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HEADLINES FOR SEPTEMBER 2006
Date/Headlines Source
HEADLINES FOR THE WEEK OF 25 SEPTEMBER 2006
Trends
What is social media worth? Whatever it is, it's not going to be whatever a hyped-up analyst says it is...  
MySpace Worth $20 Billion? It Could Happen, Analyst Says DealBook - The New York Times
MySpace May Be Worth $0 in Three Years MediaShift
As major media companies adjust to a world that requires accepting users as publishers...  
Fox Interactive to Yahoo: watch out, we are on your digital tail! ZDNet
US: publishers missing online collaboration The Editor's Weblog
The Future of the Newspaper is as a 2.0 Platform Micro Persuasion
Redstone Takes a Cut in His Salary The New York Times*
Investors try to catch the social media wave any way they can...  
Web 2.0 Companies Garner $262.3 Million in First Half of 2006, Gaining Ground in U.S. VC Investing PrimeZone
Young Internet Producers, Bankrolled, Are Seeking Act II The New York Times*
While social media sites still struggle to understand how to balance profits and the interests of users...  
Facebook Opens Site To Everyone PC Magazine via ABC News
Facebook's Open Door Policy is a Big Mistake Publish
Top Newsvine Earner Nets $414.27 in August Newsvine
Google's attempts to tell its own story on copyright are not easing publishers seeking more than a party line...  
Google Seething Over Belgian Judgment Web Pro News
About the Google News case in Belgium Google Blog
Our approach to content Google Blog
Google speak on copyright: content owners beware ZDNet
Google says focus on Web search, not own content Reuters
Prompting publishers to come up with viable digital rights standards that can work with search engines...  
Publishers aim for some control of search results Reuters
Global Publishers Head Off Legal Clash With Search Engines World Ass'n of Newspapers
Google in Tussle for Digital Rights BusinessWeek
British Library calls for digital copyright action CNET News
While Microsoft engages users and publishers on a more collaborative plane...  
Microsoft Spinoff Wallop Launches TechCrunch
Microsoft May Offer Free Ad-Supported Office Reuters via Publish
Microsoft launches effort to woo advertisers CNET News
Microsoft, BBC collaborate on content delivery InfoWorld
Many established publishers will survive but as private investors begin to dominate the "how" is up for grabs...  
AOL chief: Established media to dominate CNET News
Newspapers, Magazines Face Challenges In Internet Age, But Will Survive Media Daily News
Why Aren't Newspapers Breaking Out of the Box? Editor & Publisher
Prelude To Going Private? Tribune Hires Strategic Consultants Editor & Publisher
Failure to launch: magazines holding fire Crain's New York Business
BusinessWeek lays off 12 "to enhance long-term prospects" Poynter Online
Scripps to Sell Five TV Stations WSJ Online*
New eBook readers promise convenient formats and open access to content to accelerate growth...  
Sony to launch Web bookstore, e-book device Reuters
An iPod For Readers Forbes
DigitalPulp Publishing Sponsors the World eBook Fair PR Web
But a word of caution: avoid the Balkanization that's lead mobile markets to choke on their own DRM...  
Mobile Apps Need A Revolution to Cut DRM Tape Publish
Leave it to China to bring advanced market bidding models to drive the value of intellectual property...  
Beijing Equity Exchange To Trade Intellectual Property Rights EasyBourse
Business Media is adapting to online audiences but corporations are blazing their own publishing trails...  
B2B mags plugging in to generation net Online Press Gazette UK
Web 2.0 for Business: Innovation, The New New Internet, and Change Dion Hinchcliffe
Capturing Web 2.0 Content for Better BI EBiz
Hoping to Be a Model, I.B.M. Will Put Its Patent Filings Online The New York Times*
Leading webloggers that shape opinions and PR are becoming the focus of a new wave of analysis tools...  
BuzzLogic calculates social media influence ZDNet
BuzzLogic innovates in social influence space Read/Write Web
How to Get Attention In a New-Media World WSJ Online*
Search engines are focusing on making content more relevant in local and geographic contexts...  
Annotating the Earth: Google Earth is becoming the standard tool for organizing geographical information MIT Technology Review
Google Maps vs. Yahoo Local: multi-billion dollar local search battle ZDNet
Location, Location, Location: 'Geotagging' Will Bring Everyone Closer Together. Advertisers, Take Note Micro Persuasion
Content in context is powerful - leading to monetization schemes that go beyond mere advertisements...  
