I ran across this announcement today about SearchForVideo.com and checked it out. Looks pretty good. A quick comparison of with Truveo (see yesterday’s post) found that SearchForVideo.com found nearly twice as many videos matching the search term "John Roberts" (634 vs. 349)
I haven’t spent enough time to study the differences in methodology, but it’s an interesting result nonetheless. Certainly activity in this space is really picking up.
MediaPost reports that Yahoo has announced a leap into original content, featuring former war reporter Kevin Sites. Sites, a veteran of CNN and NBC, plans to leave for Africa on Wednesday. He will spend the next year traveling to 36 war-torn corners of the world, and reporting on how current events affect people’s lives. ……
Online News Squared: “Knight Ridder revives the name of a former afternoon paper and uses it for the latest effort at citizen journalism at TheColumbiaRecord.com.” And MicroPersuasion reports on another major newspaper chain getting into the CJ game: "MediaPost: ‘Cox-owned Austin American-Statesman today plans to launch a free community blogging service on its group of…
I’m hiring two senior deputies for my new gig at DCI Group in Washington, DC. Specifically, I’m looking for a VP of Digital Operations and a VP of Digital Strategy.
PubSub‘s Bob Wyman offers two interesting posts as part of Global PR Blog Week 2.0 describing what prospective search is and how it can benefit clients needing blog monitoring. It’s a subject I have particular interest in since it is the primary methodology we use at CustomScoop for our online media monitoring. Come to think…
Yahoo-Backed Group To Digitize Library, Academic Content (tags: NewProducts Search) ABC, CBS and NBC Inch Closer VOD Launches (tags: OnlineMedia) Politics and Technology: Politics in a Match.com World (tags: OnlinePolitics SocialNetworking) Beyond Blogs and Social Networks: How Consumer Generated Media and the Virtual Handshake will Make or Break Your Business Conference to be held in…
The sixth episode of the Disruptive Dialogue podcast is now available. This one was recorded in Bow, NH and is 28:51. You can download this podcast as an MP3 or subscribe to the RSS feed to make sure you never miss an episode. Topics: 00:34 – Opening & Introduction 02:47 – wealthy people read blogs…