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HEADLINES FOR OCTOBER 2006
HEADLINES FOR THE WEEK OF 29 OCTOBER 2006
Date/Headlines Source
Trends
Social media isn't just trendy - it's where the money's going...  
Social Networking Ads: $2 Billion by 2010 Mashable!
Google, MIT, and IBM to invest in Social Web Research Social Web Design
'Second Life' land prices get hefty hikes The New York Times*
Digg Brushes Off Acquisition Rumors NextNet
Which is more than many mainstream media outlets can say these days...  
Time Inc. Picks Its Web Winners -- And Its Flagship Isn't One WSJ Online*
Analysis: Why Circulation Keeps Heading South Editor & Publisher
Shareholders Besiege The Sun-Times: Weak Results Since Black's Ouster Spark Call Now to 'Just Sell It' WSJ Online*
Tribune bids low; to consider offers for parts of biz MarketWatch*
Copley says it's exploring possible sale, mergers for papers The Mercury News
Fitch Downgrades Dow Jones' IDR to 'BBB+'; Outlook Negative BusinessWire
Washington Post's Profit Climbs on Non-News Improvements, But Ad Revenue at Paper Slumps WSJ Online*
Are Traditional Media Stocks a Bargain Compared to New Era Google Mania? GuruFocus
As private equity investors collect properties to turn publishing back into a robust business...  
Media's New Masters: Private equity ushers in a brutal accountability. Get used to it. BusinessWeek
Wasserstein Acquires Penton for $530 Million, Will Merge With Prism FOLIO: Magazine
For some the answer to publishing's woes is to come up with a better print product...  
Is It The Tabloids' Time? Forbes
While for others it's recognizing that  an online-first era requires new skills to build valuable content...  
Editor with Online Bent  Is Named to Run Fortune Magazine The New York Times*
At Conde Nast, It's Print Versus Digital Crain's New York Business
New Start-Ups Aim to Build Content Capital Washington Post
YouTube's intellectual property issues are thorny but its potential to crack open new video markets is huge...  
YouTube Is Purging Copyrighted Clips The New York Times*
Google in bid to halt YouTube legal threat FT.com*
Colbert Tackles YouTube-Google Copyright Issue paidContent.org
Stephen Colbert: Don’t Love and Leave YouTube Media Shift
YouTube Going Mobile… in 14 Months? TechCrunch
As paying users for generating content enlarges the stage for monetizable video...  
The Domino Effect - Igniting 500 Litres of Diet Coke and 1500+ Mentos for fun - and profit Google Blog
Metacafe is making a play at Youtube The Blog Herald
In the meantime business media companies are trying to create their own wave for video content...  
Reality Digital: YouTube for Businesses Read/Write Web
Brightcove Launches First 360° Internet TV Business Platform Robin Good
Dow Jones TV: Can Print Guys Do Video? The Next Net
ABM offers mobile video downloads BtoB Online
Multi-language Web content is coming into its own as publishing technologies become more efficient...  
Too much English on Web 'risks crowding out other cultures' AFP via Yahoo! News
Get your people talking in more languages Google Blog
The End User: Content vs. Control The New York Times*
Rapidly maturing content technologies are challenging assumptions as to who will offer a winning platform...  
Elephants and Evolution - How the Landscape is Changing for Google, Microsoft, Mozilla and Adobe Read/Write Web
Outside.in could grow to be a mature Craigslist 606Tech
"Vox"ing our private blogs Scobelizer
Blog Business Summit: Jason Calacanis Keynote Web Pro News
Pluck RSS Reader Shuts Down: Consumer RSS Readers a Dead Market Now Read/Write Web
Web 2.Org: Organizations Competing in Traditional Media Spaces Policlicks
Yahoo focuses on building valuable portal content but will it ever catch up with self-aggregating users...?  
Yahoo Content to Push Content Marketing Shift
Will Yahoo Make a Deal to Buy AOL? Fortune via CNN Money
Episode II: Revenge of the Portal Micro Persuasion
Google goes wild for wikis CNET News
U.S. Intelligence Community Launches Intellipedia Wiki SmartMobs
The PrintWiki Foundation publicly launches PrintWiki - The Free Encyclopedia of Print. PR Leap
BBC joins the user contributed content gang Journalism.co.uk
Copyright law is struggling to find a meaningful framework to promote fair use...  
Report Suggests U.K. Consider Regulating Licensed Content Library Journal
Copyright report calls for more consumer rights Computeractive
MySpace To Start Music Copyright Detection via Gracenote Filtering WSJ Online*
E.U. Nears Decision on Regulating Video Content on Internet The New York Sun
There are smart ways to leak information - and not-so-smart ways...  
LiveLeak.com - Leaking Media to the Public LiveLeak.com
U.S. Shuts Web Site Said to Reveal Nuclear Guide: Report The New York Times*
Why DO we need another pretty good search engine...?  
Microsoft campaign touts Live Search BtoB Online
In other major trends in content this week...  