TechMeme Invents New Kind of Advertisment TechCrunch
Techmeme Announces RSS Ads; Symantec Actually Does Them ChasNote
Internet Advertising Revenues Continue to Accelerate at an Unprecedented Rate: 36% Increase in 1H06 Interactive Adv. Bureau
OMMA East: Lots Of Content But Not Content paidContent.org
Ad Week '06: Trying To Engage No Matter The Screen paidContent.org
If it's any consolation to established publishers being new and social doesn't mean that life is easy...  
WikiKnowledge - "A more inclusive Wikipedia" WikiKnowledge
Pathway: A better way to Wikipedia? Download Squad
In other major trends in content this week...  
Zecco: Working hard to build a revolutionary financial community Museum of Modern Betas
Wolters Kluwer mulls education unit sale FT.com via MSNBC
Getting an Earful of Printed Words WSJ Online*
Google's Structured Data Search Play Read/Write Web
Rural Areas Left in Slow Lane of High-Speed Data Highway The New York Times*
LimeWire Files Countersuit Against Music-Industry Group WSJ Online*
Google surrenders Orkut data Download Squad
Yahoo to Be Featured on H.P. Computers The New York Times*
With Online Friends Like These… Social networking sites offer hackers a rich trove of potential victims BusinessWeek
Best Practices
Network Collaboration: Peer To Peer As A New Way Of Living - Video Interview with Michel Bauwens Robin Good
The 8 Free Things Every Site Should Do Squidoo
3 Reasons Why Delicious Bookmarks Beat Digg Traffic Hands Down Performancing
It feels relevant: biological tactility in news media USC Annenberg OJR
Your Guide to Citizen Journalism Media Shift
The Many Forms of Influence Data Mining
Most reliable search tool could be your librarian CNET News
Top 10 Uses for RSS in Law Firms Home Office Lawyer
Joining the Blog Heard vs. Being Your Own Cow Micro Persuasion
10 Things That Will Make Or Break Your Website AU Interactive
W3C boosts Web access for disabled InfoWorld
Sharing Economies: Video-hyperlinking SmartMobs
Is Moderating User-Generated Content death to Web2.0 or beginning of Web3.0? ChrisekBlog
Cool Tools
Google Notebook adds collaboration Lifehacker
iBloks Unveils Revolutionary Digital Media Service That Lets People Create Like Pros PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance
Jelbert GeoTagger adds GPS tracking to cameras Engadget
Happy trails with Google Transit Google Blog
Zune price and date: $249, November 14th Engadget
Add Me Unveils 'AddThis Button', Announces Public Beta PR Newswire
Panasonic's Words Gear color e-book reader Engadget
IBM Helps Businesses Increase Productivity With New Web Content Management Software IrishDev
SiteKreator Debuts All-In-One Web Site Design, Publishing and Hosting Solution for Businesses PR Web
Books for Amazon Mashups via APIs Programmable Web
NewsGator Partners With Directory Xpress to Help School Communications to Parents and Students MarketWire
New DRM Add-on for Google Writley, Spreadsheets, Cash, Maps and Picasa Web Albums PR Web
PENG Project: Refining the process of gathering information IST Results
Deals, Partnerships & Sales
Elsevier Announces iCONSULT to be Offered as Part of SOAPware Electronic Medical Record PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance
Amdocs Launches Cross-Network, Cross-Device Digital Commerce Solution CRM Today
OneSource(R) Database To Include Coverage Of Great Britain’s Small Business Market BusinessWire
Thomson Acquires LiveNote: Strengthens Thomson West leadership position in litigation solutions PR Newswire
TechTarget opens subsidiary in U.K. BtoB Online
Elsevier Partners With Institute of Coal Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences WebWire
ContextWeb Closes $15.5 Million Series C of Funding PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance
WangYou Media, Baidu.com Establish Channel Partnership and User-generated Content Sharing Broadcast Newsroom
Softbank promises easy, free Yahoo! Internet content on new mobile phones AP via IHT
SEMDirector and Omniture Join Forces to Optimize Complex Search Marketing Campaigns PR Newswire via Yahoo! FInance
Dice Teams with Endeca to Provide New Job Search Experience BusinessWire
Times Online Launches New Travel Channel Built with FAST Search Technology BusinessWire
go2 and Enpocket Form Strategic Mobile Advertising Alliance PrimeZone
Tele Atlas to Provide Digital Map Data for Nokia N95 Multimedia Device PR Newswire
Products, Markets & People
LexisNexis Launches Client Development Solutions, Aligning with Professional Services Firms’ Strategies LexisNexis
