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Big Advertisers Cooling to Social Media, CNET's Caroline McCarthy — It was a big week in social  media with news that Facebook and MySpace will allow their platforms to be integrated into other web sites. While there is excitement about spreading social media outside of their destination sites, there is growing evidence that major advertisers are not comfortable with placing ads on these networks.  Caroline McCarthy, the lead social media reporter at CNET News.com, reported on Wednesday that eMarketer had downgraded again its projections for advertising on social media. To understand the evolving business of social media, I interviewed Caroline earlier this week.  This is the first of several interviews... [Tags: advertisers, caroline mccarthy, disclosure, emarketer, excitement]

Facebook Connect vs. OpenID: Who Will Emerge Victorious? — Facebook Connect, the system the company has long discussed as "Facebook on sites all around the web," enters general availability today and we've got one big question - should website owners use Facebook or OpenID to authenticate and learn about their users? Will Facebook become a dominant identifier online? Will the OpenID community lose out to the company's proprietary system or will this challenge breathe new life into the movement for open source, standards based, federated user identity? Open Source vs. Proprietary technology isn't just about desktop software anymore - now it's about our identities and social connections, all around... [Tags: competitor, contrasts, desktop software, developer communities, disclosure]

Time Warner Cable adds a handful of high-def nets in Kansas City — Filed under: Cable, New contentWho would've thunk that Kansas City, Missouri would end up being a hotbed for HD competition? With SureWest, Time Warner Cable and AT&T all vying for your hard-earned dollars, it's no shock to see the middle guy adding a little incentive to its package. As of now, customers in the area can catch MGM HD, CNBC HD, FX HD, Fox Business HD, College Sports TV HD, SciFi HD and a few "others" as described by our tipster. Time for SureWest to step up now, huh? [Disclosure: Engadget is part of the Time Warner family][Thanks, Matt]Time Warner... [Tags: amp, cnbc, college sports, disclosure, earned dollars]

Spectacular HomeCamp feedback! — Home Camp - What the community says from chris dalby on Vimeo. HomeCamp was the first of what I hope will be a series of unconferences around Energy hacking or as they say on the website: Home Camp is an unconference about using technology to monitor and automate the home for greener resource use and to save costs The first HomeCamp was in London this last Saturday November 29th and based on Andrew Whitehouse’s write-up and Chris Dalby’s live videos, the day was a phenomenal success. The video above also gives some flavour of what delegates took away from the... [Tags: dalby, delegates, disclosure, flavour, home camp]

RED revises its announcement, gives RED ONE owners a sweet deal — The big RED announcement from two weeks ago made quite a rumble, and it was only a few days afterwards that Jim Jannard announced things were changing yet again. Well, the revision has arrived. Jim says they’ve taken over “all aspects of electronic design and sensor fabrication,” apparently allowing them to do some stuff to upgrade the specs on a lot of the sensors. They’ve also announced a “reward” for their original customers with RED ONE units, saying they’ll get a really nice deal on a special setup if they want it, including a special sensor and bundled stuff... [Tags: convenience, disclosure, electronic design, few days, images]

Calling All Educational Researchers: How Do We Deal With Bad Teachers? — Photo by robinpieroThis post would touch some sensibilities and we would ask you to re-read it, if you are not so sure about what we meant by this or that. TonNet is a teacher as disclosure and some would consider him a good one and of course some other would say he's not. Problem is, not everyone uses the same criteria for what constitutes bad.Teachers either swing or they don't. And bad teachers don't swing. An objective observer, can watch a teacher for a couple of seconds (well, a minute or two) and figure that out. A teacher who... [Tags: accountants, bad lawyers, bad teachers, bower, bunje]

ExtendMedia Online Video Distributor Gets $10 Million Third Round — So it is still possible for online video operators to raise money… Video distributor ExtendMedia has raised a $10 million third round from existing backers Atlas, Venrock and TVM Capital, MHT reports. ExtendMedia powers Showtime's download-to-own service, SanDisk's FanFare video downloader and Bell Canada's video store. Based in Boston with production facilities in Toronto, Extend's main product is its OpenCASE distribution system. It raised a $11 million in 2006, then a $12 million second round in 2007. Disclosure: ExtendMedia has previously been a sponsor of paidContent.org events. Related ExtendMedia Gets $12 Million Second Round Our streamlined mobile application for the... [Tags: 10 million, atlas, backers, bell canada, blackberry]

