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The challenge for media companies is not to figure out what to do with their content - content in and of itself doesn't matter.

AOP survey shows about 70% of digital publishers in the newspaper, magazine and TV industries will charge for content online, it also illustrates that more than half of media firms use Twitter to publish content

Content is moved online, whilst advertisers have been slow to follow. Channel 4 decided to put the most channel's content online in full online, including advertising.The broadcaster will share the revenues earned with YouTube.

THE ABC has called on the federal government to pass laws ensuring consumers won't have to pay to access any publicly funded content carried on the planned national broadband network, a measure that would give it a huge advantage over its commercial rivals.

Everybody's talking about content monetisation. David Howe looks at two proposals on the table from Google and Microsoft

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.

This article discusses the kindle reader - what it is, content, downsides.

It is a good news for Internet users, especially google users to see the google books under cc licenses. The more rights of viewers to see the books, the more criticize and ideas come out. then more crticize, the more critics criticize, the better the information is shared by authors and readers. The better the information is about how to improve the books, the more improvement of content is made.

"Content in and of itself doesn't matter. It's all about the package,"

Rupert Murdoch states that serch engines such as Google News need to pay the content fee for news providers at the World Media Summit in Beijing

Google CEO Eric Schmidt points out that it is unlikely to pay for the content as there are many free sources available on the Internet at a press conference in Sydney.

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.'

Digital publishing company Pressmart Media is launching ePortal, a hosted service which includes tools for content and interface management that will allow publications to post and update a variety of content to a domain of their choice.

Today, users are adding metadata and using tags to organize their own digital collections, categorize the content of others and build bottom-up classification systems.

Google CEO Eric Schmidt envisions a radically changed internet five years from now: dominated by Chinese-language and social media content, delivered over super-fast bandwidth in real time.

News Analysis: Microsoft's recently launched Bing Twitter site is indexing tweets in real time. Not to be outdone, Google promises that Twitter content will be integrated into Google's search results page in a few months. Yahoo is allegedly working on real-time search with startup OneRiot. What are the implications?

There are various ebook reader devices on sale and there are plenty of books in electronic format available, but we have not reached the tipping point where cheap ebook devices are available and enough ebook content is available at an attractive price.

A new feature on the Google toolbar-which is installed on millions of computers around the world-lets users comment about the content of any web page they visit; the comments are then visible to other toolbar owners when they visit that site (see screenshot to the left).