• Habeas: Email Remains Primo Communication Method by David Goetzl

    CAPTIVA ISLAND, Fla. -- One of the issues raised repeatedly during Wednesday's opening sessions at the Email Insider Summit was: Whither email when a younger generation raised on Facebook, MySpace and social networking platforms enters the workforce? ...Read the whole story

  • gaming Championship Gaming Series Launches YouTube Channel by Gavin O'Malley

    [Gaming] Worldwide gaming league Championship Gaming Series is launching its official YouTube channel. The channel will offer high-quality content from CGS' pro gaming broadcasts to YouTube's audience, Online Media Daily learned Thursday. ...Read the whole story

  • video Brightcove Moves Into Japan Market With Online Video by Mark Walsh

    [Video] Web video provider Brightcove is entering the Japanese market by creating a local subsidiary with a group of big Japanese media players. The new unit, Brightcove KK, is backed with $4.9 million from Brightcove and four local partners: Dentsu, Japan's largest ad company; content delivery network J-Stream; media conglomerate transcosmos; and interactive ad company Cyber Communications, Inc. (CCI). ...Read the whole story

  • social media Flock Has R&D Plans For Latest Capital Infusion by Gavin O'Malley

    [Social Media] Like a "dot-com" 10 years ago, a "social" foundation seems to be what attracts venture capital to startups these days. Indeed, makers of infectious widgets, viral content, and community-creating platforms are at the top of VC's watch lists. The latest example of this trend is Flock, a social Web browser, which just completed a $15 million round of funding led by Fidelity Ventures. ...Read the whole story

  • Lawmaker Voices Privacy Concerns In Letter To Google by Wendy Davis

    A high-ranking lawmaker is pressuring Google to address privacy issues stemming from its acquisition of DoubleClick earlier this year. In a letter sent to Google CEO Eric Schmidt this week, Rep. Joe Barton (R-Tex.), ranking member of the House energy committee, asked the company to provide details about how it will use data about consumers from DoubleClick. ...Read the whole story

  • Software Attempts To Foil Data Harvesting by Wendy Davis

    Privacy advocates are stepping up the pressure on behavioral targeting company Phorm. A group calling itself AntiPhorm.com this week released a program aimed at interfering with Phorm's ability to harvest data about people's Web-surfing ability from Internet service providers. The program, AntiPhorm Lite, runs on users' computers and surfs the Web in the background. With the additional Web-surfing activity, Phorm's platform will be less effective because it will analyze the random clicks along with users' real clicks. ...Read the whole story

  • Memorial Day by The Editor

    In observance of Memorial Day, Online Media Daily will not publish on Monday. We will resume publication Tuesday morning. ... ...More

Pew: Not an Inappropriate Name by George Simpson

"The Internet is a tactical tool for shoppers who use it in product research, and (is) usually not a game-changer in people's purchasing decisions," said ... ...More

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