The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued a report this week that clarifies how companies can use social media sites to announce material, nonpublic information. In layman’s terms, that means companies can now use Twitter, Facebook, and other social media sites to announce key company information which could affect investors and their stock purchase and sales decisions.
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SEC Approves Using Social Media for Company Announcements
Google Reader Will Die on July 1, 2013
Google Reader will be retired on July 1, 2013 according to a blog post that was published on the Official Google Blog this week.
Just five months ago, Google announced that it would no longer support the Feedburner API, which many people interpreted as a sign that Feedburner would eventually die. With the announcement of the impending demise of Google Reader, that interpretation is probably quite accurate.
Feedburner Shutting Down: Is Your RSS Feed Ready?
For months, people have been speculating about what would happen to Feedburner as Google continued to demonstrate it’s lack of intention to continue supporting the service. A bit more of the puzzle is in place now that Google has announced that the Feedburner API will shut down on October 20, 2012.
What’s Happening to Feedburner?
Feedburner launched in 2004 and quickly became the most popular tool for creating, managing, and marketing RSS feeds, particularly for bloggers.
Mobile, Video and Crowdsourcing Take the Knight News Challenge Prizes
The Knight News Challenge is a contest that recognizes the next generation of news entrepreneurs, and the winners announced this week include startups trying to develop video, mobile, and crowdsourced solutions, leveraging existing technology and networks, to filter through the huge amount of news and content people are exposed to each day.
The Knight News Challenge is hosted by the Knight Foundation, a non-profit organization that supports transformational ideas which promote quality journalism, advance media innovation, engage communities, and foster the arts.
Ed Keating Moves to BLR from SIIA
Ed Keating has left his role as Vice President Content Division for the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) to become the Chief Content Office (CCO) for BLR (Business & Legal Resources), a leading information resource provider.
BLR helps companies comply with federal and state laws related to employment (Department of Labor), safety (Occupational Safety and Health Administration), and the environment (Environmental Protection Agency) through training that keeps those companies out legal trouble and helps them avoid paying fines.
YouTube Buys Producer of Online Videos to Compete with Hulu and Netflix
The world of online video has come a long way in the last couple of years. Google’s YouTube might still be the page views leader when it comes to online video viewing, but sites like Hulu, iTunes, and Netflix have embraced a different business model that YouTube is finally trying to catch up with.
This week, YouTube acquired Next New Networks, a company that produces original programming and helps people and entities that create video find distribution and make money.
The Real Truth About the Future of Media
What’s the real story about the future of the media industry? That’s a question that many people have been asking for some time now, and it’s one that Henry Blodget (CEO and editor-in-chief of Business Insider) and Jay Yarrow (editor of Business Insider) try to answer in a presentation they delivered at the IGNITION conference in New York City yesterday.
Content Rules Teaches How to Create Killer Online Content
A new book by Ann Handley of MarketingProfs and C.C. Chapman of Managing the Gray, Content Rules, teaches readers how to create blogs, podcasts, videos, ebooks, webinars and more that engage customers and ignite your business.
Content Rules is part of David Meerman Scott’s highly popular New Rules series and teaches you how to write stories that interest people the same way that journalists do.
2010 State of the Blogosphere Released
Each year, Technorati conducts a survey of bloggers and uses the data collected to create an annual state of the blogosphere report. This week, the 2010 State of the Blogosphere has been released (the first three parts are already available online and the fourth should be released anytime now).
7,200 bloggers answered the survey questions this year, and the biggest findings show an increase in the number of people blogging with mobile devices and a steady increase in “mommy bloggers.”
The demographics of respondents put together a picture of bloggers in 2010:
Two-thirds of bloggers are male.… Continue Reading
Twitter Repositions as a News Site, Not a Social Site
While Twitter started out a few years ago as a social tool where people could communicate in real-time via short snippets, the team behind Twitter believes the site has evolved into something quite different — a news site.
In a presentation at Nokia World 2010 yesterday, ReadWriteWeb reports that Twitter’s vice president of business and corporate development, Kevin Thau, made the case for the site’s evolution into a news delivery tool.