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Blog 2.0: Improving Marketing And Monetization Coming years will see improvements in how bloggers monetize their sites, through a combination of better content management, site navigation, "widgets," and...marketing.

Now Playing On Joost: Everything
What's so special about Joost? It's a functioning real-time social network. Watch a show then rate it, share it, and chat with friends using its IM platform

Do 'You' really matter?
User-generated content is all the rage right now. But the thought of 'You' controlling the media and marketing world is little more than breathless hype.

Free Content Dominates Video Downloads
More than four times as many households downloaded videos from file-sharing networks as they did from centralized services like iTunes in the third quarter of 2006.

Madison Avenue Calling
Cellular phone carriers like Verizon, Sprint and Cingular, now the new AT&T, are beginning to test and roll out advertising on mobile phone screens, and by next year, cellphone advertising is likely to be more common.

Big Media’s Crush on Social Networking
Social networking, on the other hand, is something potentially deeper — it represents a way to live one’s life online. In many ways, it is the two-dimensional version of what sites like Second Life aspire to be in 3-D: the digital you. And that ties to another earnestly overused term of art at the moment: engagement.

Apple's U.S. share of PC shipments increased about 30 percent from 2005 to 2006
Report: Google In Talks To Buy In-Game Ad Company
Yahoo Adds Advice Columns, Calculators To Finance Section
Fox News Channel debuts live mobile audio feed

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Apple iPod Sales Hit Record; Zune Grabs 10% ShareWith its best iPod sales quarter ever, Apple continues to dominate the portable player market. But Microsoft's Zune put in a respectable showing, new sales figures show.

News: Sling Media Announces New Viral Video Solution
The new Clip and Sling feature lets Slingbox users share video snippets, and lets content owners make money off of shared content.

Skype Founders Unveil YouTube Killer
Joost users will be able to download the software for free to watch the ad-supported television shows. In addition, Joost will let users rewind or fast forward within a show, much like DVRs can do with standard television.

Negative iPhone articles:
- This Engadget article on the iPhone's profit margins
- This ComputerWorld article on how Steve screwed up
- This InformationWeek report on the iPhone in IT
- and this interview with Steve Ballmer

Online Office Suites: The Winner Is Clear
How I Turned My Treo into an iPhone
Time Warner Exhibit Showcases "Future"
Super Bowl Is An Advertiser's Touchdown
Fashion Phone From LG, Prada Features Touch Screen
Google Base Traffic Soars With $10 Promotion

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Can Widgets Fix the Mobile Web? [Third Screen] Business2.0: Mobile operator Alltel Wireless just announced it is launching Celltop, a new mobile phone user interface with pre-installed “cells,” a.k.a. widgets. Alltel customers will be able to download a total of 10 widgets to their handset, each made up of a half screen filled with both graphics and text on weather, news, stock prices, sports scores and other bits of information (see left for some sample widgets).

Apple Posts 78 Percent Rise in Quarterly Profit
PC Mag: Apple reported a 78 percent surge in quarterly profit, boosted by strong holiday sales of iPod digital music players and brisk sales of its MacBook laptops

GPS Boosts Social Networking On Cell Phones
Wall Street Journal: Loopt is one such company, offering a buddy-tracking tool through the wireless operator Boost Mobile, which is owned by Sprint-Nextel Corp. Its service uses GPS to help users find their friends' mobile phones anywhere in the U.S., allowing them to zoom into a city map or zoom out to find out where they are.

Microsoft Unveils New adCenter APIs, Targeting Features
Earlier this week, comScore reported that MSN garnered just 10.5% of search traffic, compared to Google's 47.3% and Yahoo's 28.5%.

Networks Battling For Web Traffic On TV Sites, ABC Leads The Pack
The ABC and NBC Web sites are consistently drawing much larger overall traffic than CBS and Fox sites. Both ABC.com and NBC.com are averaging 9.5 million unique visitors a month for October through December, while CBS.com is averaging 5.2 million unique users and Fox is at 2.8 million, according to Nielsen//NetRatings.

Netflix Moves Into Online Viewing
Netflix took a giant step into the future by announcing earlier this week that the DVD-by-mail subscription service will start renting movies and TV shows via the Internet. The company is introducing the service in a phased rollout over the next six months, offering subscribers more than 1,000 movies and TV shows on their personal computers at no additional cost.