Posts Tagged ‘mainstream media

The “dirty tricks” kerfuffle surrounding Facebook and Burson Marsteller that erupted a few days ago surely couldn’t get worse for the beleaguered PR firm – but it did. Burson was caught out in a covert anti-Google smear campaign on behalf of Facebook when it reached out to a US blogger who promptly published the email [...]

From the page: Google’s Amit Singhal offered more “clarity” into Google’s approach with the Panda update. However I am not convinced that any clarity was actually added, and I think a lot of the questions they ask are to a degree even a bit wrong-headed. Go to Source

Twitpic has just updated its terms of service and issued a statement clarifying some copyright and intellectual property issues for its users. Specifically, the company addresses the matter of ownership: Who owns a user’s Twitpics? The user? Twitpic? The Internet at large? Anyone who chooses to download the images? In a brief post, Twitpic founder [...]

HP‘s Social Computing Research Group has released the results of a new study that dives into the anatomy of Twitter’s Trending Topics. For its research, HP analyzed 16.32 million tweets on 3,361 different trending topics between September and October 2010. To get its data, it queried Twitter’s search API every 20 minutes. HP discovered that [...]

I always was annoyed at the wire services and mainstream media that take pictures that have been tweeted and just use them without permission. Unlike web publications, there’s no way to link credit or easily pull down if there’s a complaint. The wire services even redistribute the pics. Here, the AFP is arguing in a [...]


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