LexisNexis Launches Corporate Intelligence Subscription for the InterAction CRM Solution BusinessWire
LexisNexis Announces Launch of atVantage Business Development Tool BusinessWire
Scopus Enriches Literature Research With PatentCites and WebCites Features PR Newswire via Earth Times
WordPress.com announces VIP Hosting Download Squad
Amazon To Upgrade Unbox and Toss Two Bucks at Early Customers paidContent.org
S&P's Capital IQ Adds Ratings Content to Information Platform PR Newswire
Knows.jongo.com, the leading English language information tool for China-related subjects on the web Jongo Knows
The Nation's TV News Now Searchable and Viewable Online via Critical Mention Critical Mention
Scholastic Announces Top-Level Appointments in Trade Publishing Division PR Newswire
Wolters Kluwer Financial Services Introduces AuthenticWeb for Contract Provisions PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance
AP Images creates photo Web site BtoB Online
Text Link Ads launches Feedvertising The Blog Herald
ComStock Adds Extensive International Level II Data to Real-Time Datafeed Service BusinessWire
RealNetworks tests desktop news feed CBC News
Ancestry.com Adds Major U.S. Newspaper Birth, Marriage and Death Announcements, 1851 to 2003 PR Newswire
HEADLINES FOR THE WEEK OF 18 SEPTEMBER 2006
Trends
As media companies accelerate their portfilios into online holdings...  
News Corp: Thanks to the Internet, Who Needs TV?: Murdoch Ready to Thwart Malone with Swap FT.com
Tribune to Consider Sale of Some Media Assets The New York Times*
Changing Its Tune: In Face of Download Growth ClearChannel May Sell Radio Stations The New York Times*
Their deployment strategies adapt to users seeking content through more direct content channels...  
News Corp. may not use Internet portals AP via Yahoo! News
Communacopia XV: Murdoch: No Spin-Off of Fox Interactive paidContent.org
Searching the Want Ads Moves Online, Too The New York Times*
Pew Report: One In Five Seek Political Info Online Online Media Daily
The shift to online revenues is capturing the future of business publishing as much as consumer media...  
IDG’s Carrigan Sees Says Online Shift is Transformation, Not Transition FOLIO: Magazine
Engineers increasingly rely on Web for work purposes: GlobalSpec BtoB Online
Publishers grappling with fair use and copyright regulations try to balance threats and opportunities...  
Google loses in Belgian court CNET News
Are Search Engine Spiders Infringing On Copyright? SearchNewz
Google, YouTube: multi-billion dollar 'fair-use' risky bets ZDNet
YouTube's dream could get clipped by copyright issues Chicago Tribune via TMCNet
Here's how a post-lawsuit YouTube will work ZDNet
A week in DRM wonderland Tech Crunch
Lets All Build Walled Gardens GigaOm
Microsoft Media Player 11 shreds your rights The Inquirer
But can search save generations of copyrighted content from obscurity and disuse...?  
The Books Google Could Open Washington Post
A pinch in online ads is separating the stronger online business plans for the weaker ones...  
NYT August: Media Online Ad Rev Up 17.2 Percent; About.com Up 45.1 Percent; TimesSelect Update paidContent.org
Yaho-ouch! Online Advertising Slows Down Portal Growth GigaOM
The rise of social networking sites creates sky-high multiples and even higher expectations for growth...  
YouTube’s Magic Number - $1.5 Billion Tech Crunch
Facebook, Riding a Web Trend, Flirts With a Big-Money Deal WSJ Online*
Napster Ponders Sale or Alliance Bloomberg News via NYT
New and evolving user-generated publishing services bring more competition and value...  
SocialText aims for wiki 2.0 TechCrunch
Will Citizendium become Wikipedia 2.0? Sydney Morning Herald
Collaborative research, Wikipedia or elsewhere Institute for the Future
Travel Site Taps the Wisdom of Crowds Micro Persuasion
Award-Worthy Blogs Showcase Evolution of the Medium Media Shift
Engadget re-launches with updated design and new features The Blog Herald
Journalism goes pro-am The Guardian
The Social Bookmarking Faceoff Read/Write Web
P2p and the ephemeral: art available only to P2P network users P2P Net
Enterprises move cautiously on new publishing tools but their old standbys struggle to attract  new content...  
Web 2.0 entering corporate world slowly CNET News
Who Cares About Acrobat 8? Publish
IBM grabs real-time collaboration market ahead of Microsoft? Download Squad
Local content attracts more investment and diversity of publishing sources...  
