Former Facebook CTO: ‘Google Me’ Is Real, And It’s Gunning For Facebook [TechCrunch]

Digg CEO Kevin Rose tweeted that he’d heard a “huge rumor” that Google
was planning to launch a Facebook competitor called “Google Me”,
sparking off a wave of speculative reports (Rose has since removed the
tweet). Now Adam D’Angelo, who was Facebook’s CTO for years and is now
founder of hot Q&A service Quora, is weighing in with more details.
And from what he’s hearing, Google Me is indeed very real, and it’s
gunning for Facebook.

http://techcrunch.com/2010/06/29/google-me-facebook/

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How Media Consumption Has Changed Since 2000 [CyberJournalist]

Consumption of news, information and entertainment has radically
changed since 2000. Lee Rainie, the Director of the Pew Research
Center’s Internet & American Life Project, presented the latest data
and trends today at the Newhouse School’s M.O.B. (“Monetizing Online
Business”) Conference. Here is his presentation, packed with
interesting details.

http://www.cyberjournalist.net/how-media-consumption-has-changed-since-2000/

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Guardian traffic rises as Times websites languish [MediaWeek]

The Guardian and Trinity Mirror's websites recorded big increases in
traffic in May, while The Times' new registration-only websites have
been hit by substantial drops, according to new sets of industry data
from ABCe and Experian Hitwise.

http://www.mediaweek.co.uk/news/1012217/Guardian-traffic-rises-Times-websites...

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Economist reports success of mobile phone mag sales [PressGazette]

The Economist has claimed success with a new mobile-phone-based
magazine sales ploy this week, as it reported its overall operating
profit had climbed three per cent to £57.5m for the 12 months to
April.

http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=1&storycode=45633

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WSJ Europe to launch new tech section as part of digital expansion [Journalism.co.uk]

The Wall Street Journal is to launch a new European technology section
as part of its digital expansion. Six new jobs have been advertised by
publisher Dow Jones as it prepares to enlarge its online and mobile
offering and build up commercial opportunities.

http://www.journalism.co.uk/2/articles/539305.php

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Twitter's Biz Stone on Bing, Location, Privacy & World Cup Explosion [CNBC]

Stone explained how 'Twitter Places," a recent launch, matches up your
location with a specific venue, so you can figure out what people are
saying about the restaurant you're eating at or the concert you're
watching. Users can also monitor trends of the city they're in -- what
are people in Austin saying about movies? And the more people that
identify their location, the more valuable it'll be to advertisers who
want to target certain customers or want to offer deals to specific
areas.

http://www.cnbc.com/id/37876545

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Facebook Near to Agreement About Location Service, Founder Zuckerberg Says [Bloomberg]

Facebook Inc., the world’s most popular social-networking site, is
“pretty close” to providing a location-based service, Chief Executive
Officer Mark Zuckerberg said. “We are working on this, knowing where a
person is and being able to personalize what’s around them,” he said
at an advertising industry conference in Cannes, France.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-06-23/facebook-pretty-close-to-offering-lo...

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64% of Americans say printed newspapers will cease to exist by 2050 [AP]

Americans remain a generally upbeat lot, but all the skepticism, snark
and dismal rhetoric being bandied about may be taking their toll.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100622/ap_on_re_us/us_upbeat_america

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Strong International Growth Forecast For Twitter [WebProNews]

If it hasn't already done so, Twitter may soon need to hire a few
translators. This afternoon, the stats experts at Pingdom took a look
at how the site is doing on an international basis, and it seems that
Twitter's rate of growth has become rather high in about a dozen
different countries.

http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2010/06/22/strong-international-growth-fore...

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Apple Says It Sold Three Million IPads in 80 Days [Bloomberg]

Software developers have created more than 11,000 applications for the
iPad since its April 3 debut, Cupertino, California-based Apple also
said today in a statement.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-06-22/apple-says-it-sold-three-million-ipa...

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Rupert Murdoch "declares love for iPad" [BusinessWeek]

“This is a fantastic invention,” he said. “It combines the ability to
present all forms of media to all people, from three year old children
to 100 year old men. I believe that within five years, you’ll have
many hundreds of millions of iPad or iPad-like devices in the world.
This is a huge new market.”

http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/next/archives/2010/06/rupert_murdoch_ope...

