Web Gone Wild: Facebook & Google+

The social space has become turbulent over the past few days. Search giant Google has debuted its new social suite, Google+ (Plus), and Facebook has launched a whole new layer of easy-access video chat enabled by its partnership with Skype. Web professionals and SEO...

Navigating News Online: Pew Research Center Releases Study

Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism (PEJ) published a new study on May 9 entitled “Navigating News Online.” For the study, the nonpartisan “fact tank” looked at audience statistics from the Nielsen Company, then...

New York Times Under Fire for Rape Article

In recent months, we’ve seen the development of sites and services devoted to crowdsourced copyediting, like Soylent, and to crowd-sourced fact-checking, like MediaBugs. Sometimes you don’t need fancy software or specialized Web services for the crowd to...

Problems for Hyperlocal Sites Outside.In, TBD.com

AOL’s hyperlocal news network, Patch, has acquired Outside.in, a hyperlocal news aggregator. This is another rung in the ladder of AOL’s CEO Tim Armstrong’s quest to reinvent the company as a source of online news and content. Financial terms of the...

Online Video Grows, Including Ads

comScore released the results of its study about online video rankings within the United States for January 2011. comScore, which performs digital business analytics, found that 171 million users in the U.S. watched online video content last month. According to data...
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