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HEADLINES FOR MARCH 2007
   
HEADLINES FOR THE WEEK OF 26 MARCH 2007
Date/Headlines Source
Trends
Microsoft and Yahoo push to build more robust revenue through other portals' content...  
Microsoft rumored to be buying online ad network DoubleClick MarketWatch via Content Agenda
Panama Likely To Boost Yahoo Search Revenue More Than 20 Percent; Higher Than Expected paidContent.org
While Google pushes to be the master of all contexts online and beyond...  
Google, Online Ad Giant, Looks at Radio and TV The New York Times*
Yahoo pushes to develop more content to monetize through mashups and users...  
Yahoo steals the mobile world, and opens it up for publishers Download Squad
Yahoo opens up e-mail APIs to outsiders CNET News
Yahoo Mail to offer unlimited storage CNET News
"Online first" begins to yield to "online only" as the strengths of print struggle with its economics...  
Moving Magazines to Strictly Online WSJ Online*
IDG Communications to shutter print 'InfoWorld,' fold content into webcentric publication BtoB Online
Time Inc. to end Life magazine but keep it online Reuters
Time Warner May Spin Off Publishing Business Forbes
News organizations are gearing up for a new era of more efficient pubishing ...  
Thomson to Launch International News Service FT.com via MSNBC
How the Online Newspaper Can Become a Community Hub MediaShift
Buyer of Distressed Properties Sees Opportunity in Newspapers The New York Times*
Hey, newspapers, quit whining! USC Annenberg OJR
As social media gains both more gravitas and more buzz...  
Twitter: Mini-blog is the talk of Silicon Valley FT.com via MSNBC
Wiki Mania, Or Must We Share and Share Alike? (Yes, We Must) Channel Web Network
Citizendium: Wikipedia 2.0 WebWare
News 2.0: the Hybrid Future is Kicking Down the Door The Huffington Post
BSkyB, Google Trial User-Generated Video Portal For TV Channels paidContent.org
Private equity clings to B2B media in hopes of comfy multiples without end...  
VSS Buys Advanstar for $1.15 Billion FOLIO: Magazine
As if open access weren't enough of a challenge scientists call Elsevier's politics into question...  
MDs, Scientists Call For Elsevier Group Boycott Science Blogs
U.S. and E.U. markets are moving towards separating content services from transmission technologies...  
EU Commission may push telecoms majors to separate networks, services ops AFX via Content Agenda
Net neutrality and the FCC: what's being done to preserve it Engadget
   
The end of federated search: Google could be cruising for trouble in deep web searching Geeking with Greg
One week's sound and fury becomes another's reality check...  
YouTube,Viacom Case May Not See Courtroom Web Pro News
In other major trends in content this week...  
Eisner: The Web Doesn’t Change Content NewTeeVee
Barry Diller on the media FT.com
TV: The Next Great Development Platform Micro Persuasion
Web-watching the widget way Reutes via Yahoo! News
iTunes Complete My Album turns Individual Songs Into Complete Albums at Reduced Prices Content Agenda
Best Practices
Duplicate Content - The Need for it Web Pro News
Why You May Need an Online Persona Web Worker Daily
9 More Lessons for Would-Be Bloggers Bokardo
Is Google a Semantic Search Engine? Read/Write Web
Reconciling Print And Hypertext: An Evolutionary Case Study EDN
Search Engine Applications Focus of New Research Report by Information Today, Inc. BusinessWire
TechTarget IT Media Consumption, Purchase Intention Survey Reveals Predominant Role of Demos BusinessWire
Study: Web news readers have greater attention span Reuters via CNET
Survey Shows Organizations Susceptible to Data Leaks through Social Media Sites ClearSwift
One Picture, 1,000 Tags The New York Times*
Cool Tools
What's the relationship with Bill Gates and Felipe Calderon Really Simple Sidi
Tracking the web with Single Page Aggregators Solution Watch
Worldmapper, a new way of looking at a world of data Download Squad
Jabbits Launches - YouTube, Yahoo Answers Combined Mashable
MarketWatch Adds Community Stock Predictor TechCrunch
The Real Scrapblog is Here… Finally TechCrunch
Microsoft Labs' Deepfish: iPhone for everyone WebWare
Google map your way to Stockholm Download Squad
Web 2.0 business cards sport photos, avatars CNET News
Video Stream Yourself To The World Non-Stop: Justin.TV Robin Good
Google Pack cures the PC blues Google Blog
