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The Internet

The 'network of networks' has become the dominant communications platform for every aspect of our lives: from entertainment to shopping to politics to sex ... to Newser

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December 2007
- Tracking Shoppers On & Offline
  
  Associated Press | Dec 10, 07 4:00 AM CST
  
  (Newser) - A marketing data company is blending information about consumer habits online - and offline - to create more accurate and detailed information for advertisers. AP reports Acxiom Corp is bringing to the Internet the consumer profiles and 'life-stage' categories for which it is already well known among direct-mail companies and telemarketers, using a new surveillance program called Relevance-X. More »
- Candidates Can't Buy Web's Love
  
  New York Times | Dec 9, 07 3:54 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - Candidates have spent loads of time and money learning a disappointing truth: you can’t control the Internet. Successful web campaigners like Howard Dean and Ron Paul give the reigns to eager online fans, letting their netroots define them, not vice-versa. That’s a welcome change, says the New York Times’ Matt Bai, from a soul-crushing era of strategic politics. More »
- Book Lovers Make Plea for Better Reviews
  
  New Republic | Dec 9, 07 4:51 AM CST
  
  (Newser) - The book may be in decline in our fast-changing world, one complete with electronic readers and shrinking attention spans, but the editors at New Republic will have none of it. They reject the notion that books must conform to the digital age and take newspapers to task for the decline in quality—and quantity—of book reviews. "We toy with the obsolescence of the book at our mental peril," the editors write. More »
- iPhone Tops Google Search List
  
  Reuters | Dec 5, 07 12:28 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - The iPhone topped Google’s list of fastest-growing search terms this year, reports Reuters. "iPhone, of course, is a word very few people typed in a search box in 2006,” said a Google rep. “It didn’t exist.” The list was dominated by social networking and celebrity terms. iPhone Webkinz TMZ More »
- MySpace Will Transmit Blunt
  
  New York Times | Dec 5, 07 1:47 AM CST
  
  (Newser) - MySpace will host and sell videos of exclusive musical performances on its MySpace Music site, reports the New York Times . Artists will record a series of exclusive videos for the site, and will be able to set their own prices, unlike Apple's iTunes flat-rate prices. The system, called Transmissions, won't require users to leave MySpace, as an earlier, failed system did. More »
- Nokia's New Portal Takes On Tech's Biggest
  
  PC World | Dec 4, 07 11:59 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - Nokia has announced bold plans to move beyond mobile phones and compete head-on with big tech and Internet names like Apple, Google and Microsoft, PC World reports. Its Ovi.com site will act as a gateway to all of its music, photo-sharing and games services: "Ovi" is the Finnish for "door". More »
- No Charges in Cyberbullying Suicide Case
  
  Wired | Dec 4, 07 4:00 AM CST
  
  (Newser) - No charges will be filed in the cyberbullying case that led a young girl to commit suicide, Wired reports. A Missouri prosecutor found there was not enough evidence to prove criminal intent on the part of mother Lori Drew and others who launched an online bullying campaign against 13-year-old Megan Meier through a hoax MySpace persona called "Josh." More »
- Inventor Takes On Spam, Fatal Blood Cancer
  
  New York Times | Dec 3, 07 4:16 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - Silicon Valley entrepreneur Steven T. Kirsch will save his own life right after he’s done eliminating spam email, he says. Kirsch has a rare form of blood cancer with a 5-7 year life expectancy, but he says, “I just look at it as a problem…you have four years to solve it or you don’t get to solve any more problems,” according to The New York Times . More »
- Internet Advertising to Overtake Radio Spending
  
  Associated Press | Dec 3, 07 2:46 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - Spending on Internet advertising will overtake radio advertising next year, a forecaster predicted today. A major advertising agency CEO said the Internet would get 9.4% of the ad market worldwide in 2008, compared to 7.9% for radio, reports AP. The two media are neck-and-neck this year, with 8.1% and 8.2%, respectively. More »
- The Trouble With Web Metrics
  
  Economist | Dec 1, 07 4:00 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - Worried about how many hits your blog is getting? Stop. Hits are so 90’s. These days, advertisers care about page views… or is that time spent? [User] sessions? Click-through? The web generates metrics like “a fire-hose shoots water,” a top web-measurement exec told the Economist, leaving advertisers groping for consensus on just how to judge a site’s value. More »
November 2007
- News Outlets Want More Control Over Search Engines
  
  Associated Press | Nov 29, 07 3:01 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - News outlets with online presences are looking to add controls over how search engines index and display their material, asserting an outdated status quo doesn’t allow them to set enough terms on how their sites get crawled. A new set of guidelines proposed today, called ACAP, would allow sites greater latitude in setting rules like which content can be indexed on search engines, and for how long. More »
- PDFs Will Soon Have Ads, Thanks to Yahoo, Adobe
  
  CNET | Nov 29, 07 10:47 AM CST
  
  (Newser) - Yahoo has teamed up with Adobe to nestle pay-per-click ads into PDF documents, CNET reports. Functioning a lot like Google’s text ads, they’ll be dynamic and key-word matched, so they can change at any time, but should stay relevant. Don’t worry, they won’t appear on all PDFs—only when publishers ask Yahoo to put them there More »
- Child Porn Found in Home of Suicide DA
  
  Dallas Morning News | Nov 27, 07 7:21 AM CST
  
  (Newser) - Texas investigators looking into the suicide of a former county district attorney found child porn in his home, reports the Dallas Morning News . He shot himself last year as a SWAT team closed in and a Dateline NBC camera crew covering internet predators waited outside. A search of laptops, a cell phone, and disks inside the home uncovered sexually explicit images of juveniles, police said. More »
- Critics Blast Claims of Net Outages by 2010
  
  Techdirt | Nov 25, 07 3:39 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - Ominous warnings earlier this week of a looming Internet disaster are highly misleading, suggest critics. "As we've stated previously, most warnings of capacity armageddon come from traffic shaping companies looking to sell hardware," the industry web site Broadband Reports writes about a recent Nemertes Research study, which was funded in part by the Internet Innovation Alliance. More »
- PayPal Swiping Credit Card Market
  
  BusinessWeek | Nov 21, 07 1:05 PM CST