How blogs are becoming more like newspapersNow that blogs and online news sites have become Serious Business, lax fact-checking, vague headlines and poor sub-editing just won’t cut it. To defeat newspapers, they have had to become them, says Ravi Somaiya.
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Twitter finally turns a profit
Twitter’s real-time search deals with Microsoft and Google — worth about $25 million combined — will see the company finally turn a (small) profit this year, according to company insiders.
Google to roll-out real-time search
Remember Google’s deal with Twitter? The web giant’s real-time search is finally ready to go live, but it’s much bigger than just social media…
Big on the Web in 2010
Mashable’s Pete Cashmore predicts the 10 big Web trends for 2010: more geolocation, more real-time news, internet TV, and a move away from e-Readers. Ooh, controversial!
Twitter is the new Walter Cronkite
In 1963, it was CBS news anchor Walter Cronkite who broke the big story of the JFK assassination. In 2009, Twitter would have it first. The news may not be as accurate, but in the age of real-time, that’s the way it is.
Turnbull vs the Liberal Party: a tweet by tweet account
The last leadership contest, Nelson-Turnbull, was just over a year ago and Twitter played virtually no role. How things have changed, — for journalism and politics.
web exclusive Twitter earns its journalism stripes in Parliament
Throughout last night’s political drama and excitement at Parliament House, it was Twitter that helped keep the Australian public in the loop, writes Scott Bridges.
Fort Hood: citizen journalists can’t handle the truth
The tweets, blogs and blurry mobile phone photos flooding the internet during the Fort Hood shooting did nothing but spread misinformation and breach the privacy of those killed or wounded in the incident, says Paul Carr.
The real-time web: a Brave New World or hideous dystopia?
Sitting at a Weezer concert, next to Twitterati who’ve never heard of the band, where everyone is too busy blogging about the show to actually watch it, Paul Carr wonders whether the real-time web isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.
Microsoft vs. Google: who’s winning the social media search wars?
Yesterday, both Google and Microsoft announced deals with Twitter to add tweets to their search results. But which company scored the better deal? And which will do a better job? The blogosphere weighs in.
The end of email?
The WSJ has declared email’s reign “over”, with real-time services like Twitter and Facebook increasingly becoming the preferred method of communication. After all, who has time in this modern world to wait for email responses? It can take minutes!
Investing in real-time
John Borthwick reckons the “real-time web” — embodied by microblogging and social networking tool Twitter — is the Next Big Thing on the internet, and he’s willing to put his money where his mouth is: building and investing in 21 other “real-time” companies. Will the gamble pay off?