Deals, Partnerships & Sales
Yahoo to feature McClatchy international news Reuters
MuseGlobal Partners with UpSNAP to Launch Mobile Metasearch Carolina Newswire
Microsoft Backs New Mobile Technology Company: ZenZui What Is New
About.com Acquires Comparison Health Site MediaPost
GulfCoastNews.Com Joins Voxant's Viral Syndication Network to Make News Available to Websites & Blogs PR Newswire via BNA
ClearSky Mobile Media Powers the New FierceWireless Mobile Newsletter BusinessWire
LexisNexis, Dow Jones Alliance Brings Current News to Law Firms via Continuous Alerts LawFuel
Wolters Kluwer agrees sale of education wing to private equity firm Information World Review
EMI and Bertelsmann settle Napster litigation The Age
MobiTV Names Yahoo! Their Mobile Video Advertising Partner in Strategic Mobile Advertising Alliance Content Agenda
Products, Markets & People
Robert Petersen, Publisher of Auto Buff Magazines, Dies at 80 The New York Times*
MarketWatch introduces community tool for stock predictions BtoB Online
Inxight Launches SmartDiscovery Metadata Management System (MMS) PR Newswire
Content Agenda Hosts Conversations with Digital Entertainment Industry Leaders Broadcast Newsroom
Congoo News Circles Adds the Glue Information Today, Inc.
Penton's AC-U-KWIK Pre-Flight Planning Information Now Available on Mobile Devices Digital50.com
HEADLINES FOR THE WEEK OF 19 MARCH 2007
Date/Headlines Source
Trends
Media giants line up a few more distribution channels for video but sidestep user-controlled distribution...  
NBC, News Corp. push new Web rival to YouTube CNET News
How YouTube could survive the NicheTube David All
Microsoft temporarily closes video site to tackle pirating ZDNet
How consumers hijacked the media model MarketWatch
Huffington: No going back for traditional media CNET News
The solution that few media companies take seriously: help users to "do the right thing"...  
Content Labels can resolve Viacom vs Google issue Segala
WIth television becoming a glance-up medium more video ads are going onto laptops and mobile phones...  
Marketers Have Eyes on the 'Third Screen' The New York Times*
Online Video Ads Leave GIFs and JPGs Standing Still, Says DoubleClick ClickZ News
Communications companies are trying to assemble their last best case for a tiered Internet...  
FCC Classifies Wireless Broadband as Information Service Broadcasting & Cable
FCC to Examine Net Neutrality PC World
Music companies continue to choke off business models that are their best hopes for future revenues...  
Publishers Sue XM Satellite Radio Billboard.biz
A Fee Per Song Can Ruin Us, Internet Radio Companies Say The New York Times*
Information Services continue the education selloff as institutions begin to push back on publisher margins...  
Wolters Kluwer near $1 bln education sale -sources Reuters
Wolters Kluwer in Talks to Sell Unit AP via Forbes
MIT Faculty and Libraries Refuse DRM; SAE Digital Library Canceled MIT Libraries News
Social media is no longer just "Web 2.0": it's the fulcrum for the next decade of publishing growth...  
Web 2.0-Type Fundings At $844 Million in 2006 paidContent.org
The Future of Web 2.0 O'Reilly Radar
Web 3.0: When Web Sites Become Web Services Read/Write Web
When Social Web Tools Get Creative GigaOM
As the lines between the Web and the plaforms it serves get more blurred...  
Could there be a Mozilla Desktop Environment in the future Download Squad
The rush is on: Web apps are deserting the browser WebWare
Sometimes growth requires a little bit of fertilizer...  
Google's Blogspot is 3/4 Spam Download Squad
Facebook’s Battle Against Chaos TechCrunch
Google continues to invest in providing a ubiquitous context generation machine...  
Google 'admits to phone project' The Times Online
Google experiments with new ad model UPI via Content Agenda
More than meets the eye: Google unveils Plus Box Google Blog
But other suppliers are creating more focused and high-margin contexts for content...  
Online Search Goes Pro With B2B Engines eCommerce Times
Forget Google, search with K-Fed Download Squad
You never know who will fight back when your market model is challenging established channels...  
Viacom sued in YouTube controversy Toronto Star
Google Takes Friendly Fire TheStreet.com / Content Agenda
The print revenue "cushion" is notably less cushy these days as online is the indisputable growth driver...  
