links for 2005-09-28
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Survey of 1,400 Technology Buyers Reveals Web’s High Reliance and Strong Influence, but Satisfaction Levels With Tech Content and Information Sourced Online Could Be Higher
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RSS use triples
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Blog Measurement Merger
Steve Rubel reports that BuzzMetrics and Intelliseek have been acquired by Nielsen. This represents an interesting marriage between the old school media measurement (Nielsen) and the new world of blog measurement. Previously, Nielsen has gotten into the web site measurement game generally. As companies begin to pay more attention to what is being said in…
links for 2007-05-08
Youtube paying for content, radio and the Viacom Lawsuit…the net result (tags: youtube payingusers) PodTech Interview on TechStars (tags: startups funding event) The real-world view of Web 2.0 (tags: stats) A Boston Newspaper Prints What the Local Bloggers Write – New York Times (tags: media outlook) Real Time – WSJ.com article on Belgian newspaper lawsuit…
eBay to Buy Skype
It feels like it is 1999 again. WSJ reports eBay is paying $2.6 billion (more with earnouts) to buy Skype, an Internet phone company that projects revenues of $60 million this year. UPDATE: PaidContent reports on eBay’s efforts to explain why it isn’t 1999 and the deal makes sense. It includes a 78 slide PowerPoint.
Yahoo to Answer Google on Blog Search
Stephen Baker over at Business Week’s Blogspotting reports: Look for Yahoo! to unveil a response to Google’s blog search early next week. This from Bradley Horowitz, director of tech development in the company’s search group. He wouldn’t provide details in advance. It will be interesting to see how the two products compare — will Yahoo…
10 Causes of Sloppy Email
I get a lot of email. And a lot of that email reflects pretty poorly on the sender. Some of the emails I receive wouldn’t even make the cut as amateur ransom notes. They are often laden with misspellings or typos. Frequently they fail to make a succinct point. They routinely seem to be disorganized…
A Pluck-y Set of Tools for Publishers
Michael Arrington over at TechCrunch profiles a couple of new offerings from Pluck that are designed to help provide fuel to the citizen journalism fire and to make it easier for online publishers to get into the RSS game. I’m particularly intrigued by the effort to help enable community blogging, a move that could revitalize…