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Google is gearing up for the release of Penguin 2.0, which will put link analysis in the spotlight and revive the almighty Google PageRank.
The Knight News Challenge is a contest that recognizes the next generation of news entrepreneurs, and the winners announced this week include startups trying to develop video, mobile, and crowdsourced solutions, leveraging existing technology and networks, to filter through the huge amount of news and content people are exposed to each day.
The world of online video has come a long way in the last couple of years. Google's YouTube might still be the page views leader when it comes to online video viewing, but sites like Hulu, iTunes, and Netflix have embraced a different business model that YouTube is finally trying to catch up with.
What's the real story about the future of the media industry?
A new book by Ann Handley of MarketingProfs and C.C. Chapman of Managing the Gray, Content Rules, teaches readers how to create blogs, podcasts, videos, ebooks, webinars and more that engage customers and ignite your business.
Each year, Technorati conducts a survey of bloggers and uses the data collected to create an annual state of the blogosphere report.
While Twitter started out a few years ago as a social tool where people could communicate in real-time via short snippets, the team behind Twitter believes the site has evolved into something quite different -- a news site.
Elections are now open for the 2010 Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) Content Division Board, a volunteer group of industry executives that works closely with the division’s leadership to direct our activities and initiatives.
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is enacting new guidelines that bloggers and Twitter users need to be aware of. The new rules go into effect on December 1, 2009, and anyone who violates them could face fines up to $11,000 per violation.
Last month, I wrote a post on the Newstex blog called New Twitter Statistics Tell an Interesting Story where I talked about research conducted by Sysomos on 11.5 million Twitter accounts.
A new research report from Sysomos, a social media analytics company, was released in June and provides interesting insight into the world of Twitter.
A new report from comScore shows that 78.6% of the total U.S. Internet audience viewed online video in April 2009. That's up 16% over March!The average online video viewer watched 6.4 hours of online video in April.