Ad Revenue at New York Times Co. Plunges in February Editor & Publisher
MMOD Update: No YouTube Sharing After All; Online Stats Up Double-Digits Over Last Year, No Details paidContent.org
B2B Media seems like a safe haven for private investors but too many buyers may overstretch ROIs...  
ABRY Partners, Sundance form company to invest in b-to-b media properties BtoB Online
For all the talk about enterprise social media the tools of choice are still command-and-control I.T....  
CIOs Spurn Web 2.0 Startups - Enterprises Want Suites and Large, Incumbent Software Vendors Read/Write Web
But in doing so are enterprises missing out on the content  that yields the greatest productivity...?  
The Truth Revealed: Microsoft Can’t Compete! Macnightowl
In other major trends in content this week...  
ProQuest says NYSE to suspend trading in its shares Reuters
Congress Must Make Clear Copyright Laws To Protect Consumers WSJ Online*
Don’t Read Our Blogs - Play Games on Our Blogs The Blog Herald
Guardian Changing Media: Reuters looks at the changes for 'old media' Corante
Google searches for European lobbyists FT.com
Metropolitan Museum and ARTstor to Provide Digital Images to Scholars at No Charge Ecole des Hautes Etudes
Best Practices
AJAX: The Giant Page View Killer MicroPersuasion
Crowdsourcing: A Million Heads is Better than One Read/Write Web
How Paid Content Sites Can Profit Against Ad-Supported Ones Marketing Sherpa
Users are more engaged with smaller communities BizReport via Content Agenda
Working Group on Bibliographic Control Wades into the Murky Future Library Journal
Thomson tracks content copying with DRM watermarks PC Pro
Content Delivery Networks (CDN) - Saddling Up for the Online Content Surge PR Newswire
Keeping your online content under lock and key Computing via VNUNet
What's The Best Way To Monetize Video Search? Search Insider
Getting New Start Selling Ad Packages Across Platforms WSJ Online*
Digital Content Value Driving DRM eMarketer
Cool Tools
AttentionMeter Compares Alexa, Quantcast, Compete Micro Persuasion
Social Media Networking Meets RSS Content Aggregation And Promotion: Genwi Robin  Good
Business wikis line up at Under the Radar WebWare
FeedBlitz : email alternative for RSS and OPML Library Clips
NewsGator Continues Mobile Expansion with RSS Reader for BlackBerry and Other Java Devices Phonemag
37signals Launches Highrise Mashable
Build Google Maps online with Click2Map Download Squad
RSS on the Go: A look at Web-Based Mobile Aggregators Web Worker Daily
KnowNow Releases New Enterprise RSS Solution BusinessWire
The Size of a Paperback and Most of the Functions of a Real PC The New York Times*
Adobe's Apollo looks to one-up Ajax CNET News
Deals, Partnerships & Sales
Wolters Kluwer says to sell education unit Reuters
Hosted Service, FYI, Debuted by Legal Search Solution, LexisNexis Web Site Host Directory
BNA and Thomson Tax & Accounting to Provide BNA Products to Law Firms on Thomson's Checkpoint(R) PR Newswire
IDG Founder Teams With News Corp, Hearst On a $50 Million China Digital Media Fund paidContent.org
Priceline.com signs exclusive online content agreement with Zagat Survey Eye for Travel
blinkx Partners With WallStrip Adding Financial Video Content to Search Index PR Newswire
Google Books Now Included In Online Reference Collection at WorldVitalRecords.com SBWire
Fast Search & Transfer wins deal with biotechnology firm Millipore ABC Money
EBSCOhost Databases Deliver News and Full-Text Blog Content with Historical Archive from Newstex BusinessWire
D&B Acquires First Research, the Leading Internet Provider of Editorial-Based Industry Insight BusinessWire
Return Path, TechTarget to partner BtoB Online
BiggyTV.com - a Melding of New and Old Media for Online Video; Content and Site Owners Get Paid PR Newswire via Sys-Con
Products, Markets & People
Robert Krakoff, CEO of Nielsen Business Media, dies at 72 BtoB Online
Deanna Brown Leaves Yahoo; Joins Scripps As President, Interactive Group paidContent.org
Scopus Harnesses the h-Index to Increase the Quality and Reliability of Citation Tracking eContent Magazine
Alacra Adds New Batch Application to Alacra Compliance PR Web
IBM Unveils IBM WebSphere Content Discovery for Business Intelligence b-Eye Network
Dow Jones Changes Delivering News Optimized for Algorithmic Trading and Quantitative Analysis HedgeCo.net
LexisNexis Introduces New Version of martindale.com® with New Tools and Content BusinessWire
Mochila Announces New Clients from International Magazines, Web Sites and News Services Hispanic PR Services
Thomson Scientific Introduces the New Face of Research with ISI Web of Knowledge PharmaLive
Yellow Book USA to conduct circulation audits on all directories BtoB Online
Amy Churgin Named Senior Vice President, Condé Nast Media Group BusinessWire
International Data Group Media Sites Tuned for Web-enabled Mobile Devices BusinessWire via TMCNet
HEADLINES FOR THE WEEK OF 19 MARCH 2007
Date/Headlines Source
Trends
Media giants line up a few more distribution channels for video but sidestep user-controlled distribution...  
