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Wordpress Adds Location Info Murdoch s Google Leverage Hail Mary Cloud Password Attacks SDR News is a Daily (M-F) Technology Podcast with Tech News Highlights from Slashdot, Digg and Reddit Click Here to Sign Up for the SDR Newsletter Prefer a Direct Download ? (mp3) Download today s show. SDR News Links If a news item has disappeared from the Del.icio.us list above, try the full list here. SEARCH ANY STORY YOU HEAR ON THE PODCAST More Info on Screencasts Online Murdoch -v- Google by Andrew McCaskey Master of the Universe We all got a good laugh last week when Rupert Murdoch announced that he was going to pull his NewsCorp content from Google. It may not be that simple. Mahalo CEO Jason Calacanis, who used to work for Murdoch’s Digital Chief Jonathan Miller when the two were at AOL, posted a simple suggestion: Not only should Murdoch de-index from Google, but he should get Bing to pay him for the exclusive right to index it. If other media companies joined Murdoch Google could actually find itself in a very difficult position, where Bing had content that Google didn’t. If you knew that Wall Street Journal and, say, New York TImes content was only in Bing search results, mainstream search users would suddenly have a big reason to go to Bing. This would shift the balance of power away from search engines and to the content sites – if they could pull it off. Bidding wars over rights to index content would conceivably break out between Google and Microsoft. In spite of what we see in the movies, the title Master of the Universe does not get thrown around lightly. Contact Us Cloud Computing Explained Watch Today s Video Episode Be sure to check out GoToMeeting. Why? Because you can hold meetings right over the Net from anywhere. Plus, you can hold all the meetings you want for one flat rate. To get your free 30-day trial , visit www.gotomeeting.com/techpodcasts. Take 10% off any order at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH Take $5 off any $30 order at GoDaddy.com! Code SDR530 .com Domains $6.95 at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH3 More blogs about SlashdotReview and SDRNews

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Phil Leigh Will consumers pay to watch TV shows and movies at the hulu.com website? Hulu.com’s website hosts popular TV shows and movies after they have been released normally. Owners include Disney, NBC-Universal, and News Corporation (Fox). Viewers can watch shows for free but in exchange must also watch commercials since the videos are streamed and not downloaded. Last month, Chase Carey who is the President of News Corporation said that Hulu should start charging fees sometime next year. Presumably he envisions a premium subscription service providing more content or viewing time in exchange for a monthly fee. There are two reasons to be doubtful about the success of such a plan. First, as author Matt Ragas put it, “We all love the information highway, but we don’t want to pay a toll every five miles.” Second, incumbent media companies may be overvaluing their own content. Matt’s remark led me to examine my own subscriptions which are summarized in the accompanying table. Already I pay over $220 monthly for telephone, Internet, and video entertainment. Other services under consideration would advance the total to about $265 monthly.  Such an analysis makes me look for ways to cut, instead of add, services. Phil s Monthly Subscription Fees Naturally, I’ll focus on the bigger numbers first which come from the cable and wireless providers. However, if The Wall Street Journal (owned by News Corp)   editorial viewpoint prevails, the carriers will likely increase ISP fees even higher. That leaves consumers with thinner wallets to buy additional services from Hulu or anyone else. Even if cable and wireless charges don’t go up, consumers may calculate that they’re already paying enough in service fees. Readers of the Baltimore Sun seem to be strongly opposed to paying for hulu.com access. A polling button on the newspaper s website reveals that they voted 20-to-1 against it. You can see the results and review reader comments here. As for content value, the recent success of Paranormal Activity might serve as a reminder to media producers that we characteristically undervalue the works of people who are not like us. It’s reported that the movie was set in a single San Diego home and produced for $10,000. By the day after Halloween it had grossed over $80 million in box office receipts. Much like Internet publishing demolished the value of the printing press, low cost video cameras combined with computer-based film editing and an abundance of people seeking stardom and film-crew careers, necessitates an introspective reassessment of Hollywood’s self worth. Paranormal Activity is more than an isolated echo of The Blair Witch Project. Years from now we’ll look back to see it as data point in a connect-the-dots trend line pointing toward a future of content abundance. To learn more about how your business can exploit or adapt to thye future of media, feel welcome to contact us. You may also want to consider buying our research reports Third Generation Television and Future Developments in Video Advertising.

