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Articles by Basheera Khan

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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Social media engagement – ur doin it wrong
November 17, 2008 – 11:58 am | One Comment
Social media engagement – ur doin it wrong

Pity the marketing execs at Motrin whose attempt to be cool and funny is turning into this week’s object lesson in how quickly a misjudged engagement with a key audience demographic can snowball into a …

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Freaky kid tipped to be the first YouTube/Hollywood crossover hit
November 14, 2008 – 2:05 pm | No Comment
Freaky kid tipped to be the first YouTube/Hollywood crossover hit

Much interest in the social media scene today around young Lucas Cruikshank, whose alter ego Fred, the squeaky-voiced 6-year old with anger management issues, is hot stuff among teen and tween YouTube viewers. Reporting from the …

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Windows Live goes social, unites Microsoft’s online services
November 13, 2008 – 12:53 pm | No Comment
Windows Live goes social, unites Microsoft’s online services

As if the world needed another Facebook, Microsoft has announced the next generation of Windows Live, which integrates almost every social media service you can think of and its dog in an orgy of APIs …

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All eyes on Facebook
November 12, 2008 – 1:01 pm | No Comment
All eyes on Facebook

Henry Blodget at Silicon Alley Insider is sitting on a pile of unconfirmed information regarding Facebook’s current common stock valuation, the upshot of which is: “… it is inaccurate to say that Facebook’s valuation has …

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NYT deconstructs Obama’s social media savvy
November 10, 2008 – 2:10 pm | No Comment
NYT deconstructs Obama’s social media savvy

The New York Times carries a fascinating look at the social media campaign that began with a conversation between the President-elect and Marc Andreessen and ended as the unstoppable force that carried Barack Obama to …

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Facebook and MySpace face off at Web 2.0
November 7, 2008 – 4:37 pm | No Comment
Facebook and MySpace face off at Web 2.0
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