Tag Archives: online

The Proliferation of Online Video

Source: Shutterstock Online video continues to capture the attention of producers and viewers, with the market as well as industry leaders, leading us into a more pervasive form of video entertainment, communication and education. With YouTube quickly transforming from a user-generated video network into an invaluable repository for content, the associated behavior for creating, uploading, discovering, and [...]

FTC Seeks Wisdom of the Crowds on the Future of the News Media

The Federal Trade Commission is seeking your input regarding future of news media in advance of its upcoming workshops. The FTC seeks to explore the digital impact on consumption behavior and its correlating effects on the the business of publishing and journalism.
The workshop will be held on December 1-2, 2009 and will consider a wide [...]

Why Yahoo Finance continues to give Google Finance a noogie

In spite of being one of the lone voices online who actually likes and uses Google Finance (check out my Yahoo Finance vs. Google Finance post), it’s becoming clearer and clearer that I’m really in the minority.
The NYT ran an article this weekend that looked at both Yahoo Finance and Google Finance.  A good read, [...]

Google Finance refresh is, well, refreshing

Kudos to the Google Finance team.  While Google Finance’s first lead, Katie Stanton is off galavanting somewhere within the Obama administration (go Katie!), Google Finance hasn’t missed a step.  While I may be criticized as a G Finance pump monkey, I’ve always enjoyed their simple platform.  For looking up quotes, monitoring the portfolio and simple [...]

Facebook Advertising to Surpass MySpace by 2011

MySpace has been losing “face” over the course of the last year. With sliding traffic and attention as well as shifts in management and reductions in staff, MySpace is not only a place for friends, but also a place for skeptics.
According to a Compete.com, Facebook received 122,559,672 unique visits in June 2009 twice that of [...]