Media - Internet

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Web 2.0, a catchphrase for the latest generation of Web sites where users contribute their own text, pictures and video content, is far less participatory than commonly assumed, a study showed on Tuesday. A tiny 0.16 percent of visits to Google's top video-sharing site, YouTube, are by users seeking to upload video for others to watch, according to a study of online...

NEW YORK, NY and CAMBRIDGE, MA--(MARKET WIRE)--Apr 11, 2007 -- Hearst Newspapers, a division of Hearst Corporation, and Brightcove, the Internet TV pioneer, today announced that Hearst Newspapers will be introducing ad-supported Internet video channels. The San Francisco Chronicle and Houston Chronicle are expected to be two of the first papers to launch this year. "Video is a crucial piece to an...

The growth of user generated content such as blogs and amateur videos could create an "us and them" climate between internet users and traditional media organizations, according to a new report. Management consultancy Accenture's survey of senior executives from sectors including media, advertising and music revealed a relative optimism about digital content revenues. However, the survey also...

The majority of students (87%) who upload copyrighted material to user-generated video sites likeYouTube, Facebook or MySpace don't get permission from copyright owners, even though most (74%) believe it is fair to pay people for their use. That's according to a new, albeit limited, study of college students who upload video to Web sites conducted by a pair of professors at American University and...

Eleven years ago, two entrepreneurs founded About.com around a big idea. The online reference guide would offer advice on every topic under the sun, from how to treat a common cold to how to grow an organic garden. Today, The New York Times Co. Web site is a rich repository of content contributed by 600 experts who post 3,000 new articles a week. But it hasn't cracked the top 10 of most-visited...

Agence France-Presse and Google Inc have settled a copyright lawsuit, clearing the way for Google to post snippets of the French news agency’s news and photos online, the two companies said on Friday. The two companies, in a joint statement, said the accord allows the Internet giant to post AFP content on Google News and other services. Terms of the pact have not been disclosed. Agence France...

Tools designed to allow users to upload content to news sites are making web publishers increasingly vulnerable to computer hacking, according to a report. The trend for uploading users' text, photos and videos has created more opportunity for hackers, who can hide viruses or malicious software in seemingly innocent files, according to the research by security consultancy the NCC Group. NCC Group...

Readership of several Canadian magazines is falling amid competition from the Internet, while some titles are cutting back circulation to focus on more lucrative subscribers. Reader's Digest, the country's largest magazine with a circulation of 986,000 copies an issue, maintained the highest readership in the country with 7.08 million readers over age 12, according to data released yesterday by...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, California (Reuters) - A little under one-third of U.S. households have no Internet access and do not plan to get it, with most of the holdouts seeing little use for it in their lives, according to a survey released on Friday. Park Associates, a Dallas-based technology market research firm, said 29 percent of U.S. households, or 31 million homes, do not have Internet access and do...

NEW YORK -- Online jobs service Monster Worldwide Inc. is working with privately held software company Adicio to supply classified advertising to 250 US newspaper websites, Monster said yesterday . The deal allows Web news outlets to let job seekers and employees list themselves on Monster services. Monster users can buy print advertising with news outlets that use Adicio. It also would let Adicio...