May 2008
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Microsoft - Yahoo! Coverage
(UPDATE: The timeline with links to influential coverage of this topic have been removed from this post.
Google purged all references to MEDIAdeluge from its search results and subsequently notified MEDIAdeluge that they “believe that your site does not add value or provide unique content.”
Needless to say, that will be the end of our test. In the words of the six-fingered man in Princess...
How Would You Have Written PR Secrets for...
Yesterday Brian Solis of PR 2.0 wrote a guest post on TechCrunch entitled, PR Secrets for Startups. It was a rather long post about what entreprenuers should be considering as they start to want to engage key influentials. The comments on TechCrunch, Twitter and FriendFeed have been less than supportive of the piece. My take is here. Given all the criticism, I wonder, how you would have...
Brian Solis' Guest Post "PR Secrets for Startups"...
Brian Solis of Future Works and the PR 2.0 blog wrote a guest post on TechCrunch today entitled, PR Secrets for Startups. It was a solid post about what entreprenuers should be considering as they start to want to engage key influentials. The comments on TechCrunch have been less than supportive of the piece. My take is below. “I think the key takeaway here is that good PR is...
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How to Get Funded
I had three or four separate communications late this week, all having to do with venture funding and how / who to get in front of. Then came John Cook’s Venture Blog post on Friday that wondered aloud “How many meetings does it take to close a venture deal?” The post went on to posit that the answer might be 21 — if the experiences of a handful of Seattle-area entrepreneurs are to be...
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FriendFeed Rooms... get one?
You can now “get a room” on FriendFeed. FriendFeed, if you’re not familiar, is the fast growing aggregator of all of your — and your friends’ — “social” activity on the web. Think about pulling together, into one place, feeds of all of your microblogging posts on Twitter, Jaiku or Pownce; Amazon wishlist updates; blog posts; story voting /...
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Microsoft - Yahoo! in the news again
Although Microsoft withdrew its bid for Yahoo nearly two weeks ago, new information popped up today indicating that a Microsoft-Yahoo deal, in some form or other might be possible. Tracking all of the coverage of / conversation around a developing story like this can be difficult. Here at MEDIAdeluge, we’re running a test to see if we can make following the developing Microsoft - Yahoo!...
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Transparent Journalism
Inventor of the Web, Timothy Berners-Lee won $350,000 to reform new media journalism. According to The Wall Street Journal: “The Knight Foundation just announced the winners of its second annual Knight News Challenge, a contest that funds ideas to transform community news through digital technology. A total of $5.5 million is being awarded to 16 different projects. The summary of Berners-Lee’s...
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Wired vs TechCrunch
Recently, TechCrunch and the Washington Post announced a deal in which TechCrunch would provide content for washingtonpost.com. It’s an interesting model for traditional and new media partnerships and something that will be watched very closely. Wired weighted in on the partnership, twice, taking aim at Michael Arrington’s practice of covering companies he also is invested in — a no-no at the...
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New Media Influencers (part 2)
In my post, New Media Influence (part 1), among other things, I talked about how influence is shifting away from a traditional, linear model (like the following) and toward a more consumer-centric multi-nodal news landscape. Today, new media and bloggers are speeding the shift away from the linear influence model by communicating news virtually as fast as it happens. In the case of the earthquake...
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Note to Microsoft: Buy Twitter... quickly
Microsoft may be looking for other investment opportunities post Yahoo! Take a look at Twitter. Sure, it’s not $45 billion. This is more of a get-in-early (before Google) play.
Twitter = your pithy take on what’s news to you shared with the people following you — in 140 characters or less.
The tech early adopters have all fled Facebook and are now residing on Twitter. It is...
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New Media Influence (part 1)
Much has been written and said about the influence of new media and the rise of “citizen journalism.” The old media model is being flipped on it’s head. It’s clearly a time of rapid change in mass communications. Legitimate questions are being asked about what will become of the old stalwart industries like journalism, advertising, marketing, PR and others caught up in the...
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Contribute to Myanmar Relief
Social Median has a good list of ways you can contribute to Myanmar relief on the Social Median blog here. The Myanmar government put its tally of deaths since Cyclone Nargis struck early Saturday at 22,500 and said 41,000 people were missing. Such early estimates often prove inaccurate, and the wide path of this cyclone, which destroyed homes across the fertile Irrawaddy Delta and into Yangon,...