Rapport: Google Base kan snabbt bli st?rst p? eftertextannonsering

Pressrelease-Yahoo! Finance: "'Google Base could soon become the largest free-classified service anywhere, eclipsing even Craigslist and EBay's services,' said Classified Intelligence founder Peter M. Zollman. 'It's the biggest threat yet to established classified businesses, both print and online.'"

Nyheter direkt i Gmail

PCWorld.com: "Gmail users can customize the new Web Clips feature so that it displays links from Really Simple Syndication (RSS) or Atom syndication feeds or to news articles about specific topics, for example. Web Clips items appear along the top of the Gmail screen.
'Each clip displays the source from which it was received, how long ago the clip was published, and a link to access the entire story or page containing the clip,' according to an explanation of the new feature posted in Gmail's help section.
Last week, Yahoo integrated an RSS reader into the new version of its Yahoo Mail Web Web mail service, which is still in beta and not generally available yet. "

Washington post satsar på medborgarjournalistik

Editor&Publisher: "'Community journalism is going to be very important on the Web to us,' Krim said. 'Figuring out how to do that and leveraging all of our editorial and business resources in order to do that is what I'll be working on.'

When asked what form the Washington Post's community efforts would take, be it completely audience-generated or a combination of staff-led editorial augmented by community interaction, Krim said, 'That's the million dollar question.'"

Europeiska tidningsutgivare vill stoppa Google News

Editor&Publisher: "European publishers warned Tuesday that they cannot keep allowing Internet search engines such as Google Inc. to make money from their content. 'The new models of Google and others reverse the traditional permission-based copyright model of content trading that we have built up over the years,' said Francisco Pinto Balsemao, the head of the European Publishers Council, in prepared remarks for a speech at a Brussels conference."

Bokförläggare varnar för digital tsunami

Working Smart:: "While most publishers will admit that reference content is better accessed on the computer, almost all believe that the traditional non-fiction book or novel will never be replaced with a digital equivalent. I say, "baloney." It's coming. The sooner publishing executives get their collective heads out of the sand and face the future, the better prepared they will be to meet it.
I am convinced that we are only one device away from a digital publishing tsunami. Consider what happened when Apple launched the iPod in October of 2001. They provided an end-to-end solution that made downloading music easy, portable, and fun. Now, 30-plus million iPods later, iPods are everywhere. "

Etik för nätjournalister (och bloggare?)

ojr.org: "The ethics of online journalism are, ultimately, no different than the ethics of journalism. The Society of Professional Journalists has articulated a comprehensive policy of journalism ethics that can help guide any consciencious online writer."

Den nya tevetekniken hotar broadcastidén?

MediaGuardian.co.uk: "With the remaining half of the UK's population still to migrate to digital TV, and multichannel TV assaulting the traditional broadcasters, it is only natural for the channels to try to extend their influence and protect future business through new delivery platforms. As technology makes possible a future that we aren't commercially prepared for it's ironic that, when faced with such convergence, our behaviour as consumers is to demand divergence of access, which could provide an even bigger threat to the traditional broadcast model than the internet.
Take football. With the exception of short highlights, we're used to paying to see live football on television and it's likely that we'd have the same relationship with football whether it was delivered through a satellite dish or broadband service. But the same is not true of our relationship with reality programmes, though, and we may pay to download to our computer footage that never makes it to the TV screen. The constant is that in both cases, it's the content, not the channel and delivery mechanism, that's important."

Eftertextannonspionjär vill revolutionera journalistiken

Editor&Publisher: "Saying U.S. newspapers 'are afraid to talk truth to power,' Craigslist founder Craig Newmark hinted that he's about to launch a major online journalism project within the next few months that will copy the successful 'wisdom of the masses' approach to classified advertising and apply it to journalism"

Guldfloden på väg att byta fåra

DN/Medievärlden:"Ibland torkar floder ut." Det sa Rupert Murdoch, tidningsmagnaten som bland annat äger engelska The Times, i en intervju i förra veckan.
Han syftar på att han en gång sagt att intäkterna från tidningarnas eftertextannonser är som "floder av guld". Och så fortsätter han: "Jag känner ingen under 30 som någonsin tittat på en eftertextannons i en tidning.""

Microsoft satsar också på gratis eftertexttjänst

Tech News on ZDNet: "The concept was born in February "as we looked at the way classifieds were heading online," he said. "It was quite obvious there was a huge market starting to grow there." "
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""People talk about Google Base as a classifieds play, but there is some uncertainty about that," said Greg Sterling, managing editor of The Kelsey Group, who reported on the pending Windows Live classifieds service a week ago in a Search Engine Journal blog. "This (Fremont) is unmistakably a classifieds service," and an "impressive" one at that. "