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“Internet advertising revenues for the first half of 2007 reached nearly $10 billion, setting a new record representing an increase of nearly 27 percent over the same period last year, according to a new report from the IAB and PriceWaterhouseCoopers.”
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“Internet advertising revenues (U.S.) for the first six months of 2007 were nearly $10 billion, setting yet another new record and representing a nearly 27 percent increase over the first half of 2006.”
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Full report on US internet advertising revenues for H1 2007.
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US: “Ad revenues remained ‘concentrated with the ten leading ad-selling companies, which accounted for 70 percent of total revenues in the second quarter of 2007, down slightly from 71 percent reported for the second quarter of 2006,’ according to the IAB
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“Nobody worries much about production values [for contributed content] right now, but this will become a bigger deal. As time goes by we get hungry for higher quality. I think you’ll see a rapid improvement.”
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“Based on the total ad revenue per reader, in Q2 Bank of America estimates that on average, newspaper publishers generated about $25 to $38 of ad revenue per daily online reader compared with $70 for each print daily reader.”
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“Distributed journalism means letting go of one asset – content – to build another: community. It means cultivating contacts, not just a contacts book. It means understanding communities, and sometimes being led by them.”
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“Recommenders — perhaps the best known is Amazon’s — tend to drive consumers to concentrate their purchases among popular items rather than allow them to explore and buy whatever piques their curiosity”
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“What I found most surprising about their work was that, in their simulations, a recommender algorithm that did compensate for bestseller bias (called r4 in their paper) still reduced diversity.”
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“news organizations need to get their content and services to where the young people are. That Facebook allows you to do this (while MySpace, as yet, does not) should be viewed as a huge favor bestowed on you.”
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“There’s no need for professional reporters to fear user-generated content. Someone needs to lead the Web’s content communities, and journalists make the ideal candidates.”
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“While I agree wholeheartedly that newspaper journalists should engage as leaders in the community conversation, I think it would be a mistake to overlook the shortcomings and handicaps we inherit from our past.”
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“Slideshows at NYTimes.com account for an amazing 10 percent of all traffic to the site, according to its general manager, Vivian Schiller.”
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“APML allows users to export and use their own personal Attention Profile… The idea is to compress all forms of Attention Data – including Browser History, OPML, Attention.XML, Email etc – into a portable file format”
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“A portable Attention Profile would allow a user to own (and optionally submit) a meta view of their interests to create instant relationships with “attention aware” products and services. This creates an instantly customized user experience.”
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“it’s fair to say no one has really done anything with [it]attention.xml]. One of the aspirations… of the APML Workgroup is to produce something that is ready to be implemented in the consumer space rather than build specifications and formats for the
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Potted summary of the AOP conference from Tim Elkington.
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1. The Internet is the Enemy. 2. We must display all of our site’s content all over the homepage. 3. People will pay for content online. 4. We can’t compete with Craigslist and other classifieds providers. 5. Websites are complicated”
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“Our web sites should be web sites, not newspaper sites. The daily dump doesn’t help us either in print or online and probably hurts us a lot more than we realize.”
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“Economist.com is profitable, Micklethwait says, although it might not be if the contributions of staff paid by the print edition were removed. The internet version includes blogs, but there are still no bylines”
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