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HEADLINES FOR DECEMBER 2006
HEADLINES FOR THE WEEK OF 18 DECEMBER 2006
Date/Headlines Source
Trends
Expect the love-hate relationship between mainstream and user-generated media to get more edgy in 2007...  
Time Person of the Year: You Time Magazine
WSJ Gets Comfortable with Blogs, Wants to Boost Community Media Shift
WSJ Bodyslams Bloggers Micro Persuasion
"Anti-YouTube" May Be Announced Next Week: Really Bad Idea Mashable!
Navel-gazers will be the stars in 2007: Your expertise is in vogue and exploited MarketWatch*
New Media Trends And 2007 Predictions: What's Coming? Robin Good
2007 Web Predictions Read/Write Web
As user-generated content zeroes in on more focused communities and more sophisticated aggregation...  
Roll Your Own Media: Moving Beyond Clutter ClickZ News
Flip.com Launches - But Only for Girls Mashable!
Amazon's Wiki-Way O'Reilly Radar
Interview with Gil Penchina of Wikia e-consultancy
Del.icio.us Widget Released TechCrunch
Digg Burrows Down a New Path BusinessWeek
Traditional news organizations struggle to succeed in the face of old regulations and new competition...  
Goldman Sachs' 2006 Review: Newspapers Did Poorly -- In Good Times Editor & Publisher
S.F. Judge Blocks Hearst/MediaNews Collaboration Editor & Publisher
Open access and open source initiatives are pushing scholarly research beyond old marketing paradigms...  
Google library: Open culture? CNN International
Grant funds open-source challenge to Google library CNET News
Nature Cancels Public Reviews Of Scientific Papers WSJ Online*
Google Book-Scanning Efforts Spark Debate Washington Post
PLoS ONE to make scientific and medical literature a public resource UPI via EarthTimes
Increasing competition between U.S. carriers for the future of content may set off a price and services war...  
Good-bye Cable TV, Hello Fiber Publish
FCC: 90-Day Franchise Shot Clock MultiChannel News
The End User: The future of telecommunications may be 'comminfotainment' International Herald Tribune
How Web providers dodged a big legal bullet CNET News
Users are driving content growth forward but are oftentimes willing to bypass the benefits of copyright...  
Democratizing The Economics Of Content The Blog Herald
Sharecropping the long tail Rough Type
YouTube Opens Untamed Copyright Frontier CBS News
YouTube to meet Japan media on copyright protest Reuters
Copyrights gain online ally San Francisco Examiner
Note to publishers: While you were out strategizing about copyright Google was re-inventing the future...  
GoogleOS II: Starring Linus Torvalds Read/Write Web
NASA-Google partnership ready for liftoff CNET News
In other major trends in content this week...  
AOL Re-Org Unveiled: Six Business Units Will Report To COO Ron Grant paidContent.org
Many Suspects Seen in the Death of a Mystery Bookstore The New York  Times*
Links And Google Can Coexist Web Pro News
WiMAX and the vanishing scale GigaOM
The Score: Blogs Gain Favor Worldwide, but U.S. Readership Lags iMedia Connection
MySpace print magazine? John Pospisil
Best Practices
Does Your Site Lack Focus? Five Ways to Keep Consumers ‘On Site’ RIS Media
Finland and China to develop information society of the future? Cordis News
Interaction, Co-Creation, Tagging, User Participation: This Is Information Architecture 3.0 Robin Good
Nature Experiment in Open Editing Ends; A New One Begins paidContent.org
Google Quality Score Decoded Search Marketing Standard
Using Internet publishing to drive book and freelance sales USC Annenberg OJR
New to Russia, Google Struggles to Find Its Footing The New York Times*
Cool Tools
LinkSys iPhone surprises technology world BBC News
Del.icio.us reorganized UserStyles.org
Books-on-Demand machine coming soon SciFi.com
Blogger's new bag of tricks Google Blog
Widgetbox Launches Feedburner for Widgets Mashable!
