links for 2009-07-09

• 10 Ways Twitter Will Change American Business >> Time
• Social Media Marketing Spend to Hit $3.1 Billion by 2014 >> Mashable
• Netbook OS Oddsmaking: Who Will Win the War? >> GigaOm
• Rupert Murdoch: We Don’t Want Twitter >> Mashable
• Product Reviews as Social Media Marketing >> ClickZ
• How Community Arts Organizations Are Using Social Media >> Mashable
• News sites stay up during Jackson memorial >> CNET Webware blog
• What Men’s Health Workouts can teach you about paid mobile >> Steve Outing
• The Decline of Traditional Advertising and the Rise of Social Media >> PR 2.0 Brian Solis
• The end of news websites? >> Online Journalism Blog
• Discussing Spot.Us Business Model with Mother Jones' Steve Katz >> MediaShift Idea Lab

links for 2009-07-08

• U.S. Kids spending more time online >> SiliconIndia
• The Future of Search (TV) >> Search Insider, MediaPost Blogs
• Free Services Turn Into Paid Ones. (Plaxo) How Fair Is That? >> Profy
• Michael Jackson Memorial Results In More Facebook Traffic Than U.S. Inauguration >> All Facebook blog
• Michael Jackson Funeral: 500,000+ Facebook Updates Posted >> Mashable
• Mashable Mind Map: What is the Future of Blogging? >> Mashable
• A guide to (UK National) newspapers on Twitter >> Online Journalism Blog
• Russia Has World’s Most Engaged Social Networking Audience?
  Russia Has World’s Most Engaged Social Networking Audience? >> Stowe Boyd
• 10 Stunning (And Useful) Stats About Twitter >> Influential Marketing Blog

links for 2009-07-07

• Howard Kurtz – Media Notes: Howard Kurtz on the Personality Preoccupation of Mediaite.com >> washingtonpost.com
• 12 Companies Targeting Early Tech Adopters >> ReadWriteWeb
• Maybe Twitter Trends Shouldn't Be Entirely Automated? >> ReadWriteWeb
• Mediaite launch notes from Dan Abrams >> Mediaite
• Twitter to Enter the Collins English Dictionary >> Mashable
• 4chan may be behind attack on Twitter >> CNET News – Web Services Report blog
• Web browsers targeting niche groups >> CNN
• Michael Wesch on the Anthropology of YouTube >> The Bivings Report
• Marc Andreessen’s Burgeoning Blogging Empire: Invests In Talking Points Memo >> TechCrunch

links for 2009-07-06

• PollDaddy Traffic Soars, Releases Ratings Widget With Possible Digg Competitor On The Horizon >> Digital Media Buzz
• 10 Useful Tips for Tricking Out FriendFeed >> Steve Rubel
• Japan’s Rakuten: Can The Biggest E-Commerce Site You Never Heard Of Become a Threat for Amazon Globally? >> TechCrunch
• Beta No More: Wikipedia Mobile Officially Launches with Important Changes for Editors >> ReadWriteWeb
• Facebook’s Twitterification: Is it the Right Move? >> Mashable
• Influx of Twitter Account Suspensions Creating Confusion >> Mashable
• Details on Marc Andreessen’s New Fund (Plus Five Other Interesting Things He Said) >>TechCrunch
• Social Networking As Business Tool: Still Early Days? >> Stowe Boyd
• CompuServe: A Ground Breaking Online Fades Out After 40 Years >> Fanboy.com
• Twitter Comes to the Rescue (for disgruntled airline passengers) >> New York Times
• 5 Tips for Building a Successful Hyperlocal Site >> Poynter E-Media Tidbits
• MI6 boss in Facebook entry row >> BBC

links for 2009-07-04

• Twitter Censoring Trending Topics? Isn't It About Time? >> ReadWriteWeb
  Tonight, the bored and lonely segment of Twitter users banded together to push three sexy, raunchy, and totally inappropriate terms into the trending topics leaderboard. Within minutes (as …
• Local online advertising may be up >> Borrell Associates

links for 2009-07-03

• In Defense of Social Media (At Least Some Of It) >> O'Reilly Radar
• Calling bullshit on social media >> Scott Berkun
• Gizmodo, Engadget Guys Launch GDGT (And Get Crushed By Traffic) >> Silicon Alley Insider
• Bing Includes Tweets With Search Results (For Famous People) >> Mashable
• Twitter explains Tweet trademark >> Internet Advertising Bureau
• News Flash: Guardian Seeks to Grow through Products, Not Content >> Junta42 Joe Pulizzi
• Google Drops News Comment Feature >> New York Times Media Decoder
• Social Media Program Lifecycle >> Valeria Maltoni
• Latest Facebook usage statistics by country >> Nick Burcher
  Latest Facebook usage statistics by country
• BBC Free: Help us free your content >> BBC Free campaign