Knight Foundation To Grant $25 Million For Community News Experiments The Knight Foundation
The Money Behind Local Search BizReport
Yahoo flexes its reporting muscles Tuscaloosa News
Zillow and Home Owner Content Search Engine Journal
Click fraud continues to gain headlines but as contexts and business models diversify is its threat limited...?  
Click Fraud: The Dark Side of Advertising BusinessWeek
States Define Law Blogs As Advertising Web Pro news
Digital natives are reshaping the present and future of TV as the online shift accelerates rapidly...  
Yahoo's Next Attempt At Social Media: Yahoo Current Network; Current-Google Relationship Scaled Down paidContent.org
Amazon working with TiVo for Unbox integration? Engadget
As the World Turns from MTV to ITV MicroPersuasion
Rupert Murdoch: MySpace Video Bigger than YouTube in 60 Days Mashable!
Microsoft SoapBox Video Service Launches TechCrunch
The future of TV? Corante
Viral Video Chart: Tracking the Most-Watched Videos Download Squad
But in spite of it all we're still sticking ourselves in front of the 'boob tube'...  
Time Spent Watching Television Increases LA Times
And what are YOUR plans for content expansion...?  
The Google Goal Of Indexing 100 Billion Web Pages Site Pro News
In other major trends in content this week...  
Over Four Million North Americans Will Subscribe to Mobile Broadcast Services in 2007 Wireless Developer Net
Google and MarketCast Release Benchmark Study on the Internet's Influence on Consumer Moviegoing BusinessWire
The Rise of Baidu (That’s Chinese for Google) The New York Times*
France Web Market Overview Read/Write Web
The Case for Citizen Ownership of the Los Angeles Times Media Shift
BBC's On-Demand Services Up For Approval paidContent.org
Yellow or Otherwise, American Newspapers as Media That Molded the Masses The New York Times*
Libraries go into overdrive with audio books Nashua Telegraph
At Los Angeles Times, a Civil Executive Rebellion The New York Times*
New York Times Draws Ragged Line Between Fact and Opinion New York Observer
Bosses alerted over user-generated web content Online Recruitment
Best Practices
What Are Microformats And Why They Make Your Information Easier To Find Robin Good
Zen and the Art of Enterprise Search CIO Magazine
Online Communication Skills: How To Get More Of Your Readers' Attention Robin Good
Blog Advertising Programs A-Z Performancing
Content Is King in Professional Services: The Key to Effective Marketing is ``Thought Leadership'' BusinessWire
How to explain RSS the Oprah way Back in Skinny Jeans
Applications That Unify Access to Information Will Fuel Growth in BI, Search, and Discovery Markets BusinessWire
Berners-Lee: Semantic Web's success lies in cooperation CNET News
Why Participants Matter in Online Communities MediaShift
Cool Tools
Tracking the web with Single Page Aggregators Solution Watch
Some Hot Recorders for Those Cool Podcasts The New York Times*
MeeVee Launches MySpace TV Widget Mashable!
Blogoozle.com takes your blog exposure to a new level. PR Web
Not in the Real World Anymore: MTV's Avatar World The New York Times*
Newsgator Go! for mobiles launches Tech Crunch
Oracle Announces General Availability of Oracle(R) Content Database and Oracle Records Database PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance
Intel trumpets optical computing breakthrough VNUNet
Media players on parade CNET News
MyFeedz - The Social Newspaper MyFeedz
Acrobat 8 learns new collaboration tricks IT Week
Deals, Partnerships & Sales
Harte-Hanks to acquire AberdeenGroup BtoB Online
Yankee Group Acquires Trendsmedia, Inc. BusinessWire via Yahoo! Finance
Veronis Suhler Stevenson to Sell Stake in Solucient, LLC to Thomson PR Newswire
Social Event Listings Firm Eventful Gets $7.5 Million Funding Red Herring
Incisive Media agrees to takeover Reuters
Japan's Jiji Press inks deal with Xinhua Asia Media
TiVo and Information Resources Inc. Launch Groundbreaking TV Advertising Research Services PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance
Jay Rosen's NewAssignment.net Gets $100,000 Boost From Reuters paidContent.org
TheStreet.com, Inc. and DirectoryM Launch TheStreet.com Business Directory PR Newswire
‘Billboard’ inks deal to distribute content in Japan BtoB Online
RR Donnelley To Acquire Financial Printing Business From Canadian Bank Note Company PR Newswire
YouTube To Distribute Warner Music Videos Mashable!
