The hyperlocal market in the US is continuing to heat up. USA Today-owner Gannett plans to boost its hyperlocal presence with more than 100 sites that will see it bring together community newspapers, local television stations with its high school sports community website HighSchoolSports.net. Read More
Wired editor Chris Anderson, famous for saying that the nature of digital abundance (as opposed to physical scarcity) would create a race to the zero-price-point has now come out proclaiming the web dead. Read More
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the folks over at Google TV have started courting the Big 4 (ABC, NBC, Fox and CBS) in a bid to a make legitimate run at the potential gold rush that is TV over the web. This should be interesting. Normally, the very thought of Google going into a new area of business usually means money in the bank, but I’m a bit more sceptical of Google TV. Read More
Having been rumoured for months Facebook has finally unveiled its geolocation check-in service Facebook Place. That’s right it has a check-in service just like Foursquare. Is it a killer? Or will its presence act as a conduit to help massively expand the nascent sector? Read More
This is an interesting one. Media buyer Starcom MediaVest is said to have struck a deal with a Hollywood content firm that will see it hook up its clients with a variety of websites and content in an agreement that could be worth more than $100m.
Facebook will today announce the addition of a series of new features on its website, which are thought to include a Foursquare-style ‘places’ function that can be integrated into third-part applications. This is going to be big.
Rarely have I felt so angry. On 5 August, nine foreign aid workers for the International Assistant Mission (IAM), including Karen Woo, a British doctor, were slaughtered in Afghanistan. Read More
Twitter has just announced on their blog the launch of Twitter Tales – tales.twitter.com – a series of compelling stories of Twitter users around the globe. Initial articles in this growing collection include @natashabadhwar, a New Delhi filmmaker whose poetry and photographs found an instant following after famous film critic Roger Ebert retweeted her in March 2010. Read More
You have to love the math. Do you remember way back when Lycos was a big deal on web? It was once worth a whopping $12.5bn. That’s what it sold for in 2000. It was Spanish telecom giant Telefonica that bought it at the height of the dotcom boom. Read More
George Parker started it. He could not hold it in any longer and let rip at social media. If you know him then you know his opinions. He’s not interested in your social media poop scoop. And there is no such thing as social media strategy.
“Yes, I know, every Tom, Dick and fu**ing Harry now has to have a “Social Media Strategy” which is best summed up by Mike Phillips here. But, these things will pass… Just look at the news yesterday that the Wizened of Oz has engaged the services of hot shop, Pereira & Dell to drag MySpace back from the brink of extinction. Read More
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