Daily Archives: February 6, 2009

Is The Worst Behind Us? Online Ad Revenues Pick Up In The Fourth Quarter.

Via Tech Crunch by Erick Schonfeld on February 5, 2009 With Time Warner reporting earnings yesterday, we now have online advertising numbers for the fourth quarter from the four largest players: Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, and AOL. Tallying up their online … Continue reading

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UK spends billions on high-tech IDs, forgets to buy card readers

Via Tech Crunch by Devin Coldewey on February 5, 2009 This has to be one of the dumbest things I’ve heard in a long time. The UK has spent £4.4 billion ($6.6bn US) on a controversial high-tech National Identity Card … Continue reading

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In Hudson River Landing, PR Pros Were Not First Responders

Via Media Shift by Mark Hannah, February 5, 2009 In times of crisis, communications professionals have an important — and increasingly complicated — role to play. We used to be the first to offer public responses to catastrophes, able to … Continue reading

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Facebook Joins OpenID Foundation; So What?

Via Mashable February 5, 2009 – 5:19 pm PDT – by Adam Ostrow Facebook announced this afternoon that it’s joining the OpenID Foundation – an interesting move considering that Facebook Connect, the company’s identity platform for third-party websites, has so … Continue reading

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Techrigy Hits 1 Billion Conversations–Think Google Alerts On Steroids

Via Tech Crunch by Jeff Widman on February 5, 2009 Last month, I e-mailed my entire family and suggested they setup Google Alerts on their name. When a week later someone created a malicious Facebook group slandering my sister (very … Continue reading

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