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Social media comes of age – CNN says so
November 28, 2008 – 11:19 am | One Comment
Social media comes of age – CNN says so

The terror attacks in Mumbai shocked the world at large on more than one level. The violence, injury and loss of human life which we brace ourselves for every time something like this happens somewhere …

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Twitter redefining the concept of breaking news
November 27, 2008 – 12:14 pm | 9 Comments
Twitter redefining the concept of breaking news

Today seems to be all about Twitter. In the wake of the terrorist attacks in Mumbai, news of which spread by Twitter well before the mainstream media started their coverage, Michael Arrington at TechCrunch argues …

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NYT’s Live Blogging Jumps the Shark…..
November 26, 2008 – 9:49 pm | No Comment
NYT’s Live Blogging Jumps the Shark…..

How else to explain the decision to live blog Thanksgiving? Who the hell is going to read that????

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Six laid off at Technorati, everyone else takes a pay cut
November 26, 2008 – 12:39 pm | No Comment
Six laid off at Technorati, everyone else takes a pay cut

Technorati has joined the long list of tech companies tightening their belts in anticipation of a long hard year ahead. The company’s laid off six staff and implemented pay cuts across the board, as CEO …

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LinkedIn launches new search platform
November 25, 2008 – 3:01 pm | 2 Comments
LinkedIn launches new search platform

Hot on the heels of InApps, LinkedIn has announced a new search platform featuring a whack of new features including customization and saved searches. The social network’s senior product manager Esteban Kozak blogged the new …

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No Facebook/Twitter merger – yet
November 24, 2008 – 1:32 pm | 2 Comments
No Facebook/Twitter merger – yet

Another scoop over the weekend for Kara Swisher at AllThingsDigital, who breaks the news that yes, Facebook and Twitter had been in serious acquisition talks for about a month and no, nothing’s going to come …

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US online ad spend grinding to a halt
November 21, 2008 – 3:36 pm | No Comment
US online ad spend grinding to a halt

It’s something industry observers have anticipated for a while, and the Interactive Advertising Bureau has confirmed with the release of its Q3 report of internet advertising revenues in the US, which shows that while performance …

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GE sees the light, launches blog and YouTube channel
November 20, 2008 – 2:10 pm | 2 Comments
GE sees the light, launches blog and YouTube channel

General Electric Co has changed the way it communicates with Wall Street over the past month, sharing news with investors via a relatively new company blog, Reuters reports. The blog, GEReports.com is accompanied by a …

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The evolution of news
November 19, 2008 – 11:30 am | One Comment
The evolution of news

Though Blogging The Bloggers is about social media in all its forms, one of the principal areas of activity lately has been in the publishing sector, to which today’s edition is devoted. Normal coverage resumes …

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Yang steps down as Yahoo CEO (news breaks on Twitter)
November 18, 2008 – 12:02 pm | No Comment
Yang steps down as Yahoo CEO (news breaks on Twitter)

Kara Swisher broke today’s big news (on Twitter, no less) that Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang will step down as soon as the board finds a replacement for him. Yang’s internal memo to Yahoo staff and …

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