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HEADLINES FOR JANUARY 2007
HEADLINES FOR THE WEEK OF 29 JANUARY 2007
Date/Headlines Source
Trends
Lights! - Camera! - Inaction! - on yet another platform that does little to help the content industry to grow...  

Bill Gates to intro Vista in Times Square

 Loop Rumors
Zune exec steps down TG Daily
Meanwhile, platforms that enable the contextual value of content continue to boom...  
Google calls search business ‘very, very good’ BtoB Online
Google's Gains May Be Too Hot WSJ Online*
Google’s 2006 Money Shot, $10 billion in revenues GigaOM
NYTCO Earnings: Search Talks; Google Experiment; Closing The Gap paidContent.org
Mobile services revenue set to soar IT Week
Has Yahoo Picked Marketing as Its Game? GigaOM
Yahoo to launch individual brand portals Ars Technica
13 New Yahoo Search Marketing Patent Applications SEO by the Sea
At the SIIA Information Industry Summit industry leaders called for more innovation...  
Time Exec: We Need More Failure Forbes
Time Inc. Mulls Health Portal BusinessWeek
Times Exec Questions Online Subscription Model MediaPost
Over in NYC: Biz Publishers Speak Up Search Engine Watch
User-generated content continues to move towards center stage as online publishers embrace it...  
Mainstream Media Usage of Web 2.0 Services is Increasing Read/Write Web
YouTimes?:New York Times to post user-generated content. Red Herring
Call It MyNewspaperSpace Ad Age*
Web 2.0 Indicators: Tracking Buzz, News and Jobs Micro Persuasion
As video becomes the latest hit spot for online content monetization...  
Web TV downloads forecast to hit $6.3bn FT.com
Disney Sold 1.3 million Movies on iTunes in Three Months: Iger paidContent.org
YouTube may share revenue with users: Co-founder and CEO Chad Hurley Computerworld
Paying YouTube content creators easier said than done CNET News
Orkut Integrates YouTube Mashable!
Centric Announces Freestyle $100K Contest for User-Generated Content PR Web
But some content companies have yet to come up with viable business models for user-enabled distributors...  
Viacom: Start Yanking, YouTube Internet News
As open access to scholarly content gains ground the noise around its impact grows louder...  
Open Access to Science Under Attack Scientific American
It was a dark and stormy night. No, strike that,  it was sunny...  
Penguin's novel wiki project launched The Age
Snip, snip here, snip, snip there, and a bundle of brand new straw, that's how we sack the day away...  
LexisNexis lays off 60 people Dayton Daily News
In Survival Mode, 2 Newsprint Makers Merge The New York Times
E.W. Scripps Shares Plunge; Forecast Misses Estimates Bloomberg News
Is a virtual life in a virtual life any life at all...?  
Strange Culture: First Feature Film Shown in Second Life SmartMobs
eBay removes all virtual property auctions Geek.com
In other major trends in content this week...  
The 36-Hour Day: The Era of Sentient Things SmartMobs
Digg Scraps Top Diggers List Borkado
Apple’s Just Desserts a Big Win for Online Journalism Center for Citizen Media
Google Ramps Up Personalized Search Search Engine Land
iPhone court battle put on hold BBC News via Content Agenda
Information Super Traffic Jam Forbes
Is Ziff Pricing Itself Out of a Divestment? FOLIO: Magazine
Businesses to Ditch Pay-per-click Campaigns eMediaWire
Mossberg Hints My Yahoo Will Host Web Widgets Micro Persuasion
Best Practices
Lessig's five-point net proposal to Congress BoingBoing
Adobe to Release PDF for Industry Standardization ECoustics
Life Scientists Embrace New Media PR Newswire
Businesses gain powerful new tools with emergence of semantic search ZDNet
Compliance in the Blogosphere Six Kids and a Full Time Job
Survey: 'Tagging' Content Popular Online Top Tech News
Rejected content never really dies IT Business.ca
Newspapers search for Web headline magic CNET News
Future of Intellectual Property in Asia-Pacific Scoop
Does DRM help or hurt eBooks? Technology Evangelist
Cool Tools
dbpedia - semantic search for Wikipedia LocalOaf
FAST Introduces Business Intelligence Built on Search Internet Ad Sales
Near-Time Delivers Blog and Wiki Business Engine BusinessWire
Movable Type Enterprise and Microsoft Office 2007: Blogs for Business Movable Type
Widgipedia.com: web and desktop widgets up the wazoo Download Squad
Zoho Notebook Introduces Entirely New Way for Users to Collaborate Online PR Newswire
