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...

HuffPo’s “Citizen Journalism” Under Fire

Arianna Huffington is on a mission to expand citizen journalism, particularly during the 2012 presidential campaign, with AOL’s upcoming acquisition of The Huffington Post. “We will have thousands and thousands of people covering the election. Covering the...

News & Ad Growth: Local, Local, Local!

I recently cited a readership survey from the National Newspaper Association (NNA) that found readership for local print newspapers remaining steady. Mark Lecesse, a journalism professor at Emerson College and blogger for The Boston Globe, reports on the...

Yahoo’s Bloodbath Is Making Flickr Users Nervous

I have over 26,000 photos stored online using the Flickr photo-sharing service. Granted, I am a power user, but there is an amazing array of people who also have most or all of their images on the service’s site. After all, it is the most social and functional...
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