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- Jeff Jarvis Presents Model for Saving Local News, But Can It Work?
- Erick Schonfeld submits: Local news always seems to get the short end of the stick, both in terms of coverage and advertising dollars. And as the entire newspaper industry continues to struggle for survival, the prospects for local news looks particularly bleak. It just doesn’t pay to...
- External links 2009-08-17
- The Media Bundle Is Dead, Long Live the News Aggregators
- Erick Schonfeld submits: Here we go again. The newspaper industry is blaming online news aggregators for its dwindling profits and inability to adapt to a world of links and truly-free flowing information. (They like it when information flows freely into their pages, but not so much when...
- External links 2009-08-16
- Warner Music Says Imeem Is Worthless
- Erick Schonfeld submits: How bad are things getting for music streaming startups? We knew that imeem was on the verge of shutting down before getting a last-minute cash infusion from some of its investors, but an SEC filing from Warner Music adds some more details about...
- External links 2009-05-07
- Netflix CEO on the Economics of Movie Streaming
- Erick Schonfeld submits: A couple years ago, Netflix NFLX began supplementing its DVD mail rental business with movie streams over the Web. for a few thousand select titles. Today, millions of Netflix customers stream their movies instead of waiting for them to come...
- External links 2009-05-31
- As the New York Times Shrinks, Internet Ad Revenues Becomes More Significant
- Erick Schonfeld submits: It was another bleak quarter for the New York Times, which keeps on shrinking. The New York Times announced third quarter earnings Thursday. Total revenues were down 17 percent to $571 million. Of that advertising revenues decreased 27 percent to $291 million, and...
- External links 2009-10-22
- The Google Book Store, Coming Soon to a Browser Near You
- Erick Schonfeld submits: Google GOOG offered some more details on its upcoming digital book store Thursday at the Frankfurt Book Fair. Google plans on selling downloadable electronic books called Google Editions to any device with a browser. by Erick Schonfeld
- External links 2009-10-15
- News Corp: Will the Media World Follow Murdoch's Anti-Google Lead?
- Erick Schonfeld submits: Once again, News Corp NWS is threatening to hide itself from the rest of the Web. Earlier this week, Rupert Murdoch told an Australian interviewer that he might start blocking Google GOOG from WSJ.com and his other news sites, even though Google accounts for...
- External links 2009-11-13
- WSJ.com Could Lose 25% of Its Traffic if Murdoch Blocks Google
- Erick Schonfeld submits: Whenever Rupert Murdoch goes back to his home country of Australia, he loosens up and says things to the press usually his own outlets that he might not say in the U.S. Of course, everyone in the U.S. picks up on it and...
- External links 2009-11-10
- NBC Prepares for the Winter Olympics with High-Tech and Social Networking
- Erick Schonfeld submits: NBC is gearing up for the 2010 Winter Olympics with some changes to its mainstay site, NBCOlympics.com, scheduled to go live Wednesday. See screenshots below. Once again, just as it did with the 2008 Summer Olympics, NBC will be using a video...
- External links 2009-11-03
- AP's Online Complaints: All About Money?
- Erick Schonfeld submits: The Associated Press is yapping again about the “exploitation of news” by search engines, news aggregators and, well, the Internet itself. The CEO of the AP, Tom Curley, told a media industry pow-wow in Beijing: by Erick Schonfeld
- External links 2009-10-09
- Google Is Not About to Cave on Book Digitization
- Erick Schonfeld submits: Wednesday, as Google GOOG co-founder Sergey Brin and CEO Eric Schmidt were holding forth before a dozen or so reporters in their New York City offices, a judge downtown was postponing a hearing on the Google Book settlement until November 9 to give Google...
- External links 2009-10-08
- MySpace Hooks Up with Twitter
- Erick Schonfeld submits: Realizing that it’s better to swim with the stream than against it, MySpace has just turned on two-way sync with Twitter. MySpace status updates can now be sent to Twitter and shared with all of your followers there, and Twitter updates can appear in...
- External links 2009-09-21
- CBS Layoffs: Where Are They Hiding the Bodies?
- Erick Schonfeld submits: The pink slips were passed out on Thursday throughout the various business duchies that make up CBS Interactive—CNET, CBS.com, CBSNews,com, CBSSports.com, BNET, GameSpot, TV.com, last.fm, and CHOW. While CBS CBS confirmed to me and other reporters that layoffs did happen across the board, it refused to...
- External links 2008-12-12
- Google Begins Archiving Print Magazines
- Erick Schonfeld submits: Google GOOG took another step towards ingesting all the world’s printed knowledge. In addition to books and newspapers, Google Book Search now archives millions of pages of magazines from New York Magazine and Ebony to Popular Mechanics. The magazines, many of them Hearst publication, have...
- External links 2008-12-09
- Google Bails On Print Ads
- Erick Schonfeld submits: Google’s GOOG dreams of world domination may be dwindling at least its dreams of ruling the advertising world. Tuesday, it announced that it will no longer be selling print ads in newspapers. (Yes, Google sold contextual ads that appeared in 800 papers. It also...
- External links 2009-01-20
- DRM May Be Dead, But It's Still Going to Cost You
- Erick Schonfeld submits: Nearly two years ago, Steve Jobs published an open letter to the music industry calling for the death of DRM digital rights management. He convinced EMI to ditch DRM back in April, 2007, but the three other major music labels held out. Until Wednesday....
- External links 2009-01-07
- iTunes Breaks 6 Billion, DRM is Dead
- Erick Schonfeld submits: It’s an annual tradition. Every year at Macworld, Apple AAPL releases a smattering of stats that gives a peek at how its business is doing. At this year’s Philnote Phil Schiller gave the speech instead of Steve Jobs, which was Apple’s last Macworld appearance,...
- External links 2009-01-06
- Three Years On, Buying MySpace Looks Like One of Murdoch's Smartest Bets
- Erick Schonfeld submits: Three years ago today, Rupert Murdoch bought MySpace and its parent company Intermix for $580 million. That turned out to be money well spent. The last time we ran the numbers, we figured that MySpace alone is worth between $3 billion and $20 billion, depending on...
- External links 2008-10-15
- Online News Sites Have Recordbreaking Election Night
- Erick Schonfeld submits: On Election night everyone was glued to their screens. Not just their TV screens, but also their computer screens. Going to the major news sites, hitting refresh on the interactive electoral maps millions of times, and watching Obama and McCain give their final speeches...
- External links 2008-11-05
- For $15 Million, Gazprom Media Is Now the Proud Owner of Russia's YouTube
- Erick Schonfeld submits: Russia’s media conglomerate, Gazprom Media, is now the proud owner of video-sharing site RuTube. This deal has been in the works since at least June, 2007 and is believed to be in the $15 million range. RuTube is the YouTube of Russia. Or, rather,...
- External links 2008-11-19
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