NBC, News Corp. push new Web rival to YouTube CNET News
How YouTube could survive the NicheTube David All
Microsoft temporarily closes video site to tackle pirating ZDNet
How consumers hijacked the media model MarketWatch
Huffington: No going back for traditional media CNET News
The solution that few media companies take seriously: help users to "do the right thing"...  
Content Labels can resolve Viacom vs Google issue Segala
WIth television becoming a glance-up medium more video ads are going onto laptops and mobile phones...  
Marketers Have Eyes on the 'Third Screen' The New York Times*
Online Video Ads Leave GIFs and JPGs Standing Still, Says DoubleClick ClickZ News
Communications companies are trying to assemble their last best case for a tiered Internet...  
FCC Classifies Wireless Broadband as Information Service Broadcasting & Cable
FCC to Examine Net Neutrality PC World
Music companies continue to choke off business models that are their best hopes for future revenues...  
Publishers Sue XM Satellite Radio Billboard.biz
A Fee Per Song Can Ruin Us, Internet Radio Companies Say The New York Times*
Information Services continue the education selloff as institutions begin to push back on publisher margins...  
Wolters Kluwer near $1 bln education sale -sources Reuters
Wolters Kluwer in Talks to Sell Unit AP via Forbes
MIT Faculty and Libraries Refuse DRM; SAE Digital Library Canceled MIT Libraries News
Social media is no longer just "Web 2.0": it's the fulcrum for the next decade of publishing growth...  
Web 2.0-Type Fundings At $844 Million in 2006 paidContent.org
The Future of Web 2.0 O'Reilly Radar
Web 3.0: When Web Sites Become Web Services Read/Write Web
When Social Web Tools Get Creative GigaOM
As the lines between the Web and the plaforms it serves get more blurred...  
Could there be a Mozilla Desktop Environment in the future Download Squad
The rush is on: Web apps are deserting the browser WebWare
Sometimes growth requires a little bit of fertilizer...  
Google's Blogspot is 3/4 Spam Download Squad
Facebook’s Battle Against Chaos TechCrunch
Google continues to invest in providing a ubiquitous context generation machine...  
Google 'admits to phone project' The Times Online
Google experiments with new ad model UPI via Content Agenda
More than meets the eye: Google unveils Plus Box Google Blog
But other suppliers are creating more focused and high-margin contexts for content...  
Online Search Goes Pro With B2B Engines eCommerce Times
Forget Google, search with K-Fed Download Squad
You never know who will fight back when your market model is challenging established channels...  
Viacom sued in YouTube controversy Toronto Star
Google Takes Friendly Fire TheStreet.com / Content Agenda
The print revenue "cushion" is notably less cushy these days as online is the indisputable growth driver...  
Ad Revenue at New York Times Co. Plunges in February Editor & Publisher
MMOD Update: No YouTube Sharing After All; Online Stats Up Double-Digits Over Last Year, No Details paidContent.org
B2B Media seems like a safe haven for private investors but too many buyers may overstretch ROIs...  
ABRY Partners, Sundance form company to invest in b-to-b media properties BtoB Online
For all the talk about enterprise social media the tools of choice are still command-and-control I.T....  
CIOs Spurn Web 2.0 Startups - Enterprises Want Suites and Large, Incumbent Software Vendors Read/Write Web
But in doing so are enterprises missing out on the content  that yields the greatest productivity...?  
The Truth Revealed: Microsoft Can’t Compete! Macnightowl
In other major trends in content this week...  