Bloomberg to End Access to Thomson I/B/E/S Earnings Estimates PR Newswire via Earth Times
Collaborative Film-Making: A Swarm Of Angels Challenges Traditional Film Production Robin Good
How the CDC Participates in Second Life Micro Persuasion
John Battelle Interview With Folksonomy Federated Media via Folksonomy
How Google Wins By Losing Search Insider
Google: A New Advertising Engine Washington Post
Meet the new face of hyperlocal journalism USC Annenberg OJR
Few check sources on Web health information Reuters via CNET
Best Practices
AdSense Money Machine? The Problem With PLR Articles And Automatic Content Generators Robin Good
From Webmaster to Newsmaster: A New Generation of Content Development PromotionWorld
SEO - Phrase Based Optimization SiteReference
Media companies would do well to heed lessons in fidelity, convenience USA Today
A Web Site to Call Your Own: Microsoft Office Live Help the Little Guy to Get Into Online Marketing The New York Times*
Effective SEO through good code structure PromotionWorld
Should Conferences Ban Blogging? Micro Persuasion
SIIA FISD Issues Derived Data and Non-display Usage Draft PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance
If Google Demotes Your Web Page, Can You Sue? Publish
Internet Archaeology - Digging up the web of the past Content Log
Marketers Demanding Better Count of the Clicks The New York Times*
Cool Tools
Is Firefox 2.0 a dud? ZDNet
Zune.net Goes Live, Wants To Make Music Social Mashable!z
Gmail mobile client is live Google Blog
GridNetworks Unveils Radical New Video Delivery Technology to Transform Digital Media Industry PR Newswire via Yahoo!  Finance
Alexa Gets Competition from Compete and Quantcast Simpy Chichimichi
Pictures, With Map and Pushpin Included The New York Times*
Webmaster Tools: A resource for content providers Google Base BlogGoogle
Get a Mapkit Widget for Your Blog and Earn Moolah Micro Persuasion
Windows Media Player 11 (final) is now available Download Squad
Mike Elgan says go wild with widgets Download Squad
Deals, Partnerships & Sales
Nomura to Acquire Instinet, U.S. Provider of Electronic Trading Services Bloomberg News
RR Donnelly to buy printing services firm Banta Corp. for $1.3bn New Ratings
Dow Jones to sell Traverse City newspaper, 6 others for $282.5M Detroit News
Thirteen More Asian Journals from Blackwell Accepted Into Thomson ISI Web of Science Infozine
CMP's SmallBizResource.com Adds Editorial Content to Forbes.com PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance
ISYS(R) Search Software Builds on Channel Success With New OEM Partnerships BusinessWire

The Economist Acquires GalleryWatch Online Service

 Washington Business Journal
Scirus Partners with Indian Institute of Science Elsevier
Wired Digital Acquires Reddit Wired News
MobiTV Raises Another $30 Million; Adds Hearst and Adobe As Investors paidContent.org
Wolters Kluwer Financial Services Integrates Leading Compliance Content into GulfPak Deposit Solution PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance
Search Engine, Business.com, Powers SmallBizResource.com Submit Express
Products, Markets & People
Hoovers Joins LinkedIn, Launches a Business Social Network Mashable!
Hanley Wood launches ‘Architect’ BtoB Online
New Website for Legal Professionals Aims to Revolutionize Sharing of Information PR Web
LexisNexis CounselLink Enhanced for Legal Spend Management BusinessWire
Bango Launches Safe Subscriptions for Mobile Content Telephony World
Reed Exhibitions Appoints Three VPs for Strategic Marketing Exhibitor News Network
Fast Search and Transfer, Powers Arabic Portal Web Site Host Directory
Thomson Scientific doubles its nursing content Information World Review
HEADLINES FOR THE WEEK OF 22 OCTOBER 2006
Date/Headlines Source
Trends
Publishing conglomerate Thomson prepares to focus on deeper services for B2B markets...  
Thomson Nears Plan to Put Learning Unit on Block WSJ Online*
Who Will  Buy Thomson Gale? Library Journal
Private equity is all the rage, but limits on consolidation loom from regulators and uncertain exit prospects...  
Private Equity May Face Snags In Media Hunt WSJ Online
Old media urge FCC to ease ownership rules The Hollywood Reporter
ClearChannel Contemplates Going Private The New York Times*
Bertelsmann Forms $63 Million Venture Fund; Sarnoff Heading It paidContent.org
Tribune Auction Draws Private-Equity Interest WSJ Online*
As Amazon pleases its pubic investors it may be losing its technology advantages...  
Amazon Profit Beats Expectations Reuters via Publish
Amazon to Curtail Its Spending The New York Times*
IBM sues Amazon.com for Patent Infringement VNUNet
The joys and woes of being the 800-pound gorilla...  
Google, Google, Google! Forbes
We’re Google. So Sue Us. The New York Times*
Do you "Google?" A brand name may be slipping into generic status Google Blog
As if preparing to dominate video on the Web was not enough...  
Google quizzed over YouTube plans BBC News
Jawed Karim: How YouTube Took Off GigaOM
Yahoo Takes YouTube Idea and Expands On It ZeroPaid
Does YouTube Really Have Legal Problems? Slate
YouTube Gets New Logo, Facelift and Trackbacks - Growing Fast! Mashable!
News promises to be the next stage for radical new innovations from Google...  
Google’s Internal Company Goals: News Commentary and Discussion Feature Coming in Q4? Google Blogoscoped
On the alert for bloggers Google Blog
Google Co-op Misses News Marketing Shift
As Google continues to invest in making search results more compelling destination content...  
Google to Launch Personal Search Tool Forbes
RealClimate.org: A Custom Google Search Engine RealClimate.org
Eurekster to Google: Bring it on in custom search! ZDNet
Google seeks better access to government information GovExec.com
Content Classifiers Glom Onto Google Byte and Switch
Yahoo tries to come up with a winning formula for growth by embracing old and new media...  
