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- Fox Interactive reshuffles: Social media and making money tough
- Fox Interactive confirmed Friday that it has reshuffled its management and ad operations--a sign that problems monetizing Myspace persist. First, the generic headline from the statement that confirmed a lot of coverage. Fox Interactive named Adam Bain to be president of Fox Interactive Media Audience Network. Key...
- Tags: Revenue, Fox Interactive Media, Social Media, Rupert Murdoch, News Corp., MySpace, FIM, PaidContent, Operational Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-04-04
- Yahoo pays first installment on its 100 day plan
- Yahoo reorganized its sales team as president Sue Decker shook up the ranks, shuffled managers and said farewell to Greg Coleman as head of global sales. The big picture: This move is really just a down payment on what will be CEO Jerry Yang's new strategy due in...
- Tags: Social Networking, Jerry Yang, Advertisement, Yahoo! Inc., Robert Peck, PaidContent, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2007-08-30
- paidcontent's 'blowout' NYC mixer: Internet bubble redux, or new rational entrepreneurship?
- paidContent's 'blowout' NYC mixer: Internet bubble redux, or new rational entrepreneurship?The Changing of the GuardDonna,I think that you did a great job capturing the "changing of the guard" atmosphere at last night's ContentNext mixer. It's not really "old days reborn" so much as a new environment in which it's much...
- Tags: paidContent, Internet Bubble, entrepreneurship, Internet
- Discussion threads 2006-06-28
Additional Resources
- News to know: SAP; Hacking NASA; Apple; OpenSolaris
- Notable headlines: Nate McFeters: Hacking NASA: One small step for man, one giant leap for hackers? Common misconceptions about database security Sapphire 2008: Dennis Howlett: The changing SAP culture Larry Dignan: SAP's Apotheker: Business ByDesign costs led...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., OpenSolaris, Hacking, Yahoo! Inc., T-Mobile, SAP AG, Apple Inc., Security, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-06
- Catching up: MySpace adds Karaoke; Friends Reunited drops paid access; Facebook apps create privacy scare
- The social web weekly: a quick-fire roundup of some of the news, announcements and conversations that have occurred throughout the last week… MySpace adds Karaoke. Nearly two years after Fox Interactive purchased the karaoke site kSolo.com, its feature-set has finally been integrated into MySpace. "The combination of...
- Tags: Facebook, Privacy, MySpace, MySpace Karaoke, Data Mining, Business Intelligence, Corporate Communications, Marketing Research, Desktops, Databases, Security, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Marketing, Hardware, Steve O\'Hear
- Blog posts 2008-05-05
- NYT: Yahoo, Microsoft in talks; Media pawns abound
- NYT: Yahoo, Microsoft in talks; Media pawns aboundGluteus maximus I suspect you mean ;-)Unless America has its own stupid version of that too.RE: NYT: Yahoo, Microsoft in talks; Media pawns aboundEmjoyed the English (and correct spelling ;)) of the glutus maximus area.Boo WhooI should feel bad the media is being...
- Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Yahoo! Inc., media, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-05-02
- Can AOL solve the UGC and advertising problem?
- I've written before on how User-Generated Content and advertising don't always get on. Or more specifically, how social networking sites, even on the scale of MySpace, are having difficulty monetizing their traffic because major brands are wary of placing ads alongside the unpredictable content created by users. ...
- Tags: Steve O\'Hear
- Blog posts 2008-04-30
- News to know: Google; AMD; Desktop Linux; Green IT; Psystar
- Notable headlines: Larry Dignan: Google delivers; Maybe paid clicks weren't such a big deal Charles Cooper: Google settles a score with ComScore Techmeme AMD posts loss; sees seasonally down quarter ahead Sixth straight quarterly loss for AMD...
- Tags: Desktop, Google Inc., Red Hat Inc., Green IT, SOA, Amazon.com Inc., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Desktop Linux, Linux, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Open Source, Web Services, Operating Systems, Software, Enterprise Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-04-18
- News to know: AOL, Linux; Mac clones; Mobile Web
- Notable headlines: Ed Bott: Making sense of Windows' irrational pricing and licensing Robin Harris: 2.5" disks to become new standard in 2009 TechRepublic: 10 common mistakes to avoid when you're installing Linux software Christopher Dawson: My kid hates...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Google Inc., Apple Macintosh, Mobile, America Online Inc., Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Linux, Microsoft Windows, Wiki, Open Source, Sales Force Management, Operating Systems, UNIX, Software, Online Communications, Sales, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-04-15
- Saying goodbye to ZDNet
- Saying goodbye to ZDNetAgreed, Where I noticed a problem..I think a while a go most of the blogs referenced ZDnet News Articles, then after a while the ZDnet blogs began to reference other blogs and now the News articles are becoming harder to find and less informative. This is...
