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Theseus, a German based project that is aiming to develop “the world’s most advanced multimedia search engine for the next-generation Internet.” will received a cash injection of $165 million from the German Government, under approval by the EU.

The Semantic Web as defined by Tim Berners-Lee is: “a universal platform for the exchange of data, information and knowledge.” I think Barney and Melek would agree, that the only thing preventing the Semantic Web so far has been an inefficient use of hors

Until a year ago or so, it was hard to find objective customer reviews of some products online. Amazon had a fair amount of material, but has always been focused on books, movies, CDs, and electronics. What if you wanted to know about a sofa, or a lacross

Scripps Networks, which owns the Food Network, bought the Seattle online recipe site Recipezaar for somewhere in the $25 million range. Recipezaar generates 30M monthly page views on 2.5 million uniques. Reports John Cook in the Seattle PI:

Irvine, CA-based business local search and directory site Local.com has bought PremierGuide, a Bellevue, WA-based provider of online business directories to regional media publishers such as newspapers, TV and radio stations, and city portals. PremierGuid

Customized home page startup Pageflakes launched a slew of new features this morning under what it is calling its “Blizzard” release.

Among all of the new features, the two that are important to highlight are social networking and customizable them

An estimated 81 million people, or 63% of the 129 million people who access the Internet over broadband in the U.S., watch broadband video at home or at work, according to new research conducted by The Nielsen Company for The Cable & Telecommunications As

Credibility is a key concern in online media, especially to average net users trying to figure out which information they can trust. Yesterday the Sunlight Foundation announced a $10,000 grant to NewsTrust — an intriguing online news rating service inten

Steve Rubel declares dead the idea that blog links as a measure of authority. Steve likes declaring things dead; he’s kind of the grim reaper of measurements. He declared t

We’ve come a long way. There’s a growing recognition and appreciation of why citizen journalism matters. Investments, from media organizations and others, are fueling experiments of various kinds. Revenue models are taking early shape. And, most impor

In May, 132 million Americans — seventy-five percent of the U.S. internet users — viewed streaming video online, according to comScore figures released

Like at many other sites, San Francisco’s Mesmo lets you collect and share videos from other video sites. Its specialty, though, is social video recommendation, to help you find new videos you’ll like. It wants to create a community on the site this w

Jitter Fingers, a social network for teen and tween; girls looking for a secure and focused environment (i.e. away from the predators that lurk in MySpace), ha

Earlier this year the Institute for New Media Studies at the University of Minn. won a $250,000 Knight News Challenge grant to create Playing the News. This news simulation environment will let online visitors “play through” a complex, evolving, interacti

as Backfence’s co-founder, I thought it would be helpful to discuss some of what we learned from Backfence–and why I’m still very optimistic that a similar model can and will succeed.

On the heels of hyperlocal pioneer Backfence shutting down, the Washington Post has (tags: local wapo)

ten years into the promise of the web and new media to transform advertising into an ROI-driven marketing engine, the success of keyword-driven pay-per-click text ads is the exception, not the rule.

The problem is scalability.

The race isn’t over yet, but there are mistakes newspapers have made that I think will have lasting consequences. We need to think through the impact of these mistakes and what we’ll do about them. There are plentiful opportunities, but we’ll pay fo

When local news aggregator Topix decided to set up online forums last December for every city and small town in America, they figured the forums would be a loss leader. After all, online forums have a bad reputation for unfettered discussion, gossip and s

Upload and explore data. As a preview it’s rough around the edges, may your love for data guide you

Vincent Dureau, Google’s head of TV technology, gave us another glimpse into the mind of Google and what it might be planning for its television presence in his opening keynote at iTV Con, a trade show conference dedicated to Internet TV.

The rapid increase of online advertising has taken its toll on most legacy media. Newspapers have seen classified volume plummet. TV audiences continue to decline, and the upfront is no longer the happy time it once was. Dir

Philadelphia Inquirer reported that the Philly.com accounted for about $20 million, or 5 percent, of the company’s 2005 revenue, with 2006 ad revenue running about 30 percent ahead.

