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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Apple Makes Good on Steve Jobs's Promise, Invites Other Advertisers. But What About Google's AdMob? — Last week, Steve Jobs promised that his iPhone and iPads would be open to outside ad networks. Yesterday Apple made good on his promise, by changing the terms of its developer agreement.
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Joshua Benton / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Apple's impact: What Steve Jobs' WWDC announcements mean for the …
Apple's impact: What Steve Jobs' WWDC announcements mean for the …
David Kaplan / paidContent:
Corrected: @ CM Summit: AdMob's Hamoui: Nothing New About iAd's Rich Media
Corrected: @ CM Summit: AdMob's Hamoui: Nothing New About iAd's Rich Media
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TechCrunch
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Pulse iPad App Gets Steve Jobs's Praise in Morning...Then Booted From App Store Hours Later After NYT Complains — Yesterday morning, the pair of Stanford University graduate students who made the hot news-reading iPad app, Pulse News Reader, were ecstatic to be mentioned first-for being among …
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GigaOM, Terry Heaton's PoMo Blog, Poynter Online, Mashable!, Scripting News, Epicenter, Engadget, kottke.org, TUAW and Silicon Alley Insider
Matt Heist / paidContent:
What Yahoo Needs To Do With Associated Content — Matt Heist is CEO of High Gear Media, a vertical publishing company that focuses on automotive content from professional writers and enthusiasts. Prior to joining High Gear Media, Heist worked at Sidestep.com, and before that, at Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO).
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Editors Weblog
Matt Welch / Hit & Run:
Helen Thomas, and the Awkward Transfer From “Straight” Reporting to Opinioneering — Since we haven't run the video here yet, here's the ancient White House correspondent-turned-columnist Helen Thomas celebrating Jewish Heritage Month by telling Israelis (via a camera-wielding interlocutor) to go back to Poland and Germany:
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Brad Stone / Bits:
Why Apple's iBooks Numbers Are Meaningless — There was e-book news on Monday at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference: Steven P. Jobs, Apple's chief executive, said that big publishers had told him that sales of e-books for the iPad now accounted for 22 percent of all e-book sales.
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Vladislav Savov / Engadget:
iPad corners 22 percent of ebook market, iBooks gets iPhone version and PDF reader
iPad corners 22 percent of ebook market, iBooks gets iPhone version and PDF reader
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Mashable!, Ars Technica, Bits, eBookNewser, GalleyCat, TUAW, The Next Web, Fast Company, Gadget Lab and Kindle Review
New York Post:
Bartz eyes a mate — After 18 months atop Yahoo!, Chief Executive Carol Bartz appears to be done with cutting costs and ready to address the site's No. 1 problem: trying to reverse the 25 percent drop in time visitors spend at the Web portal that has occurred on her watch.
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Guardian
Scott Karp / Publishing 2.0:
The Content Graph and the Future of Brands — Yesterday, two stories from Aol's DailyFinance appeared in the Sunday print edition of the Daily Telegram, a newspaper in southern Michigan. These stories appeared on a business page that would otherwise have been produced almost entirely with stories from the Associated Press.
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Steve Herrmann / The Editors:
BBC News linking policy (3) — Links to external sites are an important part of the BBC News website and I have blogged previously about how and why we are aiming to develop what we do in this area - here and here. — One theme that came up was what we should do about linking to sites which require subscription.
Joel Gunter / news:rewired, 25 June 2010 …:
Q&A: Marc Reeves, editor, the Business Desk West Midlands — In our latest speaker Q&A we hear from Marc Reeves, editor of the Business Desk West Midlands. Marc has been a reporter, sub-editor, editor and senior manager in newspapers across the UK for more than 20 years.
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Meghan Keane / the Econsultancy blog:
Will The New York Times admit a few freeloaders are good for business? — With the future of paid content online anyone's guess, the publishing world eagerly anticipates news on The New York Times' paywall. Announced in January, we still have months to go before the paper unveils its official metered model.
MediaShift:
Barnett: Advocacy, Membership Groups to Push Non-Profit News — The erosion of the traditional business model for news has led many to go down the non-profit path. The result is a slew of new non-profit news websites. The Bay Citizen, which launched at the end of May …
Trevor Claiborne / Google Analytics Blog:
The New AdWords Reports in Google Analytics — Last month, we made a number of announcements around the Google Analytics ecosystem. Along with launching the Google Analytics Application Gallery and making the new, faster page tag the default, we released a major update of the AdWords reports in Google Analytics.
Daniel Frankel / The Wrap:
The Issue Is Diversity as Comcast/NBCU Meets L.A. — It's not enough. — That was a message emphatically delivered Monday by several members of Congress and numerous minority producers and diversity-minded media-business watchdog groups to Comcast and NBC Universal, at a House Judiciary …
rbr.com:
Gannett raises Q2 television revenue guidance — Speaking at the Sixth Annual Noble Equity Conference, top executives of Gannett Company indicated Monday that advertising is not only recovering, but coming back at a somewhat quicker pace than previously thought.
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Fitz & Jen
Nat Ives / AdAge:
Wall Street Journal Expands Again With New Weekly Section — Former Domino Magazine Editor Consulting on New Leisure and Lifestyle Section — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — The Wall Street Journal is expanding again, this time with an additional weekly section of leisure and lifestyle content …
Abby Brownback / American Journalism Review:
A Web-Centric Approach To Traditional Journalism — Abby Brownback is an AJR editorial assistant. — It's not as legendary as Noah's ark, not as revered as Joan of Arc, not as ornate as the Arc de Triomphe—but the arc of an ongoing story, one that guides from past to present, is the centerpiece of how readers process the news.