Washingtonpost.com:Google Ad Deal Is Under Scrutiny
The Justice Department has opened a formal antitrust investigation into a deal struck last month that would allow Internet titan Google to provide some search advertising for Yahoo.
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Collaborative Filtering – Lifeblood of The Social Web
ReadWriteWeb has an interesting post on “collaborative filtering” on social news sites.
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A Weekly Look At How Newspapers Are Adapting To New Business Models
Publishers continue to show initiative in coming up with ideas on how to adopt new business models to the running of their print business.
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Well, I always liked Top 10 list about the media industry. According to Silicon Insider, these are the 10 biggest media properties in the USA:

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There has been a lot of tension between the newspaper industry and search giant Google lately. Old media executives on both sides of the Atlantic believe that the Big G is going to destroy the business model of print media with its (free) online new aggregator Google News. CEO Eric Schmidt believes that a total misconception. In a recent interview with the New Yorker’s media reporter Ken Auletta, he said that media companies should see Google not as an enemy but as an ally that’s trying to make advertising work on the Internet. He even emphasized Google’s interest in a prosperous future of the newspapers. “It’s a huge moral imperative to help here”, he said. Google’s goal “isn’t to monetize everything. The goal is to change the world. … We don’t have an evil meter.” (more…)

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In September 1993, novelist Michael Crichton wrote a great essay in Wired magazine “Mediasaurus,” in which he prophesied the death of the old-fashioned news business and mass media—specifically newspapers like the New York Times and the commercial networks. “Vanished, without a trace,” he wrote. (more…)

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According to a report by the British regulator Ofcom, the ‘networked generation’ is driving a radical shift in media consumption. Sixteen to 24 year olds, it reports, spend nearly three hours on the net each week. They are spurning television, radio and newspapers in favour of online services, says the regulator’s study.Seventy percent (compared to 41% of the general population) have used some kind of social networking site, such as My Space, and one in five have their own website or blog. Half of the group owns a games console and/or an MP3 player. The reduced consumption of other media, such as newspapers, magazines and radio, amongst this age-group compared to the general population, has also thought to have been driven by the net.

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Within 20 years, 50% of the population will be “published authors” predicts Colin Knecht co-owner of the BookMark Self Publishing.

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