Facebook’s Challenge - Making Money in Mobile World - NYTimes.com
The company is trying to find ways to show lucrative ads to mobile users without cluttering up their hand-held screens and driving them away in frustration.
Friday, August 24, 2012
Thursday, August 23, 2012
Struggling to Recover From a Cyberattack - NYTimes.com
Struggling to Recover From a Cyberattack - NYTimes.com
When someone hacks into a company’s computer system and wreaks havoc, and a former employee is suspected, how does the business rebuild?
When someone hacks into a company’s computer system and wreaks havoc, and a former employee is suspected, how does the business rebuild?
Twitter Followers For Sale - NYTimes.com
Twitter Followers For Sale - NYTimes.com
That friend who brags about having 1,000, even 100,000 Twitter followers may not have earned them, but simply bought them on the black market.
That friend who brags about having 1,000, even 100,000 Twitter followers may not have earned them, but simply bought them on the black market.
Electronic Scores Rank Consumers by Potential Value - NYTimes.com
Electronic Scores Rank Consumers by Potential Value - NYTimes.com:
Buying-power scores, compiled from huge amounts of data, measure your potential value as a customer. But you’ll probably never learn your total.
AMERICANS are obsessed with their scores. Credit scores, G.P.A.’s, SAT’s, blood pressure and cholesterol levels — you name it.
So here’s a new score to obsess about: the e-score, an online calculation that is assuming an increasingly important, and controversial, role in e-commerce.
These digital scores, known broadly as consumer valuation or buying-power scores, measure our potential value as customers. What’s your e-score? You’ll probably never know. That’s because they are largely invisible to the public. But they are highly valuable to companies that want — or in some cases, don’t want — to have you as their customer.
Buying-power scores, compiled from huge amounts of data, measure your potential value as a customer. But you’ll probably never learn your total.
AMERICANS are obsessed with their scores. Credit scores, G.P.A.’s, SAT’s, blood pressure and cholesterol levels — you name it.
So here’s a new score to obsess about: the e-score, an online calculation that is assuming an increasingly important, and controversial, role in e-commerce.
These digital scores, known broadly as consumer valuation or buying-power scores, measure our potential value as customers. What’s your e-score? You’ll probably never know. That’s because they are largely invisible to the public. But they are highly valuable to companies that want — or in some cases, don’t want — to have you as their customer.
Internet Analysts Question India’s Efforts to Stem Panic - NYTimes.com
Internet Analysts Question India’s Efforts to Stem Panic - NYTimes.com
Internet companies say they are cooperating with efforts to stop posts and photos that are fueling ethnic tensions, but analysts say the government’s response was poorly planned.
Internet companies say they are cooperating with efforts to stop posts and photos that are fueling ethnic tensions, but analysts say the government’s response was poorly planned.
Monday, July 16, 2012
Study: Viewers Turning To YouTube As News Source : NPR
Study: Viewers Turning To YouTube As News Source : NPR
A new study has found that YouTube has become a major platform for news, one where viewers are turning for eyewitness videos in times of major events and natural disasters.
The Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism on Monday released their examination of 15 months of the most popular news videos on the Google Inc.-owned site. It found that while viewership for TV news still easily outpaces those consuming news on YouTube, the video-sharing site is a growing digital environment where professional journalism mingles with citizen content.
"There's a new form of video journalism on this platform," said Amy Mitchell, deputy director of the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism. "It's a form in which the relationship between news organizations and citizens is more dynamic and more multiverse than we've seen in most other platforms before."
More than a third of the most-watched videos came from citizens. Than more half came from news organizations, but footage in those videos sometimes incorporated footage shot by YouTube users.
The Japanese earthquake and tsunami was the most-viewed news event during the length of the study, which spanned January 2011 to March 2012. The top videos from Japan included footage from surveillance cameras, a news network and a Japanese Coast Guard vessel — a typical variety of sources.
Such dramatic events were often among the most watched videos. Other popular news events included the Russian elections, unrest in the Middle East, the collapse of a fair stage in Indiana and the crash of an Italian cruise ship.
A new study has found that YouTube has become a major platform for news, one where viewers are turning for eyewitness videos in times of major events and natural disasters.
The Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism on Monday released their examination of 15 months of the most popular news videos on the Google Inc.-owned site. It found that while viewership for TV news still easily outpaces those consuming news on YouTube, the video-sharing site is a growing digital environment where professional journalism mingles with citizen content.
"There's a new form of video journalism on this platform," said Amy Mitchell, deputy director of the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism. "It's a form in which the relationship between news organizations and citizens is more dynamic and more multiverse than we've seen in most other platforms before."
More than a third of the most-watched videos came from citizens. Than more half came from news organizations, but footage in those videos sometimes incorporated footage shot by YouTube users.
The Japanese earthquake and tsunami was the most-viewed news event during the length of the study, which spanned January 2011 to March 2012. The top videos from Japan included footage from surveillance cameras, a news network and a Japanese Coast Guard vessel — a typical variety of sources.
Such dramatic events were often among the most watched videos. Other popular news events included the Russian elections, unrest in the Middle East, the collapse of a fair stage in Indiana and the crash of an Italian cruise ship.
Monday, July 2, 2012
On YouTube, Amateur Is the New Pro - NYTimes.com
On YouTube, Amateur Is the New Pro - NYTimes.com:
"How to be a YouTube Celebrity: A mash-up of advice from the people who know YouTube best: the amateurs."
"How to be a YouTube Celebrity: A mash-up of advice from the people who know YouTube best: the amateurs."
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