Jon Stewart goes on “The O’Reilly Factor”
Jon Stewart stopped by the Fox News studios Wednesday for an interview with Bill O’Reilly. Stewart shared his thoughts on President Obama (mixed review) and the “narrative” that he believes Fox News presents. O’Reilly challenged Stewart on a number of points, in what turned out to be a pretty good volley. Part One here and [...]
Monster acquires Yahoo’s HotJobs for $225 million
Monster.com announced it has acquired Yahoo’s HotJobs for $225 million in cash, according to the press release. The deal also includes a three year commercial traffic agreement in which Monster will become Yahoo!’s provider of career and job content on the Yahoo! homepage. HotJobs currently has 600 daily and weekly newspaper partners, and the deal [...]
Investors looking to replace advertising agencies
Investors see opportunity in the traditional advertising agency game and are looking to pour millions into disrupting this lucrative industry. That was the key takeaway from a session yesterday at the OnMedia NYC conference, according to MediaPost. Companies that can apply sophisticated targeting and tracking technology to social networks and other user-generated forums to help [...]
Hyperlocal net AmericanTowns reports quick growth
AmericanTowns, a hyperlocal aggregator network of 15,000 sites, reports it is seeing traffic double every six months. According to a press release obtained by Screenwerk, the network had three million unique visitors in January and is now profitable. The sites aggregate local news stories, blog entries and even Tweets. The press release says “revenues again [...]
Update your Twitter passwords, someone’s hacking
It’s good practice to update your passwords occasionally. Now there’s a good reason to do so, at least on your Twitter account. According to the Wall Street Journal “…an unidentified person had been creating so-called torrent sites and forums for ‘a number of years’ with the sole purpose of getting users to input user names [...]
Fwix moves into mobile with local news aggregators
Fwix, a cool local news and blog live aggregator that automatically detects your city, is going mobile. Fwix (sorry – but about that name…) is launching “City Apps” for six cities. The apps will work on the iPhone and WebOS. According to MobileCrunch, Fwix covers 150+ cities with its websites, so you can expect a [...]
Reminder: The LR iPhone app is now available
We’ve put a link in the navigation, but I thought I’d give another plug for the Lost Remote iPhone App. (Don’t worry – we’re looking at other platforms.) We’d love your support on this. And we’re happy to share that we used AppMakr to do it, and endorse their good work. (We get no money [...]
Sharing location made easy with echoecho
A brand new location-aware app called echoecho promises to make it easy to share your location with people you trust. You can “echo” someone from your existing address book, and if they have the app installed, they receive a push notification and can tap the screen to respond with their current location. “We decided, about [...]
WordPress app for Android now available
Automattic has released an open source WordPress app for Android. The real advantage of this implementation is since it is open source, it is extensible and customizable so organizations like news providers can customize it for their own needs.
TV group invests in hyperlocal news platform
Seattle-based Fisher Communications is one of the mystery investors in Datasphere, which announced a $10.8 round of funding in early January, reports PaidContent. Datasphere powers over 100 neighborhood news sites for Fisher’s television stations in Seattle (KOMO), Portland (KATU) and a few other markets. Fisher’s investment was $1.5 million. In July 2007, Fisher bought Pegasus [...]
RunRev moves into mobile space with revMobile
RunRev is a flexible, cross-platform development environment (OSX, Windows, Linux) for building both web applications and customized desktop applications. It is basically a high level authoring environment in the tradition of Hypercard and Supercard, but with all the enhancements one would expect from a modern development tool. Last week RunRev announced that they were moving [...]
Money Mailer adds hyperlocal text ads
Those coupon envelopes that jam your mailbox? Big business. Local businesses love them because they give an exact ROI. That’s why they are part of local media’s competition. Direct mail works. But even the paper coupon people realize they need to be digital. Money Mailer is adding text notifications for businesses. The texts will tell [...]
Chrome browser rising in popularity
Google’s Chrome browser is up to 5% market penetration and is growing fast. It recently passed Apple Safari as the number 3 browser behind Internet Explorer and Firefox. I have been testing it for the last few months and I have found it rock solid.
Notes: Monetizing tweets, ‘Lost’ briefly found, Glee!
Noted, while counting down the 14 days until pitchers and catchers report… News Organizations Tap into Twitter, Facebook to Generate Ad Revenue Upon closer inspection, maybe the iPad does have a camera. Maybe. The first hour of tonight’s “Lost” season premiere was briefly leaked to YouTube. Turns out, if you show it to a crowd [...]
Local newspapers making many errors
We’re all used to seeing one or two retractions in a given day’s newspaper. We all accept that there are bound to be a few mistakes in grammar or spelling from time to time. Check this out: The Miami Herald had 133 errors of grammar and spelling in its Jan. 18 edition. To its credit, [...]
Non-profits band together to look at commutes
What’s with all the traffic? Washington, Seattle, San Francisco, Boston, New York… what causes bad commutes in some places but not others? And why can some trains run on time, but not others? Ugly commutes are something many of us can relate to. So what can we do about them? A unique partnership is starting [...]
Even Pandora getting into local ad business
That’s right, the popular music service Pandora has signed a deal with AdReady to serve up local ads for bands, summer festivals or local shops. For example, if you live in Seattle and you’re listening to Coldplay on your iPhone, instead of seeing a random Google ad (below), you may see an ad for an [...]
AP signs deal with Yahoo; deal with Google uncertain
The Associated Press and Yahoo have just signed a deal that will mean AP content will remain on Yahoo, as it has since 1998. The details haven’t been disclosed, but the AP report on the deal says the arrangement will give the AP “…a steady stream of revenue at a time less money is flowing [...]