Yahoo Bookmarks Enters 21st Century TechCrunch
Yahoo Close To Newspaper Deal For Hotjobs? paidContent.org
Online financial content becomes a more mission-critical information asset....  
Putting blogs to work for Wall Street CNET News
TheStreet.com 3Q Profit Nearly Doubles But Shares Hit a Rut AP via Yahoo! Finance
Publishers are benefiting from users as aggregators but they're not always happy with the results...  
Customizing a magazine to your taste BuzzShout
How Dare You Make My Content More Valuable! TechDirt
Major media companies are embracing online markets, but are not quite sure what they're hugging...  
Controlling Choke Points No Longer Viable: Eisner, Diller expound on new media Variety
Merrill Lynch: Could Be Decades Before Online Sustains Newspapers Editor & Publisher
Newspapers are urged to reach out to Web AP via Yahoo! News
AOL CEO Says Sales May Shrink for Two Years Publish
AOL to Focus on Ad Revenue in Europe The New York Times*
As the bloodletting goes on and on...  
Layoffs called 'unavoidable' at Inquirer, Daily News The Philadelphia Inquirer
'Mercury News' To Axe Up to 101, Including 15% of Newsroom Editor & Publisher
Publishers and technologists build a growing consensus that the time for eBooks has come...  
Adobe tries again with e-books CNET News
Blackwell and ebrary Partner to Deliver E-Books Information Today
Electronic Content Firm, eBook, Supports New IDPF Content Standard Web Side Host Directory
Old and new media chase a building online video talent wave...  
Current TV Pops a Flavorpill Multichannel News
Skype founders plan to launch Web TV service: paper Reuters via Yahoo! News
Will NBC 2.0 Pay Off For Digital? paidContent.org
Talent Agency Is Aiming to Find Web Video Stars The New York Times*
Hey, if Calhoun's got VNU, why can't I take some fun too...?  
Former GE CEO Jack Welch and Partners Ponder Buying the Boston Globe WSJ Online*
In other major trends in content this week...  
Cornell Joins Microsoft Book Search Library Journal
Intellectual property theft is evil, Scout's honour The Age
Information OPA Says Its Research Show Visitors To Branded Site More Active Than Portals paidContent.org
"Push-Back" From Advertisers Reported Against Verified Circ FOLIO: Magazine
Campus researchers getting a lot younger Tuscon Citizen
Facebook Testing Content Sharing Adotas
Is Digg On the Block For $150m? Seeking Alpha
Crayon Claims To Be First SecondLife Company TechCrunch
Why Apple Won Forbes
McGraw-Hill Announces The Elimination of 600 Positions in Education Unit, Third Quarter Earnings FOLIO: Magazine
Best Practices
Real Sharing vs. Fake Sharing O'Reilly Radar
Web 2.0 reaches the classroom Network World
Data classification is the key to ILM InfoStor
On-Line Newsrooms - Why They Matter DigStrat
Podcasting Legalities: What Every Podcaster Should Know, Part 3 Digital Producer
The Evolution Of The Creative Commons Spectrum SmartMobs
Two out of Three Workers Overwhelmed by Information Overload, Nucleus Research Finds BusinessWire
New Study Finds Consumer Generated Content Plays a Large Role in Online Auto Shopping Red Orbit
Cool Tools
A Memetracker for People Micro Persuasion
Comparing Feed Readers Web Pro News
Automated video news program from RSS and game-graphics Boing Boing
Opera releases new version of mobile browser Download Squad
Convina Offers Google Base Integration With Ecommerce and Other Data Systems PR Web
Anothr: RSS aggregator for Skype Download Squad
Deals, Partnerships & Sales
ProQuest to Sell Its Business Solutions Segment to Snap-on Incorporated PR Newswire
Answers.com Joins CBSNews.com, to Upgrade Reference Information Web Site Host Directory
SkillSoft Announces Agreement to Acquire NETg from The Thomson Corporation PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance
Autonomy Announces New Strategic Partner for Chinese Venture PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance
Harvard University Licenses DiscoveryGate® Content Platform WebWire
blinkx Signs Content Agreement With VERSUS PR Newswire
MediaBrains forms strategic partnership with Bobit Business Media BtoB Online
Products, Markets & People
Factiva's Enhanced Taxonomy Warehouse Drives Better Information Asset Management PR Newswire  via WTNH
'Financial Times' adds microsite BtoB Online
SixApart Launches Vox Micro Persuasion
Answers.com Joins CBSNews.com, to Upgrade Reference Information Web Site Host Directory
Autonomy Extends Leadership in eDiscovery With Enhanced Aungate Solutions PR Newswire via Earth Times
CMP's Electronics Group Launches Newly Integrated TechOnline PR Newswire
Windows IT Media Launches ``Windows Excavator'' Vertical Search Tool BusinessWire
ProQuest Platform Supports Shibboleth-To-Athens Gateway Managing Information
Zillow.com(TM) Opens up API for Free to  Provide Zestimate(TM) Valuations and Information on Web PR Newswire
Finding Auto Insurance Information is More Efficient With Insurance.com’s New Search Platform BusinessWire
BrandSweeper(TM) Helps Intellectual Property and Brand Owners Take On Search Engines PR Newswire via Earthtimes.org
Mobile Editions of Government Computer News and Washington Technology Web Sites Make Debut PR Newswire
HollywoodReporter.com unveils major redesign BtoB Online
Wolters Kluwer Financial Services Brings Regulatory Compliance to Front End of Lending Process PR Newswire
HEADLINES FOR THE WEEK OF 16 OCTOBER 2006
Date/Headlines Source
Trends
In case you were wondering whether context for everyone is king...  
