In The Fight Between Facebook And Twitter, Which One’s The Mac And Which One’s The PC?
Facebook is much more than a social network. Twitter is much more than an information network or serendipity engine [...more]
Facebook is much more than a social network. Twitter is much more than an information network or serendipity engine [...more]
Video publishing platform Episodic is rolling out its publishing suite that lets users manage and measure video content, and use the platform’s monetization services which enable ad insertion and credit card transactions for both live and on-demand video streaming. Episodic is hoping to make its mark in the online video publishing space by offering additional features for easy monetization, distribution and customization. The suite itself is made up of five functional areas, including the ability to create video libraries, customer metadata fields, and the ability to encode. [...more]
Throughout 2005, the year after the company went public on NASDAQ, Google commissioned multiple research agencies to run analysis on the importance of Internet search and search advertising in purchasing decisions across a variety of verticals. While part of this research – which the company probably still orders considering how important the business continues to be for Google’s bottom line – eventually finds its way to the Google AdWords product page , it’s interesting to gain some insight into what kind of studies the search giant commissioned and which conclusions the research agencies pulled from the data gathered from direct consumer surveys and other means. [...more]
Just like Web 2.0 start-ups have been spending much of 2009 trying to figure out how to turn users and community into revenues, so too have the last few years’ crop of Internet celebrities been trying to figure out how to make a business out of those over-used buzz words “their personal brands.” Think of all the online fame that’s been created in the last few years amid this hype of the Web democratizing celebrity. Now try to name how many of them crossed over to mainstream popularity [...more]
Editor’s note : This guest post is written by Shelby Bonnie , the CEO of Whiskey Media . He co-founded CNET in 1993 and was the Chairman and CEO from 2000 to 2006 [...more]
More news from the stock photography world this morning, after leader in the field iStock announced it would be expanding its services to include stock logo sales . Shutterstock has just announced its acquisition of BigStockPhoto , a credit-based stock photo agency headquartered in Davis, California. The terms of the acquisition were not disclosed [...more]
Remember Squidoo ? Founded by current CEO and famous marketing guru Seth Godin , the service allows Internet users to generate rich, topical web pages (dubbed ‘lenses’) to serve as a hub for information, videos, links etc [...more]
Judging from Kanye West's online presence in the past few days, it appears that he's moved on from his post-VMAs apology mode and has settled back into his favorite activity: Feeling sorry for himself. MTV reports that, in the days since incurring the wrath of everyone from President Barack Obama to Kelly Clarkson, the 808s & Heartbreak rapper has removed both of his online apologies to Taylor Swift on his blog. In their place, among other things, was a message titled, "Another day in the Truman Show AKA my life!" Accompanying the title was an image of the 1998 Jim Carrey movie... [...more]
This is a guest post by Shanghai-based entrepreneur George Godula. His company Web2Asia partners with Western Internet companies for market entry in Eastern Asia, and also does early stage investments in local tech startups. George had the opportunity this weekend to attend Chinese e-commerce behemoth Alibaba Group ’s 10 year anniversary celebration, dubbed the “Alifest” [...more]
The Zune HD is upon us, and whether you love it or hate it, you have to admit that it is devilishly good-looking. I happen to think it's also a great media player, based on my day with it and on previous demos, but the final judgment will come in a day or two with the full review [...more]