Peter Kafka

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• Merry!

  
  MediaMemo — Authority: 758
  It’s almost the night before Christmas, which means that many of you are doing something other than looking at the Web right now. And those of you that are on the Web probably aren’t looking for something terribly heavy to ingest. Fair enough. We’ll start up again in a couple of days. In the meantime, please ...
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• What Facebook Privacy Problem? Advertisers Yawn

  
  MediaMemo — Authority: 758
  Plenty of Web folks – myself included – hollered loudly when Facebook overhauled its privacy policy this month. But the Web is made for shouting , that makes it pretty hard to get a sense of how most people really feel. For instance: Do advertisers, an increasingly important part of Facebook’s constituency, ...
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• Hackers Bring Holiday Headaches to Amazon, Wal-Mart

  
  MediaMemo — Authority: 758
  Bah humbug! Hackers spent part of Wednesday attacking Neustar, the DNS provider that helps link  some of the Web’s biggest Web sites to consumers, and ended up disrupting big retailers like Amazon (AMZN) and Wal-Mart (WMT) for more an hour . In addition to the obvious pain this has on last-minute Christmas ...
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• Time (Finally) for the Tablet? Apple Developers Supersizing Their Apps for January Event

  
  MediaMemo — Authority: 758
  The Apple tablet is threatening to approach Yeti status, but here’s an indication that it will turn out to be real: The company has told some of its key developers to prepare versions of their iPhone apps that will work on a device with a larger screen, in time for an event next month. Add that to the news that ...
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• Will the Feds Slow Googles Shopping Spree? Regulators Take a Closer Look at AdMob

  
  MediaMemo — Authority: 758
  About that Google shopping spree, which has seen the company buy six companies since August. It’s actually only four so far. That’s because Google’s plans to buy video compression outfit On2 have been held up by disgruntled shareholders . And the company’s plans to spend $750 million on AdMob , the ...
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• An Item on Googles Long Shopping List: "Demand-Side Platforms"

  
  MediaMemo — Authority: 758
  Google has bought six companies since August and has many more in its sights . Here’s one category the company is looking at, according to people familiar with the company’s thinking: “Demand-side platforms.” Dull name aside, this is an interesting business for Google to be thinking about. So-called DSPs are ...
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• Attention Publishers: Heres a Fantasy Tablet for Your Fantasy Tablet Magazines

  
  MediaMemo — Authority: 758
  Since we’ve spent the past few months dreaming about what a magazine might look like on a tablet from the future, why not do a little dreaming about the tablet itself? Sound good? Then take a gander at the XO-3 , a tablet that the people from One Laptop Per Child think they’d like to have available in ...
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• Hulu Tries a Little More Music, This Time From Warner Music

  
  MediaMemo — Authority: 758
  Once upon a time, Hulu flirted with the notion of becoming a hub for music videos. That never happened, and now the big music labels are trying to create their own Hulu , via their Vevo site. But Hulu is still playing around with music videos, at least at the margins. Last month, it began hosting some clips from ...
  3 days ago

• The Jay Leno Effect: Eyeballs Bail on Broadcast for Cable

  
  MediaMemo — Authority: 758
  When you sit down to watch TV at night (which you are still doing an awful lot of , no matter how much Web time you’re logging), you don’t distinguish between shows that are on broadcast TV and those on cable. You just want to watch TV. But TV executives and advertisers haven’t caught up with you. Advertisers ...
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• Grand Publishers’ Alliance Has A Name: “Next Issue Media”

  
  Mediaite — Authority: 774
  The “ Hulu for magazines ” joint venture spearheaded by John Squires officially has a name: Next Issue Media. According to Folio , the partnership has some real heavyweights behind it: Time Inc., Meredith, Hearst, Condé Nast and News Corporation. All of which represent some serious old media muscle, but ...
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• Jimmy Kimmel, Norah Jones and YouTubes 12 Days of Christmas