Google Profit Almost Doubles as Ad Spending Surges Bloomberg News
Google Q3 2006 Earnings Call Transcript Seeking Alpha
Google Expected to Pocket 25% of Online Ad Revenue in 2006 eMarketer
Google, YouTube & the Future of Video Advertising GigaOM
In case you were wondering whether content from a few was king...  
To Explain Soft Numbers, Newspaper Companies Name a Common Culprit The New York Times*
Yahoo Results Raise Questions on Ad Viability Beta News
Can we meld content and context effectively while retaining 18th century views of copyright...?  
Media Titans Pressure YouTube Over Copyrights WSJ Online*
YouTube Removes 30,000 Files Amid Japanese Copyright Concerns WSJ Online*
The media cartel vs. Google: Big media won't have the nerve or incentive MarketWatch
Do online publishers really need protection from Google? The outlook for ACAP Corante
Creative Commons + Flickr = 22 Million Sharable Photos MediaShift
Web 2.0 as a metaphor for 'rip-off' CNET News
Gref Says Piracy Hurdle Cleared at WTO Talks The Moscow Times
Profits from specialized and in-depth insights move aggregators away from general purpose solutions...  
Reuters set to cash in on computer-based trading Times Online
Reuters Group 3Q revenue climbs 3% Electronic trading, machine-readable news drive sales growth MarketWatch*
Bloomberg L.P. Not For Sale, Founder Mike Bloomberg Tells Employees PR Newswire
Health Information Search Engines Emerge MarketWire via GEN
'BusinessWeek' Offers More Exclusive Web Content than Ever Media Buyer Planner
WSJ Ad Revenues Down 5.9 Percent in September, Barron's up 20 percent WSJ Online*
As content providers focus on merging database and media products in sophisticated offerings...  
Dow Jones to buy rest of Factiva for $160 mln Reuters
DJ Execs Explain Factiva Move; MKTW Ad Revs Growing Faster Than WSJ.com paidContent.org
Earnings: Scripps 3Q06 Boosted By Shopzilla, Uswitch; Online Rev Up 73 Percent paidContent.org
Google's competitors adjust their offerings to accommodate a tougher competitive environment...  
Microsoft and Yahoo Prepare to Battle Google TechCrunch
Yahoo goes punk with a Zen twist CNET News
Microsoft in digital book deal FT.com
Yahoo! gets Eye-ful: CBS stations to upload news footage Variety
Yahoo invests in two online ad companies CNET News
AOL to lay off 1,400 call center employees in mid-December Download Squad
As Google invests in new ways of thinking about how to make money on the Web...  
Google Testing Cost Per Action (CPA) Model Content Ads? Search Engine Watch
Patent Filing Shows Google Diving into Indexing the Deep Web SEO by the Sea
Google is Pumping Up the Base Online Marketing Blog
Google Launches Website Optimizer TechCrunch
A new generation of audiences raised on gaming and user-generated content begins to dominate...  
Google-Wikipedia-MySpace - How Teenagers Hijacked the Internet Global Politician
"Second Life," Other Virtual Worlds Reshaping Human Interaction National Geographic
Portals: YouTube is now a verb and an adjective WSJ via Post-Gazette
Social networking extends beyond MySpace, Facebook The Mercury News
Blog aims to record a day in the  life of the UK SmartMobs
Maybe success with getting content in its most valuable context will persuade some to think anew...  
Universal Music 'long tail' archives bring Christmas in July Reuters
Record Labels Turn Piracy Into a Marketing Opportunity WSJ Online*
Music Companies Grab a Share of the YouTube Sale The New York Times*
Is No DRM the Answer to iTunes? RealTechNews
Digital rights in question as business model IT Pro
NBC Digital Czar: Big Media Must Deal With the 'Small Media' Known as Consumers Ad Age
Memo to corporations: the kids aren't the only ones being put on notice...  
SIIA Launches Corporate Content Anti-Piracy Program PR Newswire via WTOL
In other major trends in content this week...  
