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Blogging turned into a (multimillion$) business

March 31, 2010 in News Roundup, Uncategorized

ariana_huffington (1)The battle for top spot in Technorati’s Top 100 blog list is practically non-existent. Week after week the position is occupied by the US-blog-turned-news-website, The Huffington Post.

The Huffington Post launched in 2005 aiming to provide a commentary outlet for liberal viewpoints. What started as a project for a few enthusiastic writers is today a social hub with, according to the co-founder Ariana Huffington, an active community of over 20 million web users.

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Why do we need blogs?

March 31, 2010 in Features

With Web 2.0 no longer a cryptic name, blogging is as popular as it ever was. Thanks to social media tools like Twitter, users  seem to have got past the final remnants of web shyness and blogs are blooming.

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Blogs were first published in the mid 1990s, but it was the introduction of simple blogging tools a few years later that really triggered the masses to join in.

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Server Administrator

March 31, 2010 in Jobs

Salary: £1400 – £1800 per month
Type: Contract
Location: Sunderland
Start Date: 07/04/2010
Duration: 3 months
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Job Skills:

Server Administration, Microsoft IIS, SQL Server, Windows Server, Website testing,

Job Description:

Our Client based in Sunderland is migrating to a new hardware platform in April and re-developing much of the systems during this migration. Therefore they require an experienced Server Administrator to assist them in the migration for approximately 3 months to carry out the following tasks:

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Web Developer ASP.NET

March 31, 2010 in Jobs

Salary: £24000 – £26000 per annum
Type: Permanent
Location: Newcastle upon Tyne
Start Date: ASAP
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Job Skills:

ASP.NET, C#, SQL, Web Developer, Web Development, Website build

Job Description:

Our Client is a full service marketing agency based in Newcastle upon Tyne, the company offers total communications solutions to a wide variety of regional, national and international clients.

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Project Administrator for Software Development Team

March 31, 2010 in Jobs

Salary: £18000 – £22000 per annum
Type: Permanent
Industry: Public Sector and Government
Location: Sunderland
Start Date: ASAP
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Job Skills:

Administration, project support, clerical, tender management, IT project administration

Job Description:

Our Client based in Sunderland is looking for an experienced Project Administrator to co-ordinate and action administrative duties within their software development team.

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Virtual replacements for journalists used in US

March 31, 2010 in News Roundup

Early prototypes of algorithms producing news content are being used in sports journalism in the US, the Guardian reports.

The technology relies on the specific structure that’s characteristic to many news stories. The Guardian article explains that the automated algorithms work like search algorithms, looking for key words to produce content.

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Got an extra $1m? Buy an ad slot in the 'Lost' Finale

March 31, 2010 in News Roundup

lost_finaleA 30-second ad slot in the final episode of the popular TV series ‘Lost’ is currently going for around $900,000, the AdAge reports.

According to the article, the pricing has gone up 400% on last year’s $213,536 for a 30-second spot and is not far under the price for an ad slot in the Oscars broadcast.

The hefty cost is said to demonstrate advertisers’ increasing interest in what’s being called ‘event programming’. As people are turning to online on-demand services to watch shows in their own time, it has become much more difficult for advertisers to assemble a large crowd to which they can show their adverts.

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Facebook revamps user-brand interaction

March 31, 2010 in News Roundup

starbucks_fanpageFacebook is reported to be ditching the ‘become a fan’ option, instead asking users to ‘like’ a brand.

The new way is said to better represent the nature of the interaction. Michael Lazerow, CEO of social media advice agency Buddy Media, described ‘liking’ a brand as a lower threshold for users.

He said: “The idea of liking a brand is a much more natural action than (becoming a fan) of a brand.”

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Control your mobile by tapping your skin

March 29, 2010 in News Roundup

hand1.jpg3d703adb-7004-49e2-be8a-2ee681a05426Large (1)US scientists have come up with a way to turn human bodies into gadget controls, the BBC reports.

The system, called ‘Skinput’, uses skin sensors to record touches and a tiny projector to display menu choices on the skin.

Chris Harrison, Skinput’s creator, described the human body as “the ultimate input device”.

Together with his colleagues Desney Tan and Dan Morris from Microsoft Research, Harrison came up with a way to utilise the human body in interacting with gadgets.

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More ads please, say web video viewers

March 29, 2010 in News Roundup

Online_video_advertising_liverail_q4_report_huluWeb researcher comScore has found that web video users would be willing to take on more ads.

According to an AdWeek article, the new research shows that people who watch TV shows online are far more tolerant towards ads than it had been thought.

Sites like Hulu could increase their average serving of ads from four minutes per hour to seven, the report found.

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