TWC sues AT&T in Texas, claims it damaged equipment when deploying U-verse — Filed under: Misc, Cable, Fiber Whoa boy, this could get nasty. Cable giant Time Warner Cable has brought out the legal team against rival AT&T in Western Texas, where it alleges that the latter company "destroyed and misappropriated cable company equipment when it rolled out its U-verse video service." By way of "sheer acts of vandalism, trespass, conversion and misappropriation of Time Warner's property," TWC says that AT&T actually marred some of its network, though spokespeople for both outfits didn't really have anything juicy to say on the matter. Analysts in the space have been quick to point out that... [Tags: amp, apartment buildings, cable company, cable giant, disclosure]

Bloggers Observe World AIDS Day 2008 En Masse — In case you haven’t visited the Google homepage today (as if that were how you got all your news), it’s World AIDS Day today. According to Google Blog Search, over 13,000 blogs have talked about World AIDS Day in the last 24 hours. That’s more than participated in Blog Action Day 2008, which focused on poverty. Some indications of mass blog participation and the impact of social media on this event: BlogPulse is showing a major spike in mentions of “aids” or “World AIDS Day.” AIDS.gov has a blog at the official website for the US government’s AIDS prevention... [Tags: aids, aids prevention, blogcatalog, blogpulse, couple of days]

Support “Social Media & PR Across Asia” Wiki For The 2008 Edublog Awards — I’d like to join Prof. Michael Netzley and Mark to echo my support for Amelia’s nomination of the Social Media & PR Across Asia wiki for the 2008 Edublog Awards. It’s submitted for the Best Educational Wiki I think our wiki is deserving of a nomination (and a win) because it is the epitome of crowdsourcing and collaboration, the very things that inspired wikis. It’s been maintained for over a year by over 100 students, but not by their efforts alone. We’ve reached out to the prominent figures all over Asia to get their input and integrate it into a... [Tags: amp, asia, canada, china, collaboration]

Demand mounts for baby formula recall — (CBS/AP) Disclosure that laboratory tests have detected traces of contamination in several major brands of infant formula generated concern and confusion Wednesday, with a national consumer group and the Illinois attorney general demanding a Food and Drug Administration recall. The FDA shunned those calls, but admitted it had released inaccurate information on what chemicals were found in which top selling products.... [Tags: baby formula recall, cbs, chemicals, confusion, contamination]

The Moto Kraver Strikes at Gizmodo [Crappy Viral Marketing] — Yesterday, Joel at BoingBoing Gadgets discovered a very aggressive, um, "fan" of the Motorola Krave trolling their comments for the last couple of weeks. Turns out, he's a frequent pundit at Giz, CrunchGear and Lifehacker too! Did you know that the Krave matches perfectly with a sports car and an alien mountain shelter? It sucks the power out of the shill to actually say you work for Motorola, though, dude. But I guess that constitutes disclosure? Hit the jump to read all about how awesome mgoode says the Krave is. No hard feelings though, we'll totally laser etch your Krave... [Tags: crunchgear, disclosure, gadgets, giz, krave]

Reg Changes Shift Flow Of Information On Fundings, Public Companies — You may have noticed over the years that a fair amount of our information on fundings comes from PEHub via its access to paper filings from the SEC. The paper versions of the Form Ds, as PEHub's Dan Primack explains, weren't duplicated in online database EDGAR; PEHub, now part of Thomson Reuters (NASDAQ: TRIN), had access through a deal owner Thomson struck with the agency to scan paper filings in for subscription database Thomson Research. But changes made to the Form D (as in disclosure) in August, including a simpler form and mandatory electronic submission in 2009, are shifting the... [Tags: decline, disclosure, edgar, electronic submission, exclusivity]