- Tags: Blogging, ZDNet Blogs, New Web Site, blog, blogger, goodbye
- Discussion threads 2008-03-27
- imeem brings licensed music to the Platform party
- Another day, another platform. This time it's imeem's turn to offer third-party developers a way to build applications for its media-oriented social networking site. The imeem Media Platform "enables developers to quickly create applications for imeem that integrate our community, features, and our music,...
- Tags: Developer, Microsoft Access, Media, Video, Photograph, Music, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Steve O\'Hear
- Blog posts 2008-03-25
- MySpace exploring ad-supported music venture
- Watch out Last.FM, Imeem, We7 and SpiralFrog, MySpace could be about to enter the ad-supported music game. According to an earlier report by paidContent and echoed in yesterday's Financial Times, MySpace - or rather its parent company News Corp. - has been exploring forming a joint music...
- Tags: Advertisement, MySpace, Digital Rights Management (DRM), Digital Media, Security, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Steve O\'Hear
- Blog posts 2008-02-20
- News to know: Office 14; Yahoo; Net neutrality; Android SDK
- Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: Office 14 to add more online document sharing MSDN subscribers: Vista SP1 to hit by the end of this week Robin Harris: Protein nanotech in next gen storage Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: First Look at Firefox 3.0 Beta 3...
- Tags: Larry Dignan, Mozilla Firefox, Comcast Corp., Microsoft Office, Yahoo! Inc., SDK, Net Neutrality, Microsoft Corp., EchoSign 3.0, Nanotechnology, Linux, Web Browsers, Federal Government, Middleware, Emerging Technologies, Operating Systems, Software, Internet, Government, Enterprise Software
- Blog posts 2008-02-14
- Nokia to invest in and partner with Facebook?
- Nokia, the mobile handset giant, is in talks with social network Facebook about a potential partnership and investment, according to paidContent. The deal, if it goes ahead, would see a mobile version of Facebook being "ported" to Nokia mobile phones in a "major way". The Facebook placement could be...
- Tags: Facebook, Partnership, Nokia Corp., Business Structures, Web Services, Advertising & Promotion, Finance, Enterprise Software, Software, Marketing, Steve O\'Hear
- Blog posts 2008-01-21
- Yahoo going on a diet?
- The blogosphere is busy with rumors of Yahoo laying off up to 20 percent of its workforce (Techmeme), which numbers about 12,000. Silicon Alley Insider reported from a source that the potential layoffs are tied in part to Yahoo's stock performance: The "list" is reportedly the...
- Tags: Jerry Yang, Layoff, Stock, Yahoo! Inc., Blogosphere, Workforce Management, Investment, Strategy, Human Resources, Finance, Management, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2008-01-20
- paidcontent NYC bash: No bubble, good new media business!
- paidContent NYC bash: No bubble, good new media business!http://www.analogstereo.com/renault_espace_owners_manual.htmhttp://www.analogstereo.com/renault_espace_owners_manual.htm
- Tags: paidContent NYC, media business
- Discussion threads 2007-12-02
- Major League Baseball makes news as latest DRM trainwreck
- In another story that will go down in history as one of the more severe Digtal Rights Management trainwrecks (and a shining example of why DRM will ultimately do a brand more harm than good), Major League Baseball (MLB) now finds itself in a PR nightmare after a technology adjustment...
- Tags: MLB, Digital-rights Management, Digital Rights Management (DRM), Digital Media, Security, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, David Berlind
- Blog posts 2007-11-08
- Content M&A: Credit crunch crimps landscape
- Media company deals will get done but there are potholes ahead. On a panel about dealmaking in the content space at the Future of Business Media conference, the consensus seemed to be that deals will get done, but the big fish will struggle with financing--especially if an...
- Tags: Acquisition, M&A, Financing, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2007-10-30
- News to know: Digital media ethics; Adobe flaw; AT&T; Gamemaster interview
- Notable headlines: Ed Bott: Where do you stand on digital media ethics? Ed Burnette: Interview with a Game Master. IBM, 'Second Life' open borders for virtual worlds. Ryan Naraine: Adobe warns of critical PageMaker, Illustrator flaws Russell Shaw:...
- Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Digital Media, Gartner Inc., AT&T Corp., TiVo Inc., Microsoft Corp., Ethics, Flaw, Business Ethics, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Enterprise Software, Leadership, Management, Web Services, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2007-10-10
- News to know: XP SP3; IE7; RIM shines; RIAA's victory
- Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft releases beta of XP SP3 to Vista, Windows Server testers. Internet Explorer 7 update: Now WGA-free. Ryan Naraine: MS Patch Tuesday: 7 bulletins coming, 4 critical. Sun issues patch for 'highly critical' Java...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Apple iPhone, Adobe Systems Inc., Research In Motion Ltd., Larry Dignan, Microsoft Windows XP, RIAA, Microsoft Internet Explorer 7, Microsoft Corp., Photograph, Sales Strategy, E-mail, Social Networking, Sales Force Management, Security, Sales, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion
- Blog posts 2007-10-05
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