ProQuest says NYSE to suspend trading in its shares Reuters
Congress Must Make Clear Copyright Laws To Protect Consumers WSJ Online*
Don’t Read Our Blogs - Play Games on Our Blogs The Blog Herald
Guardian Changing Media: Reuters looks at the changes for 'old media' Corante
Google searches for European lobbyists FT.com
Metropolitan Museum and ARTstor to Provide Digital Images to Scholars at No Charge Ecole des Hautes Etudes
Best Practices
AJAX: The Giant Page View Killer MicroPersuasion
Crowdsourcing: A Million Heads is Better than One Read/Write Web
How Paid Content Sites Can Profit Against Ad-Supported Ones Marketing Sherpa
Users are more engaged with smaller communities BizReport via Content Agenda
Working Group on Bibliographic Control Wades into the Murky Future Library Journal
Thomson tracks content copying with DRM watermarks PC Pro
Content Delivery Networks (CDN) - Saddling Up for the Online Content Surge PR Newswire
Keeping your online content under lock and key Computing via VNUNet
What's The Best Way To Monetize Video Search? Search Insider
Getting New Start Selling Ad Packages Across Platforms WSJ Online*
Digital Content Value Driving DRM eMarketer
Cool Tools
AttentionMeter Compares Alexa, Quantcast, Compete Micro Persuasion
Social Media Networking Meets RSS Content Aggregation And Promotion: Genwi Robin  Good
Business wikis line up at Under the Radar WebWare
FeedBlitz : email alternative for RSS and OPML Library Clips
NewsGator Continues Mobile Expansion with RSS Reader for BlackBerry and Other Java Devices Phonemag
37signals Launches Highrise Mashable
Build Google Maps online with Click2Map Download Squad
RSS on the Go: A look at Web-Based Mobile Aggregators Web Worker Daily
KnowNow Releases New Enterprise RSS Solution BusinessWire
The Size of a Paperback and Most of the Functions of a Real PC The New York Times*
Adobe's Apollo looks to one-up Ajax CNET News
Deals, Partnerships & Sales
Wolters Kluwer says to sell education unit Reuters
Hosted Service, FYI, Debuted by Legal Search Solution, LexisNexis Web Site Host Directory
BNA and Thomson Tax & Accounting to Provide BNA Products to Law Firms on Thomson's Checkpoint(R) PR Newswire
IDG Founder Teams With News Corp, Hearst On a $50 Million China Digital Media Fund paidContent.org
Priceline.com signs exclusive online content agreement with Zagat Survey Eye for Travel
blinkx Partners With WallStrip Adding Financial Video Content to Search Index PR Newswire
Google Books Now Included In Online Reference Collection at WorldVitalRecords.com SBWire
Fast Search & Transfer wins deal with biotechnology firm Millipore ABC Money
EBSCOhost Databases Deliver News and Full-Text Blog Content with Historical Archive from Newstex BusinessWire
D&B Acquires First Research, the Leading Internet Provider of Editorial-Based Industry Insight BusinessWire
Return Path, TechTarget to partner BtoB Online
BiggyTV.com - a Melding of New and Old Media for Online Video; Content and Site Owners Get Paid PR Newswire via Sys-Con
Products, Markets & People
Robert Krakoff, CEO of Nielsen Business Media, dies at 72 BtoB Online
Deanna Brown Leaves Yahoo; Joins Scripps As President, Interactive Group paidContent.org
Scopus Harnesses the h-Index to Increase the Quality and Reliability of Citation Tracking eContent Magazine
Alacra Adds New Batch Application to Alacra Compliance PR Web
IBM Unveils IBM WebSphere Content Discovery for Business Intelligence b-Eye Network
Dow Jones Changes Delivering News Optimized for Algorithmic Trading and Quantitative Analysis HedgeCo.net
LexisNexis Introduces New Version of martindale.com® with New Tools and Content BusinessWire
Mochila Announces New Clients from International Magazines, Web Sites and News Services Hispanic PR Services
Thomson Scientific Introduces the New Face of Research with ISI Web of Knowledge PharmaLive
Yellow Book USA to conduct circulation audits on all directories BtoB Online
Amy Churgin Named Senior Vice President, Condé Nast Media Group BusinessWire
International Data Group Media Sites Tuned for Web-enabled Mobile Devices BusinessWire via TMCNet
HEADLINES FOR THE WEEK OF 12 MARCH 2007
Date/Headlines Source
Trends
Viacom takes on YouTube, betting that the U.S. Supreme Court's stricter view of the DMCA will prevail...  