Zoho Adds Wiki Features Wired Blogs
Forget the backpack, 'pocket journalism' is coming USC Annenberg OJR
Use your PDA or Smartphone as a webcam Download Squad
Deals, Partnerships & Sales
Nstein Technologies Acquires Eurocortex, a Leading Web Content Management Software Provider PR Newswire via EarthTimes
R.R. Donnelley to Make Another Acquisition FOLIO: Magazine
The Internet Archive Receives Grant to Digitize Historical Collections from Five Major Libraries PR Web
Foreclosure.com inks online deal South Florida Business Journal
Reed Elsevier says it bought Syngress Publishing for undisclosed sum AP via IHT
blinkx Partners With Dow Jones Online to Index Video Content Prime Newswire
AllBusiness.com Announces Co-Brand Alliance with CBSNews.com BusinessWire
Indian Portal Rediff.com Buys Stake in Language Software Startup Tachyon; No Sale paidContent.org
Analytics firm Datops acquired by LexisNexis Information World Review
NewsGator and Edelman Team to Create Next Generation Community & Advertising Solution MarketWire
CondeNet Teams With The FeedRoom to Launch Dynamic New Online Video Applications PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance
Mapping Europe: Google Acquires Endoxon Google Blog
Ingram buys academic information services company Nashville Business Journal
Products, Markets & People
ProQuest First With Search Platform That Solves Common Research Roadblock PR Newswire
InfoSpace Announces Executive Departure  BusinessWire
New Content-Driven Web Community to Offer Insider Information on the Complicated Real Estate Market PR Web
Brandon Hull, Well-Known Sales Consultant, Launches Podango Podcast Station BusinessWire
WSJ to add stock-tracking feature online BtoB Online
HEADLINES FOR THE WEEK OF 11 DECEMBER 2006
Date/Headlines Source
Trends
The most influential person in media? Take a look in the mirror...  
Time Person of the Year: You Time Magazine
Yahoo Dethroned By MySpace: ComScore Red Herring
OpenBC/Xing : The EUR157M Social Network Alarm Clock
Times Sq. Ads Spread Via Tourists’ Cameras The New York Times*
2006 Web Technology Trends Read/Write Web
The User-Generated Solution MediaPost Online Spin
But that doesn't always mean that we like what we  see...  
Nobody goes there anymore--it's too crowded The Long Tail
Why digg is destined for failure Download Squad
As mainstream media companies try to figure out how much they want to change how they do business...  
Deals 2007: New Media Inroads Too Risky to Bypass The Hollywood Reporter
Content Businesses Don’t Scale Anymore Publishing 2.0
Big Media taps new set of digital gurus AP via Yahoo! News
New York Times Surrenders To Social News Tech Crunch
Big Media’s ‘OurTube’ to Dominate Online Video Realm (spoof) MediaShift
The Future of Journalism Online SlashDot
While others forge ahead with forging the next wave of user-generated content offerings...  
Wikia Launches Offers Free Hosting WHIR News
U.K. considers wiki to ease patent bottleneck CNET News
Patent Office considers Wiki peer review ZDNet
Corporate Blogging Moves Into Investor Relations Services FinanceVisor
Community websites take wiki path BBC News
Shelfari Launches Book Widget for MySpace, Blogs Mashable!
Blog That Answer Pogue's Posts
Wikio Launches Digg-Like Site For U.S., Germany, And Spain TechCrunch
Be it online, at the office or in our living rooms the tube is still the medium of choice...  
Internet Video Audience to Number 157 Million by 2010 MarketWire
Report: Americans media use rising AP via Yahoo! News
New media survey shows b-to-b users big on video, slow to embrace wikis BtoB Online
Yahoo pushes hard to develop stronger media deal and advertising options...  
Yahoo! Search Marketing Platform Opens Online Sign-up for New Customers Yahoo! Media Relations
Yahoo News Gives ABC Top Video Spot MediaPost
Yahoo’s “Project Fraternity” Docs Leaked Tech Crunch
But Google keeps on inventing more ways to create value from content...  
Google adds patent search to portfolio IT Wire
Opening up the Google Web Toolkit Google Blog
Acceptance of digital rights management may (or may not) be rising, but many continue to doubt its value...  
Nielsen says digital music, iTunes sales jump Reuters
When Numbers Mean Anything And Nothing: iTunes Sales; FIM-YHOO paidContent.org
Gates tells consumers to ditch DRMed tunes, buy CDs Engadget
Copyright Clearing Service Fights Internet Video Piracy KillerApp
Both high-end subscription and ad-supported financial content services are becoming more sophisticated...  
Reuters Helps Computers Read The News TechWeb
Google Finance updates Download Squad
In the hunt for effective online marketing sometimes a few rules get broken along the way...  
In Web Traffic Tallies, Intruders Can Say You Visited Them The New York Times*
FTC May Regulate PayPerPost TechCrunch
As marketers come into their own with managing online media themselves...  
Online, P.& G. Gets a Little Crazy The New York Times*
Earth to media companies: should we really care about yet another round of musical chairs...?  
Family With Big Stake Seeks Part of Tribune The New York Times*
Chandler Family Bid Makes Tribune Breakup More Likely Bloomberg News
VNU set for EUR320m sale of titles to 3i FT via MSN Money
In other major trends in content this week...  