Springer Science launches bid for Informa BtoB Online
EDGAR Online sues Vickers to resume data feeds Fairfield County Business Journ'l
Publisher and Top Editor of Toronto Star Resign The New York Times*
Why Is Video Search So Bad? Internet News
Watch Out Startups, Ad Spending is Falling and So is Your Sky Micro Persuasion
Viacom to provide content to leading Chinese web site International Herald Tribune
A Question of Eyeballs: Nielsen Proposes to Measure TV Ad Viewership The New York Times*
Digital Newsstand Zinio.com Reports 154 Percent Growth in Transactions Over 2005 FOLIO: Magazine
Best Practices
eBook Technologies First to Support New IDPF Content Packaging Standard PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance
Why Aren’t Ebooks More Successful? EContent Magazine
"The Library as Conversation" Moves into 21st Century Library Journal
Technorati Announces Support for Open ID TechCrunch
Analysis Reveals One in Five Press Releases Contain Gobbledygook Phrases PR Newswire
Blogs, Wikis, Podcasting, Social Networks And File Sharing: How The Web Is Transforming Itself - Part I Robin Good
The Interactive Advertising Bureau Announces the Creation of an Ad Operations Council BusinessWire
Association heralds strategic role of Web analytics, preps for ‘death of the page’ BtoB Online
Crowdsourcing Creativity Micro Persuasion
The current state of audio search Niall Kennedy
MIT's Center for Collective Intelligence: Smart Mobs and the Power of the Mobile Many SmartMobs
How to Create Web Content that Works TechSoup
Cool Tools
Internet Explorer 7 — Start Your Download Engines RealTechNews
Firefox 2.0 Review Read/Write Web
The rebirth of cool: Google Mobile Upgrades Google Blog
Movable Type Enterprise 1.5 Launched Read/Write Web
SocialText Aims To Be Best Of Breed Office Software Read/Write Web
Social Networking Web 2.0 Cutting Edge Ajax Enabled News Arizona Venture Capital
ResultR - Create fully customized search engines Emily Chang
Make Your Own Aggregator with FeedRaider Micro Persuasion
Hotsoup.com, Social Networking For "Opinion Drivers," Opens Tomorrow paidContent.org
Google Sync your bookmarks across computers Lifehacker
Using ebooks on Symbian S60 3rd Edition smartphones All About Symbian
Google Reader integration with Gmail - via Greasemonkey script Download Squad
Deals, Partnerships & Sales
Bureau van Dijk Powers Safari Library Launch The Open Press
Business.com Partners with CMP and Hoover’s BusinessWire
IBM and The University of Arizona Bring Web 2.0 and Social Networking to the Classroom MarketWire via Yahoo! Finance
Factiva Links Company Data with Microsoft Virtual Earth for New Sales Professionals Mapping Solution PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance
Verizon Communications Board Approves Spin-Off of U.S. Print and Internet Yellow Pages Directories Earth Times
Voxant Partners With ChinaOnTV to Distribute Chinese Business News to English-Language Sites PrimeZone
blinkx Partners With Clevver Media for Searchable Content From Major Movie Studios and Record Labels PR Newswire
Wetpaint Launches Wiki Community Sites for Treo and Motorola Q Owners eMediaWire
Datamonitor agrees to cash offer for Ovum Reuters
About.com Teams with Healthology to Offer Expanded Health Video Content BioWire via GEN
Davy Corporate Finance deploys Thomson One Investment Banking Finextra
Products, Markets & People
LexisNexis Launches Screening and Identity Verification for Advanced Government Solutions BusinessWire via Epicos
LexisNexis Offering New Resources for Corporate Counsel and Intellectual Property (IP) Lawyers BusinessWire
LexisNexis Launches Relavint Desktop 2.0 BusinessWire
Wolters Kluwer to move back-end jobs from US to India Life Style Extra
Vivisimo Velocity Powers U.S. Department of Defense Portal Web Site Host Directory
Vivisimo's Velocity Powers New Image and News Search Features at FirstGov.gov BusinessWire
Wolters Kluwer Financial Services Expands AuthenticWeb for Claims PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance
Autonomy Delivers Enhanced Export, Viewing and Filtering With KeyView v10 PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance
Permabit Unveils Major New Release of Dynamic Information Services Platform BusinessWire
Variety Relaunches Web Site, www.Variety.com BusinessWire via Yahoo! Finance
New Praxis(TM) eBooks Give Test Takers a Convenient, Less Expensive Test Preparation Option MarketWire
Web's First Business Blog Directory and Search Engine Fast Becoming Hub for Corporate Bloggers DMN Newswire
Magazines.com Becomes First Subscription Agent to Undergo New ABC Evaluation FOLIO: Magazine
Reuters unveils first hi-tech development centre in Beijing to support financial information services Reuters
Amdocs' Qpass Digital Commerce Solution Marks $1.5 Billion of Premium Content Processed PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance
NextMark launches sales lead referral service for list managers BtoB Online
HEADLINES FOR THE WEEK OF 9 OCTOBER 2006
Date/Headlines Source
Trends
The deal heard 'round the world brings together search and social video dominance...  
Google/YouTube Acquisition Conference Call Transcript Seeking Alpha
Google portal to displace Yahoo, Microsoft? ZDNet
Pushing Google's rivals to reconsider their own slow-to-market approaches to social video content...  
Yahoo Rumored to Buy Facebook Line56
Yahoo's Talks With Facebook Get Bogged Down WSJ Online*
Yahoo’s Growth Being Eroded by New Rivals The New York Times*
MySpace Seeks a Wider Relationship With YouTube Victor, Google WSJ Online*
GOOG-YouTube: YHOO Feels The Heat & Deal Atrophy; MSFT Gets A Chill paidContent.org
But will the YouTube deal mark the beginning of the end for euphoric online media deals ...?  
Smart Move or Silly Money 2.0? BusinessWeek
Is this the boomtime deal that signals a bust? The Guardian
Dot-Com Boom Echoed in Deal to Buy YouTube The New York Times*
The Web According to Ballmer BusinessWeek
7 Ways to Monetize YouTube Publish
In the meantime Google is focusing more on building successful relationships with publishers...  
Book sales get a lift from Google scan plan Reuters
Google Library Project Expands to Spain Information Today
Google Books Library grows despite controversy AFP via Yahoo! News
Open Content Alliance Rises to the Challenge of Google Print Information Today
Google cancels one service and promotes another ZDNet
VNU moves to bolster online measurement tools to provide a migration path for its revenue base...  
