Google speaks mythic truths about Google News
Everything you think you know about Google News is, um, possibly wrong, but some of it could be right.
MySpace Music On The Way
MySpace is set to launch a joint music venture with three of the major music labels, according to sources familiar with the deal.
Craigslist: Little Ads, $81 Million In Revenue
The website devouring the classified industry could hit $100 million in revenue in 2009 with a couple of minor changes, with the old-line newspaper industry helplessly watching from the sidelines.
42% Of Americans Play Games Online
Participation in gaming increased in 2007 over 2006, from 64 percent of the population to 72 percent of the population according to a new report from The NPD Group, "Online Gaming 2008."More than half play games online, with 90 percent of online gamers saying they use a PC to play games and 19 percent said they use a video game console with 3 percent saying they use a cell phone.The number of online gamers relative to the total U.S. population is 42 percent so far this year, up from 40 percent in 2007.
Children On Social Networking Sites
Pssst. Hey kid! Want to earn a quarter? Tell your friends about this cool new video game, and it’s yours.Silly? Not really. Not when you consider a new survey out of the UK that suggests 49% of kids aged between 8 and 17 have a social media profile.
IOC Issues New Internet Rules
The International Olympic Committee has issued updated rules for new media covering the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.The rules will allow media organizations to use their own Web sites to host written and photographic coverage of the games if it is for normal journalistic and editorial use. "The Internet is an important medium for the communication and promotion of sport and the Olympic Movement," the IOC said in the guidelines.
Yahoo oneSearch 2.0 Presented
For a short while, Yahoo oneSearch spread like wildfire. Then it crossed several oceans, making the old cliche inapplicable. It looks like Yahoo oneSearch 2.0 will follow a similar growth pattern in the near future.
Google: Now With 15 Percent Less DoubleClicking
Rumors of pending layoffs at Google’s new acquisition, DoubleClick, suggest 15 percent of the ad serving company won’t be dining on free Google grub.
Authors to stop writing? On what planet?
Fears of Internet piracy could persuade writers to cease creating new works, one group claims. We have our own claim, and it rhymes with full snit.
Ofcom Finds Kids Sneaking Around Social Networks
Social networks are practically crawling with kids, according to a new report from the UK’s Office of Communications. What’s more: the children are often on them in violation of the networks’ rules, and their parents pay little attention.