links for 2009-07-02

• Facebook Simplifies Privacy But Wants You to Share More >> GigaOm
• StyleCaster Nets $4 Million For Personalized Fashion Community >> TechCrunch
• Newspapers: turn off your RSS feeds >> Online Journalism blog
• New Twitter site designed for journalists >> CyberJournalist.net
• YouTube and Google News come together for publishers
• EveryBlock Source Code Released >> MediaShift Idea Lab

links for 2009-07-01

• Can the (US) Coast Guard Get It Right on Social Media? >> Wired: Danger Room blog
• Updated: Google Wants Newspapers To Post Their Videos To YouTube >> paidContent
• Journalism Online announces first deal >> Crain's New York Business
• AOL Cracks Web Publishing — Sans Time Warner >> Advertising Age
• Facebook Launches Keyword Suggestions For Ads >> All Facebook blog
• Three Startups That Want to Deliver a Fat Mobile Pipe >> GigaOM
• Top 5 Killer Features in Firefox 3.5 >> Mashable
• Twitter your Flickr >> Flickr blog
• Cybercrime spreads on Facebook >> Reuters

links for 2009-06-30

• Facebook Sets the Stage for IPO With New CFO >>Mashable
  (tags: facebook ipo cfo)
• WARNING: Twittersblogs is Another Twitter Phishing Scam >>Mashable
  (tags: twitter scam phishing)
• US political blog Talking Points Memo to double staff to 14>> Talking Points Memo
• Craving intimacy in our social networks >>Robert Scoble
  (tags: twitter friendfeed socialnetworks)
• Blogger ethics: proper attribution > accountability >> Ars Technica
  (tags: blogging ethics accountability)
• How active is Twitter now? Tweespeed >>O'Reilly Radar
  (tags: twitter statistics)
• 80% of Twitter traffic come through API >>InfoQ
  (tags: twitter technology api)
• Keynote: Ad Networks Failed, Not News Sites (during Michael Jackson story) >>Data Center Knowledge
  Kevin: Rich Miller cites a Keynote Systems analysis of the internet traffic as news of Michael Jackson's death broke. "Advertising networks and widgets are being cited as the key factors in the performance problems experienced by major news sites during the crush of Internet traffic Thursday as news broke about the death of pop star Michael Jackson."
  (tags: michaeljackson internet journalism news traffic analytics)
• UK ad spend dropped 4% in 2008, says ASA >>Journalism.co.uk
  (tags: advertising UK business economy)

links for 2009-06-29

• Alice Hoffman Trashes Literary Critic on Twitter >> Gawker
  (tags: twitter_rage)
• “Silicon Valley’s First Phone Company” -A conversation with Ted Griggs >>O'Reilly Radar
  (tags: voip telecoms BT technology)
• 53 APIs Used in 7 Days: Bing, Flickr, Last.fm, Ooyala, Salesforce, and 48 More >>Programmable Web
  (tags: APIs mashups lastfm flickr delicious amazon)
• Jackson, Twitter and Wet iPhones: Top 10 Social Media Stories This Week >> Mashable
  Celebrity deaths dominated the news this week, and these tragic stories became the source of much social media chatter.
  (tags: iphone iran michaeljackson socialmedia twitter youtube)
• The Troubles of Crowdsourcing: How Do You Keep a Secret? >> Mashable
  (tags: Afghanistan NYTimes journalist safety wikipedia)
• How To Save The Newspapers, Vol. XII: Outlaw Linking>> TechCrunch
  "Of all the misguided schemes put forth lately to save newspapers (micropayments! blame Google!), the one put forth by Judge Richard Posner has Posner has to be the most jaw-dropping."
  (tags: businessmodels copyright hyperlinks journalism)
• Saturday Post: If You Are In The Path Of A Disruptive Technology You Are Toast – Goodbye Newspaper Companies >> SiliconValleyWatcher
  Silicon Valley Watcher – reporting on the business of innovation at the intersection of technology and media
  (tags: business journalism newspapers technology)
• Debate: Can the Internet handle big breaking news? | Digital Media – CNET News
  CNET News' Tom Krazit and Declan McCullagh debate whether the tendency of Web sites to stagger under high demand can be avoided, or is even that big of a problem. Read this blog post by Declan McCullagh on Digital Media.
  (tags: internet michaeljackson news traffic)