Bling Software Launches First Ajax Client for Mobile Handset AJAXWorld
Watch Videos without Leaving the Google Homepage Micro Persuasion
ClipSyndicate Redefines Web Publishing, Providing Platform for Custom Video Channels on Web Sites PR Newswire
Billboards That Know You by Name The New York Times*
Wikipedia Added to Google OneBox Micro Persuasion
Mashable takes on MySpace codes with Mashcodes WebWare
Deals, Partnerships & Sales
Silverchair and McGraw-Hill Launch Next-Generation Emergency Medicine Information Platform PR Newswire
Elsevier to Provide Online Nursing Resources to Kaiser Permanente PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance

Elsevier Set To Launch First Journal On Greenhouse Gas Control

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Document Sciences Announces Acquisition Of CambridgeDocs PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance
SolutionInc and Fast Data Technology Partner to Deliver Intelligent Content Control Solutions CNWGroup
Hunterdon Medical Center Selects Order Set Solution From Thomson Healthcare PR Newswire
Law Management - Global Law Firm, Foley & Lardner LLP, Selects LexisNexis Data Center Hosting LawFuel.com
LexisNexis(R) Risk & Information Analytics Group and Sentinel Align to Create Sex Offenders Solution Digital 50
Atypon to develop new software platform for JSTOR Information World Review
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins and American Academy of Ophthalmology to Create Online Education Center BusinessWire
FAST Introduces Business Intelligence Built on Search BusinessWire
Mainstream Data Announces Global Content Delivery Contract with Splash News Broadcast Newsroom
Newspapers Use NewsGator's VideoBuzz(TM) Service for Online Customized Content MarketWire
Dow Jones Newswires' Content and Deep Coding Help Secure Agreement with New Networking Site Bob's Guide
Streamburst Launches Revolutionary Alternative to Digital Rights Management Prime Newswire
blinkx Partners with YouAreTV Adding Hundreds of Hours of User-Generated Content to Search Index PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance
Products, Markets & People
Newstex Announces Addition of Investor's Business Daily(R) Intraday Updates PR Newswire
Siderean Software Receives U.S. Patent for Faceted Metadata Navigation BusinessWire
Near-Time Blog and Wiki Business Engine Service Premieres with Subscription Content Capabilities Submit Express
ProQuest Announces Management Changes PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance
Viyya Technologies Begins Product Rollout BusinessWire
New Online Business Directory Launched for the UK PR.com
Global Content Transformation Company Techbooks Announces New Identity: Aptara PR Newswire
Platts Now Reporting Daily Steel Prices with Launch of Newest Publication, 'Steel Markets Daily' PR Newswire
HEADLINES FOR THE WEEK OF 22 JANUARY 2007
Date/Headlines Source
Trends
Another year, another big eBook promise - and another big ho-hum reaction from publishers...  
Google plots e-books coup Times Online
Google mashes up books and maps IT World
Perhaps the inconvenient truths of the music industry will move book publishers to think more aggressively...  
Record Labels Contemplate Unrestricted Digital Music The New York Times*
@ MidemNet: Music Industry In Quandary Over DRM paidContent.org
Norway Outlaws iTunes PC World
Grooveshark, first LEGAL P2P music service? Zero Paid
Memo to corporations: Anti-piracy enforcement is not just for kids anymore...  
SIIA Announces New $1 Million Anti-Piracy Reward Program for Content PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance
Who's the most trusted video producer? You, of course...  
Consumer-Generated Video Uploads Takes Off -- Consumer Trust of Peers Trumps Media & Marketers Beet TV
YouTube, NewTube Mashable!
YouTube-Google Video Plan Reveals Itself Mashable!
Google Video Search Needs To Improve TechCrunch
BBC talking to Google about providing video on YouTube International Herald Tribune
Online ad also-rans hope to catch up with Google...  
Yahoo Catches A Break, But Will Panama Deliver? IBD via Content Agenda
Microsoft Shows Off AdCenter Search Engine Watch
Smaller Customers Cite Complications Upgrading To New Yahoo Ad System paidContent.org
Good earnings prevail in a marketplace that's catching up with the needs of online audiences...  