AP and Murdoch: Easy Way to Solve Your Problem TMobile Sidekick Cloud Vaporizes The Fight for Skype SDR News is a Daily (M-F) Technology Podcast with Tech News Highlights from Slashdot, Digg and Reddit Click Here to Sign Up for the SDR Newsletter Prefer a Direct Download ? (mp3) Download today s show. SDR News Links If a news item has disappeared from the Del.icio.us list above, try the full list here. SEARCH ANY STORY YOU HEAR ON THE PODCAST More Info on Screencasts Online AP and Murdoch Problem Almost Solved by Andrew McCaskey Problem Almost Solved Newsweek writes that Rupert Murdoch gave an impassioned speech to media executives in Beijing decrying that search engines-; in particular Google are stealing from him, because Google links to his stories but doesn t pay News Corp. to do so. It is an impassioned plea that has risen up from the Associated Press and from NewsCorp and they claim as the reason that ad revenues have dropped from about $750 Million a year to $700 million. Weston Cassova calls BS: But if Murdoch really thinks Google is stealing from him, and if he really wants Google to stop driving all those readers to his Web sites at no charge, he can simply stop Google from linking to their news stories by going to his Web site s robot.txt file and adding Disallow. Simple and effective if not dramatic Yet neither AP nor News Corp. has taken this simple step to stop the marauding Google pirates from pillaging their cargo. Why? Because they know that their traffic would dry up overnight. They d rather blame someone else for their failure to compete in a changing marketplace. They happily take all the customers Google sends them for free, and then accuse Google of theft. Classy. Contact Us 120 MPG BMW Concept 3 wheeler Watch Today s Video Episode Be sure to check out GoToMeeting. Why? Because you can hold meetings right over the Net from anywhere. Plus, you can hold all the meetings you want for one flat rate. To get your free 30-day trial , visit www.gotomeeting.com/techpodcasts. Take 10% off any order at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH Take $5 off any $30 order at GoDaddy.com! Code SDR530 .com Domains $6.95 at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH3 More blogs about SlashdotReview and SDRNews

Facebook Hits 300 Million and Profits Voice Chat to Facebook No Patches for XP SDR News is a Daily (M-F) Technology Podcast with Tech News Highlights from Slashdot, Digg and Reddit Click Here to Sign Up for the SDR Newsletter Prefer a Direct Download ? (mp3) Download today s show. SDR News Links If a news item has disappeared from the Del.icio.us list above, try the full list here. SEARCH ANY STORY YOU HEAR ON THE PODCAST Wall Street Journal is Special by Andrew McCaskey Really Special NewsCorp execs might want to exercise some caution as they extend their Wall Street Journal experience into other online media. Rupert Murdoch has been very clear he intends to charge for every bit of content across the NewsCorp empire. And, the reasoning goes, if the WSJ can do it it ought to apply to other product like the Fox content produced for Hulu. The thing that is being overlooked is that the WSJ is special a specialized audience to whom the Journal is as much of a financial tool or aspirational statement as it is a news source. Generalizing into the realm of online media is dangerous. And, introducing the notion of charging for online content a the rate equal to a newspaper is on slippery slope. The reason is demographic: As long as Murdoch is alive, it s probably a viable strategy. The point is that at age 81, he s right. A lot of his audience is not 30 years old, and don t value the Journal as much as someone in their 40 s or 50 s. In ten years, though, they will be forty. They just won t be subscribers to the Wall Street Journal, since the habit (not the delivery mechanism) did not get set early. And Hulu will be forgotten, since it did not take all that much time to fire up the torrents again. Contact Us Be sure to check out GoToMeeting. Why? Because you can hold meetings right over the Net from anywhere. Plus, you can hold all the meetings you want for one flat rate. To get your free 30-day trial , visit www.gotomeeting.com/techpodcasts. Take 10% off any order at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH Take $5 off any $30 order at GoDaddy.com! Code SDR530 .com Domains $6.95 at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH3 More blogs about SlashdotReview and SDRNews

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*MICROSOFT-YAHOO deal still on the table? *DAILY NEWS bids for NEWSDAY. *WARNER BROS. announce digital WB. *NEILSEN shows massive loss for evening news. *DISH NETWORK & ALCATEL-LUCENT plan mobile tv.

SUPER BOWL XLII was the most-watched sporting event on record and the second most-watched TV program in history. Nielsen says an average of 97.5 million viewers watched the Giants-Pats contest. The most-watched program is still the M*A*S*H finale, which drew 106 million viewers in 1983. THE FCC is facing a lawsuit from six cable programmers over the new dual must-carry regulations. Scripps, A Project Infinity, the company s goal to massively increase its on-demand content offerings. NEWS CORPS Peter Chernin told analysts that Fox will not abandon the upfront, calling it a valuable platform to interact with our advertisers. Fox will, however, make fewer pilots than in the past. In related news, Rupert Murdoch put to rest any lingering speculation that News Corp. would challenge Microsoft for Yahoo, saying simply and clearly We are definitely not going to make a bid for Yahoo. MYSPACE launches its developer platform today, one month before third-party widgets and applications are unleashed on the top social-networking site. Until then developers will test their apps on up to five users at a time. When the program goes live developers will keep all revenue generated by their widgets. Get the full story at http://www.Media30.com.

* NEWS CORP sells 8 O&O stations. * APPLE iPhone owners use much higher data rates. * NEW RESEARCH shows 47% higher engagement for online TV. * KMART experiments with customizable TV ads. * MICROSOFT consolidates TV ventures. * QUEEN ELIZABETH makes history on YOUTUBE. Get the story at Media30.com