Cantor Fitzgerald Makes Faster Market Decisions With Realtime Analysis Platform Built on Kx Systems PR Newswire
CBOT in deal with Reuters Crain's Chicago Business
Techbooks Acquires Whitmont Legal Technologies, Inc. PR Newswire
Products, Markets & People
Wolters Kluwer on health drive in India DNA India
Bacon's Expands Monitoring Services for Improved Management of Corporate Communications BusinessWire
Pearson Technology Group Develops Digital Short Cuts, Providing Information Readers Need Now BusinessWire
Billboard Magazine Heads to Japan FOLIO: Magazine
Online Veterans  to Aid Alibris Expansion into U.K. & European Used Books Markets PR Newswire
Google upgrades enterprise search device IT World
Federated Media Publishing Strengthens Business & Marketing, Adds Auto Federation FM Publishing
ISYS Search Software Announces Arrival of the ISYS 8 Product Suite dBusiness News
NewspaperDirect Launches ''Newspaper Radio'' BusinessWire
Voxant’s Viral Syndication Network™ for online news Web 2.0 List
Factiva Webcast to Demonstrate How Enterprise Search is Disrupting Existing Online Profit Models BusinessWire
ProQuest Launches PressDisplay 3.0 EContent Magazine
Convera web search goes vertical Computer Business Review
Convera introduces product platform for b-to-b search BtoB Online
Innodata Isogen Announces Restructuring BusinessWire
Harcourt Education names new president Austin Business Journal
ProQuest's PHAR, Obituaries: Hits and Misses Library Journal
Inc.com launches IncTechnology.com BtoB Online
Fast Search develops search app for enterprise desktops ComputerWorld
HEADLINES FOR THE WEEK OF 11 SEPTEMBER 2006
Trends
China puts a big dent in publishers' plans as it tries to underwrite the growth of a native content industry...  
China Puts Stricter Limits on Distribution of Foreign News The New York Times*
Measures for Administering the Release of News and Information in China by Foreign News Agencies Xinhuanet via China View
China stands firm on media policy Reuters via CNN
U.S. Expresses Concern Over Rules Restricting Foreign Media in China WSJ Online*
World Internet Penetration Now 16% - Asia Growing Fast! Read/Write Web
Microsoft readies a new generation of products attuned to the needs of today's net-trained content users...  
Windows Live Search goes live CNET News
A Look Inside Windows Live Search Beta News
Microsoft launches the Zune! Engadget
Microsoft Zune: Not Just A Portable Device, A New Community-Based Platform paidContent.org
Microsoft Advances Its 'Atlas' Roadmap Publish
Can Microsoft Out-Google Google? BusinessWeek
As Google learns how to work with publishing partners to deliver more value to audiences that trust its tools...  
The best stories on Earth Google Blog
Google Earth & Multimedia Featured Content Search Engine Journal
Google Earth Featured Content - just the beginning IT Wire
Google Scans Enter Michigan Catalog Library Journal
Google Grapples With YouTube TheStreet.com
The growth and influence of social media is no longer a "what if" for business content: it's here to stay...  
Research: Blogs are a Powerful Presence in the B2B Marketplace eMediaWire
Yahoo! Finance/Seeking Alpha - Turn on the Bright Lights Information Arbitrage
Blogs gain b-to-b influence BtoB Online
Yahoo! tech chief - web 2.0 matters for business Silicon.com
Edelman Debuts Blog Portal Micro Persuasion
As social content outlets begin to take a dominant role worldwide...  
Top social media users getting paid; is the balance shifting? TechCrunch
Study: Wikipedia Dominates Brand Search Results Micro Persuasion
Leading User-Generated Content Sites See Exponential Growth in U.K. Visitors During Past Year PR Newswire via Yahoo! FInance
The Economics Of Social Media Conference: What It Entails paidContent.org
Digg and FM Get Dugg: Thoughts FM Publishing
Mainstream companies are dumping traditional outlets to focus on where content and users aggregate today...  
New York Times Company to Sell TV Stations WSJ Online*
Old media increase share of online ads FT.com
Time Inc. Sell-off of Titles to Begin Today AdAge
Time Selling Magazines Out of Necessity, Not Market Conditions FOLIO: Magazine
Commercials Find New Life on Web The New York Times*
Banks Jump to Social Nets to Reach Gen Y Micro Persuasion
CBS Will Stream 9/11 Documentary Online As Stations Fret About FCC paidContent.org
New York Times Reader Launches Read/Write Web
Apple Plans to Inhabit Living Room The New York Times*
Here's a novel idea - pay your best talent to innovate your way to the future...  