VNU Proposes to Acquire Outstanding Public Minority Stake in Netratings for $16.00 Per Share in Cash BusinessWire
Are RSS weblog feeds replacing news wires as the conduit for public corporate information....?  
Sun Asks S.E.C. to Allow Blog Fiscal Filings The New York Times*
The Day the Entire World Gets RSS Micro Persuasion
Social content sites are proliferating, but developing quality content for them is not always easy...  
Wow the news startup space sure has heated up Topix.net Weblog
The Social News Faceoff Read/Write Web
NewsCloud Releases Open Media Web Services and API SmartMobs
Zimbio — new guide to the web Pandia Search News
Find Insight Fast at Helium, a Reference Where Multiple Points of View Improve Decision Making BusinessWire
Content mashups are moving from being informal hacker experiments to key marketing channels...  
Google and BEA working on a mashup deal Download Squad
WiFi Google Map mash-ups Download Squad
Mash-up event to unite leading minds from the geographic information industry GSI User
Mashups to Re-Map the Legal Tech Market? Law.com
As publishers and technologists dicker with copyright management the markets demand solutions now...  
Their Crime: Playing iTunes on Devices Not Named iPod The New York Times*
Microsoft Sues The Makers Of FairUse4WM Zero Paid
Google faces copyright fight over YouTube The Guardian
Digimarc Patent Proposes Solution for Identifying Copyrighted Content in Social and P2P Networks Piranha Daily News
Social databases are maturing into well-maintained sources for collaborative content...  
What Role Should Companies Play on Wikipedia? Micro Persuasion
Wikipedia co-founder looks to add accountability Paramus Post
Original dot-com portals struggle to retain traffic as a new generation of sites thrives on the long tail...  
CNET's Traffic Collapse and TheStreet.com Seeking Alpha
Cafebabel.com Breaks Down European Borders with Grassroots Media MediaShift
Microsites Gaining Popularity Tech News World
In niches where print represents the luxury of time it endures and thrives...  
Magazines for the Superrich Are No Longer Up for Sale The New York Times*
Curtco Deal: When is a 12X Multiple Not Enough? FOLIO: Magazine
Will the last one left in yesterday's newsroom please turn off the lights on your way out...?  
Dismal 3Q Earnings Expected for Newspaper Sector Editor & Publisher
Web overtakes newspapers in Europe AFP via Yahoo! News
Put up or shut up: Newspapers aren't the only forum for great journalism USC Annenberg OJR
'Wash Post' Editor Downie: Everyone in Our Newsroom Wants to Be a Blogger Editor & Publisher
Economist's New Digital Incubation Unit, Project Red Stripe paidContent.org
A Newspaper Investigates Its Future The New York Times*
In other major trends in content this week...  
The Ongoing Struggle of Free vs. Fee Search Engine Watch
Yahoo time capsule draws photos and more The Mercury News
China seen softening rules on foreign media - report AFX via Forbes
At Reuters, a New Book and a Lost Job The New York Times*
Guruji.com, the Gateway to Indian Cyber-Space! Information Manager
Legal Challenges To MySpace Sale Dismissed In LA Court paidContent.org
E-mail list prices fall, still get top dollar BtoB Online
The PayPerPost Virus Spreads TechCrunch
CNET CEO Shelby Bonnie Resigns After Options Investigation paidContent.org
10 Questions for Rupert Murdoch Time Magazine
Genealogy for the Living, the Dead, the Far Away The New York Times*
Best Practices
UnGoogle Your Marketing with Social Media Online Marketing Blog
Web 2.0 - How Networked Media Are Reshaping Business: Alan Moore Robin Good
Facilitating Social Media Optimization (SMO) Web Pro News
Web 2.0: Ten Ways Non-Profits Can Start Leveraging Social Media Robin Good
Participation Inequality: Encouraging More Users to Contribute UseIt
Peer-To-Peer Art: How P2P Networks Are Transforming The Creative Landscape Robin Good
Viva La Office 2.0 Revolucion! Uh... Hello? Publish
At the "Unconference," a Chance To Talk Freely Library Journal
Teacher uses books, blogs to engage students in language arts Miami  Herald
The ALA Primer Part Two: Resources For Beginners A List Apart
Keep and Use Your Content Forever EContent Magazine
Cool Tools
Baynote Launches Open Source Search Tool TechWeb
Google Reader gets even better Download Squad
The New Sony Reader For Books Performs Like a Good First Draft WSJ Online*
iBloks Unveils Digital Media Service So People Can Create Like Pros PR Newswire
Ask.com Launches Ad-Free & Search Box-Free Mobile Search Service MoCo News
Google Maps in the Palm in your hand Google Blog
Content information providing system Fresh Patents.com
Google Docs & Spreadsheets Goes Live: Writely Is No More Read/Write Web
Coghead Goes Live: Build Applications Visually TechCrunch
Book Sale Scout: Find Book Sales Online Museum of Modern Betas
Webwag Searches Within Your Own Startpage Mashable!