McGraw-Hill’s revenue up in 2006 BtoB Online
Earnings: DJ 4Q06: Online Ads Up 23 Percent; WSJ/Barron’s Online Subs, Revenue Up paidContent.org
Recovery at FT puts Pearson's Scardino in the pink The Independent
Will the last professional without a blog please turn out the lights on the way out...?  
Real estate agents hang blogging signs Chicago Tribune
Blogging bosses: A doubtful direction for the Davos demographic The Economist
Euro-content tries to make the grade but it's unclear whether rosy promises will benefit today's publishers...  
European consortium enters the ring with multimedia search engine CORDIS News
Massive online content revenues on the horizon - EC PC Pro
Social media proponents howl about paid contributions but fail to offer reasonable alternatives...  
Microsoft v. Wikipedia: Round 2 TechCrunch
How to keep ahead of the pack? Keep rolling out more innovation than the others combined...  
Google to Distribute Music Videos with AdSense TMCNet
Google Adds Blog Search OneBox Google Operating System
Let's get together: New Google Groups out of Beta Google Blog
With the influence of social media growing publishers are beginning to adjust to new  publishing norms...  
Is this the end of the scholarly journal? Christian Science Monitor
Editor James O'Shea unveils Web initiative at LA Times The Los Angeles Times
Big Media’s Crush on Social Networking The New York Times*
CNET Requires That Journalists Respond to Blog Comments Micro Persuasion
Google, Microsoft, and Others Agree to Code of Conduct PC World
Yet another soap opera about newspaper companies going nowhere fast...  
Murdoch Said to Join Tribune Bid The New York Times*
Murdoch Joining With Chandlers On Tribune Bid? Would Be Minority Partner: Report paidContent.org
Tribune Co. May Reject Outside Bids The New York Times*
Talks Signal Distaste by Chandlers For Tribune's Newspaper Business WSJ Online*
In other major trends in content this week...  
InfoUSA to run Super Bowl spot BtoB Online
Taking the Copyright Initiative EContent Magazine
RSS Company Syndicate IQ Shuts Down Read/Write Web
For Sale: p2pnet P2PNet
China's Baidu receives license to provide news Reuters via CNET
PaidContent Crowd: This Ain’t No Dot-Com Bubble Media Shift
Microsoft hurt by poor Live branding, analysts say CNET News
Profit Down, Outlook Up at Yahoo The New York Times*
Push 2.0: Big Brands Line Up To Deliver Content Directly To Windows Vista Desktops Information Week
Best Practices
Here's how you get citizen journalists The Editors Weblog
Companies gain by sharing intellectual property, finds survey CORDIS News
Will the Digital Era Change Writing? WSJ Online*
The Impact of Web 2.0 on Business Portals B-Eye Network
Study: B-to-B Publishers Produce 33 Percent More Webcasts in 2006 FOLIO: Magazine
Markets for Rights Do Not Make a Wrong American.com
How To Sell Your Photographs Online: A Mini-Guide To Monetizing Your Camera-Phone Content Robin Good
Flickr announce Machine Tags Danny Ayers
Forrester Creates a Model to Measure Blogging ROI Micro Persuasion
Building a perfect storm of journalism and multimedia USC Annenberg OJR
Cool Tools
IBM Launches Enterprise Social Networking Suite; Microsoft Offers To Migrate IBM Customers Off It Read/Write Web
More than just a radio: In the future, radio sets will deliver more than just audio programmes Radio Netherlands
Plain Cellphones Can Overachieve, With a Little Help The New York Times*
Microsoft Working on 'Immortal' Content Storage Project AP via Editor & Publisher
Near-Time Enables Ad Hoc Group Organization via Task Management BusinessWire
Google Personalized Homepage Now Displays Feed Snippets Micro Persuasion
MindTouch Unveils World's First Commercial Wiki Virtual Appliance BusinessWire via ADN
Deals, Partnerships & Sales
Google to Digitize Books of The University of Texas Libraries HULIQ.com
ASC and Knovel Partner to Launch a New e-Library: 27 Adhesive and Sealant References Made Available PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance
CQ Press Selects Really Strategies' RSuite CMS for its Directories Content BusinessWire
AP Syndicates Content to Wii BizReport
washingtonpost.com Partners With RealClearPolitics to Offer Unsurpassed Selection of Political Content PR Newswire
Newstex Adds 164 Business Blogs From b5media to Newstex Blogs on Demand BusinessWire
Legal Notice Registry to Provide Nolo Legal Content PR Newswire
