This Week in Review: The FCC’s big compromise, WikiLeaks wrestles with the media, and a look at 2011
Mark Coddington sums up the holiday's top stories about the future of news and the debates that grew up around them. This week: net neutrality, WikiLeaks, year-end predictions, the tablet revolution, a new paywall, and the future of RSS.
Remember the Parrot!
There's lots of cool stuff on display at CES this week. But bear in mind that lots of it will be DOA--or worse, it will never arrive, period.
Panel Nerds: 2010’s Best Panels and Quotes
Over the course of 2010, we covered an array of politicians, authors, entertainers, media mavens, and others as they discussed their crafts and their industries. We enjoyed most of the panels, lectures, and debates we took in, while some of them fell short. Here, a rundown of our 5 favorites, followed by the 10 quotes...
Web Ad Dollars Finally Overtake Newspapers
It had to happen eventually. And it will finally happen this year, says eMarketer.
Spotify can no longer commit to 2010 US launch date
Spotify can no longer commit to a 2010 US launch date, despite publicly
declaring its commitment to go live stateside by the end of this year
several times over the last six months, The Telegraph has learned.
2010 Best US Newspaper Facebook Fan Pages
Tweet This is the second installment of our 2010 Facebook Newspaper study, and features our top 10 rankings for the best and most interactive fan pages amongst U.S. newspapers. Newspapers selected were among the 100 largest in the U.S. (based on circulation). In addition to ranking each paper by the number of Facebook fans, we...
What Does an iAd Look Like on an iPad? It Looks Pretty Awesome (Of Course)
What will advertisers do with it? That's a different question, and we won't get real answers until next year. Until then, check out this cool Tron preview.
Measuring Newspapers’ Facebook Engagement: A 2010 Bivings Study
Tweet The Bivings Group has just completed a newspaper online interactivity report looking at Facebook fan engagement amongst the nation’s top 100 newspapers (as determined by circulation). Our main focus was to compare large and small newspapers across the nation by looking at the number of fans that interacted with the newspaper and amongst themselves...
NBC U Perks Up a Bit for Its New Owners
This should make the folks in Philadelphia feel a bit better about their purchase-to-be: GE says that its NBC Universal unit, soon to become a Comcast property, had a "pretty solid" third quarter.
Spotify ‘will launch in US by end of 2010′
Spotify has vehemently denied an American news report that its negotiations in
the US have made no progress, saying it is "still on track to launch in
2010".
Hulu’s Growth Curve Flattens Out
The video site saw views shoot up last fall, when ABC came on board. But since then...
Web Ads Are Growing Again. But by How Much?
We know that the Web ad business (and the ad business in general) is much better than it was a year ago, when it was awful. How much better?
