Amazon announced today that it will be launching a Content Delivery Network service before the end of the year. This could mean bad news for other networks.
AOL Opening Up To Third-Party Content
AOL has introduced a new feature on its homepage that allows users to access multiple email services from third parties.The company says it is revamping AOL.com to offer users more choice and customization in an effort to attract more traffic.
LinkedIn, CNBC To Integrate News And Other Content
LinkedIn.com – a social site for professionals – is partnering with CNBC to integrate news and other content. LinkedIn has over 27 million members but until now has had very little community-buildling or social networking features.Currently on LinkedIn you can email other professionals, ask them questions, and give or get recommendations from people in your network. Now you’ll also be able to share information with them – something that is happening informally anyway.
Google Leaps Into Olympic Content Race
Google’s not in its usual place ahead of the pack; you could almost compare the search giant to a runner who somehow got his feet stuck in the starting blocks. But, following Yahoo and Microsoft, Google’s finally unveiled some things related to the Summer Games.
Libraries Expand Digital Content
In an effort to attract readers, libraries have increased the amount of digital content they offer including books, music, and movies that can be downloaded by patrons to a computer or mobile device for free.To access the program users need a library card, access to the Internet and some downloadable software such as Adobe Digital Edition, the Mobipocket Reader or the OverDrive Media Console.
Google Announces New Content Network Features
A conversion might, if an advertiser is lucky, take place after a consumer sees a single ad. Several viewings are slightly more likely to result in a positive outcome. But there’s little to be gained the 48th time around, and in a nod to this reality, Google’s introducing some new features on its content network.
Getting Olympic Content On Your Blog
I just landed in Beijing and will be spending the next two weeks here as part of the promotional efforts for what I have previously called my dream project, helping Lenovo to promote its Voices of the Summer Games site that features 100 Olympic athletes blogging their journies to Beijing and experiences at the Olympics.
YouTube To Get Some Olympic Content
Thanks to the International Olympic Committee and YouTube, sports fans in Botswana, Cambodia, and Mongolia – along with 74 other territories – are set to have a better-than-expected August. The two organizations have paired to air clips of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games.
Automated Content Will Unmake Existence
Chess is one thing, but if we get to the point computers can best humans in the arts—those splendid, millennia-old expressions of the heart and soul of human existence—then why bother existing? Fortunately, computers have yet to match us in music or writing or dancing or even drawing—the lines are straighter, but that’s not even the point, and good luck uploading an actual right-brained imagination.*
Study: Online TV Content Ads Connect With Car Shoppers
Online television is nice for all sorts of reasons – the convenience, the selection, the lack of cost. And for advertisers, online content linked to television is nice because it’s helpful in selling new cars.