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Rocketboom’s Andrew Michael Baron posts this on his blog today regarding Amanda Congdon’s Rocketboom-like debut on ABCNews.com:
It is in fact my position that the Amanda Across America, ABC News and HBO projects are all Rocketboom projects that were usurped out of Rocketboom by Amanda when she quit. And when I say usurped, I don’t just mean a little bit. I spent months working on these projects and relationships. I spent a great deal of legal fees on contracts, etc. - we are talking deep, deep development.
Ouch. Baron says the LA Times is working on a story which will also include some “some pretty damn big news” about progress that Rocketboom has made.
December 13th, 2006
For the first time ever, Fox’s combined sites lead by MySpace have surpassed Yahoo in page views, according to Comscore’s November stats. While MySpace continues to grow, Yahoo experienced a drop in pageviews from October. Yet, as Yahoo points out, the portal still dominates when it comes to unique users — 129.9 million compared to 57.2 million for MySpace. And Yahoo blamed the drop in pageviews on its new designs that use AJAX technology, which load content dynamically inside a page instead of forcing a new pageview. True enough, this is one of the biggest issues facing web developers today: AJAX improves usability but decreases pageviews. In fact, the Internet Advertising Bureau has urged both major web analytics companies to consider reforming its measurement practices to either account for partial refreshes or come up with a new metric for pageviews. Meanwhile, there’s a shift in the industry away from pageviews to unique users, but it’s not going to happen overnight, especially as the old fashioned CPM remains the currency of internet advertising.
For example, mouse over the weather tab on Yahoo’s home page and the information dynamically loads in the page, pushing the other content down. Normally, users would be taken to a new page for the same information.
December 13th, 2006
The RTNDA is developing a new website and is opening up that process to all journalists. What kind of online tools and content would be most useful as you develop your career? What kinds of submissions could journalists make on a regular basis to the new RTNDA site? What kind of online tutorials and resources do you think are most important to help journalism evolve in the digital world? For those interested in making a contribution, the RTNDA is offering 30% off on an annual membership. If you want to get involved, contact Mike Song at mikes@rtndf.org. More details after the jump . . .
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Every year, writers look back on all they have done and congratulate themselves for the predictions they have made that came true. And every year, they conveniently ignore the stuff they got wrong. I always prefer writing about what I got wrong. What fun is it pointing out that you predicted something would work out? A million other writers probably predicted it too. This is the chief reason I don’t, professionally, “do predictions.” The web is full of predictions. They’re fun to do, and you should never take them too seriously. With that in mind, I did better this year than I did in 2006 (“The Video iPod will be no big deal.”) Mock on… after the jump.
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ABC News has been providing video to Yahoo News since 2005, but now the network will double the amount of video it will contribute to the site. Yahoo will also increase the prominence of ABC video, and the two promise to work together editorially. “It’s going to go beyond just them providing the video,” said Neil Budde, general manager of Yahoo News. Traffic to ABC’s video on Yahoo has jumped ten-fold over the last year, Yahoo says. Click through below for the press release…
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The Chandler family has been pushing for Tribune to sell for months, but now that the company’s auction is drawing only mediocre interest, the family has begun talks with private equity firms about a joint bid for a majority part of the Tribune Company. The family already owns 20 percent, and the idea would be to boost it to 51 percent with the equity companies holding the remaining 49 percent. Such a deal may involve spinning off Tribune’s television stations.
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