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Sprint’s YouTube Payola: Use Instinct In Your Videos, And We’ll Pay You - 1 Comment
Posted By Matt Kapko - Tue 01 Jul 2008 06:49 PM PST

Call it this century’s version of payola. Sprint Nextel Corp (NYSE: S). is asking young filmmakers – a.k.a. YouTube superstars – to “sell out” by dropping an image of the…

Intel Backing Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs) To Get Back Into The Wireless Game - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Wed 02 Apr 2008 05:53 AM PST

Will consumers want to carry an additional device around just to surf the net, especially if they have a phone that already does this? Intel (NSDQ: INTC) is hoping that…

Ticket Registration Opens: Economics of Health Content Seminar, March 20th, NYC - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 21 Feb 2008 12:42 PM PST

Ticket sales are now open for our Economics of Health Content Seminar, March 20th at the lovely new TimesCenter in NYC. EconHealth is set against the backdrop of changing economics…

EconSM II: On The Starting Blocks: Fast Company Partnership; Early Bird Info; Osder On Board - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Tue 05 Feb 2008 04:22 PM PST

We’re hard at work on the next edition of our popular Economics of Social Media conference, scheduled for April 29 at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles. Our first…

Interactive TV Provider Blue Frog Mobile Files For Bankruptcy - 5 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Tue 05 Feb 2008 10:44 AM PST

Blue Frog Mobile, the Seattle company that works with TV stations to allow viewers to text messages in to appear on the screen, filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy late last…

Changes At mocoNews: Tricia Coming In; James Goes Creative - 3 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Sun 03 Feb 2008 09:00 PM PST

A sad and a happy day for us, as mocoNews experiences a change of guard: James Pearce, our principal correspondent who has been with us for more than three years,…

Top Headlines Of The Week From paidContent.org, paidContent:UK And contentSutra - 0 Comments
Posted By Amanda Natividad - Sat 02 Feb 2008 05:11 PM PST

Top headlines of the week from our sister sites paidContent.org, paidContent:UK and contentSutra: paidContent.org: -- MSFT-YHOO: Coverage Across Our Sites -- Yahoo To Acquire Maven Networks For About $150 Million:…

MSFT-YHOO: Links To Coverage Across Our Sites - 0 Comments
Posted By Amanda Natividad - Fri 01 Feb 2008 11:25 AM PST

Some of our breaking-news coverage from sister sites paidContent.org and paidContent:UK: paidContent.org: -- Google: MSFT Bid Raises ‘Troubling Questions’; Openness Mantra Again; MSFT Responds: We’d Be No 2 -- MSFT-YHOO:…

@ MidemNet: Our Coverage - 0 Comments
Posted By Amanda Natividad - Mon 28 Jan 2008 09:00 PM PST

Our paidContent:UK editor Robert Andrews has been at the MidemNet conference in Cannes, covering the big music conference and marketplace. Some highlights: -- @ MidemNet: YouTube’s Hurley: EU ‘Made Things…

Skyfire Launches Browser With Full Web Support, Including Desktop Flash - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Mon 28 Jan 2008 05:59 PM PST

Skyfire has launched a beta version of its new mobile browser which purports to put the complete web on mobile phones—including desktop Flash, AJAX, QuickTime, streaming video and music and…

Top Headlines Of The Week From paidContent.org, paidContent:UK and ContentSutra - 0 Comments
Posted By Amanda Natividad - Fri 18 Jan 2008 07:12 PM PST

Top headlines of the week from our sister sites paidContent.org, paidContent:UK and ContentSutra: paidContent.org: -- Directors, Studios Reach ‘Tentative’ Three-Year Deal; Residual Rate For Paid Downloads ‘Doubled’ -- Updated: NBA,…

Top Headlines Of The Week From paidContent.org, paidContent:UK and ContentSutra - 0 Comments
Posted By Amanda Natividad - Fri 11 Jan 2008 04:08 PM PST

