Twitter Reportedly Makes a Profit in 2009
Bloomberg is reporting that Twitter is now profitable after providing data for Google's and Microsoft Bing's real time search engines.
An agreement that made Twitter's messages searchable on Google's site will generate about $15 million, said the people, who asked to remain anonymous because the terms aren’t public. A similar deal with Microsoft's Bing search engine will earn Twitter about $10 million.$25 million in revenues leaves Twitter well short of its $1 billion evaluation but at least it shows the company is able to generate some revenues.
The multiyear agreements will allow Twitter to make a small profit in 2009, said the people, who estimate that its operating costs are about $20 million to $25 million a year. The San Francisco-based company, which started in 2006, has about 105 employees, according to its Web site.
Posted on December 21, 2009
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More Web Users Creating Content
A study of 2,081 Americans has found that 38% of U.S. consumers are watching TV shows online, 36% use their cell phones as entertainment devices and 45% are creating online content. This online content people are creating - also referred to as user generated content - including websites, music, videos and blogs.The "State of the Media Democracy" notes that in Deloittes first edition of the survey just eight months earlier, 24 percent of consumers used their cell phones as entertainment devices, meaning that usage has soared 50 percent.The study also found that many people are making use of social media. 54% said they use social networking sites, chat rooms or message boards. However, just 45% said they maintain a profile on a social networking site. There may be some people who found an online forum they enjoy and don't see the need for switching to a social network.
About 62 percent of "millennials" (consumers 13-to-24-years-old) are using their cell phones as entertainment devices, up from 46 percent in the previous study conducted February 23-March 6, 2007. And among Generation X consumers (25-to-41-year-olds), the number grew to 47 percent from 29 percent in the earlier survey.
About 20 percent of consumers said they are viewing video content on their cell phones daily or almost daily.
The percentage of consumers watching TV online jumped from the 23 percent figure reported in the previous study. Roughly 54 percent of those surveyed said they are making their own entertainment content through editing photos, videos or music, 45 percent said they are producing that content for others to see, and 32 percent said they consider themselves to be "broadcasters" of their own media.
Posted on December 30, 2007
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Blog Reading Efficiency
If you like reading blogs but you don't have much time you might want to check out this list of 100 blogs. The list was compiled by researchers from Carnegie Mellon University. They created a methodology to find out which blogs would provide the most information about what is going on in the blogosphere if you only had time to read 100 blogs. The study also found that the best day to read blogs is Friday. So, if you read those 100 blogs every Friday you should come away pretty informed about what issues and subjects the blogosphere is discussing.You can read more about the study itself here on the wbsite of Carnegie Mellon's computer science department.
Posted on October 26, 2007
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Texty is a Simple Content Management Tool
If you need have some text on a webpage that you are always updating and you are tired of constantly editing and uploading the page you may want to give Texty a try.
Never open a HTML page again for a minor text change! Texty provides a quick way to adjust content on any webpageOnce you have pasted the Texty javascript code onto a webpage you can then continue to update your text on Texty -- doing this will automatically update the text on your webpage. Jeffro2pto has a more detailed explanation of Texty.
Step 1: Input the text you want on your webpage below. Step 2: Copy and paste the Texty script into your HTML source code. Step 3: Edit your Texty anytime at this website.
Posted on September 17, 2007
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Writers Write, Inc. Launches Fantasy and Science Fiction Blog
Writers Write, Inc. has added a new blog to its blog network called FantasySFBlog.com. Fantasy/SF Blog is a daily blog covering what's new and interesting in the worlds of fantasy, SF, and horror, including books, movies, TV and gaming.
Recent posts include:
RSS subscription informaton for the Fantasy/SF Blog can be found here.
Posted on August 15, 2007
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ReadersRead.com Expands Blog Categories
ReadersRead.com has expanded and now includes two additional blog categories: Book Publishing News and Comics. The comics category is especially relevant today as comics made into movies represent many of the box office blockbusters over the last few years including Spider-Man, Batman and the X-Men. The latest X-Men film, X-Men: The Last Stand recently made box office history with a $100+ million opening. You will also notice several comic movie titles topping Yahoo's movie trailer searches including the Superman remake which comes out June 30th.Posted on May 29, 2006
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Writers Write, Inc Launches WatchersWatch.com
We love to watch! TV, Film and video, that is. We're happy to announce the launch of WatchersWatch.com, our new blog about what's hot in movies, television and videos.What's hot this week at WatchersWatch? Why it's the Da Vinci Code, of course. Dan Brown's international bestseller opened in wide release Friday, May 19, 2006 and has already made $224 million worldwide in its first weekend, making it the second biggest opening weekend of all time.
You can find our Da Vinci Code review roundup, the scoop on the new fall TV shows and much more at: http://www.watcherswatch.com
Posted on May 21, 2006
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Technorati Adds Favorite Feature
Technorati, a blog search engine, has added a favorites feature that lets people maintain a list of up to 50 of their favorite blogs. Technorati also keeps track of the blog posts from this list of fifty as they occur on the member's favorites page. Our BloggersBlog.com site has information about how to add a Technorati favorites link button to your blog so people can quickly add your blog to their list. Technorati is also tracking a list of the top 100 favorites on this page.Posted on March 1, 2006
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Technorati Launches Blog Finder
Technorati has launched a new Blog Finder tool that makes it easier for people to find blogs. The site sorts blogs by tags that are created by the owner(s) of the blog. For example, the Gossip category shows blogs that have been tagged for gossip and the Autos category shows blogs tagged for Autos. A list of other blog directories can be found here.Posted on September 8, 2005
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Beliefnet Adds Blog Heaven Feature
Beliefnet has launched Blog Heaven which it refers to as, "continuously updated nuggets from the best blogs about religion and spirituality." Blog Heaven contains links to popular religion and spirituality blogs with information on when these blogs have been updated. Beliefnet also includes two blogs by Beliefnet itself: Loose Cannon and Swami Uptown.Posted on May 5, 2005
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BloggersBlog.com Debuts
Writers Write, Inc. has announced the launch of Bloggers Blog at BloggersBlog.com, a new website covering blogging news and trends. The site also includes links to other blogging news services and blogging resources and tools. The new site is part of the blogging resource at writerswrite.com, which provides discussion, information and a directory of blogging resources.Posted on February 8, 2005
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