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Crowdsourcing helps save JPG Magazine (maybe)
January 13, 2009 – 10:44 am | No Comment
Crowdsourcing helps save JPG Magazine (maybe)

There may be light at the end of the tunnel for JPG Magazine, which at the beginning of the year announced it would be closing within days. The popular photography publication built entirely around high …

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UK web innovation threatened by over-zealous regulation
January 12, 2009 – 11:16 am | No Comment
UK web innovation threatened by over-zealous regulation

This is serious. The UK government plans to introduce legislation around retaining email data and rating online content, which if implemented could seriously stifle innovation on the web, not to mention putting a cramp in …

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Twitter-based news alert service morphs into public news wire
January 9, 2009 – 10:49 am | One Comment
Twitter-based news alert service morphs into public news wire

Back in November 2008, we brought you news of BreakingNewsOn, a Twitter-based news alert service known for breaking news before mainstream channels (it famously once broke news of a bus crash even before the emergency …

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Cisco launches social networking for big media
January 8, 2009 – 11:10 am | No Comment
Cisco launches social networking for big media

Cisco Systems, traditionally known for its networking infrastructure products, is starting to make waves in the social networking space, with its launch of Eos, a hosted software platform targeted at big media companies who want …

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How newspapers tried and failed to invent the web
January 7, 2009 – 11:16 am | No Comment
How newspapers tried and failed to invent the web

Amid the state of upheaval that the newspaper publishing industry currently finds itself, Jack Schafer has written a fascinating piece looking at how newspapers’ tried to invent the web with their take-up of new media …

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Security flaws bite Twitter
January 6, 2009 – 11:06 am | No Comment
Security flaws bite Twitter

First phishers, now hackers — the Twitter security concern got a little scarier yesterday, with the news that 33 high profile accounts, including those of Britney Spears and Barack Obama, were hacked. Twitter is acting …

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The year ahead for social media
January 5, 2009 – 10:45 am | No Comment
The year ahead for social media

It’s a new year, and as people bid adieu to 2008 and bienvenue to 2009, there’s a fair bit of social media review, round-up and prediction going on. Forrester’s Jeremiah Owyang and Josh Bernoff review …

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Facebook and LinkedIn face competition from Xing
December 19, 2008 – 11:19 am | No Comment
Facebook and LinkedIn face competition from Xing

Xing, the social network for professionals that has quite a lot of traction in Europe, has announced its purchase of socialMedian, a social news aggregator startup which came out of private beta just a few …

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Histrionic bloggers changing the face of PR?
December 18, 2008 – 12:20 pm | 2 Comments
Histrionic bloggers changing the face of PR?

Michael Arrington has thrown a major wobbly over the misuse of PR embargoes and in a  related stream of barbed vitriol, has begun publicly denouncing the attention-seeking behaviour bordering on spamming tactics employed by some …

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Need a job? Twitter’s hiring
December 17, 2008 – 11:52 am | No Comment
Need a job? Twitter’s hiring

Twitter’s looking for a business product manager. Michael Arrington at TechCrunch sees it as the first step in Twitter’s plan to ramp up revenue, adding:
“Most startups in this position simply sell themselves before it becomes …

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