0 'neglecting good design'
BBC News