HOW TO: Use Twitter Hashtags for Business - 0 views
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Shan Luo on 05 Sep 09A guide to using Twitter hashtags for business.
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Companies From Around the World Coming to Real-Time Web Summit - 0 views
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As more companies invest in digital technology, there is growing hype surrounding new ways of doing business on the 'real-time' web.
Publisher: Time to pay up, Google | Business | News.com.au - 0 views
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An article about the 'misappropriation' of newspaper content by search engines such as 'Google,' and 'Yahoo.' The article explores the tensions arising between Newspaper companies, who suggest their content is being taken without compensation, and search engines, that are profiting from making the content available.
A New Horizon for the News - The New York Review of Books - 0 views
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Last year, circulation dropped on average by 4.6 percent on weekdays and 4.8 percent on Sundays. Earlier this year, Detroit's two daily papers reduced home delivery to three days a week, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer ended its print edition, and the Rocky Mountain News shut down altogether. This summer, The Boston Globe, which is losing more than $50 million a year, survived only by giving in to the draconian cutbacks demanded by its owner, the New York Times Company, while the Times itself, weighed down by the Globe, had to take out a $250 million loan from Carlos Slim Helú, Mexico's richest man, at a junk-bond-level interest rate of 14 percent a year.
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The traditional three staples of newspaper advertising—automotive, employment, and real estate—have all drastically declined, thanks to Craigslist, eBay, the travails of Detroit, and the consolidation of department stores (resulting in fewer retail ad pages). Meanwhile, the steady expansion of space on the Internet has caused online ad rates to crash, and these are not expected to recover even when the economy as a whole does.
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5 Fresh Ideas for Social Media Marketers - 0 views
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Retailers are shifting their marketing dollars such that social media budgets are swelling, and creative contests are popping up all over the web.
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That social media marketing is big business isn't news, but how do you stand out in an increasingly crowded field? Here are five fresh ideas.
BBC NEWS | Business | Regulators eye Google book deal - 0 views
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US anti-trust regulators are to examine Google's $125m deal with book publishers to settle copyright issues, reports say.
Digital Publishing Is Scrambling the Industry's Rules - New York Times - 0 views
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that promise to do for books what the iPod has done for music: making them easily downloadable and completely portable
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Mr. Benkler said he saw the project as "simply an experiment of how books might be in the future." That is one of the hottest debates in the book world right now, as publishers, editors and writers grapple with the Web's ability to connect readers and writers more quickly and intimately, new technologies that make it easier to search books electronically and the advent of digital devices that promise to do for books what the iPod has done for music: making them easily downloadable and completely portable.
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For unknown authors struggling to capture the attention of busy readers, however, the Web offers an unprecedented way to catapult out of obscurity.
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Yochai Benkler, a Yale University law professor and author of the new book "The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom" (Yale University Press), has gone even farther: his entire book is available - free - as a download from his Web site. Between 15,000 and 20,000 people have accessed the book electronically, with some of them adding comments and links to the online version.
Harvard Business Publishing Announces Integrated Publishing Strategy with Newly Formed ... - 0 views
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In this article the Harvard Press acknowledges the changing nature of publishing, in regard to different audiences and the pace of technological development, revealing how they will release articles, journals and magazines in different formats, with a growing focus on digital mediums.
Facebook Moves to Improve Privacy and Transparency - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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Facebook is amending its business model and software to enhance the regulatory framework for its users, as the debate regarding privacy is central to the companies brand image.
Rupert Murdoch In Beijing: 'The Philistine Phase Of The Digital Age Is Almost Over' | p... - 0 views
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Rupert Murdoch in China, arguing for paid content, and greater freedom for the press. 'The challenge of fusing past and present is real for media companies, and for China. Our aim must be to enhance the lives of our customers and citizens, and yet we find ourselves in the midst of an information revolution that is both exciting and unsettling. It is a digital revolution turning traditional business models upside down … traversing geographic, industrial, and media boundaries … and creating a new source of wealth, material and social, around the world.'
Memphis Daily News - Next 'Conversation' Tackles Leveraging Social Media - 0 views
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Plenty of businesses and nonprofit organizations have signed up for Twitter and Facebook, but are they using these social media outlets to their fullest potential?
Saatchi & Saatchi CEO calls for agency/publisher collaboration | News | New Media Age - 0 views
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Saatchi and Saatchi suggest that the changes brought about by technology and the 'new' business model is merely structured to serve "the twin gods of the publishing world", namely advertisers and consumers, and as a result traditional 'media' are going to lose out.
Vodafone Continues Its Move Beyond the Mobile Market With New, Cloud-Based Service - Re... - 0 views
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Vodafone is launching a cloud-based service designed for business people and consumers who are looking for a way to back up the data on their desktops, laptops and netbooks. The move is significant as Vodafone is making another move beyond the mobile market and is using cloud-based services to get there
Ping - How High Will Real-Time Search Fly? - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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Real-time search and the quest for profits.
Google Book Settlement Negotiations Continue - 2 views
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The Google book settlement is far from being resolved, as objections persist both from private business, and even government agencies.
Programming Amazon Web Services by O'Reilly Media - 0 views
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With this book, you'll learn how companies can take advantage of Amazon Web Services (AWS) to 'rent' computing power, data storage and bandwidth on Amazon's vast network infrastructure. Programming Amazon Web Services gives developers the background and technical detail they need for using Amazon's subscription-based Simple Storage Service (S3), Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Simple Queue Service (SQS), Flexible Payments Service (FPS), and SimpleDB to build web-scale business applications
Editors Only Blog - Business Exchange - 0 views
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Editors Only is a blog newsletter for publication editors. Topics include: editing, writing, magazine design, editorial management, online publishing, copyright, grammar, and readership surveys.
Bringing the power of Creative Commons to Google Books - Business Exchange - 0 views
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Google Books launched an initiative to help authors and publishers discover new audiences for books they've made available for free under Creative Commons (CC) licenses. Rightsholders who want to distribute their CC-licensed books more widely can choose to allow readers around the world to...