Media - Internet

NEW YORK: Anyone familiar with online rankings knows that, depending on the measurement service, the data tends to swing wildly. It's a problem not just with newspaper Web sites but also with the larger online world. The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) has been trying to hammer out a solution to address the problem where advertisers can effectively glean where the trends are going. As the...

NEW YORK, Sept 17 (Reuters) - Digital media monitoring company Attributor Corp plans to announce on Monday that it will help track content produced by Reuters Group Plc (RTR.L: Quote, Profile , Research) that finds its way onto the Internet. The explosion in the growth of blogs and social networks such as Facebook and News Corp's (NWSa.N: Quote, Profile , Research) MySpace, where consumers link to...

Google has struck deals with four major international news agencies that will see its Google News site become a publisher of their news stories. Google News allows consumers to search by keywords for news summaries and links to news stories, grouping together related stories based on a computer analysis of the material’s underlying thematic relationships. The service is available internationally...

Who's the Google of social networking sites? The obvious answer may seem to be Facebook, given its rapid growth, successful cooperation with application developers, and ever-smarter ad targeting. But by some measures, the real answer is even more obvious: Google itself. This week, Google (nasdaq: GOOG - news - people ) is drawing attention to its often-ignored social networking site, Orkut.com...

NEW YORK: After more than 10 years of newspapers slowly migrating to the Web, most have embraced the medium as their future, showing they can break news, provide audio and video extras, and give readers more space to react and rebut than ever before. Successes are many, ranging from exclusive online interviews to sourcing details that give readers more complete information than any daily could...

On Aug. 14 a computer hacker named Virgil Griffith unleashed a clever little program onto the Internet that he dubbed WikiScanner. It's a simple application that trolls through the records of Wikipedia, the publicly editable Web-based encyclopedia, and checks on who is making changes to which entries. Sometimes it's people who shouldn't be. For example, WikiScanner turned up evidence that somebody...

(Fortune Magazine) -- How many people visited Yahoo in June? About 133 million in the U.S., says ComScore, a web measurement company. No, says its chief rival, Nielsen//NetRatings, it was 108 million. The difference - 25 million people - is hardly a rounding error. It's larger than the population of Texas. And that's the problem. The Internet bills itself as the most accountable ad medium in...

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Google Inc revealed on Monday that it had acquired a stake in Chinese community Web site Tianya.cn, indicating a foray by the global search leader into social networking in the world's second-largest Internet market. A Google spokeswoman confirmed the stake holding by email, but declined to give further details. Various local media reports on Monday put the estimated size of...

Am I worried about the future of the newspaper industry? No, because as an artist, I find that literature is its own reward. I care only for the pitch, roll and yaw, the warp and the woof -- the yipping and the twittering -- of our beautiful language. But corporate realities are getting harsh around here, and thus I've decided to blog a lot more about sexual deviancy, inebriated starlets,...

NEW YORK: The Philadelphia Inquirer and the Daily News are the latest newspapers to join the Yahoo alliance. With the addition of Philly.com, the online home to both newspapers, the partnership with the portal consists of 19 publishing companies representing close to 400 newspapers. "The open nature of the partnership between the newspapers and Yahoo has made this the solution of choice for the...