Re: Malicious Setting Up of Filters in Gmail? — Google says that recent reports on a Gmail vulnerability aren’t true (Google might mean this one at GeekCondition.com, as blogged here earlier; my emphasis in the quote): <<We’ve seen some speculation recently about a purported security vulnerability in Gmail and the theft of several website owners’ domains by unauthorized third parties. At Google we’re committed to providing secure products, and we mounted an immediate investigation. Our results indicate no evidence of a Gmail vulnerability. With help from affected users, we determined that the cause was a phishing scheme>> Google continues to write, “Several news stories referenced a domain theft... [Tags: advertisement, blog, bug details, csrf, disclosure]

Just when you thought you saw the last of the PayPerPost copycats (who reincarnated themselves into IZEA), it looks like another company wants to pay users to insert various ads within their Twitter stream. (Be-A-Magpie) Advertisers create campaigns providing a message and some keywords. Matching twitterers are selected, costs are calculated based on # of followers and hotness of the topic. Ads will be blended into the message stream: 5 tweets, one ad, 5 tweets, one ad… Ironically Be-A-Magpie seems to be following the initial footsetps of IZEA by not requiring users to provide disclosure or even warn twitter... [Tags: advertisers, campaigns, conversations, copycats, disclosure]

GA-Sen: New Ad, and New Poll — The week starts out strong for the good guys in Georgia's Senate race: The Mellman Group for Jim Martin. 11/21-23. Likely voters. MoE 4%. Chambliss (R) 48 Martin (D) 46 The readiness turnout is all, folks. It will absolutely decide the outcome of this runoff. Generally, polling has stayed more or less where it has been for months, and more or less where actual results were on election day; Chambliss leads, but only by a little. Given the special circumstances of this runoff election - with turnout likely depressed, as it usually is for a special-type election - it's completely... [Tags: 5 million, democratic senate candidate, democrats, disclosure, election day]

Forbes 'Absolutely Denies' Wacky Russian Buyout Rumor — No, Forbes is not for sale to a Russian private equity group, as the Russian press had reportedly rumored. Forbes "absolutely denies" this rumor, and "has no knowledge of the source," a company rep tells us by e-mail. "Forbes Russia is also not for sale to this group." Russian private equity firm Onexim -- founded by billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov -- had been rumored to be buying Forbes, according to Russian news reports translated by Yakov Sadchikov, CEO of Web search firm Quintura. Disclosure: I previously worked for Forbes.com. Earlier: Russian Billionaire's Firm To Buy Forbes?... [Tags: billionaire, ceo, company rep, disclosure, e mail]

Is a Russian billionaire about to buy the world's authority on billionaires? Russian private equity firm Onexim -- founded by billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov -- is rumored to be buying Forbes, according to Russian news reports translated by Yakov Sadchikov, CEO of Web search firm Quintura. Sadchikov is Russian, so we assume his translation is accurate. But we have no idea how accurate the Russian publications are, or how far along they say the sale is. Forbes' holdings include Forbes magazine, Forbes.com, Investopedia, and a stake in RealClearPolitics. We assume the Forbes brothers' real estate holdings and Highlander yacht wouldn't be... [Tags: billionaire, ceo, conference groups, disclosure, elevation partners]

Shared by Robert Scoble I hate businesses that totally live on top of other people's infrastructure but don't share the wealth. I think that's unethical, but maybe that's just me. You'll see that I'm participating in the comments on this TechCrunch post. Like much-criticized PayPerPost for blogs, German/UK startup Be-A-Mapgpie will pay you to insert advertisements into your Twitter stream. Advertisers pay on a cost-per-thousand-impression basis, and the ads are promised to be delivered to relevant audiences based on keywords. That means Be-A-Magpie will analyze the content of your Twitter messages to see if there is a match to particular... [Tags: advertisements, advertisers, blogs, credentials, crunch]

My6Sense — Despite the famous movie, balance is generally considered to be the sixth sense, not talking to dead people. (Some argue for ESP or proprioception.) Balance is a great metaphor for what My6Sense is designed to do. It is a mobile filtering application -- running on iPhone in the current beta -- that takes all sorts of streams, and over time learns your preferences, filtering the information that is most timely and relevant. my6sense_iphone_2, originally uploaded by Stowe Boyd. The app supports sharing something that comes along on various services, and integrates commenting . For example, if I see something a... [Tags: adaptive learning, advisory board, all sorts, beta, different times]