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- IAB to FTC: Rescind blogger rules
- The Interactive Advertising Bureau's President and CEO has called on the Federal Trade Commission to rescind its new "blogger rules" because they create an unfair distinction between traditional media and online media. More specifically, they revoke from online media a First Amendment protection that's afforded traditional media for generations. ...
- Tags: Online Media, Interactive Advertising Bureau, FTC, Blogger, Blogging, Internet, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-10-15
- SF Bay News 1.0.1 (Mobile)
- SF Bay News is an iPhone application that lets you access all of news from around the San Francisco Bay area. Not only can you view the latest headlines, but you can also read the related news articles from within the application. You can also play pod casts created by...
- Tags: Mobile, YeoSoft, SF Bay News, Advertising & Promotion, Smart Phones, Marketing, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
- Software downloads 2009-09-02
- Yahoo's Jorgensen lands nicely as new Levi Strauss CFO
- It appears that Yahoo CFO Blake Jorgensen, a casualty of management restructuring by new CEO Carol Bartz earlier this year, will land pretty nicely on his feet. Jorgensen, who has remained on the job as part of a transitional period, is set to receive a severance package of...
- Tags: Yahoo! Inc., CFO, Levi Strauss, Recruitment & Selection, Personal Finance, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-06-01
- Steve Jobs headed toward victory in Town Hall fight
- Steve Jobs appears headed toward victory in a Town Hall fight that's been going on for about a decade. Yesterday, the town council in Woodside, California - an affluent community in the hills just west of Stanford University - voted 6-1 to move forward with a permit process that would...
- Tags: Steve Jobs, Council, Town Council, Workforce Management, Human Resources, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-05-13
- Murdoch's plan to fix Web news is a good start but it needs aggregators
- News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch has vowed to fix the "malfunctioning" business model for news within a year. His solution: charge for access to the content. Techmeme It seems to work for the Wall Street Journal. I pay for an annual online subscription because I think that...
- Tags: Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-05-07
- Is Steve Jobs too frail for even a Town Hall fight?
- For for the better part of this decade, Apple CEO Steve Jobs has been battling preservationists and local officials in the small affluent community of Woodside, California over a historic home he owns there but wants to demolish and replace with a more modern home. The matter...
- Tags: Steve Jobs, Camera Phones, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Recruitment & Selection, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-04-29
- Note to newspapers: I can't read what you don't sell
- An off-topic rant about newspapers and how they really seem to be giving up the fight: My morning commute from Silicon Valley to San Francisco today involved a carpool with my wife to her office at Stanford University, where I would pick up an express train into...
- Tags: Newspaper, Internet, Strategy, Management, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-03-19
- News scraping: Are bloggers doing more harm than good?
- News scraping: Are bloggers doing more harm than good?Sources and attributionin many cases the newspapers need to remember that it is not their own words that they're guarding. It is the words of their sources. In most cases the plain facts and the words of a third party can be...
- Tags: Blogging, blogger
- Discussion threads 2009-03-02
- Newspapers: 25 things to try before turning off the lights
- Here are some ideas on how newspapers could become viable media businesses: 1: Focus on original content, do not rewrite wire stories or press releases. If newspapers start charging for content people are more likely pay for content they can't get anywhere else. 2: Focus on hyper-local coverage,...
- Tags: Newspaper, Advertisement, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2009-02-18
- If you've got the money to "get smart" at home, Greenbox offers support for multiple sorts of smart thermostats
- Let's be real here: There aren't that many people that can boast of excess disposable income right now. So, when I hear about new energy management technology focused on the residential home owner, I despair of much adoption progress being made even though there is a whole lot of new...
- Tags: ZigBee, Technology, Greenbox Technology, Home Networking, Web Site Development, Networking, Personal Technology, Internet, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-02-10
- Hologram technology: the sub-atomic future of storage?
- I was recently talking to some folks at Google about storage, specifically the amount of data that's being stored on the cloud as users upload things like photos and YouTube video clips. Gigabytes. Terabytes. Petabytes. I couldn't help but wonder, as we talked about all of this...
