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• Fwix Aggregates Local News, Compensates Bloggers, Filling a Void

  BNET - 2009-12-04

  In the ongoing debate over the future of the media business, especially when it comes to news, the extremes tend to dominate, and not just ideologically. "The future is hyper-local." "The future is global." "Algorithms can do it all." (Google News.)...

  Tags: Google Inc., Journalist, Advertisement, Extremes, Blogger, Fwix, Blogging, Internet, David Weir

• FDA Seeks Advice From Blogger; Google Solves Pharma's Ad Problems

  BNET - 2009-11-12

  The FDA sought the advice of John Mack, a blogger with 20,000 monthly readers who runs the Pharma Marketing Blog, on how drug companies should use the web to advertise their products. The agency usually likes to hear from lawyers, drug company executives and academics when it seeks regulatory advice....

  Tags: Google Inc., FDA, Advertisement, Advice, Drug Company, Pharmaceutical Company, Blogger, Federal Government, Government, Jim Edwards

• Google Mystery Blogger Promotion Was For Sidewiki

  BNET - 2009-09-24

  Last week I mentioned that Google was pushing a new product via a blogger PR blitz and a promise to send a gift bag pertaining to a new product. It seems that it was Google Sidewiki, which gives users the ability to annotate web pages, contributing content and probably expanding...

  Tags: Google Inc., Web Page, Blogger, Public Relations, Channel Management, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Erik Sherman

• Google Pushing New Product Through Bloggers

  BNET - 2009-09-18

  Google has been emailing a "small set of expert bloggers," asking if they would be interested in looking at a new product that apparently hasn't yet been announced, according to an email, forwarded to me, from a Google marketing person. The company is offering "a gift package" to ship in...

  Tags: Google Inc., Blogger, Blogging, Internet, Erik Sherman

• Outed Blogger Plans To Sue Google; Skank Model Mess Gets Messier

  BNET - 2009-08-24

  Tags: Google Inc., Lawsuit

• Outed "Skanks of NYC" Blogger Plans to Sue Google for $15 Million

  BNET - 2009-08-24

  Last week, a controversial court ruling forced Google to reveal the identity of a previously anonymous blogger, who had used the Internet as an outlet to trash a Canadian-born model named Liskula Cohen. The user behind the "Skanks of New York" website, which was hosted on Blogger, has since...

  Tags: Blogger, Google Inc., identity

• Google Reveals Blogger Who Called Model Liskula Cohen "Skank"

  BNET - 2009-08-19

  Bloggers who hide behind screen names to insult people may find that online pseudonyms don't really conceal one's identity. A New York state supreme court judge has ordered Google to reveal a blogger's account information to model Liskula Cohen so that she can pursue a defamation claim arising from a...

  Tags: Blogger, Google Inc.

• Google Reader Updates: Share News on Twitter, Facebook, and More

  BNET - 2009-08-12

  Today confirms that Google's not giving up their quest to become more social media friendly. Earlier today they introduced a series of new iGoogle features that make it more of a social network than a start page, and just now they've released an update to your Google Reader to turn...

  Tags: Twitter, Google Inc., Google Reader

• Twitter outage spotlights 'addiction to social media crack'

  BNET - 2009-08-09

  The attack that knocked Twitter offline and slowed access to Facebook Thursday morning offered a quick lesson in how dependent millions of people have become on social networking sites. A distributed denial-of-service DDoS attack took the microblogging site Twitter offline for about two hours yesterday morning. The same attack also...

  Tags: Attack, Twitter, Google Inc., Facebook, social networking

• Saturday Morning's Links to Top Bloggers

  BNET - 2009-03-14

  Every now and again, it's time to give a shout-out to other media and technology bloggers for the great work they are doing. I still hear so much complaining about bloggers from various people -- journalists included -- that I have to wonder whether they actually are reading any blogs......

  Tags: Google Inc., Blogger, Blogging, Internet, David Weir