Viacom Sues Google-YouTube: Wants More Than $1 Billion In Damages, Injunction paidContent.org
Viacom lawyer: YouTube knows it violates copyrights CNET News
YouTube's fate rests on decade-old copyright law CNET News
Viacom Sues Google for $1 Billion. Big Whoop. Internet Outsider
How Viacom could really protect its content Fortune via CNN Money
Mark Cuban: Google May Not Know It, But They Have Already Lost Digital Media Wire
Yet Viacom is proceeding with deals with YouTube via its CBS News subsidiary...  
Is Redstone of two minds on YouTube? LA Times via Content Agenda
Meanwhile Google focuses on evolving a global deal-making capability to leverage shifting alliances...  
Is Google Changing Its Position on Net Neutrality? GigaOM
Google grapples with increasingly political Web CNET News
Let the passion continue! We're acquiring Adscape Google Blog
While buying some goodwill to hold off criticism...  
Google will purge some user data to better protect privacy Boing Boing
Google adding search privacy protections CNET News
Google Launches Services in Hindi TechTree
In spite of evolving quality control issues Wikis are gaining influence and popularity...  
"Wiki" wins a place in Oxford English Dictionary Reuters
Growth in Wikipedia is high in non-English versions Press TV
Wikipedia Enacts Credential Reform Editor & Publisher
Meanwhile: My sticky Wiki International Herald Tribune
Web 2.0 Goes Mainstream O'Reilly Radar
DRM is still championed for copyrighted content but it's not necessarily a solution that leads to profits...  
DRM spending to reach $9bn by 2012 IT Week
The Not So Great Future Of The iPod Apple Matters
How to check out 3,000 books in a day: Go to Google Inside Bay Area / Content Agenda
What happens when mass media no longer serves the mases...?  
Media's focus narrowing, report warns LA Times
Delutube offers users a way to view deleted YouTube videos Ars Technica
Tribune Rethinks Part of 'Self-Help' Plan WSJ Online*
In business information collaborative tools are becoming growing venues for publishers...  
Cisco Buys Online Collaboration Leader WebEx for $3.2 Billion NewsFactor
Why Cisco Bought WebEx O'Reilly Radar
Highrise Set to Rock the Contact Management Biz Micro Persuasion
Microsoft moves further into the Content Intelligence (CI) space IT-Director.com
Hmm, being able to hire people is a sign of insanity and paying people to use your products isn't...?  
Ballmer Says Google's Employee Growth Is 'Insane' Bloomberg News
Microsoft Offers Incentives to Businesses to Use Live Search PC World
In other major trends in content this week...  
Internet radio to fight royalty ruling CNN Money
Open Access Launches Journal Wars Wired News
Ficlets remixes fiction in Web 2.0 style Download Squad
Networks Divine a Seller's Market WSJ Online*
Wired Relaunch This Week: (fuzzy) Screenshots TechCrunch
Is Web 2.0 Bad for Google? MediaPost
Let it Bean: Starbucks to Start Music Label New York Post
Who Owns the Live Music of Days Gone By? The New York Times*
Anxious Times for Net Radio WSJ Online*
Best Practices
Introducing the Social Media Content Audit FAST Forward
USA Today's Social Features Invisible to Search Engines MarketingVOX
State of the News Media 2007: An Annual Report on American Journalism Project for Excellence in Journalism
"Preemptive Reference" from Library/Newspaper Alliance Library Journal
Project for Excellence in Journalism Dissects 38 Sites; Blogger Index Coming MediaShift
Blogs vs. Message Boards Future of Communities
The Importance Of Free Open Standards In The Evolution Of The Web: Tim Berners-Lee Reports Robin Good
Encouraging Enterprise 2.0: As simple as possible, but no simpler? ZDNet
Different Approaches to the Semantic Web O'Reilly Radar
Cool Tools
Google Blog Bars for Your Site Micro Persuasion
Now, a Radio Station for (Your Name Here) The New York Times*
Zoodango Lets Businesses Create Their Own Social Networks Mashable
How To Create Your Web Radio Station: A Mini-Guide Robin Good
Newbie's guide to Twitter WebWare
Google Phone confirmed! Download Squad
E-Ink Part Deux: blueChute OhGizmo
Google Talk Gadget Goodness Mashable
How to: create a pre-filtered mash-up of RSS feeds Journalism .co.UK
A Job Board For Your Site: Create Your Online Custom Job Board With JobCoin Robin Good
The New PR Wiki The New PR Wiki
Deals, Partnerships & Sales
Google Acquires Trendalyzer From Gapminder Googlified
