links for 2006-06-11

Another company targets video search, this time overseas: Autonomy has just signed a joint venture with China Netcom Broadband (CNCBB), one of China’s biggest internet companies with more than 110m subscribers. The pair have agreed to create a service that will allow Chinese consumers to search for news and video clips from 25 local and…

This news is a month old, but it has been sitting in my "to post" file and since I’ve done a lot with success and failure in paid subscriptions lately, here’s a success story from MediaPost: THE NEWLY FORMED INTERNET DIVISION of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. acquired Scout Media Inc., a Seattle-based online sports company…

I got a note this week that one of the companies I wrote about from the DEMO conference has launched has opened up for a free public beta.  Now, this isn’t the sort of product that would interest me since my interest in music is slim and I haven’t played an instrument since guitar in…

ConsumerGeneratedMedia.com: Joel Cere of Hill & Knowlton published a good, well-researched piece on CGM entitled Consumer-Generated: From mayhem to Marketing, which serves as a appropriate survey of key themes related to consumer-generated content. Regular readers know this is a hot topic for me lately.

Speaking of paying for content, USC’s Annenberg school has an interesting piece about a paid content success stroy: Cook’s Illustrated: Stirring up synergy to sell online food content. [via Online News Squared]