NYT Declares Facebook Experiment A Success

Never mind all the economic doom and gloom; the New York Times is thrilled with how its venture into social networking has gone.  A new memo notes some numbers that beat internal expectations, and should sound pretty impressive to outsiders, too.

Amazon Offers Holiday Customer Review Team

Amazon.com has unveiled a "Holiday Customer Review Team" that consists of half a dozen of its most active reviewers.Amazon says the goal of the review team is to "provide fellow Amazon customers with top gift picks for the season as well as helpful tips on cutting costs over the holidays."The reviewers have been given access to some of Amazon's most popular Black Friday deals so…

Google: Domain Thefts Not Caused By Gmail Vulnerability

It's not unusual for companies to take a "move along, nothing to see here" approach to discussing problems; PR departments don't want people to dwell on such things.  Only in this case, Google seems to be making honest use of the sentiment as it's busted a rumor about a Gmail vulnerability and domain theft.

Blogs As Credible News Sources?

While I would suspect that the findings of a MediaPost Research Brief come as no surprise I do think there are some questions that may be considered as a result.