Nielsen Company, JWT Launch Custom News Portal FOLIO: Magazine
LexisNexis Taps Endeca IAP for Legal Business Development Solution LawFuel.com
CBS Reaches YouTube Deal For Highlights WSJ Online*
MovingHealth Gets $1.5 Million Seed; Yahoo Pharma Exec Is Founder paidContent.org
ebrary Announces New Distribution Partners in Europe BusinessWire
Products, Markets & People
Voxant Launches TheNewsRoom and Campaign2008,for Viral Distribution of News Video PR Newswire
Manta.com Adds Career Resources, Job Search to Company Information Site URLWire
New Sources From Factiva Managing Informaiton
Knovel Appoints New Vice Presidents of IT, Sales and Content Management PR Inside
Tradelink Launches On-demand Global Trade Information Service Supply & Demand Chain
Pando Shares the Keys to the Media Distribution Castle with Developers, Bloggers and Podcasters BusinessWire
LexisNexis starts forensic lab Dayton Daily News
LexisNexis Marks Launch of Its New Data Collection & Forensics Services Lab with Projects in 16 Nations BusinessWire
HEADLINES FOR THE WEEK OF 5 MARCH 2007
Date/Headlines Source
Trends
Why are media companies waking up to online opportunities? Just follow the money...  
Online Ad Revenue Sets Record for a Third Year WSJ Online*
And the content...  
Study Forecasts a Staggering 988 Billion Gigabytes of Digital Information Created in 2010 CNW Group
And the crowds...  
Worldwide Internet Audience Has Grown 10 Percent in Last Year, According to comScore Networks Content Agenda
In in industry where context is where the money is made technologists are creating the content products...  
Web Focus Leads Newspapers to Hire Programmers for Editorial Staff MediaShift
Google to Index Subscription Based Content Search Engine Watch
Amazon's Series of Fortunate Events Read/Write Web
Active.com and the morphing of media Fortune via CNN Money.com
Give Me the Ad That I Want MediaShift
Google Your Dream Home NJBiz
And challenges institutions and individuals not used to audiences putting content in its most valuable context...  
Google moves YouTube ahead: USD 15 Million in 2006 Revenues San Francisco Chronicle
Mark Cuban: Why I decided to Supoena Google and YouTube Digital Media Wire
YouTube Blocked in Turkey Mashable
Social media gets a boost from the U.S. Patent Office as they try to conquer mountains of applications...  
Patents get a wiki and a marketplace, now to put them together ZDNet
Media distributors are intent on maintaining a chokehold on channels but a new sheriff's in town...  
US Senate: Broadcast Treaty subverts copyright! BoingBoing
RIAA smells trouble in FAIR USE Content Agenda
Why RIAA is Silent on XM-Sirius GigaOM
Yahoo, AT&T alliance on the rocks? GigaOM
Google tries to woo media companies but its rivals are already hearts and flowers with established outlets...  
At Google, the Search Is On for a New Approach to Old Media Knowledge @Wharton
Google's Schmidt Says Media Companies Need YouTube Bloomberg News
Microsoft blasts Google for book-scanning plan CBC News
Yahoo Close To Filling Major Vacancies; Panama’s Launch Smooth; Newspaper Deals Could Expand paidContent.org
Even as old and new online plays tune their offerings to take on Google more effectively...  
Wikipedia founder says to challenge Google, Yahoo Reuters
Yahoo Go brings search, e-mail and more to your cell phone LifeHacker
New My Yahoo Signals It Has Abandoned the Geeks Micro Persuasion
Confirmed: Microsoft Building Google Apps/Zoho Competitor TechCrunch
Google Gains on Goal of Controlling And Targeting TV Commercials WSJ Online*
News Corp. in Web video bid Variety via Content Agenda
New USAToday.com Pulling 5,000 Daily New Members, Some Grumble paidContent.org
Social media is less about specific tools as it is about using all tools to build robust online communities...  
Internet Start-Up to Take a Hybrid Media Approach The New York Times*
OpMom brings moms together for social networking and more Download Squad
More organizations shift to Web 2.0 while IT departments remain wary ZDNet Blogs
The value of intellectual property  is challenged by  context creating as value as much as content...  
Microsoft scores victory in Alcatel-Lucent suit ZDNet UK
eMusic CEO predicts end of copyright Hamilton Spectator
C-Span Broadens Copyright Policy, Adds More Hearing Coverage Online paidContent.org
What's next, Google Motors...?  
