• Anonymous Commenting Under Scrutiny By Illinois Court by Wendy Davis

    A coalition of advocacy groups and news organizations is asking an Illinois appellate court to safeguard Web users' right to comment anonymously. The case stems from comments left on the Ottawa Publishing Company's mywebtimes.com, a site for the Ottawa, Ill. newspaper The Times. ...Read the whole story

  • Report: Print Pubs Need To Better Use Web Sites by Gavin O'Malley

    As seemingly trivial as celebrity news is, established publishers have for years made the potentially fatal mistake of not taking its online coverage more seriously. That's according to a new report from media investment bank DeSilva + Phillips, which credits the larger economic downturn for exposing media companies' failure to effectively recreate their print franchises online. ...Read the whole story

  • mobile Pew: Mobile Web Deepens Americans' Digital Lifestyles by Mark Walsh

    Are you a "digital collaborator," "ambivalent networker," or "drifting surfer?" Those are among the types of Internet users defined in a new Pew Research Center study that finds the mobile Web is playing a growing role in peoples' digital lives. Nearly 40% of Americans have positive and improving attitudes about their mobile devices, which in turn draws them deeper into online activities that range from sharing and creating content to increasing personal productivity. ...Read the whole story

  • search Google Intros Two Search Features by Laurie Sullivan

    Google introduced two new improvements to search results this week: better search refinements and longer content snippets. Better search refinements taps into algorithms, mathematical calculations and semantic technology to help searchers seek and find information faster through keyword queries. ...Read the whole story

  • video Geico Gets Gecko Dancing In Numa Numa YouTube Video by Laurie Sullivan

    Geico launched a series of YouTube videos this week featuring two talking kittens, the infamous talking gecko, and YouTube celebrity Numa Numa Guy, who generated more than 27 million views for his first lip-syncing video. The auto insurance company relies on Numa Numa, the gecko and theme music from the company's new ad campaign in the video, which contains no call-to-action or 800-number. ...Read the whole story

  • EMI Withdraws Lawsuit Against Project Playlist by Wendy Davis

    Settling its differences with music search engine Project Playlist, record label EMI has withdrawn a lawsuit against the company and will now license its catalog to the site. Federal district court judge Denny Chin in Manhattan signed off on the deal on Tuesday. The court dismissed the lawsuit with prejudice, which means that EMI, which represents big names like Coldplay, REM and Spice Girls, can't re-file the case in the future. The order specifies that neither company prevailed in the case. ...Read the whole story

  • mobile Media Networks Starts Mobile Ad Geo-Targeting Service by Mark Walsh

    Delivering more relevant ads to cell phone users based on their location has long been the promise of mobile advertising. Media Networks Inc., a division of Time Inc., aims to move closer to that goal with a new geo-targeting service that delivers ads based on mobile users' ZIP codes. ...Read the whole story

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