Top News - WebProNews Updated : The Year in Social Media: 2008 In what will likely be my final year-end list of 2008, I have compiled one more taking a look at the year in social media. This follows my articles looking at the year in online video and the year in online music. Like with those, I dug through our archives and picked out a number of highlights from the social media industry. read more Publ.Date : Tue, 06 Jan 2009 06:20:07 -0500 Gannett Sets Sights High With New Ad Initiative Election season was good for media companies; people, places, and things were taking out ads left and right.  Now, in the hopes of getting some extra mileage out of the period, Gannett is moving forward with an ad initiative called ContentOne that will affect its online operations. read more Publ.Date : Tue, 06 Jan 2009 09:54:25 -0500 Digg.com Suffers Under Regime Change It seems all good things are corrupted or abused eventually. For Digg.com, habitually might be a better choice than eventually. SEOs, thanks to aggressive blackballing by the Digg “bury-brigade,” were perhaps the earliest and most blatantly ostracized group muscled out of the prevailing purist community there—no salesmen allowed. Marketers and PR flaks effectively excommunicated, internal drama is free is to ensue as “powerdiggers” are accused of setting up a Digg.com good ole boy network. read more Publ.Date : Mon, 05 Jan 2009 05:55:56 -0500 Report: Meg Whitman Leaves Boards, May Enter Politics Much was made of the way in which certain members of the tech community supported Barack Obama's run for the presidency.  Now an even more direct tech-to-politics connection looks ready to form, as Meg Whitman, eBay's former CEO, is stepping down from three companies' boards and may try to become a governor. read more Publ.Date : Mon, 05 Jan 2009 15:58:42 -0500 Wikipedia Passes Fundraising Goal If this recession thing gets really bad, maybe the government can just call in Jimmy Wales.  Wales, Wikipedia's founder, seems to have been instrumental in helping the online encyclopedia hit a fundraising goal, and Wikipedia should be set for at least six months as a result. read more Publ.Date : Mon, 05 Jan 2009 09:53:54 -0500 Google Takes Third Spot on Spam List Spamhaus is a non-profit organization dedicated to tracking the Internet's spam operations. They have just released a new list of the top ten ISPs used for spam purposes, and the big G is number 3 on the list with 21 current known spam issues. read more Publ.Date : Tue, 06 Jan 2009 11:52:38 -0500 Amazon Introduces Inauguration Store Amazon.com announced today that it has launched an Inauguration Store, which "features everything customers need to get ready to attend the event, host an inauguration party or watch from home." read more Publ.Date : Mon, 05 Jan 2009 14:36:03 -0500 LG TVs To Directly Stream Netflix Content LG Electronics has partnered with Netflix to introduce broadband-enabled HDTVs that will allow content to be streamed directly from the Internet without a set-top box. LG says the new LCD and plasma HDTVs will be available this spring and will offer access to about 12,000 movies and TV episodes from Netflix. read more Publ.Date : Mon, 05 Jan 2009 12:22:39 -0500 Model Suing Google Over Vicious Blog Post Model Liskula Cohen has a filed a lawsuit in Manhattan Supreme Court against Google in an effort to find out the identity of a blogger who called her a "skank" and an "old hag" on the blog "Skanks in NYC." read more Publ.Date : Tue, 06 Jan 2009 12:17:47 -0500 One-Third Of Online Holiday Shoppers Ran Into Glitches While the majority (64%) of online holiday shoppers had no problems making purchases, 36 percent did, according to a new survey from ecommerce development firm Guidance. Among those that ran into difficulty, 13 percent said they had to abandon a very slow Web site while trying to shop, 8 percent said a Web site froze or crashed, 7 percent could not complete a purchase on their first try and 4 percent said a purchase they thought they had completed actually did not go through. read more Publ.Date : Tue, 06 Jan 2009 10:53:40 -0500 RSS Parser Website Traffic Promotion

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