'Office 2.0' startups knock on business doors CNET News
Deals, Partnerships & Sales
Before the Call Adds Factiva SalesWorks to On-Demand Prospect Management Solution PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance
ProQuest Delivers Periodical Content & Professional Standard to Accounting Scholars Accounting Web
Steptoe & Johnson to Uncover New Opportunities with LexisNexis TMCNet
Xinhua, Reuters to broaden cooperation in news fields China View
Autonomy's Virage Technology Chosen for Video Search for Microsoft MSN, AOL and Lycos PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance
Wolters Kluwer Tax, Accounting & Legal Completes TaxWise Acquisition MarketWire
Equifax buys Austin-Tetra BtoB Online
Blackboard teams up with Google Washington Business Jrnl.
Google Teams with SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT for Music Videos IT News Online
Universal and YouTube Land Deal Publish
Products, Markets & People
TechTarget Launches Five New Web Sites to Serve IT Channel Market BusinessWire
LexisNexis Announces Relavint Desktop 2.0 as Part of Advanced Government Solutions Offering BusinessWire
Really Strategies Announces RSuite CMS PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance
Nstein launches new content management publishing suite with powerful semantic analysis PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance
Endeca Unveils the Endeca Information Access Platform 5.0 BusinessWire
Convera(R) Enhances Leading Search Technology for Government PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance
Wolters Kluwer puts regulatory information online Finextra
Kilcullen Promoted At VNU; New Hollywood Reporter Publisher paidContent.org
Hoover's, Inc. Announces Launch of Phase II of Access Hoover's Offering via salesforce.com PR Newswire
HEADLINES FOR THE WEEK OF 2 OCTOBER 2006
Date/Headlines Source
Trends
Google works on closing the gaps between search and context provided by socially generated content...  
Google reportedly in talks to buy YouTube San Francisco Chronicle
New Google Groups Arrives Mashable!
As it moves aggressively to find an edge in technology and market positioning to move it beyond its roots...  
Google buys garage with a history Sydney Morning Herald
Google takes a bigger bite of Big Apple CNET News
Google Takes Over the Patent Office Search Engine Watch
Google's Growing Grasp: To fend off Microsoft and other foes it is bulking up on partnerships Time Magazine
Google to Subpoena Yahoo, Microsoft on Book Scanning Bloomberg
Google continues to eye new ad markets AP via Yahoo! News
Google Launches Online Literary Project International Business Times
Top Media Execs Gather at Google Think Tank TV Week
Meanwhile Google's competitors wrestle with their identities and long-term prospects...  
A Gaggle of Google Wannabes BusinessWeek
What's Teoma, you ask? You could ask Jeeves, but he's become ... Teoma USA Today
Terry Semel's long pause: Yahoo! seems to be standing still while Google, others race ahead The Economist
How Yahoo! Gave Itself A Face-Lift BusinessWeek
What does Yahoo's ad warning mean? CNET News
Yahoo opens up its e-mail program BBC News
AOL debuts free OpenRide interface as replacement for AOL 9.0 Red Herring
From a frivilous medium for jammy-clad kooks to a necessary business media tool...  
Business 2.0 Unveils New Strategy: All Journalists Must Blog Influential Interactive Mktg.
VNU retools to make an aggressive run at shedding underperforming assets and focusing on the future...  
VNU revenue up 6% in second quarter BtoB Online
VNU puts Business Media Europe group in play BtoB Online
VNU Business Media To Announce Reorganization FOLIO: Magazine
As governments look for global market advantages the lure of open access grows stronger...  
Publishers fight open access law for federal research ZDNet Education
Open Access: What is it and why should we have it? U of Southampton
New Review Highlights Need For More Research Into Journal Publishing Managing Information
Vertical search has tons of buzz but it's all about the basics of serving specific audiences...  
Watch Out Google, Vertical Search Is Ramping Up! Read/Write Web
Technorati Intros Smarter Blog Search Feeds Micro Persuasion
Bloglines Has Lost its Way Micro Persuasion
Mainstream media is tops when hurricanes and wars are hot but new sources are gaining trust...  
LexisNexis Survey Shows Today’s Consumers Trust Traditional Media Sources the Most BusinessWire
As power of social media is soars the power of its monetization models is still in its early days...  
Coming Attraction: YouTube's Business Model Knowledge @ Wharton
A ‘Dire Straits’ Web barter economy?: Links for nothing, content for free ZDNet
Web 2.0 Meets SmartMobs: Howard Rheingold Views On Web 2.0 Robin Good
Social Networking for the IT Set: Will Marketers Bite? ClickZ Network
Fox offers shows on MySpace, TV sites Reuters via Boston.com
Facebook Trapped By Microsoft Ad Deal Mashable!
del.icio.us Plans To Become A Social Network Read/Write Web
Craiglist founder not interested in selling Download Squad
Wikis Come to Google Earth Micro Persuasion
Mainstream publishers are moving towards more integration of user content but the results are still iffy...  
WalMart’s MySpace Clone Dead on Arrival Mashable!
WECAN Harnesses Wisdom of Crowds for Newspaper MediaShift
Interview: Annelies van den Belt, New Media Director for Telegraph Group paidContent.org
Don’t Stick Fork In Editorialists Just Yet MediaShift
The search for viable DRM solutions leads platform providers and publishers to cross-platform solutions...  
DRM May Mean Strange Anti-Apple Bedfellows Publish
DVD Jon Fairplays Apple GigaOM
Mobile content's stronger support from media suppliers and advertisers is eclipsing earlier deals...  