Deep Web Technologies' Founder Attends Signing of Global Science Gateway Agreement PR Newswire
Time Sells 18 Titles to Bonnier WSJ Online*
Scopus Forges Agreement With Major Publishers & Societies to Index Back Issues PR Newswire
Gracenote Expands Content Partner Program in European Market BusinessWire
Reuters and HSBC Sign Global Deal BusinessWire
Wikio Secures $5.3 Million in Series A Funding BusinessWire
Elsevier selected as new publisher of Annals of Vascular Surgery EurekAlert
Sonic Foundry Unveils Enhanced Multi-Modal Search Capabilities on Mediasite.com PR Newswire
Penton Media Stockholders Approve Proposed Merger with Prism Business Media Holdings BusinessWire
Allscripts and Wolters Kluwer Health Partner to Deliver Clinical Information to Physicians PR Newswire
Products, Markets & People
PR Newswire launches PAN-European disclosure network PR Newswire via Antara News
AVIATION WEEK Relaunches Website PR Newswire
Congoo™ News Portal Debuts with 25,000 Outlets BusinessWire
Kintera Announces LiquidScore for All Kintera Sphere CRM Users BusinessWire
Groople to expand its social networking/collaboration capability Eye for Travel
ProQuest Announces SIRS WebFind Part of SIRS Discoverer; Adds Newspaper Content EContent Magazine
WhitePages.com Launches New People Search Application BusinessWire
LexisNexis Risk & Information Analytics Group Debuts New Commercial Solution Lines and Website BusinessWire
Answers.com Upgrades with New Content Submit Express
Ex-Yahoo Exec now Pageflakes CEO GigaOM
Time Inc.'s McAniff Resigns From Co-Chief Operating Officer Post; Auton, George Promoted PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance
Autonomy Introduces the Intelligent Contact Center PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance
Dow Jones to Enhance Factiva SalesWorks for AppExchange DMN Newswire
Searching Scholarly Tables, Figures, Graphs, and Illustrations with CSA Illustrata Information Today, Inc.
LexisNexis Names New Leader of Government and Academic Markets BusinessWire via ADN
Channel Penton Presents: Engineering TV Really Simple Sidi
NewsGator Launches Innovative On-Demand RSS Solution MarketWire
HEADLINES FOR THE WEEK OF 15 JANUARY 2007
Date/Headlines Source
Trends
In a world where everything has become content in context all the world's an ad...  
Anywhere the Eye Can See, It’s Likely to See an Ad The New York Times*
Speculation Continues On CBS-Google Media Auction paidContent.org
Companies Vie For Ad Dollars On Mobile Web WSJ Online*
Google Kiosk Could Lead To Mall 2.0 paidContent.org
As old media empires struggle for relevance and profits...  
Time Inc. to cut 289 jobs Reuters
As Time Inc. Cuts Jobs, One Writer on Britney May Have to Do The New York Times*
Tribune May Let Bidders Make New Offers WSJ Online*
Odd Couple Ponder Bid for Tribune The New York Times*
Year-to-Date Book Sales Flat Authorlink
New channels for content help them gain strength...  
Newspapers See Success in Moving to Blogs Micro Persuasion
Yahoo Personal Finance to launch CNET News
Search is still hot but social media is making strong inroads as a key starting point for answers...  
Google, Yahoo gain share in U.S. Web search market Reuters via CNET News
Wikipedia Search Engine WikiSeek Launches Techmeme
A new U.S. Congress promises to change content ownership and regulatory laws - in time...  
F.C.C. Chairman Says Rules Bar Satellite Radio Merger The New York Times*
Lobbying backlash could hit bloggers CNET News
Bill to Treat Bloggers as Lobbyists Defeated Slashdot
While others look to move content beyond all regulation...  
Filesharing site wants its own micronation UPI via Content Agenda
New Wiki For Online Leaking Science Friday
Media companies betting on DRM controls to grow revenues are facing an uncertain future...  
Recording Industry Reaches $2B in Digital Music Sales Tech News World
New Vista protection might hit playback quality Dominion Post/ ContentAgenda
HD-DVD copy protection in tatters ZDNet
The Streamburst antipiracy plan: don't use DRM Ars Technica
Journalists paid for popular content? With webloggers paid on their own ad revenues it's a competitive must...  
CNET Tests Pay-for-Performance Journalism Micro Persuasion
Pay-Per-View Journalism -- A Distraction Waiting to Happen New Assignment
Hello, Google Checkout, goodbye content ecommerce services...  