New York Times Chairman Volunteers to Take Pay Cut WSJ Online*
Information Professionals draw closer to their patrons' publishing capabilities as the focus of their practice...  
SLA Forms Knowledge Management Division PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance
In user-generated media it's hard to build a business model that moves beyond your community's interests...  
Facebook To Remove Exclusivity - Riots on the Way? Mashable!
Five Privacy Rules for Social Networks Publish
MySpace: We don’t need Web 2.0 TechCrunch
WIreless has huge market potential but business models may be behind demand for more openness...  
Future of wireless media bright but challenged Reuters
Search comes to mobile phones CNET News
Advertisers Turning Towards Mobile Phones Cellular News
Earth to B2B trade publishers: it's time to innovate or to pass along your portfolios to those who will...  
ABM panel: When it comes to innovation, b-to-b publishers must be more proactive BtoB Online
In other major trends in content this week...  
VSS Forecast: Double-digit Growth in Internet Media; Institutional Media to Grow Faster than Consumer PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance
Net neutrality bill may die this year CNET News

Google 'eager' to work with Republicans: Starting Political Action Committee

 Roll Call via The Raw Story
Tolman Geffs' Dot-com buyout candidates Frank Barkano's Media Blog
Major US film companies file piracy lawsuit in China AFX via Forbes
Yahoo Expands Web Mail Beta PC World via Yahoo! News
Live.com and Yahoo! bulk up for local search brawl Tech Crunch
Live Reference on the Cheap? ChaCha.com Offers Surfer Assistance Library Journal
Magazine to Focus on How Bankers Make It and Spend It The New York Times*
Google: The New Port Authority in New York City Village Voice
Best Practices
Content Strategy as a Marketing Tool ClickZ Network
Libraries Take A Place in the Local EcoSystem Local Onliner
Video: Lou Rosenfeld on the Content Organization and the Content Arms Race DevSource
Business Intelligence: Shake That Tail Law.com Legal Technology
How to Blog a Conference Hyku
UnGoogle Your Marketing With Social Media Web Pro News
The Net Democracy Guide Ctr 4 Democracy & Technology
Wiki journalism La Vanguardia
Web journalist, know thyself: What it takes to set up shop online USC Annenbert OJR
On the Quality of Metadata... Stefano Mazzocchi
Aggregation Research at the MIT Sloan School of Management Massachusetts Institute of Tech.
The iBrattleboro Wizards -- Pioneers in Netbased Citizen Journalism ePluribus Media
Vox Announces Valuable Content Still Missing on Top Banking Websites BusinessWire
Cool Tools
Microsoft quietly launches desktop RSS feed reader Blogging Stocks
Share Video Online: Link Deep Into Any Video Clip With Motionbox Robin Good
New at Apple: Smaller iPods, Bigger Ideas The New York Times*
Turn Your Favorite Feeds Into an Email Newspaper Micro Persuasion
Smartpox: Bar Codes For The Web Read/Write Web
Blogmusik online music Download Squad
Social Blog Aggregators Revisited O'Reilly Radar
Acquire 3.0 – Makes Digital Content More Manageable The Open Press
Free Get It Now Search Gives Verizon Wireless Customers What They Want with Recommendations PR Newswire

Essential Yahoo Search Shortcuts from A to Z

 Micro Persuasion
Amazon Kindle: meet Amazon's e-book reader Engadget
Samsung unveils chip that can be used to create 64GB flash memory cards PC World
Kingston Technology Offers Custom Content-on-Card Services PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance
Deals, Partnerships & Sales
Seeking Alpha Blog Content Now Available on Yahoo! Finance PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance
Manta Expands Content Set to Include Business News from Newstex eMediaWire
Wiley Expands Partnership With Skyscape PR Newswire via MSN Money
United Business Media Sells Non-Core US Media Portfolio PR Newswire via DV Format
BIA Financial buys Digital Information Network Washington Business Journ'l
Reed Business Information Nederland chooses Arcade e-Consultancy
SEMI and Reed Business Information Announce Media Partnership Azom.com
KNOVA Acquires Active Decisions MarketWire
MediaBrains forms strategic partnership with Highline Media BtoB Online
News Corp. Buying 51 Percent Of VeriSign's Jamba For $187.5 Million paidContent.org
