http://blog.internetnews.com/kcorbin/ en-us 2008-05-03T21:28:51-05:00 http://blog.internetnews.com/kcorbin/2008/05/microsoft-bails-on-yahoo-bid.html The deal to end all deals is not to be. After three months of saber rattling, back-room negotiations and calculated media leaks, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has walked away from its bid to buy Yahoo. In a letter sent to... Kenneth Corbin 2008-05-03T21:28:51-05:00 http://blog.internetnews.com/kcorbin/2008/04/mlb-mosaic-something-for-the-s.html It is an impressive service. Tailor-made for the superfan, the fantasy junkie. But watching six games at once, really? This afternoon, Major League Baseball brought in a gaggle of reporters to the headquarters of its MLB Advanced Media unit in... Kenneth Corbin 2008-04-30T17:30:04-05:00 http://blog.internetnews.com/kcorbin/2008/04/another-grim-reminder-of-newsp.html For anyone still in the dark or having forgotten what's going on in the newspaper business, the Audit Bureau of Circulations offered a sobering reminder this week with its latest report on paid subscriptions. For the six months ending March... Kenneth Corbin 2008-04-29T18:20:40-05:00 http://blog.internetnews.com/kcorbin/2008/04/teens-and-the-printed-word.html The Pew Internet project turns up some interesting findings. The latest: for all the texting, instant messaging, e-mailing and social networking blather that today's teenagers churn out, most of them don't think that electronic text qualifies as writing. Sure, they're... Kenneth Corbin 2008-04-24T17:33:31-05:00 http://blog.internetnews.com/kcorbin/2008/04/didnt-you-know-that-printing-m.html Google is the target of a federal class-action lawsuit alleging deceptive practices in how the search giant manages its AdWords program. The case, filed yesterday by the firm Kabateck Brown Kellner in U.S. District Court of the Northern District of... Kenneth Corbin 2008-04-23T13:58:16-05:00 http://blog.internetnews.com/kcorbin/2008/04/the-politics-of-myspace.html There's no mystery about it anymore -- the wisdom of Web 2.0 tells us that the modes of packaging news are changing. People, particularly those who flock around the social networks, increasingly expect to be able to interact with the... Kenneth Corbin 2008-04-22T19:44:44-05:00 http://blog.internetnews.com/kcorbin/2008/04/innovation-of-many-stripes.html We all love lists, right? They're a quick read. Nice and digestible. Quick flashpoints that make for marvelous conversation fodder, if not much else. So here's this from over the transom, courtesy of BusinessWeek. For the last four years, the... Kenneth Corbin 2008-04-17T19:41:55-05:00 http://blog.internetnews.com/kcorbin/2008/04/digital-music-ascendant.html A new report from research firm In-Stat predicts that online music sales will account for 40 percent of all music sold by 2012. For perspective, digital music was 6 percent of the world wide market in 2006, and just 10... Kenneth Corbin 2008-04-09T17:59:31-05:00 http://blog.internetnews.com/kcorbin/2008/04/go-time-microsoft-hands-yahoo.html Tick tock. We've been watching this mating dance for some time now. Well, Steve Ballmer's had enough. In a letter sent to Yahoo's board of directors dated today, Microsoft's CEO gave the embattled Web pioneer a hard-fisted deadline to come... Kenneth Corbin 2008-04-05T23:34:30-05:00 http://blog.internetnews.com/kcorbin/2008/03/latest-report-of-googles-flat.html Something about this news cycle seems a little familiar. In a mild aftershock to comScore's "bombshell" report last month about flat growth in paid clicks on Google's search ads, the research firm has issued the same report for February. Again,... Kenneth Corbin 2008-03-28T17:34:02-05:00 http://blog.internetnews.com/kcorbin/2008/03/ebay-sellers-boycott-sound-and.html eBay's new strategy of doting on the buyers at the expense of, it seems to many, the sellers has made the e-commerce heavyweight a lot of enemies. Dissent among the power sellers has manifested in the form of a highly... Kenneth Corbin 2008-03-26T14:30:24-05:00 http://blog.internetnews.com/kcorbin/2008/03/linkedin-opens-company-profile.html The grown-up social network just got a little more serious. LinkedIn has now opened its site for companies to create profiles, giving members a snapshot overview of what the company is about and who works for it. The feature launched... Kenneth Corbin 2008-03-21T15:47:38-05:00 http://blog.internetnews.com/kcorbin/2008/03/usergenerated-obama.html The Internet makes politics fun, does it not? Alternately, the Web has helped Barack Obama rocket past Hillary Clinton in the fund-raising scramble, and played host to a vicious smear campaign claiming, among other things, that the senator from Illinois... Kenneth Corbin 2008-03-14T16:45:35-05:00 http://blog.internetnews.com/kcorbin/2008/03/hulu-set-for-full-launch.html Hulu, the joint Web video venture that NBC Universal and Fox launched to great fanfare last March, is slated for a full public launch tomorrow. Hulu has been available as an invite-only, private beta service since October. Unlike YouTube, the... Kenneth Corbin 2008-03-11T16:10:14-05:00 http://blog.internetnews.com/kcorbin/2008/03/facebook-takes-a-page-player-f.html In its short, dazzling life Facebook has managed to charm analysts and commentators into a pie-eyed swoon, but with success come growing pains. Sixty-six million members are great; widgets are fun and whimsical, but sooner or later the company's got... Kenneth Corbin 2008-03-05T11:46:39-05:00