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

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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

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