- Tags: Hologram, Stanford, Beam, Storage, Hardware, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-02-04
- WSJ downgraded; Are layoffs next?
- Is it wrong to keep believing in newspapers? Apparently Wall Street thinks so. And this time, the target is planted straight on the back of News Corp.'s Rupert Murdoch and his Wall Street Journal. Peter Kafka reports on his Media Memo blog, which is...
- Tags: Layoff, Wall Street Journal, Rupert Murdoch, News Corp., Recruitment & Selection, Blogging, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Internet, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-01-30
- Newspapers in peril: NYT ad revs tank, looking to sell Red Sox; Media News forces furloughs
- If you though the newspaper industry was in bad shape in 2008, it doesn't look like the battered print industry will do any better in 2009. This morning, the New York Times Co. said that total revenues were down almost 11 percent in the fourth quarter, compared...
- Tags: Revenue, Layoff, Advertisement, Workforce Management, Operational Accounting, Human Resources, Finance, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-01-28
- Election coverage sets Web record; Facebook releases data
- updated: Facebook releases Election Night traffic data. see below Right around the time that Barack Obama was being declared the winner of Tuesday's historic election, an Internet usage record was being broken. At the peak, there were more than 8.5 million visitors per minute visiting news sites...
- Tags: Web, Facebook, Election Day, Barack Obama, Michael Phelps, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-11-05
- Steve Jobs to Wall Street: Apple is positioned to ride economic storm
- Apparently, Steve Jobs still has what it takes to sell Apple - even to battered-down Wall Street. For the past week or so, there's been a lot of chatter about the state of the economy and what sort of impact it might have on companies during the...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Steve Jobs, Apple iPod, Apple Inc., Digital Music, Digital Media, Sales Strategy, Desktops, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Sales, Hardware, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-10-22
- No surprise. Yahoo expected to announce layoffs
- Word leaked out over the weekend that Yahoo is planning layoffs when it reports quarterly earnings on Tuesday afternoon. The exact number of jobs affected is unknown, thought sources told the San Jose Mercury News and Wall Street Journal that it would likely be more than 1,000. The job cuts...
- Tags: Layoff, Yahoo! Inc., Workforce Management, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-10-20
- Yahoo formally launches its ad network
- Yahoo on Wednesday formally christened its new ad network, dubbed APT. The ad exchange, which was formally known as AMP!, is aiming to streamline the display ad buying process by boiling planning and optimizing down to a dashboard. The platform is being rolled out in phases with...
- Tags: Advertisement, Network, Yahoo! Inc., Ad Network, APT, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-09-24
- Welcome Sam Diaz
- I'm pleased to announce that ZDNet has added another contributor to Between the Lines. Sam Diaz is our new senior editor based in San Francisco. Sam has been a technology and business blogger, reporter and editor at the Washington Post, San Jose Mercury News and Fresno Bee...
- Tags: San Francisco, Sam Diaz, Sam, Corporate Governance, Blogging, Corporate Communications, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Internet, Marketing, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-15
- ZoomInfo offers evidence of 'controlled circulation' advertising benefit now emerging on the web
- Get ready for new "controlled circulation" models on the web, ones that target you based not on your preferences for music or soft drinks -- but on what you consume in your occupation. Think of it as B2B social networking. [Update: LinkedIn is tacking furiously in this direction.] ...
- Tags: Goods, Web, Advertisement, Benefit, Seller, Buyer, ZoomInfo, Channel Management, B2B, Marketing, E-business/E-Commerce, Internet, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2007-12-07
- Death 2.0
- The recent and unexpected passing of my grandmother (she was the only 98-year-old I've known who could, and did, blindside hundreds with her death) opened my eyes to the fact that death in 2007 has become an online, interactive experience. The mortuary partnered with MeM.com to provide an "Everlasting...
- Tags: Death, Denise Howell
- Blog posts 2007-11-14
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