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Those who are looking for Twitter to finally hit a revenue-generating home run may have to settle for a series of singles and line-drives instead. The microblogging service keeps rolling out new features that may eventually add up to a business model -- the latest examples being the ability to search Web pages through links embedded in tweets, and to rank results based on reputation...
The report came out right before the economy nose-dived, before ad revenues started to shrink, before even online display advertising started feeling the recession's pinch. A February 2007 report from the Audit Bureau of Circulations -- the keepers of media buying/selling trends and standards for publishers and advertisers -- highlighted the opportunities and the challenges for the then-still-hot online advertising space...
The Internet is an American invention, and the governing body that assigns domain names to Web sites around the world has had its roots in the U.S. (California, no less.) However, it's time for ICANN -- the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers -- to go "global" in every sense of the word, according to one European Union commissioner ...
In the month before each year's Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), the rumors about gaming company plans usually start flying faster than zombie body parts in "Resident Evil 5." Buzz about the upcoming 2009 show ratcheted up on Thursday with a report in Variety that Sony may be getting ready to show off a motion-sensing PlayStation 3 controller at the big video game convention in June in Los Angeles...
By now, you know the best ways to protect yourself: Wash your hands, manage your stress, avoid contamination. Wearing a mask is optional, but it couldn't hurt. However, if by chance you are exposed to an infectious swine-flu-related headline or story on cable news or the Internet, stay in your home and contact the proper authorities A hazmat team ...
A long time ago -- meaning, of course, three or four years in Internet time -- wikis came to represent the best of the true democratic, user-generated nature of the Web. The collaborative writing/editing of a wiki meant that all voices could be heard, but majority rule would prevail. This segment's shining example, the "free encyclopedia" Wikipedi...
Perhaps not content with successful sales of its own electronic reading device, Amazon on Monday added another chapter to its e-book strategy with the purchase of Portland, Ore.-based Lexcycle, the makers of Stanza, a reading application downloadable onto iPhones and iPod touches In announcing the acquisition, Lexcycle commented that it sees a brig...
Facebook announced Monday that it will allow more access for third-party developers, a move designed to open the door to potential revenue streams and help it hold off social network rivals like Twitter However, there are fears that the network may instead lift the lid on a Pandora's Box full of personal information abuse....
Apparently, all that small type that recently appeared at the top of your Facebook page -- directly above the "What's On Your Mind?" status box -- was actually about something important That may sum up the feelings of many of the social network's members after Facebook on Thursday announced the results of a community vote regarding site governance....
Journalism has a glass jaw these days, threatening to shatter into a million pieces with the next right hook that lands courtesy of another layoff, another closing of a daily newspaper, another inane, biased utterance from a cable news host. But journalism could have landed its own body blows this week by showing it can handle the jump to hyperspace and the digital future...
The woman who conducted a 60-day, top-to-bottom review of U.S. cybersecurity policy has said there needs to be more leadership on the issue from the very top -- the Obama White House Melissa Hathaway, acting senior director for cyberspace for the National Security and Homeland Security Councils, provided plenty of discussion material Wednesday for ...
The innovations that many Google users take advantage of -- Google News and Google Reader being just two examples -- were home brewed in the company's Google Labs division. On Monday, the search giant pulled back the curtains on that research and development department, giving Google Labs a new outward-looking focus and allowing the public to comment on all that ongoing beta activity...
You may keep your computer and your TV in separate rooms in your house, but the living arrangements between the two devices are going to get a little cozier, thanks to Adobe The multimedia software company used the National Association of Broadcasters' annual meeting in Las Vegas Monday as a stage to announce it is extending its market-leading Flas...
YouTube's path from a loose, rowdy, anything-goes video destination to a more well-organized and advertiser-friendly Web site took a giant step Thursday with the addition of TV shows and movies, courtesy of new deals with Hollywood studios That step could actually be considered a light-years leap for YouTube, which just two years ago was fending of...
Here's the scoop: Newspaper reporters are about to rake in the dough all across America. We're talking millions, easy. It's a shame this will only be happening in your neighborhood cineplex, because actors will be playing the reporters and the money will be heading straight for movie studios Dreamworks and Universal Pictures.
If video killed the radio star, than Internet video may signal the demise of flat-rate broadband pricing. At least that's the suspicion of public advocacy groups who are complaining about attempts by Time Warner Cable (TWC) and other providers to experiment with metered high-speed Internet usage For those groups, methods like capping broadband usag...
Ohio State University doctoral candidate Aryn Karpinski has conducted the kind of statistical study that guarantees headlines, 20-second mentions on network and local newscasts (usually shoehorned between weather and sports), and lots of comments on tech news Web sites and blogs. She knew she was writing about a media-friendly topic, but she still confesses to receiving a crash course in sudden news exposure...
Two recent developments have all but guaranteed Twitter's successful crossover into the mainstream: First, the popular social networking site -- and its bluebird logo -- are included in a new Sprint national television ad campaign. Secondly, the network was the target of computer worm attacks apparently launched by a teenager over the Easter weekend...
It's been another eventful week in the continuing original drama, "The Death of Journalism As We Knew It." Our story so far:...
With his groundbreaking, immersive computer games, Will Wright allowed all of us to build our own virtual worlds and populate them with characters and creatures of our own designs. Now he gets a similar opportunity to fashion the next stage of his career -- and quite possibly that of interactive entertainment itself Wright, creator of "The Sims," "...
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