Twitter vs. Digg
Dougherty: Twitter‘s reach surpassed Digg; http://cli.gs/BZ3Tj5 – comScore thinks differently; http://cli.gs/q72Rrv
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FriendFeed: Twitter Importer
FriendFeed added an importer for Twitter to easily find and subscribe to Twitter friends; http://cli.gs/28LYbp
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Google: No More Print Ads
Google: We will stop offering Print Ads… focus on products that can benefit the most people; http://cli.gs/Rvb0WQ
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ClickZ: “The shuttering of the program may be the most striking of Google’s product closures to date. … The end of the product is a setback for Tim Armstrong, president of operations for Google Americas and the company’s senior-most sales executive. According to many reports, Armstrong has been the company’s most vocal champion of offline ad sales, which have also included forays into radio and television.”
NYT: “Many newspapers used the program primarily for selling small amounts of ad space they could not sell themselves, newspaper publishers and industry analysts said. The ads were often sold at below-market rates. … But some publishers, especially at smaller newspapers, may feel the impact of the program’s demise. … A Google spokesman declined to comment on the company’s radio and television ad sales programs.”
AdAge: “Google has been able to maintain its profit margins, despite a slowing economy to which even search isn’t resistant. But the company has been more aggressive about monetizing previously ad-free areas and has cut projects that aren’t expected to have a clear contribution to the bottom line.“
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Jarvis: “I’m not shocked that Google abandoned its effort to sell print ads for newspapers. When the program started, I was dubious because I said that it could commodify print brands (magazines at first). … One of the great blown opportunities in the history – yes, history – of newspapers will be their failure to set up networks to get new advertisers and dollars.“
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Slideshare Offers Embeded YouTube Videos
SlideShare: Starting today you can embed YouTube videos; http://cli.gs/dngU5P
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Tweepler
http://Tweepler.com helps organizing Twitter followers, especially new ones; http://cli.gs/5XEXV0
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The U.S. Technology Agenda
http://WhiteHouse.gov relaunched, including a blog, including the known technology agenda; http://cli.gs/technology
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From the agenda: “Restore Scientific Integrity to the White House: Restore the basic principle that government decisions should be based on the best-available, scientifically-valid evidence and not on ideological predispositions.”
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RWW: “As the eyes of the world were focused on the pomp and circumstance of Barack Obama moving into a new role as President of the United States, Obama’s Web team was hard at work – with far less fanfare – moving their Web property to a new address: whitehouse.gov, the official Web site for the President. And while, at first blush, the site may appear similar to Obama’s President-elect site, change.gov, it is strikingly different than the predecessors who have occupied whitehouse.gov over the past 12 years. How different? Let’s take a look.“
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Winer: “In 2001 or 2004 even, it would have been a wonderful breakthrough and I would be singing its praise. But this is 2009, and we know so much more about the web. … Whitehouse.gov violates the most basic rule – “People come back to places that send them away.” The White House should send us to places where our minds will be nourished with new ideas, perspectives, places, points of view, things to do, ways we can make a difference. It must take risks, because that is reality – we’re all at risk now – hugely.”
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AirForceOne on Twitter
Nice PR stunt for the National Geographic Channel: twittered @NGC_AirForceOne
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First Change.gov: WhiteHouse.gov
AFP: At exactly one minute after noon on Tuesday Change.gov is coming to the White House; http://cli.gs/yZ9r6S
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NYT Co. Gets Huge Cash Injection
The New York Times Company has received a $250 million cash injection from Carlos Slim Helú; http://cli.gs/Z8rvmr
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Twingly Microblog Search
http://Twingly.com, a blog search engine, adds Microblog Search to its services; http://cli.gs/VqBthH
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BH: “I got hold of Martin Källström, CEO at Twingly, and asked him a few questions about the microblog search. – Why did you decide to have a dedicated search engine for microblogs? Couldn’t the standard Twingly search engine just cover it just as well? – ‘Behind the scenes it is actually the same search engine. We have the possibility to mix results, but for now we’re waiting for a really good application of that search interface. Sometimes it is better to keep things as simple as possible. Of course you could debate that having one single search box is simpler, but this way we will be able to optimize each search result page for the circumstances.’”
Gerrit Eicker 15:28 on 21. January 2009 Permalink |
RWW: “Other reports put Twitter’s registered users around 5 million. Digg sees monthly unique visitors probably 5 or 6 times that number, at least. Are a whole lot of people visiting Twitter but not registering for accounts? Given all the mainstream media attention Twitter has been getting this year – maybe it is possible. For what it’s worth, here at ReadWriteWeb we get a lot of love on Twitter but see far more traffic from Digg, StumbleUpon and other social networks.”