Monitor 110 Announces USD 5 Million in Series B Funding Monitor 110
Sun New Media Announces Exclusive E-Publishing Partnership with China State Publishing Group PR Newswire
CMP Technology sells noncore publications to Wicks Group for $47 million BtoB Online
Epocrates' Brings Leading Clinical Content to Motorola Q PR Newswire via KPLC
Hyperion hooks up with Google Search Appliance ComputerWorld
Google Strikes Marketing Deal With Intuit; Selling Ads via QuckBooks to Businesses Online Media Daily
Credit Unions Look to Wolters Kluwer Financial Services for Web-Based USA PATRIOT Act Solution PR Newswire
News Corp poised to acquire Milkround Online for £20m Telegraph
Autonomy and Wipro Announce Global Partnership PR Newswire
blinkx Partners With Eur. Commission Audiovisual Service to Make Content Searchable Online PR Newswire
Products, Markets & People

Thomson Financial Enhances Thomson Datastream To Improve Customer Experience

 WebWire
LexisNexis Time Matters 8.0 and Billing Matters 8.0 Improve Mobility, Offer Additional Accounting Features BusinessWire
Amdocs Launches Digital Commerce Solution to Help Service Providers Market and Sell Content PR Newswire via Yahoo! FInance
ProQuest Debuts Archive Program Libarary Journal
Vivisimo Velocity ahead of search pack ComputerWorld
Northern Light’s New Business Research Engine Search Engine Journal
CMP Technology launches 'EE Times Europe' BtoB Online
FindLaw.com Launches Intellectual Property Center PR Newswire
SAP Enterprise Search Simplifies User Access to Information, Enhancing Productivity Across Enterprise PR Newswire
Handango App Attracts Repeat Buyers Wireless Week
Free Access To Journal Of Nuclear Medicine Offered By Society Of Nuclear Medicine Medical News Today
DMS Business Intelligence Database Reaches Data Milestone PR Newswire
Former KR SVP Hilary Schneider Joins Yahoo At SVP; Heading All Listing Businesses paidContent.org
Recruiting.com Gets Web 2.0 Facelift WebWire
Yahoo Taps Media Executive To Head New Marketplaces Unit WSJ Online*
powerTV to Create Online Video and Television Network for Motorsport Companies PR Web
go2 Announces Expansion of Its Mobile Content Network PrimeZone via Yahoo! Finance
eBay and News Search Term Keywords and Many Other New Features Released by Keyword Discovery Finance Visor
HEADLINES FOR THE WEEK OF 4 SEPTEMBER 2006
Trends
Google unveils its Premium initiative for news sources, exposing the difficulty of making dark content relevant...  
Google to Offer Premium News Archives Searches The New York Times*
As it pushes individual and enterprise users to organize the world's content to make it useful...  
Google Asks Surfers for Help in Categorizing Content PCWorld via Yahoo! News
Google Expands (Fan) Base eCommerce Guide
Google targeting all the world's content and all your information ZDNet
Google Open Sources OCR Code, Launches Digital Library Project Dr. Dobb's Portal
Google 'instant intranet'? Google Apps TOS say not so instant ZDNet
Users in control of publishing and distribution value reach deeper into the core of the publishing industry...  
New Web Sites Seeking Profit in Wiki Model The New York Times*
Wikipedia Is More Popular Than... Micro Persuasion
European Broadcast Union To Demonstrate How P2P Lowers Media Distribution Costs ZeroPaid
The Long Tail Meets B2B Publishing FOLIO: Magazine
Jigsaw Data not a company that follows standards: It's full steam ahead for rebel CEO Fowler San Francisco Chronicle
Making Money with Your Blog from A to Z Micro Persuasion
Faces.com: where multimedia meets social networking Download Squad
Leaving even the Web's founders struggling at times to catch up with users in control...  
All We Got Was Web 1.0, When Tim Berners-Lee Actually Gave Us Web 2.0 Dion Hinchcliffe
Note to social media mavens: it doesn't pay to play with people's sense of control as user-publishers...  
Facebook Adds Privacy Option After New Features Draw Backlash WSJ Online*
Some Users Find New Facebook Features "Creepy" paidContent.org
Google to Divulge Orkut Data to Brazil eWeek
Weblog software provider Six Apart absorbs Rojo in an "Acq-Hire" to create stronger user-generated spinoffs...  
Six Apart Acquires Rojo TechCrunch
As anxious mainstream media companies wonder whether they've missed the train for online content...  