The BBC will launch their long-awaited iPlayer this Friday, which has the potential to change the way television is watched by the masses. In this post we examine what the iPlayer is promising, the BBC’s future developments for TV over the internet, and

Miro (formerly known as Democracy Player) is an open-source Internet TV application that combines a media player and library, content guide, video search engine, as well as podcast and BitTorrent clients. Developed by the Participatory Culture Foundation,

Last week a colleague pointed out that the share of UK internet searches for “facebook” were tied with those for “myspace”. This week, Facebook continued to climb and so overtook MySpace. This means that the volume of UK searches for “facebook” were hi

Mr Thomson says the paper has got more revenue from an increased cover price, foreign syndication and more business advertising. Would they account for such a dramatic turnaround? There are also savings from 30 editorial redundancies, yet these are not go

What’s becoming clear is that blogs are now the organizing principle for newspapers’ original online content. And these are “real” blogs, i.e. driven by one or two individual bloggers, with (often active) comments, RSS feeds, the whole nine yards.

Blue Lithium Labs just released a 9-month study that found advertising on user generated content sites does better than other sites.

- “There has to be a bottom top-up meeting of minds,” says Dunkley. Concretely, managers and staff must discuss and agree on how they want to use video in their paper. VJ requires neither a complete overturn of internal organization nor a complex (and

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Just yesterday, AdAge released a thought-provoking article on what’s plaguing viral marketing. Sociology professor Duncan Watts sheds light on some interesting a

Can marketers “buy” buzz? Yes, sort of! A group of my Nielsen colleagues from BuzzMetrics (where I work), BASES and ACNielsen released this week an experimental study seeking to understand the relationship among online buzz, media spend and actual sal

Back in May, our special-projects team here at Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive built washingtonpost.com’s new Facebook app — The Compass.

Printed media is the most trustworthy source of politics news for three times as many readers as online news sites, new research has found.

Bill Keller: ‘The New York Times Is Not Immutable’
The executive editor of one of the world’s premier newspapers observes that the Web audience is “growing at a great clip.” If trends continue, he says, “there’s little doubt that online becomes the main b

How will newspapers shift their business center of gravity online the same way most have shifted their audience center of gravity? That is the question keeping every newspaper executive awake at night.

According to a research report issued on July 19 by Click Forensics — which markets services used by advertisers to analyze online advertisement traffic — the average click-fraud rate for Web ads was 15.8 percent across the industry during the second qu

WHEN, EXACTLY, do you junk something that no longer works? And which major paper should go first—not today, but within the next 18 or 24 months?

San Francisco Chronicle, I’m looking at you.

All I’m saying is that it might be better for us to invest in real print innovation before we decide to get into the dog of a business that the internet is going to be for us. Print still has a lot of revenue, a good base form which to redevlop our produc

Information Architects have released their Web Trend Map for 2007, a subway map of the 200 most successful websites on the web, ordered by category, proximity, success, popularity and perspective. In theory it demonstrates the relationship between various

RustyBudget is a new web based application that provides a people and story management tool for multi-author blogs.
RustyBudget is essentially “a writers or editors budget”, where a blog owner and blog writers can manage story leads, including author

WatchIndia is set to storm the 3.5 million members of the Indian community living in the U.S. and Canada. The Web site announced the launch of its suite of live Indian channels and video-on-demand content featuring the best of Indian TV and entertainment

In a move that once again puts Google into closer competition with Microsoft, the search giant launched today a fee-based, hosted site search service targeted at small and medium businesses. The new Google Custom Search Business Edition helps SMBs add sea

That image leaves out one of the most powerful aspect of the tool, though. The pivot points that are created when a piece of data can be interlinked automatically and dynamically with other pieces of data creates a network of information that is more powe

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