Media - Internet

A research project, conducted by Ball State University's Center for Media Design, tracked the media use of 350 people every 15 seconds. The subjects represented each gender, about equally, across three age groups: 18 to 34, 35 to 49 and 50-plus. The people were monitored by another person for approximately 13 hours, or 80 percent of their waking day. "Someone actually came into their homes and...

Valuations of technology start-ups before investment have soared to their highest levels since the dotcom boom as venture capitalists seek to deploy large amounts of cash in search of the next big thing in the internet, telecommunications and healthcare sectors. A study released on Monday found that the median value of a pre-investment start-up hit $18.6m in the first quarter, up $3m from last...

THE INTERACTIVE ADVERTISING BUREAU IS again considering launching a lobbying and/or advertising campaign on behalf of cookies, OnlineMediaDaily has learned. New research commissioned by the IAB and presented at its board meeting this week shows that as many as 12 percent of consumers don't accept third-party cookies--that is, the cookies set by ad servers and analytics companies that track the Web...

Explosive college basketball coach Bobby Knight once summed up his views on journalists, and in doing so may have unintentionally explained why newspapers are struggling to deal with Internet bloggers. "All of us learn to write in the second grade," Knight said while the coach at Indiana University, according to a 1983 story in the Washington Post. "Most of us go on to greater things." Blogs...

Top law enforcement officials have asked leading Internet companies to keep histories of the activities of Web users for up to two years to assist in criminal investigations of child pornography and terrorism, the Justice Department said Wednesday. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and FBI Director Robert Mueller outlined their request to executives from Google, Microsoft, AOL, Comcast, Verizon...

GOOGLE'S RECENT FORAY INTO PRINT advertising fell short of the company's expectations, a company executive said Wednesday. Speaking on a conference call with investors and the media, Jonathan Rosenberg, Google's senior vice president for product management, said the venture to auction off print ads in magazines, which launched in February, has been one of the biggest disappointments in the last...

Krishna Bharat, Google's principal scientist and inventor of the controversial Google News service, argues that he is not out to crush newspapers - but he does have advice on why most have got the internet wrong. "We don't want to replace anyone's favourite newspaper, we are complementary and add value," he says matter-of-factly. This is not, however, the view the World Association of Newspapers...

CREATING ONLINE CONTENT IS NO longer the province of a handful of early adopters. Instead, it's become a mainstream activity, spurred largely by the increased availability of broadband connections, according to a new report by the Pew Internet & American Life Project. As of last December, 35 percent of Americans had posted to a blog, created a Web page, shared online photos, or otherwise generated...

High-level media and advertising executives are to meet for a brainstorming session aimed at capitalising on the surging popularity of social networking websites. McKinsey, the management consultancy, is understood to have asked senior executives from old and new media groups alike – from Yahoo to YouTube – to a session with advertising agencies to discuss ways of turning the hugely popular...

EDINBURGH (AFP) - Global press chiefs gathered to thrash out how best to wrestle with the rise of the Internet, stay on top of technology, and beat countless bloggers and citizen journalists to the story. Media professionals, huddled in the Scottish capital for the International Press Institute's World Congress, debated the long-term challenges and opportunities that the new media age would throw...