BitPass. DeadPool. TechCrunch
Known for chocolates, mussels with chips and persnickety copyright laws...  
Yahoo Denies Violating Belgian Copyright Law WSJ Online*
Phew! I can relate...  
Bloggone! Ennui and exhaustion are idling some online opiners Fort Wayne News-Sentinel
In other major trends in content this week...  
VNU Changing Name to Nielsen FOLIO: Magazine
The Internet Gets America's Vote Sci-Tech Today
Apple iPhone to Generate Nearly 50 Percent Margin PR Newswire
Guided tour of Netflix Watch Now service CNET News
PR Newswire Now Linking All Press Releases to Technorati Sifry's Alerts
NYT CEO: Company has no intention on going private MarketWatch*
Fake grassroots don't grow... USC Annenberg OJR
Best Practices
The Art, Science and Business of Recommendation Engines Read/Write Web
Digital archivists look to blue content, Flash for tips CNET News
The Double Standard on Blogger Compensation Micro Persuasion
Public Libraries, Private DRM Wired News
A closer look at effects of micro competitors Lucas Grindley
Marketers Get Weak Signal from Users on Cell-Phone Ads Media Shift
Cool Tools
Compare web site popularity with Compete Lifehacker
Searchles Launches Push-me/Pull-me Widget Mashable!
SpotBack - a customizable news aggregation site Download Squad
Some Bling for Your Blog The New York  Times*
Yourtown geotagged now viewable: The Era of Sentient Things SmartMobs
Tubes - Revolutionary New Personal Social Networking Application BusinessWire
Toshiba Matsushita electronic paper alternative hits mass production Engadget
Create Interactive Image Portfolios That Can Be Embedded On Any Web Page: Leafletter Robin Good
Deals, Partnerships & Sales
Nstein's content management software to manage and deliver the digital assets of media company CNW Group
United Business Media Takes Controlling Interest in RISI, Inc PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance
ebrary Partners With YBP to Distribute eBooks to Libraries Worldwide BusinessWire
mdog.com First to Offer Mobile Web Versions of eBay, craigslist, Wikipedia, Citysearch and MySpace PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance
Bowker's Global Books In Print(TM) Named Database of Record for Microsoft's Live Search Books Online BusinessWire  via ADN
Wolters Kluwer Financial Services Acquires Banconsumer Service, Inc. WebWire
Serials Solutions Selects SeaTab Software for Library Data Management Project PR Newswire via Yahoo! FInance
ISYS® Enables Flexible, Powerful Search for Education, Research Environments dBusiness News
USA.gov Goes Live with Next-Generation Government Search Portal Powered by  Vivisimo and MSN Search BusinessWire
VNU Partners with Burrill & Co. to Form Life Sciences Media Group FOLIO: Magazine
Hosting Services Firm, SAVVIS, to Sell Content Delivery Network to Level 3 The Hosting News
National Library of Medicine adds Vivisimo search InfoWorld via Yahoo! News
Davenport & Company Selects Wolters Kluwer Financial Services' BasisPro PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance
Corbis Selects SchemaLogic for Enterprise Business Semantic Management BusinessWire
M2 Media Group Acquires BlueDolphin.com PR Newswire
Brightcove Raises Another $59.5 Million In Third Round; NYTCO Among New Investors paidContent.org
Near-Time Gears Up for Growth with $2.25M in Funding WRAL Local Tech Wire
Products, Markets & People
LexisNexis Launches New Estate Practice Product to Select Markets LexisNexis
New ProQuest Civil War Era Collection Combines Unique Primary Sources Online PR Newswire
Blackwell Publishing Revamps Online Delivery Platform eWorldWire

Thomson Scientific Announces The Availability Of EndNote Web Within ISI Web Of Knowledge

 WebWire
CMP to Move Intelligent Enterprise Magazine to Online-Only Product FOLIO: Magazine
LexisNexis Releases Congressional Hearings Digital Collection BusinessWire
ebrary Launches New eBook Ordering Platform (eBOP), Integrates with Leading Book Distributors BusinessWire
Limelight Networks Unveils Terabit Per Second Content Delivery Network for Media & Entertainment PR Newswire
MIVA Launches Publisher Ad Network Media Buyer Planner
Industry Moves: Peter Horan Leaving AllBusiness.com To Head IAC’s Media And Advertising Group paidContent.org
Skype founders to try online video distribution with Joost Engadget
 
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