Content Sites & Blogs

All New My Yahoo
There's an all new My Yahoo (upgrade URL) launching today at 11 am PST. This is the web's most popular customizable home page by far, with 50 million...
News | Posted 3/08/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Is YouTube a Google-Sized Distraction?
YouTube's $1.65 billion price tag wasn't exactly chump change, even for a $141 billion company like Google. So five months after buying the upstart video-sharing site...
News | Posted 3/08/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Technorati's Opportunities and Exit Options
About 2 months ago, HitWise published a report stating that Technorati, the leading blog search company, had for the first time fallen behind Google BlogSearch in traffic...
News | Posted 3/07/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Searching for Michael Jordan? Microsoft Wants a Better Way
Internet searching was at the forefront of the technologies that Microsoft displayed on Tuesday at an event intended to showcase the company's research prowess.
News | Posted 3/07/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

N.Y. Times Co. sees digital revenue rising 30%
New York Times Co. said Tuesday that it sees its digital revenue rising 30% to $350 million in 2007, fueled by ad sales at the company's newspaper Web sites, such as...
News | Posted 3/07/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

The 50 Most Important People on the Web
Here's who's shaping what you read, watch, hear, write, buy, sell, befriend, flame, and otherwise do online.
News | Posted 3/07/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Five Steps to a Truly Unique Blog That Attracts Readers and Revenue
Now that you've completed the important task of figuring out who it is you want to reach with your blog, it's time to figure out how...
Resources | Posted 3/07/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

AddThis Widget Gathering Lots Of Interesting Data
You may have seen the AddThis buttons on blog at some point while surfing the web. It's a simple, free widget blog owners can add to their site...
News | Posted 3/07/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Community site, Smalltown, expands
Smalltown, another company seeking to offer a Yellow Pages-like service with a more compelling online experience and community feel, is expanding to cover more cities.
News | Posted 3/07/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Can WIkio Make Digg S*** Its Pants?
Wikio is the next well-financed social media tool that relies on the wisdom of the crowd to generate content in similar fashion as both Digg and Netscape.
News | Posted 3/07/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

RSS -- How to Make Really Simple Syndication Really Simple
Even if you're reasonably Web savvy, you may know RSS only as the cryptic monogram on a tiny button you've never bothered to click when it shows up on sites you visit. Too bad.
Resources | Posted 3/07/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

25 startups to watch
It's getting crowded on the Web 2.0 frontier, but there are still some startups that truly stand out. Business 2.0 Magazine, in its March issue, highlights the ones most likely...
Resources | Posted 3/07/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Bravo To USATODAY
USATODAY relaunched its website yesterday with a parade of new features that will add a significant social layer to the site that wasn't there before.
News | Posted 3/07/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Microsoft, Google mine for ideas in their own way
Stan Vonog worked hard to develop his peer-to-peer software program that allows musicians to play with each other over the Internet. Then Vonog, an aspiring entrepreneur, took a chance.
News | Posted 3/07/2007 | Content Sites & Blogs

Digital Media

Microsoft, AP Forge Online Video Network
The explosion of online video has had a significant impact upon the social networking industry, but the influence of the platform is beginning to bleed over into traditional information...
News | Posted 3/09/2007 | Digital Media

Internet Start-Up to Take a Hybrid Media Approach
Next New Networks, run and backed by former executives of MTV and Nickelodeon, plans to begin a series of video-oriented Web sites on niche topics..
News | Posted 3/08/2007 | Digital Media

What's the Biggest Trend or Challenge in Digital Media?
For These Execs It's All About Video -- How to Make It, Monetize It, Distribute It. In case there was still any doubt, digital is emerging "as the hub of marketing," and it's ...
News | Posted 3/07/2007 | Digital Media

Viewers Warm to Online TV Show Sponsors
In what is becoming a familiar pattern, TV producers are finding an active second life for shows after they air. Much like DVDs are important for movie...
News | Posted 3/07/2007 | Digital Media

YouTube Strikes a Deal with the BBC
In a move that seems to run contrary to recent trends, YouTube has actually come to an agreement with a major content provider. The BBC announced on Friday...
News | Posted 3/07/2007 | Digital Media

Adobe sees future on the Web
If you need more evidence of the Web shaking up the packaged software business, talk to Bruce Chizen.
News | Posted 3/07/2007 | Digital Media

RIAA Pushes Through Internet Radio Royalty Rates Designed To Kill Webcasts
It's been quite some time since we last heard about arguments between internet webcasters and SoundExchange (a group spun off from the RIAA to handle royalty collection).
News | Posted 3/07/2007 | Digital Media

Internet TV Wars: The Media Empires Strike Back (at YouTube)
Even as the BBC and many smaller media companies strike deals to distribute some of their video on YouTube, most of the major media companies like ABC, CBS, NBC...
News | Posted 3/07/2007 | Digital Media

How to Podcast
I know you are probably anxious to press record and get your voice on the net. But a little planning will help you stay focused.
Resources | Posted 3/07/2007 | Digital Media

Many music execs not DRM fans either
Setting aside the weirdness of this supposedly real image used to illustrate the story, a Jupiter Research report from December-January found little support...
Resources | Posted 3/07/2007 | Digital Media

Domaineering

How A Domain Executive Survived Despite Industry Consolidation
In last month's cover story, a panel of domain industry experts agreed that consolidation was the biggest trend in this business in 2006 and that it would be again in 2007...
News | Posting 3/07/2007 | Domaineering