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"head over to Boing Boing Gadgets, and read the meme that started earlier this week about the future of a very specific brand, Wired magazine, how it has capitalized on the brand online over the years, and the future for the print and online versions going ahead."
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Videos from Google Zeitgeist Europe 2009.
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"Yahoo! Placemaker is a freely available geoparsing Web service. It helps developers make their applications location-aware by identifying places in unstructured and atomic content – feeds, web pages, news, status updates – and returning geographic metadata for geographic indexing and markup."
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"Placemaker is an API that enables developers to pass unstructured data in documents to the service. It extracts the location information in those documents and allows the information to be associated with one or more locations (publishers/developers need to decide which places are most important)."
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"Why does Google even need a chief economist? The simplest reason is that the company is an economy unto itself. The ad auction, marinated in that special sauce, is a seething laboratory of fiduciary forensics, with customers ranging from giant multinationals to dorm-room entrepreneurs, all billed by the world's largest micropayment system."
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"What it boils down to is this: you can alter the web address of a Google spreadsheet to filter the data and find the story."
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"While the e-mail market reaps $12.1 billion, only $848 million of that is local. However, the local media research outfit predicts big growth for local e-mail spending. By 2013, Borrell expects local e-mail revenues will exceed $2 billion, increasing 150 percent. "
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"At this unthinkably late hour, many of even the most recalcitrant journalists and newsy curmudgeons have given themselves over, painfully, to the fundamentally important fact that the economics of abundance now govern their world."
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"For my first talk, I thought I would address the subject of the future of journalism, not because I can tell you what it is but because, a bit like the feature in the front of Heat magazine, it is the thing which ‘everybody is talking about’."
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"Seamus McCauley, strategic analyst at Associated Northcliffe Digital, told an audience at City University that the company is developing a series of hyperlocal websites that 'combine social networking with news'. The first 30 sites will go live next month."
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"Mr. Denton told us earlier in the year that sales were actually up double digits, and it appeared marketers' reactions to the recession were "more strategic" than he thought. Sales in the first quarter were up 27% from last year and the second quarter is looking stronger, he said"
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"While some might hold out hope that the economy could stabilize in the second half of the year, Cowen & Co. have lowered their revenue forecast for U.S. online ads to a 6 percent decline in 2009 to $22 billion"
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"They can and should report – but the link economy demands that they specialize, that they stand out above the level playing field by reporting uniquely"
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"Consortium Has Sold Nearly $50 Million So Far"
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US: "In a report today, Cowen & Co. analyst Jim Friedland says he now expects online advertising sales to fall six percent in the United States this year, down from a previous estimate of negative three percent."
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"I had an interesting email discussion yesterday with a friend. He suggested to me that media doesn't need to be in the cloud to create a great social media service. He said that the files can be stored locally and only the data needs to be in the cloud. I'm not so sure about that."
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