Top headlines of the week from our sister sites paidContent.org, paidContent:UK and ContentSutra: paidContent.org: -- Terry Semel Revving Up Windsor; Yahoos Buckley, Karish Joining Him -- CES: Interview: Beth Comstock,…

Top Headlines Of The Week From paidContent.org, paidContent:UK and ContentSutra - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Fri 04 Jan 2008 04:49 PM PST

Top headlines of the week from our sister sites paidContent.org, paidContent:UK and ContentSutra: paidContent.org: -- ContentNext Media Index Changes: Out With The Old, in With The New -- Sony BMG…

Top 10 Viewed Stories Of 2007 on MocoNews - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 31 Dec 2007 06:15 PM PST

Since everyone else is doing it, might as well...top 10 stories of the year on MocoNews, as filtered through our Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Analytics account (we started using it in…

In Hibernation Mode For Rest Of December - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Fri 21 Dec 2007 03:00 PM PST

A big and eventful year for all of us is coming to an end, and we’re going into hibernation mode for the rest of December, barring breaking news. The newsletters…

Coming Tuesday Evening: LA Year-End Review & Mixer, WGA Theater - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Sun 02 Dec 2007 07:00 PM PST

Coming this week on Tuesday evening: the LA Year-End Digital Media Review and ContentNext Mixer of paidContent.org and Moconews.net, at Writers Guild Theater, in Beverly Hills. The year-end review panel…

GPS Bus Locators—The Simple Ideas Are Nearly Always The Best - 6 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Wed 28 Nov 2007 04:57 PM PST

Now this is a use of GPS technology I could really get behind… the city of Stamford is looking at fitting buses with GPS and installing devices at bus stops…

Coming Monday: Registration Opens For Our LA Year-End Review Panel & Mixer on Dec 4th - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Tue 20 Nov 2007 09:23 PM PST

This coming Monday, after the Thanksgiving holidays, we’ll open registration for our Year-End Digital Media Review Panel and Mixer, happening on Dec 4th at Writer’s Guild Theater in Beverly Hills.…

Job With Us: Editorial Producer For Our Sites - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 15 Nov 2007 10:08 PM PST

We’re hiring an editorial producer for our four websites and the accompanying daily newsletters, helping with compiling and distributing of daily newsletters; maintaining the flow of stories on the homepages…

Berners-Lee Supports Merging Internet And Mobile Internet - 4 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Wed 14 Nov 2007 06:22 PM PST

Web progenitor Tim Berners-Lee has spoken out over the mobile web, claiming that it “needs to be fully and completely the internet, nothing more and nothing less. It needs to…

Save The Date: 2007 Digital Media Review Mixer; Dec 4th at WGA Theater, Beverly Hills - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 12 Nov 2007 08:15 PM PST

Much like we did a “Mid-Year Digital Media Review” in July, now we’re doing a year-end one, called 2007 Digital Media Review Mixer, on December 4th in Los Angeles. It…

Informal Meet & Greet: Wednesday Evening At The Club - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Tue 06 Nov 2007 03:26 AM PST

I mentioned earlier that I am in London for a few days this week. Thanks to some venue-hunting by our UK business guy Raj Kotecha, we have a venue for…

Writer’s Guild of America Strike, In Part For Mobile Rights - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Mon 05 Nov 2007 04:50 PM PST

The Writer’s Guild of America (WGA) went on strike today in an attempt to get a cut of revenue from new media, including mobile media. Specifically, they “want better compensation…

In London This Week; Then Monaco - 1 Comment
Posted By Rafat Ali - Sun 04 Nov 2007 01:47 PM PST

I am in London for the first half this week, on a stopover en route to Monaco for the Monaco Media Forum late in the weekend. Thinking of having an…

That Thing About the Future of Business Media - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Sun 28 Oct 2007 06:05 PM PST

So about 500 of us will gather in that gilded ballroom in Waldorf-Astoria, in about one business day from now, to discuss the ”Future of Business Media”, in all its…