PodZinger to Offer Targeted Video Ads ClickZ News
Canada: Content on the Move to Broadband & Mobile Platforms Mediacaster
Mobile ESPN's End Casts Big Shadow Over Other Startups Investors Business Daily
So much for standing on principles...  
Tribune Names New Publisher Of L.A. Times Amid Job-Cut Flap WSJ Online*
In other major trends in content this week...  
US media in decline, says British expert Indo-Asian News Service
Advertising is dead (soonish) Danny Ayers
Washington Times Translates Most Articles Into Downloadable Audio Clips Editor & Publisher
Reining In Magazine Sprawl FOLIO: Magazine
Starbucks to add books to menu MarketWatch*
CNN Turns to Event Marketing to Strut Its Brand The New York Times*
Software Being Developed to Monitor Opinions of U.S. The New York Times*
Hard-Learned Lesson: Don't Try to Censor A Blogger Washington Post
MySpace founder updates charges against Intermix MarketWatch*
IM conversations can linger for years AP via Yahoo! News
A Reporter Who Scoops His Own Paper The New York Times*
Best Practices
Participatory Media - Who Owns The Work You Share? Robin Good
More on The Internet Changes How We Think BlogCritics.org
AOP: Tim O'Reilly's 'Internetisation Of Everything' Session paidContent.org
Podcasting: A New Communications Tool for SMBs SmartBiz
Towards structured blogging Seb's Open Research
Content Management: Dow Jones Makes Headlines Baseline
Newspaper Self-Help Guide Aims to Shake Up Old Habits ClickZ Network
Digital Ownership: What about new business models? Digital Copyright Candada
Fighting blogger burnout: 7 types of blog posts Spero Forum
How do faculty decide where to publish? Their perceptions of "relative quality"are key UC Berkeley News
Taking Risks: New Survey on Social Networking AATP Interactive
Social Networks Meet News Aggregation And Filtering: Information Routing Groups Robin Good
Podcasting, Wikis and Blogs, Oh My Intranet Journal
Knowledge Management as it could be: the evolving role of information professionals Grow Your Organization
Google vs. Microsoft: Do you want Google to be your ‘librarian’? ZDNet
Cool Tools
Google RSS reader is now just as good as its competitors CNET News Blog
Google Gadgets Now Available on Blogs and Webpages Mashable!
Zune wireless: worthless (for now) Engadget
Numly Launches Tagly Tagging Service Emily Chang
WriteToMyBlog web-based post editor Lifehacker
PollDaddy - More Cool Widgets That Don’t Work on Social Networks Mashable!
Adobe Contribute 4 - A Blog Authoring Tool That Costs a Whooping $149 Digital Inspiration
What is Java Content Repository O'Reilly OnJava
Wikipedia Mobile Micro Persuasion
IBM warms to social networking tools CNET News
Deals, Partnerships & Sales
Serials Solutions(R) Launches Central Search(TM) Results Using  Vivisimo Clustering Engine PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance
Alacra Adds Google Powered Vertical Search Engine to Alacra Compliance PR Web
Cantor Market Data Announces Distribution Agreement with DTN BusinessWire
Dow Jones' Daily Bankruptcy Review Enhanced With New Content and Design to Highlight Breaking News PrimeZone via Yahoo! News
ChoicePoint(R) Invests in Strategic Alliance with AMS Services; Sells Priority Data Systems PR Newswire
PR Newswire Acquires U.S. Newswire; Transaction to benefit government, private sector public info officers PR Newswire
CBOT, Dow Jones Newswires Introduce Chinese  'Commodity News For Tomorrow' Newsletter PR Newswire
InfoUSA acquires Digital Connexxions BtoB Online*
b5media takes $2m in VC funding The Blog Herald
Penton’s New Hope Natural Media Acquires NPIcenter NPIcenter
News Corp. buys U.K. jobs Web site Milkround Online Reuters
Hanley Wood acquires ‘Architecture,’ ‘Architectural Lighting’ BtoB Online
Boston.com to Deliver Video Content to blinkx PR Newswire
Controversial PayPerPost Raises $3 million TechCrunch
Products, Markets & People
Elsevier MDL Releases Enhanced MDL® Notebook 2.0 BusinessWire
LexisNexis File & Serve Launches 1st Integrated Online Site for Paper and Electronic Filing and Service BusinessWire
HighBeam™ Research Offers Free Access to All Premium Articles This Saturday BusinessWire
LexisNexis(R) Martindale-Hubbell(R) Announces 88 Lawyers Receive Peer Review Ratings MarketWire
ClearForest Launches New Web Services to Realize Value from Semantic Web, New Mashup Contest BusinessWire
Clusty.com Search Engine Adds Labs, Features and Redesign Search Engine Journal
Inxight Offers Free Download of Search Extender for Google Desktop PR Newswire
NewsGator Sees Strong Market Growth and Demand for Enterprise RSS Solutions MarketWire via ArriveNet
Gartner to Offer Role-Based Communities for Attendees at Gartner Symposium/ITxpo BusinessWire
Copyright Clearance Center Names Tracey Armstrong New Chief Operating Officer BusinessWire
ProQuest Receives NYSE Listing Extension PR Newswire
Bitpass Unveils Next-Generation Digital Commerce Engine BusinessWire
Clusty.com Becomes Official Home of Vivisimo Search Innovation BusinessWire
CLS Division of Wolters Kluwer Applies Visual Analysis to Work Distribution Data DM Review
 
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