After Mastering Web Traffic, Google Runs Bus Line The New York Times*
In other major trends in content this week...  
Technorati 100: What's Hot in the Blogosphere Read/Write Web
If You Need Your News on the Run, Read the Summary The New York Times*
The Race: Survivor in the News Trade Columbia Journalism
Google Answers to Rise From Dead? TechCrunch
Federated Media Raising More Money, Looking to Sell TechCrunch
Open-source ID project awaits Microsoft's blessing CNET News
Yahoo CEO 2006 compensation declines 52 pct Reuters
Best Practices
Creative Commons v3 Protects Your Inner Genius CMS Wire
AdSense Alternatives: Contextual Advertising Programs To Make Money Online Robin Good
$10 per Click! Google AdWords Advertiser Reveals It All Digital Inspiration
Will BI Wax, Content Management Wane at EMC? Intelligent Enterprise
Time-Starved Oncologists Still Not Receiving Crucial Medical Information PR Newswire
How To Increase Online Trust For User Generated Content Robin Good
10 Simple Ways Authors Can Help to Increase Sales at Amazon.com ProBlogger
Online Health: Assessing the Risk and Opportunity of Social and One-to-One Media Jupiter Research
Blogs Build an Audience by Promoting Rivals Finds Yale School of Management Study PR Newswire
Peers vs. Pros: Who's Faster on News? MicroPersuasion
Study Finds Blog Readers Are Loyal, Like to Be Entertained and Trust Recommendations BusinessWire
Could Blogging Adopt A Paid Content Business Model? The Blog Herald
Users to Take to Mobile Barcodes, Study Finds Mobile Marketing
Cool Tools
Viyya Technologies Introduces VIYYA(TM) Professional Edition BusinessWire
Google Maps Zoomed Micro Persuasion
Beyond Google: Cool Search Engines And Search Tools You May Have Not Heard About - A Mini-Guide Robin Good
TiVo now downloads content from Amazon Unbox GadgeTell
Community Building: How To Create Your Own Social Media Network With Ning Robin Good
Weather.com releases real-time weather for your street Download Squad
New and improved Google Desktop Google Blog
Feedable Puts a Memetracker in Your RSS Reader Micro Persuasion
FeedBlendr - Feed Remix Service Read/Write Web
Deals, Partnerships & Sales
MarkLogic Chosen for Wipro's Integrated Publishing Platform MarketWire
JISC Funds Partnership of ProQuest CSA and Oxford University Library Services EContent Magazine
Dow Jones and IAC Partner to Build Personal Finance Brand PrimeNewsWire
Online Community-Building Meets Live Experience as George P. Johnson & Altus Learning Systems Partner The Auto Channel
BBC and IBM strike 'web 3.0' deal The Guardian
Gannett to acquire Connecticut Newspapers from Tribune BusinessWire
NewsGator Teams With RSSBus to Deliver Content From Popular Business Systems via Real-Time RSS MarketWire
Tradelink Launches On-demand Global Trade Information Service for its Customers BusinessWire via TMCNet
ContentGuard Licenses Digital Rights Management Patents to LGE for Mobile Handsets PR Newswire
Reed Elsevier buys Beilstein Database chemical data archive Boston Globe
ICBA and Wolters Kluwer Financial Services Partner to Offer Community Banks 'One' PR Newswire
USA TODAY Taps Pluck Social Media Technologies to Create Conversations Around News BusinessWire
OneSource(R) and Executive Conversation Announce A Strategic Partnership InfoUSA
CMP Channel Group combines Web sites of ‘CRN,’ ‘VARBusiness’ to form Channel Web.com BtoB Online
Products, Markets & People
Safari Books Online Expands E-Reference Library With Online Video Training Collection MarketWire
USA TODAY Introduces the New USATODAY.com: Offers Heightened Reader Engagement BusinessWire
BlogSpot(TM) Brands Announces Business and e-Commerce Blog Auction Newswire Today
Penton Media Lays Off 120 Employees FOLIO: Magazine
Dow Jones Delivering News Optimized for Algorithmic Trading and Quantitative Analysis PR Newswire via Sys-Con
Wiley-Blackwell To Launch Archives Of Drug Information eWorldWire
ProQuest CSA’s Marketing Toolkit for Public Libraries Makes Its Debut Information Today, Inc.
 
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