Twitter urges Murdoch to be open
Newspapers should become “radically open” if they want to make money in the online world, the co-founder of social networking site Twitter has said.
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Photos: Twitter’s New Office
November 18, 2009 - 3:14 am
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Moving out of the LoRi (Lower Outer Rincon Hill)/South Park neighborhood, the folks at Twitter moved up Third Street to a sweeter, swankier pad. CEO Ev Williams’s wife, Sara Morishige, reportedly aided with the interior design of the new office, reports Valleywag. Also, Twitter bees can also watch themselves in a mirror while they poop.
http://sfist.com/2009/11/17/photos_twitters_new_office.php
Twitter valuation off by half: NeXt Up Research
November 15, 2009 - 10:47 pm
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Michael Moe knows how to make headlines: Talk about Twitter and predictably people will bite (I’m proof of that). He led the team at NeXt Up Research that calculated the value of the micro blogging service and arrived at $526 million to $674 million — half what Twitter is generally believed to be worth.
http://www.bloggingstocks.com/2009/11/14/twitter-valuation-off-by-half-next-up-research/
Murdoch to remove News Corp’s content from Google ‘in months’
Rupert Murdoch, the head of News Corporation, is prepared to remove his company’s content from Google’ search index “within months” as the pay versus free content debate reaches crisis point.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/mediatechnologyandtelecoms/digital-media/6559694/Rupert-Murdoch-to-remove-News-Corps-content-from-Google-in-months.html
What's behind Rupert Murdoch's trash-talking of Google?
November 12, 2009 - 2:10 pm
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When he’s doing things, nobody does so more decisively and with greater impact than Murdoch. Take, for example, his destruction of U.K. union power at Wapping, his purchase and transformation of the old Metromedia television group into the Fox Broadcasting Network, his acquisition of Wall Street Journal parent Dow Jones, his aggressive entry into satellite [...]
How Murdoch Can Kill Google
Leave it to News Corporation chief Rupert Murdoch to try blowing back at the search hurricane tearing through the media industry. In an interview over the weekend, Murdoch said he may block Google from indexing his news sites… which is exactly the opposite of what most web-savvy content people do. We desperately want Google to [...]
Murdoch: We’ll probably remove our sites from Google’s index
November 9, 2009 - 12:01 pm
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Murdoch claimed that readers who randomly reach a page via search have little value to advertisers. Asked by Sky News political editor David Speers why News hasn’t therefore made its sites invisible to Google, Murdoch replied: “I think we will.”
http://mumbrella.com.au/murdoch-well-probably-remove-our-sites-from-googles-index-11366
MSNBC's Twitter Account Hacked [NSFW]
November 6, 2009 - 5:43 pm
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As you may know, many companies these days are running live twitter feeds to let people know what is happening on a day to day basis. One such company, MSBNC, runs a live feed of all news updates.
All things were going well, until recently when it seemed to be hacked.
I think these pictures speak for [...]
MySpace Traffic Drop Costs News Corp About $100 Million
November 6, 2009 - 10:26 am
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The MySpace social media network’s traffic has dropped so much that it will fail to satisfy a minimum traffic level crucial to parent company News Corp’s three-year $900 million advertising deal with Google, inked in 2006, that made Google the exclusive search advertiser on MySpace — then the world’s most popular social network.
http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2009/11/myspace-traffic-drop-costs-news-corp-about-100-million/
