http://blog.internetnews.com/kcorbin/ en-us Copyright 2008 Sat, 03 May 2008 21:28:51 -0500 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification 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... http://blog.internetnews.com/kcorbin/2008/05/microsoft-bails-on-yahoo-bid.html http://blog.internetnews.com/kcorbin/2008/05/microsoft-bails-on-yahoo-bid.html Microsoft Yahoo acquisition Sat, 03 May 2008 21:28:51 -0500 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... http://blog.internetnews.com/kcorbin/2008/04/mlb-mosaic-something-for-the-s.html http://blog.internetnews.com/kcorbin/2008/04/mlb-mosaic-something-for-the-s.html baseball MLB interactive media Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:30:04 -0500 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... http://blog.internetnews.com/kcorbin/2008/04/another-grim-reminder-of-newsp.html http://blog.internetnews.com/kcorbin/2008/04/another-grim-reminder-of-newsp.html newspaper advertising Tue, 29 Apr 2008 18:20:40 -0500 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... http://blog.internetnews.com/kcorbin/2008/04/teens-and-the-printed-word.html http://blog.internetnews.com/kcorbin/2008/04/teens-and-the-printed-word.html writing Thu, 24 Apr 2008 17:33:31 -0500 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... http://blog.internetnews.com/kcorbin/2008/04/didnt-you-know-that-printing-m.html http://blog.internetnews.com/kcorbin/2008/04/didnt-you-know-that-printing-m.html google adwords Wed, 23 Apr 2008 13:58:16 -0500 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... http://blog.internetnews.com/kcorbin/2008/04/the-politics-of-myspace.html http://blog.internetnews.com/kcorbin/2008/04/the-politics-of-myspace.html MySpace News Corp. Tue, 22 Apr 2008 19:44:44 -0500 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... http://blog.internetnews.com/kcorbin/2008/04/innovation-of-many-stripes.html http://blog.internetnews.com/kcorbin/2008/04/innovation-of-many-stripes.html Thu, 17 Apr 2008 19:41:55 -0500 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... http://blog.internetnews.com/kcorbin/2008/04/digital-music-ascendant.html http://blog.internetnews.com/kcorbin/2008/04/digital-music-ascendant.html Apple iTunes online music Amazon MySpace Wed, 09 Apr 2008 17:59:31 -0500 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... http://blog.internetnews.com/kcorbin/2008/04/go-time-microsoft-hands-yahoo.html http://blog.internetnews.com/kcorbin/2008/04/go-time-microsoft-hands-yahoo.html Microsoft Yahoo Sat, 05 Apr 2008 23:34:30 -0500 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,... http://blog.internetnews.com/kcorbin/2008/03/latest-report-of-googles-flat.html http://blog.internetnews.com/kcorbin/2008/03/latest-report-of-googles-flat.html Google comScore Fri, 28 Mar 2008 17:34:02 -0500 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... http://blog.internetnews.com/kcorbin/2008/03/ebay-sellers-boycott-sound-and.html http://blog.internetnews.com/kcorbin/2008/03/ebay-sellers-boycott-sound-and.html eBay e-commerce Wed, 26 Mar 2008 14:30:24 -0500 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... http://blog.internetnews.com/kcorbin/2008/03/linkedin-opens-company-profile.html http://blog.internetnews.com/kcorbin/2008/03/linkedin-opens-company-profile.html Facebook LinkedIn MySpace social networking Fri, 21 Mar 2008 15:47:38 -0500 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... http://blog.internetnews.com/kcorbin/2008/03/usergenerated-obama.html http://blog.internetnews.com/kcorbin/2008/03/usergenerated-obama.html Obama MoveOn YouTube Fri, 14 Mar 2008 16:45:35 -0500 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... http://blog.internetnews.com/kcorbin/2008/03/hulu-set-for-full-launch.html http://blog.internetnews.com/kcorbin/2008/03/hulu-set-for-full-launch.html Hulu NBC new media News Corp video Tue, 11 Mar 2008 16:10:14 -0500 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... http://blog.internetnews.com/kcorbin/2008/03/facebook-takes-a-page-player-f.html http://blog.internetnews.com/kcorbin/2008/03/facebook-takes-a-page-player-f.html advertising Facebook Google IPO social networking Wed, 05 Mar 2008 11:46:39 -0500