NYTimes.com readers can now click to add stories to Digg, Facebook and Newsvine. The sharing options are displayed in a feature box inside each story (shown on the right). “It is really to build awareness around the articles with users who may or may not have heard about the article,” said Christine Topalian, manager of strategic planning and business development at NYTimes.com. “The audience of the three different partners align really well with people we have currently on the site or people we are trying to attract to our site.” Newsvine CEO Mike Davidson says he’s flattered to be included with Digg and Facebook. “We are the up-and-comer in that group,” he said. The Times says it may add more social news partners, and it did not rule the possibility of adding comments functionality to the mix.
NBC anchor Brian Williams was interviewed on MSNBC’s The Most today about his blog, The Daily Nightly. An excerpt below, or watch the full video here:
“Everything in it has to pass muster. I mean it can’t be a lesser standard than you would use for page one of the New York Times. All quotes these days live forever. So I have to be held accountable for what I write about, but I’ll put just about anything going on during the day, I’ll throw it in there, as my readers well know.”
And does he read the comments? “Yeah, I do. [But] I think we all have a hatred limit.”
A CNET reporter grabbed a Zune and hit the streets of San Francisco looking for a little wireless love. But all he saw was the same message over and over, “No nearby Zune devices found, or nearby devices have wireless turned off.”
Google is unstoppable. The company now commands a record 65.8 percent of all U.S. searches, according to Compete. Meanwhile, Yahoo has slipped a few points to 21 percent. But the biggest surprise for me is that Ask has caught to up MSN in share, 4.8 to 4.9 percent respectively. Ask has been spending aggressively on marketing over the last year. Here’s the graph with more details.
A handful of news sites are using pop ups that display content, not just ads, to boost their traffic count. For example, Entrepreneur.com dropped from 7.6 million to 2 million unique users after Nielsen/Netratings adjusted the number to account for all the pop ups.
You’ve probably heard by now that Merriam-Webster’s has declared “Truthiness” as the Word of the Year. Here’s the video from The Colbert Report that started it all. It’s from the very first episode of TCR in fact - which aired on October 17, 2005.
“The truthiness is anyone can read the news to you. I promise to feel the news at you.”
I wondered how this would play out. Frequent YouTubers love to leave pithy, nasty comments on videos, which appear right underneath the clip. Across the board, these comments have been unmoderated (although filtered for spam). That is, until now. As part of CBS’ deal with YouTube, the comments on the network’s clips are not only moderated, but they now appear on a separate page to distance them from the clips (see this clip compared to this clip for an example). CBS Interactive chief Quincy Smith says they only remove comments that are “profane, unconstructive criticism,” and off-topic political vitriol. While I may be convinced that the vetting is OK — depending on how they define “unconstructive criticism” — the fact that they’ve moved the comments to another page only serves to limit the conversation.
NYTimes.com readers can now click to add stories to Digg, Facebook and Newsvine. The sharing options are displayed in a feature box inside each story (shown on the right). “It is really to build awareness around the articles with users who may or may not have heard about the article,” said Christine Topalian, manager of strategic planning and business development at NYTimes.com. “The audience of the three different partners align really well with people we have currently on the site or people we are trying to attract to our site.” Newsvine CEO Mike Davidson says he’s flattered to be included with Digg and Facebook. “We are the up-and-comer in that group,” he said. The Times says it may add more social news partners, and it did not rule the possibility of adding comments functionality to the mix.
Google is unstoppable. The company now commands a record 65.8 percent of all U.S. searches, according to Compete. Meanwhile, Yahoo has slipped a few points to 21 percent. But the biggest surprise for me is that Ask has caught to up MSN in share, 4.8 to 4.9 percent respectively. Ask has been spending aggressively on marketing over the last year. Here’s 