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Big media's losses on social networking sites break through £1bn barrier [Guardian]

The media industry has now lost $1.5bn (£1bn) on investments in the
social networking craze after AOL sold Bebo last week for a fraction
of the price it paid for the business two years ago.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/jun/20/social-networking-sites-losses

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PCUK/Harris Poll: Quarter Of Times Readers Likely To Pay Online [PaidContent]

In an exclusive new poll for paidContent:UK, Harris Interactive found
a combined 23 percent of Times Online users rated themselves
variations of “likely” to pay. Within that, four percent were
extremely likely, two percent very likely, four percent fairly likely
and 13 percent somewhat likely. 76 percent said they were not at all
likely to pay.

http://paidcontent.co.uk/article/419-pcukharris-poll-quarter-of-times-readers...

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YouTube Begins Testing News Feed Feature [WebProNews]

YouTube announced today that it is testing a new feature called the
YouTube News Feed, which it is working on with the University of
California at Berkley's Graduate School of Journalism. The feature
would track news as it breaks on YouTube.

http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2010/06/14/youtube-begins-testing-news-feed...

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Forget the VJ: MTV is looking for a Twitter Jockey [AP]

Remember the MTV VJ? That's so two decades ago. Now the network is
looking to hire its first TJ, or Twitter Jockey. MTV officials say the
search is on for a new social media maven who will engage with the MTV
audience and serve as a liaison between viewers and network honchos.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100614/ap_on_hi_te/us_mtv_twitter_jockey

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Starbucks Announces Free Wi-Fi, Proprietary Content Network [Wired]

Starting July 1, Starbucks will let anyone connect to its WiFi network
for free. This fall, the company will add a content network called
Starbucks Digital Network, in partnership with Yahoo and other sites,
which will include local content you won’t be able to read anywhere
else. Both offerings will be free.

http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/06/starbucks-announces-free-wi-fi-proprie...

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Internet Is Set to Overtake Newspapers in Ad Revenue [WSJ]

The Internet is poised to overtake newspapers as the second-largest
U.S. advertising medium by revenue behind television, according to
PricewaterhouseCoopers’ Global Entertainment and Media Outlook for
2010 to 2014.

http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2010/06/15/internet-is-set-to-overtake-newspapers...

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Sly Bailey: We don't see 'City TV' as viable proposition [PressGazette]

Sly Bailey, chief executive of Trinity Mirror, has poured cold water
on proposals outlined yesterday by the Government to explore the
creation of a series of local TV stations across the UK.

http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=1&storycode=45559&c=1

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New Yorker's David Remnick: Want expensive reporting? Pay for it [Observer]

Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger says it's a "tragedy" if editors to
charge readers for content. New Yorker editor David Remnick doesn't
agree. "I was going to be damned if I was going to train 18-year-olds,
20-year-olds, 25-year-olds, that this is like water that comes out of
the sink," he said, about The New Yorker.

http://www.observer.com/2010/media/david-‘mr-paywall’-remnick-defends-his-turf

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Steve Jobs: We shouldn’t become a “nation of bloggers” [TheNextWeb]

Jobs: “I don’t want to see us descend into a nation of bloggers. I
think we need editorial now more than ever.” Concerning the iPad: “We
have a lot of goals for it, but one of my beliefs very strongly is
that any democracy depends on a free, healthy press.”

http://thenextweb.com/apple/2010/06/02/steve-jobs-we-shouldnt-be-come-a-natio...

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iPad and Facebook will end Google’s dominance [MarketingWeek]

Google’s online dominance could be drawing to an end, warn analsysts,
as the Apple iPad goes on-sale in the UK. Technology and media
analyst, Richard Holway, speaking yesterday at a presentation hosted
by Affiliate Window, says that Google will be superseded by apps for
devices such as the iPhone, iPad and Facebook.

http://www.marketingweek.co.uk/news/ipad-and-facebook-will-end-google’s-domin...

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Digg Wants to Be the Twitter of News [GigaOM]

The new Digg — which has been in the works for at least a year now —
will extend the site’s current social features (which are pretty
minimal) to allow for both friending and following other users and
publishers. Kevin Rose describing Digg’s new value proposition:
“Because we’re only links and news we cut out all the miscellaneous
status updates like you see on other sites.”

http://gigaom.com/2010/05/28/digg-wants-to-be-the-twitter-of-news/

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