Media Spending in '07? Don't Expect Big Boost Advertising Age
More AOL Changes: EVPs Jim Bankoff, Joe Redling and John Buckley Leaving; Also CTO paidContent.org
Fool on the Street: How Now, Dow Jones? Motley Fool*
Communications regulators 'converge' with the times International Herald Tribune
Search 2.0 - What's Next? Read/Write Web
Want to Know What Mike Arrington Is Thinking? The Blog Herald
RSS Delivers Web's Best Deals Wired News
Amazon hits back at IBM over patents CNET News
Best Practices
Guide To Promoting Integrity In Scientific Journals Published By The Council Of Science Editors Medical News Today
Reuters CEO Discusses 'Trust' and Citizen Journalism Editor & Publisher
My Job in 10 Years: Collections: Further Thoughts on Abstracting & Indexing Databases Confessions of a Science Librarian
How The Web Is Transforming Itself: Summary and Outlook - Part VII Robin Good
How Taunton Press Built ROI, Customer Loyalty With Video, Slideshow for Sub Site Marketing Sherpa
MLA Panel Finds No 'Lost Generation of Scholars' From the Tenure Track The Chronicle of Higher Education
Web 3.0 - The Bridge To The Singularity Web 3.0
Top mistakes made by new online publishers USC Annenberg OJR
Content is King: Ins and Outs of eXtensible Business Reporting Language Seeking Alpha
Cool Tools
Google Adds The Geographic Web To Earth Tech Crunch
Power Of A Data Warehouse In The Palm Of Your Hand: Business intelligence scaled for smartphones InformationWeek
BlogKits Matches Writers To Advertisers TechCrunch
Quantcast Adds Comparative Charting Micro Persuasion
Good-bye Cable TV, Hello Fiber Publish
Semantic Web Experiment Uses ClearForest Web Services Really Simple Sidi
ZCubes: Trying to "Do It All" on the Web Read/Write Web
Yahoo Releases Video 3.0 TechCrunch
Boxxet Rolls Up Collections of News, Blogs, Photos Micro Persuasion
Socialtext Unplugged -- An Offline Wiki Solution MarketWire
Deals, Partnerships & Sales
IBM and Yahoo! Unveil Free Enterprise Search Software WebWire
Cadmus Communications Wins Four-Year Services Contract with The American Physiological Society PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance
Hearst Buys Copley's Daily Breeze, Plans to Transfer to MediaNews WSJ Online*
Vivisimo Joins EMC Documentum Application Developer Program BusinessWire
Bloomberg to Enhance Messaging Compliance With Autonomy's Aungate Real-Time Governance Solutions PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance
MuseGlobal Creates Customized Connections to the Elsevier XML Gateway PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance
MIT and Wharton Team Up for Wiki about Business 2.0 Beet.TV
Legendary Literary Journal The Paris Review Now Available Electronically via EBSCOhost PR Web
Products, Markets & People
Factiva Expands Taxonomy Warehouse Partner Network PR Newswire
Nstein enhances its software offering with a next-generation search technology CNW Group
Social Platform Launches Extensible Platform for Building Social Applications PR Newswire
Interactive Data’s ComStock Strengthens Global Real-Time Sales Organization BusinessWire
The NewsMarket Launches Free 'HQshots' Offer for Headquarters Video MarketWire
Schlesinger Named Top Reuters Editor Editor & Publisher
Prism’s SourceESB.com Site Adds Hazardous Substances Search Capabilities BusinessWire
Social News Service Introduces Quick, Free and Easy Way to Create and Manage Content Rich Media Sites BusinessWire
GCN to make its content available on a variety of Web-enabled mobile devices GCN
FeedBurner Delivering Feeds and Ads for Top-Ranked Technology Network BusinessWire
HEADLINES FOR THE WEEK OF 4 DECEMBER 2006
Date/Headlines Source
Trends
Online media prepares for a hoped-for breakthrough in profits...  
Troubling ’07 Forecast for the Old-Line Media but Not for the Online The New York Times*
NYT Co. Expects 'Challenging' Year in 2007, But 30% Online Growth Editor & Publisher
In an era when their own destination content allows corporations to reach markets directly...  
Corporate Marketers' Websites Outdraw Those of Major Media Players Advertising Age
Is any amount of musical chairs going to bring back the dance in traditional media...?  
Ad-Sales Woes Likely to Continue WSJ Online*
Yahoo, Aiming for Agility, Shuffles Executives The New York Times*
Five Steps to Get Yahoo Back on Track BusinessWeek
Fox News pairs up with Yahoo USA Today
News Corp. Is Poised To Regain Liberty's Stake WSJ Online*
User-generated content is the hoped-for savior of online media...  
A revamped Yahoo turning to users CNET News
Have Camera Phone? Yahoo and Reuters Want You to Work for Their News Service The New York Times*
Yahoo partners with Reuters on eyewitness news New Media Musings
LinkedIn: A MySpace for grown-ups turns a profit Business 2.0
Cicso's Chambers: Businesses to adopt YouTube model CNET News
Microsoft Buys Weedshare’s Superdistribution & Rev-Share IP; Implementation in Zune? paidContent.org
Yahoo & Facebook: Deal or No Deal? GigaOM
But user-generated content has its own weaknesses as much as any other format...  
