At the powerhouse Abu Dhabi Media Summit here at Yas Island in Abu Dhabi, two of the biggest third-party search deals are being negotiated behind the scenes, we have learned. It just so happens that all the players involved were here for the last day or so: Google (NSDQ: GOOG) CEO Eric Schmidt, News Corp (NYSE: NWS) contingent of Rupert Murdoch, James Murdoch and Jon Miller, and AOL (NYSE: AOL) CEO Tim Armstrong.
The public posturing of News Corp-vs-Google and (...)
Online legal tool platform Legal River launched Attorney River today to connect attorneys to other attorneys. Attorneys can use the service to post requests for other attorneys. Once a lawyer posts a request, for example for outsourcing work or looking for a specialist in a different state, Attorney River alerts all lawyers with matching profiles and allows them to respond through the service.
Attorneys can register and post issues to the site for free, but to respond to a post, attorneys (...)
Over the last six months, doubleTwist, the iTunes alternative that lets you manage your music, videos, and photos, has really been stepping up its game. In October the company integrated an Amazon-powered MP3 store, allowing users to download and sync their music directly with any of hundreds of compatible devices, much as they would with the iTunes/iPod combo. And today it’s adding a new feature that makes it an even more viable iTunes competitor: support for podcasts.
Co-founder Monique (...)
The future of media will be information consumed on superphones while on the go, said Rob Glaser, chairman of RealNetworks, today in his first public speech since stepping down from his CEO position. In the speech, given in Seattle at a Mobile Broadband Breakfast event, he forecast that by 2013 the installed base of smart and superphones (see chart for Glaser’s definition of each) will exceed the installed base of PCs, and those web-surfing devices will be mobile. In this world he sees five (...)
Bill Gates is no longer the richest man in the world, according to the annual Forbes list of billionaires.
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With Oscar buzz behind us it’s time to look forward to movies that will make up next year’s awards. If you want to throw your hat in the ring, the folks at Britanick released “Academy Award Winning Movie Trailer” to help you out.
The short is a what’s what and shot by shot guide to making the melodramatic yet humorous yet adventurous yet poignant next best thing.
Take a few minutes and enjoy. Then grab your camera and show us what you got.
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Congrats and kudos to the team at Thing Labs, our portfolio company that is the creator of Brizzly, on launching today a few exciting new products.
First is the Brizzly Guide, which expands on the trend explanations already shown in Brizzly by giving each topic its own Guide page. Guide pages are permanent sources for up-to-date information on topics people are talking about. You can access these pages even after a topic is no longer showing in Brizzly’s top 10 and you don’t need to be a (...)
It was early 2006. I had been blogging for over a year and felt I had achieved something.
My blog had recently surpassed 1,000 RSS subscribers (what is RSS), making it at the time the most popular website I had ever built. The income was solid – up to $2,000 a month at best – and it was growing. I loved what I was doing.
My plan, based on all the Internet marketing advice I studied from the experts to “create a product”, was to start by releasing an ebook to test the waters as my first (...)
jQAPI is an alternative jQuery documentation site. It seems to be up to date (let’s hope this one will continue to update) and it offers a really easy way to navigate through the items (keyboard navigation is supported). An offline version of the documentation is also available for download.
Related posts:jQuery plugin: Virtual Pagination 2.0Slide Box – a jQuery pluginDrop down menu with CSS and (...)
These people are way cooler than I could ever be. At least I have something to aspire to.
Taking public transit wouldn't just decrease our carbon footprint — it'd also end all that fiddling with the phone while driving, an insanely dangerous problem.
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A couple of years ago, FreelanceSwitch brought you How to Be a Rockstar Freelancer by Collis and Cyan Ta’eed, which helped a lot of you find your feet in the world of freelancing. Since then, FreelanceSwitch and Rockable Press have been working together to bring another great guide to your bookshelves: How to Write Great Copy for the Web.
If you’ve ever wanted to get into web copy—whether you’re a freelance writer now or you’re a web designer whose clients always ask you to create the content (...)
It’s a little ironic that I’m writing this post about iPhone apps using WordPress on a Motorola Droid (Devour actually), but it allows me a chance to experience how hard it is to blog, using a tiny tiny tactile keyboard and also finally get this post started.
Ah, back to a full sized Logitech keyboard and mouse. Much better.
Popularized by iPhones, there are apps for just about everything, including tools to help social media marketers on the go. In fact, there are over 100,000 iPhone (...)
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How often do you find a cross-over story about three notable Left Coast industries: venture capital, media, and -- err -- sex?
It seems that noted San Francisco sex writer Violet Blue did some checking on what the SF Chron and sfgate.com were doing with her content (NSFW WARNING) and didn't like what she found. Her past columns had been copied to another domain, all outbound links (and some punctuation) stripped, the articles split into multiple pages, the pages stuffed with keywords (...)