Viacom Chief Executive Pick Fuels Merger,Sale Speculation DJ News via SmartMoney.com
Ouster of Viacom Chief Reflects Redstone's Impatience for Results WSJ Online*
Magazines Going to the Web to Get Students to Read The New York Times*
Time Warner’s Anxious Autumn The New York Times*
Newspapers Still Can't See The Online Forest For All Their Dead Trees TechDirt
While Amazon celebrates a new user-generated video aggregation tool the past of video draws to a close...  
Amazon Unbox: Some Oddities and Idiocies paidContent.org
Blockbuster: clinging to a dying business model Download Squad
The PC will live on but new content platforms threaten to put its core value proposition out to pasture..  
iTunesU introduced as a new learning tool University of Tennessee
Will Vista stall Net traffic? CNET News
Why settle for a perpetual immortal flame for your loved ones when their content can live on forever...  
Arkhold Launches Endowed Websites to Make Online Content Immortal eNewsChannels
In other major trends in content this week...  
TNS: Ad Spending Up in the First Half of the Year FOLIO: Magazine
WebWorkerDaily, for the Web 2.0 Worker TechCrunch
Marketers Embrace Click-to-Call WSJ Online*
VNU Still Netherlands-based, But Holland Connection is Dwindling FOLIO: Magazine
Interview: Simon Waldman, Director Of Digital Strategy, Guardian Media Group paidContent.org
Wikimedia's First GC Prepares to Tread 'Legal Minefield' Law.com
Online classifieds category grows BtoB Online
Forbes.com Responds To NYT Bitchslap paidContent.org
Google says it will hire more engineers in Japan Reuters via Yahoo! News
Best Practices
Wiki Collaboration Tools Evolve Into Fully Professional Shared Workspaces Robin Good
The 5 W's of Social Software Borkardo
How Big Is An Acre? Communicating Through 3-D Mapping Directions Magazine
Enterprise DRM: Have Your IP and Collaborate on It, Too AMR Research
Recent Search Changes at Google, Yahoo, and MSN American Chronicle
Five rules for building a successful online community USC Annenberg OJR
Cool Tools
Mobile Group Messaging Bridges Internet And Mobile  Via IM, eMail, SMS, RSS: SwarmIt and SwarmPro Robin Good
Soapbox now re-syndicates reviews from your blog Library Clips
NetReach Adds Web-to-Print Publishing Capabilities to Its Content Management System, cmScribe PR Newswire
Webified Desktop Apps vs Browser-based Apps Read/Write Web
Startup Pushes Open Source Document Collaboration Information Week
RIM reveals its BlackBerry Pearl Reuters via CNET News
LinkedWords.com - New Approach to Contextually Organize the Information on the Web PR Web
Near-final Windows Vista version issued CNET News
Deals, Partnerships & Sales
ProQuest Partners With Iron Mountain On Added Protection of Perpetual Access Content Managing Information
Thompson Publishing Group acquires American Health Consultants BtoB Online
Veronis Suhler Stevenson acquires TMP BtoB Online
Reuters Implements Enhanced Risk Management Solution at DBS Bank PR Newswire
Autonomy Powers U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's Latest Investor Information Access PR Newswire
Springer Science+Business Media buys Humana Press BtoB Online
EMCare now available via Dialog and Datastar RxPG News
Wolters Kluwer unit to acquire software company Taxwise Corp NewRatings.com
Thomson Financial signs strategic enterprise agreement with Tullett Prebon Information HedgeWeek
Universal to buy BMG publishing BBC News
Tucows Bought Kiko GigaOM
Products, Markets & People
Carlyle Group New Competitive Intelligence Service to Sharpen Business Mid-Market Company Strategies PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance
Tele Atlas Appoints David Sym-Smith as Chief Marketing Officer PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance
Wolters Kluwer approved to operate China's first foreign-run bookstore AFX via Forbes
Evidence Matters Adds New Modules to Growing Evidence-Based Medical Resource PR Newswire
NewsKnowledge launches Edited Headline and Lead News Service PR Leap
EBSCO Offers Individual Online Access To 1,300+ Top Elsevier Titles Managing Information
Elsevier’s ScienceDirect College Edition Marketed to Europe Library Journal
LegalView.com Announces New 'DrugWatch' Feature 24-7 Press Release
Pickle Unveils Community Features, Raises The Bar On Content Syndication PRWeb via Yahoo! News
Wolters Kluwer Financial Services Delivers Realtime HUD & CHARM Booklets to Lenders & LOS Providers PR Newswire
July Systems Gets Mobile DRM Patent Red Herring
   
 
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