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Amanda Congdon
Future of journalism now shilling American Express on a fake trolley
[UPDATE BELOW]What's up with the bubbly former host of Rocketboom, which was supposed to be the Internet's first huge news show before it leveled off? According to the London Times, Amanda Congdon's show for ABC News is "currently in the world's top 40,000 blogs," which puts it somewhere below great-soups-ive-eaten.blogspot.com. But Congdon has always been proud of her second career as a host for corporate stunt videos, and she recently starred in an American Express ad (shown below) shot in San Francisco. It's for a good cause, in a way: AmEx is giving away up to $5 million for a world-improving project to be selected by its customers. Metaphor-makers rejoice: The "cable car" carrying journotainer Amanda through the city in this video is a fake. Okay, okay, a "replica." More » -
Well this sounds familiar. One blog's erroneous report caused Apple shares to fall today. The stock was down 7% after TheStreet.com published a story about cutbacks in iPhone production. [CNBC]
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Search
DoubleClick tries to poach AdBrite's customers
It's a sneaky strategy used by savvy Internet marketers everywhere: Buy your competitor's name as a keyword, and serve up pay-per-click ads to poach customers from the search results. But for DoubleClick, the online-ad network that Google's trying to buy, it seems a bit foolish to use Google keyword ads to go after AdBrite, the San Francisco-based competitor. For one thing, it's apparently a violation of Google's own rules about trademarks. And on top of that, it comes across as an admission of weakness — that customers are more likely to be googling "AdBrite" than they are "DoubleClick." -
The social network axes the independently developed Facebook app Audio, over terms of use violations and copyright fears. [VentureBeat]
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Were you wearing a blue shirt and glasses at the TechCrunch9 party last Friday? Someone wants to hook up with you. [Laughing Squid]
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online advertising
Facebook doubles its rates in four months
Rip up your Facebook revenue estimates and start over, everyone. Since February, Facebook has doubled the rates it charged for sponsored groups from $150,000 to $300,000. Since exposing Facebook's supposedly nonexistent rate card, I've received a more recent version from June. Much of it's the same, but I'm posting the revised cards from Facebook's PowerPoint deck, with comments, below. More »
2:28 PM on Tue Jul 31 2007
By Owen Thomas
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The good news: The FCC has decided to leave some, but not all, of the wireless spectrum it's auctioning off open to multiple providers. The bad news: This means Chris Sacca can still pretend to have a job for a while longer. [Reuters]
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julia allison
Our long regional nightmare is over
Julia Allison, the New York-based TV commentator, Time Out New York dating columnist, and Star editor-at-large, has escaped from the desperate, horny clutches of TechCrunch editor Michael Arrington and "decamped for LA," according to a source close to the matter. Well, some blogger who got a text message from her, anyway. Her plane touched down at the runway in Los Angeles at 1:36 p.m., and we all breathed a sigh of nerdy relief. That much fabulousness in so short a time? It's enough to make a backup generator abort its start sequence, if you know what I mean and I think you do. (Photo by Sashaphotography.com) -
Wellsphere, an Internet-health startup, gets the velvet-glove treatment from TechCrunch — and a savage expose from Uncov. An ex-employee emails Valleywag to add this about Wellsphere CEO Ron Gutman: "The most despicable human being I've ever come into contact with." [Uncov]
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Your Privacy Is An Illusion
Mark Zuckerberg, stop counting your billions and fix Facebook, please
Facebook appears to be having a privacy crisis. Earlier this morning, The Register reported that some people were able to see other Facebook users' private message inboxes. Blogger and IBM employee Matt Dibb reported Facebook exposing other people's email addresses on its login page. VentureBeat speculates that a bad update to Facebook's codebase got rolled out — and today's supposed "upgrade" was actually Facebook's panicked attempt to fix the problem. Since Facebook's fine-tuned privacy controls are a big selling point, this mucked-up code episode is especially embarrassing. Mark Zuckerberg, if you can take a break from counting your fictional billions of dollars, care to take a look at your site's code? Update: Facebook says it has fixed the problem. The statement, after the jump. More »
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