Facebook: Love it or Leave it?

By New York Herald staff

Published: April 6, 2009

Like any benevolent dictatorship, Facebook has its share of detractors, even if Mark Zuckerberg means well.  After a site re-design that makes you even more ambiantly aware of what your friends and friends of friends are doing and saying, some are starting to sour on the most popular social networking site on the planet.  NYMag’s [...]

Amazon Bans Paid Search for its Affiliates

By New York Herald staff

Published: April 6, 2009

According to an email to Amazon associates, the shopping behemoth is no longer allowing its thousands of affiliates to use Google Adwords - or any other PPC network. Besides the usual problems of competing with its own affiliates on trademark terms or popular keywords, we’re not quite sure what the thinking behind this is. Here’s [...]

AP to Take on News Aggregators

By New York Herald staff

Published: April 6, 2009

Google News, which attracts 140 million pageviews per month according to Quantcast, doesn’t actually have it’s own news content to offer readers.  Rather, As you can see above, it aggregates news content from around the web.  Displaying one or two lines of the story, Google News then links out to the original source.  Perhaps that’s [...]

Media Hype: Content Curation

By New York Herald staff

Published: April 3, 2009

Desperately looking for a profitable business model, old school media companies are latching on to the realization that cheap and dirty sites like HuffPost, Gawker (and hopefully us someday) are onto something.  Why pen original pieces when you can curate the boatloads of content that’s already on the web?
That’s not to say merely aggregate, because [...]

Is Shepard Fairey’s ‘Hope’ Fair Use or Copyright Violation?

By admin

Published: February 10, 2009

The street artist Shepard Fairey added to his considerable fame when the Obama campaign unofficially adopted his ‘Hope’ poster, which was based on a photo of Barack Obama taken by AP freelancer Mannie Garcia. Now Mr. Garcia and the AP are threatening to sue for copyright violation after repeatedly contacting Mr. Fairey to demand [...]

Steve Jobs Out - Apple Briefly Halts Trading

By New York Herald staff

Published: January 14, 2009

Steve Jobs, head of Apple, has announced in an email to employees that he is vacating his post until June for “health related reasons”. Tom Cook, current COO, will take over until his return. There has been much speculation about the health of the Apple CEO, who has visibly lost weight in recent [...]

South Korean Blogger’s Arrest Signals Cyber Crackdown

By admin

Published: January 13, 2009

On Dec. 29th, then anonymous blogger “Minerva” wrote incorrectly that the government issued an “emergency order” to financial firms to stop buying U.S. dollars, in a bid to stem the drop of the Korean won.  Two weeks later, the South Korean government has arrested “Minerva”, aka Park Dae Sung, for spreading “false information”.  The arrest [...]

Facebook’s Tempest Over Ta-Tas

By admin

Published: December 29, 2008

Facebook’s Breast Feeding Ban results in Nurse-In.
It seems the only legimate exposure of breasts in the media is when Nature, Discovery Channel or National Geographic show a tribe in the Amazon or Africa where shirts and shoes are optional.  Janet Jackson they are not.  In America, public displays of breast feeding is still a sensitive [...]

Emmys Announced

By New York Herald staff

Published: December 2, 2008

NEW YORK CITY - CNN international correspondent Christiane Amanpour presented David Schlesinger, Editor-in-Chief of Reuters, with the Emmy Lifetime Achievement Award at a luncheon ceremony in the Rainbow Room of the famed Rockefeller Center. Notable speakers included Peter Price, President/CEO of the National Academy of Television Art & Sciences, Robert Thomson, Editor-In-Chief of the [...]

Behind Twitter’s $500 Mil. Rejection of Facebook

By New York Herald staff

Published: November 24, 2008

Kara Swisher’s Boomtown blog gives us some juicy tidbits as to why Twitter eventually rejected Facebook’s $500 million offer to acquire Twitter.  Twitter if you’re unaware is a fast growing “life streamer” that has spawned not only direct competitors, like FriendFeed, but also feature-cloning from the likes of Facebook and Gmail.
Apparently Twitter felt that $500 [...]

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