  
  MediaMemo — Authority: 758
  How do you get a video to go viral on YouTube? One tried-and-true method: Rely on other videos that have gone viral on YouTube. Also, it wouldn’t hurt if you got it on national TV. And if you got YouTube cofounder Chad Hurley to give you a shout-out on Twitter. Still, this Jimmy Kimmel clip duet with Norah Jones ...
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• Yelp Is Gone – For Now – But Google Has Plenty Of Fish Left to Fry

  
  MediaMemo — Authority: 758
  The Google/Yelp deal , which seemed close just a few days ago, is indeed gone , at least for now. But even if that one doesn’t go through, no need to worry. Google has plenty more in the hopper. Just in case you didn’t get the picture yet — six deals, for about a $1 billion or so, since August, plus another ...
  4 days ago

• Fox Faces Off Against Time Warner Cable. Will Hulu Get Roped Into the Fight?

  
  MediaMemo — Authority: 758
  The TV business loves to recycle old plots. Here’s a familiar one: TV programmer A wants more money from cable company B, which doesn’t want to pay up. Negotiations stall and both sides threaten to take their balls and go home–which would leave cable subscribers with empty TV channels. Last year’s version ...
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• D: All Things Digital @ CES: Live-Streaming Interviews With Hastings (Netflix), Rubinstein (Palm) and Rubin (Google)

  
  BoomTown — Authority: 692
  D: All Things Digital is packing up our wagon and taking it on the road right after the holiday, with a special “mini” session at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Organized by The Wall Street Journal, the interview event will take place Friday, Jan. 8, 2010, at the Venetian hotel. While space is ...
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• A Very Short List: Publishers That Have Actually Told Google to Take a Hike

  
  MediaMemo — Authority: 758
  Publishers love to gripe about Google. But they almost never, ever, do the one thing that could put their money where their mouth is: Tell the search giant to leave them out of its results. If you follow the media-versus-Google meme, you know this instinctively. But here are some numbers that spell it out: Of the ...
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• Special Delivery: Web Utility Limelight Networks Buys Ad Platform Eye Wonder

  
  MediaMemo — Authority: 758
  How do you break through in a no-growth industry? Try a different industry. That appears to be the thinking behind this one: Content delivery network Limelight Networks (LLNW) is shelling out $110 million in cash and stock for Eye Wonder, a video ad platform. If you don’t follow this stuff, you may still have ...
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• Weekend Update 12.19.09- Last Minute Shopping Edition

  
  Digital Daily — Authority: 701
  Kara covered three web companies this week, two with very 2.0 names and one about as Web 1.0 as it gets. BoomTown caught up with Mark Pincus of Zynga , the social gaming juggernaut, right after the company raked in about $180 million from private investors. She got into it with Pincus over those questionable ...
  6 days ago

• Avatar Is The iPhone Of Movies

  
  CTRL-F5 — Authority: 156
  Avatar is the iPhone of movies: movies will never be the same. Read » · Peter Kafka | comment 2. Privacy groups are already whining to the FTC about Facebook’s latest. Read ». The Business Insider on. Digg. Upcoming. Popular …
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• Even Without Its Own Google Phone, Android Gains Ground in the Smartphone Ad Market

  
  MediaMemo — Authority: 758
  As Google prepares to launch its own Android phone next year, a quick update on the progress of the Android handsets the search king doesn’t sell itself: They’re moving pretty quickly. At least, if you’re looking at the market for smartphone ads and “in-app” smartphone ads–as defined by AdMob, the ...
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• Condé Nast, With Help From a Nearly Naked Rihanna, Takes Another Step Toward Digital Magazines

  
  MediaMemo — Authority: 758
  Condé Nast has taken another small step into the future of digital magazines: The publisher has put a second edition of its GQ magazine up for sale on Apple’s iTunes Store. Plunk down $2.99 and you’ll  get you the January issue of the magazine , featuring a nearly naked Rhianna, for your iPhone or iPod touch. ...
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