Who Has Been Naughty or Nice in Web 2.0? Micro Persuasion
The big Digg rig CNET News
Executives expect new media to pay — eventually USA Today
The Video Startup That May Never Launch Tech Crunch
An emerging generation of online services created content with more focus and useful structure...  
YouTube For Data: Swivel Is Now Live TechCrunch
Retrevo - What Vertical Search Will Become Read/Write Web
To succeed online books need to become more than just digitized images of paper content...  
Forbes on Books: The role of free content in book publishing Joe Wikert's Publishing 2020
Microsoft Live Search Books rivals Google Book Search, but limits selection PC World
Amazon, HP Will Try Digital Publishing; Should Expand Titles Available In Long-Tail World paidContent.org
China still lures publishers but increasingly arbitrary decisions by their government limits investment...  
Chinese curbs put the squeeze on UK content supplier FT.com
Google China Executive Resigns WSJ Online*
It's new! It's improved! It's...less news and more analysis...  
Coming, a sleeker Wall Street Journal Media Life
In other major trends in content this week...  
"Science" Pledges to Curb Fraudulent Articles DailyTech
InformationWeek Puts Web Widgets Inside Ads Micro Persuasion
Google, BSkyB Plan Online Video Deal WSJ Online*
Google subpoenas to rivals bewilder observers Computerworld
UN reports on dismal state of web accessibility Out-Law
Backdown on draconian Australian copyright laws Fairfax Digital
SimplyHeadlines Is About Five Years Too Late TechCrunch
News Corp not bidding on Tribune assets - Chernin Reuters
As Ad Costs Rise, a Move to Challenge Pay-Per-Click The New York Times*
Google Begins Limited Testing Of Radio Ads paidContent.org
Gowers Review sets out ambitious new UK intellectual property proposals Public Technology
Best Practices
Cooperation between newspapers and blogs: interview with Pluck’s Eric Newman Editors' Weblog
Can Custom Search Improve Search Advertising? ClickZ Network
Characteristics of people who Participate in Online Communities SmartMobs
Should You Publish Full Text Feeds Or Partial RSS Feeds ? Digital Inspiration
Factiva Social Media Roundtable Web Pro News
Usability & SEO: Two Wins For The Price Of One Search Engine Roundtable
Ohio Study Says Library Use Worth Four Times the Public Support Library Journal
Microsoft's document gambit moves ahead CNET News
Staying informed with Google News search Google Blog
Cool Tools
July Systems Awarded Patent for Rights Managed Peer-To-Peer Distribution of Mobile Content BusinessWire India
Online Collaboration And SOHO Web Conferencing: Acrobat Connect Is The New Reference Robin Good
Google Gapminder: Technologies of Cooperation SmartMobs
Viyya Technologies Unveils Viyya Intelligence Portal(TM) BusinessWire
Deals, Partnerships & Sales
Dow Jones Online Selects FeedBurner to Manage and Monetize RSS and Podcast Feeds PrimeZone
We’ve sold The Blog Herald The Blog Herald
Newstex Joins Voxant's Viral Syndication Network to Distribute Full-Text Newswire and Blog Feed Content PrimeZone
infoUSA Completes Acquisition of Opinion Research Corporation BusinessWire
Amazon Invests in Wikia: Value-Added Capital Key to Wikia’s Expanding Product Plans FreshNews.com
Reed Business Information to Acquire BuyerZone Online Lead Generation Business FOLIO: Magazine

Companynews joins forces with Global Interface and extends its range of services for listed companies

 CompanyNews
VNU Turns to Podbridge to Deliver Trackable and Dynamic Advertising Solution for Podcasts BusinessWire
Navteq to buy Map Network for $37.5M BusinessWeek
1105 Media to Acquire Post Newsweek Tech Media FOLIO: Magazine
Fairfax Agrees to Buy Rural Press WSJ Online*
WebTrends Acquires Optimization Firm ClickShift ClickZ Network
Products, Markets & People
Ingenta Releases New Subscription Management Service Information Today
LexisNexis Announces Halsbury’s Laws of Canada CCN Matthews
Zillow Upgrades Site, Adds Features For Sellers Online Media Daily
Edelman Debuts StoryCrafter Two-Way Press Release Micro Persuasion
CNET's James Kim Found Dead CNET News
Standard & Poor's Increases Compustat(R) Xpressfeed Data Coverage PR Newswire
Calacanis Takes Position at Sequoia Capital TechCrunch
John French Named CEO of Prism/Penton Merger, Company Renamed Penton FOLIO: Magazine
Ask.com Debuts AskCity: "All-in-One" Web Application Raises the Bar for Local Search PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance
Launch of Thomson Clinical Xpert Delivers Essential Medical Information to Physicians via PDAs PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance
 
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