paidContent.org reports that the Economist is working on a new social networking site for “incredibly bright and influential” people to commune together. This is despite the inconclusive end of its Red Stripe Project.
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Google clear to buy DoubleClick
The FTC which regulates all things media in the US has finally given permission for Google to acquire ad network DoubleClick. Google’s own take on the decision is here.
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ABCe figures for November are out
paidContent reports on November’s audit figures for the UK’s newspaper sites. The top five are now:
1. Guardian Unlimited – 17.5m unique users
2. Mail Online – 14.4m unique users
3. Telegraph Online – 12.8m unique users
4. Times Online – 12.28m unique users
5. Sun Online – 11.6m unique users
1. Guardian Unlimited – 17.5m unique users
2. Mail Online – 14.4m unique users
3. Telegraph Online – 12.8m unique users
4. Times Online – 12.28m unique users
5. Sun Online – 11.6m unique users
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Blogging from an iPhone
I haven’t used my iPhone to blog yet so I thought I would give it a go. I can’t find any authoring tools so I’m using the basic WYSIWYG editor on Blogger itself. One funny thing: it wouldn’t let me enter text except in the HTML box – although that seems to be working OK. The autocorrect is working on the key board too – which is a good thing as the iPhone soft key board takes some getting used to!
Google’s competitor to Wikipedia
Google has launched a competitor to Wikipedia. Called Knol or Knols – we’re not quite sure – it features articles (or “knols” – units of knowledge – written by a single author but voted upon by readers. Lifehacker points out that, now Wikipedia makes up the top result in such a large proportion of searches, it was inevitable that Google would want some of the traffic for itself. The Google account on the Official Google Blog, is here.
P.O.S.T. for social success
Forrester analyst Josh Bernoff has come up with a new acronym to help companies navigate the world of social technologies. POST stands for People, Objectives, Strategy and Technology.
People: don’t start a social strategy until you know the capabilities of your audience;
Objectives: pick one – listending to customers, or talking to them, for instance
Strategy: what will be different when you have finished?
Technology: what’s appropriate – a wiki, a blog, a hundred blogs?
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Is your business too complex?
Harvard Business School sets out to answer the question with an online interactive tool and some free (and paid-for) resources to help you deal with the answer.
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Web 2.0 office apps
Great list of Web 2.0 office applications from Ismail Ghalimi who runs the Office 2.0 blog. Well worth a read if you’re look for alternatives to Microsoft (and even Google).
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EMAP to concentrate on b2b
PaidContent has announced that Emap will sell its consumer magazines and radio divisions to H. Bauer for £1.14 billion, and that from now on it will focus itself on b2b.
Emap will keep its business-to-business publishing division and will now “be a focused B2B business”. It bought retail and food online industry news source Planet Retail for £23 million in August and the Infrastructure Journal online construction news publisher Torcello Publishing for £20 million in July.
Despite having been seen as the most lucrative part of the business, latest half-year earnings showed the division’s revenue was flat, with operating profit down seven percent.
BBC guildelines
I don’t know how long the BBC have had their guidelines for journalists up on their website, but I’ve only just come across them. Might be worth a read, if only out of idle curiosity.