The Daily Loper – August 8, 2006

Today’s links of interest:

• Google, News Corp. Sign Search, Ad Deal
  Touted as News Corp’s way of recovering its online investments, the deal comes with traffic benchmarks that depend upon MySpace having staying power. Of course, if most of your traffic leaves to do searches, having the Google search box onsite is just pla
• Viacom considers bid for Bebo
  In which the social networking bubble grows larger and larger and larger. We all know the story of very big bubbles….
• Getting It On Time and Online
  A story about getting a story online — before it hits the print edition. Noteworthy because of the timing: the online version hit the bits and bytes a week ahead of paper publication.
• The myth of the living-room PC
  "My tech-savvy friends who can afford anything they want set up a huge HDTV with TiVo, cable, and DVD players?then sit in front of it with a laptop on their knees."
• AOL’s Switch To Free Features Sows Confusion
  It’s a really bad week to be AOL.
• Kiss Fans Protest Hall of Fame Snub
  In a show of support, Buck O’Neil will be performing with Kiss at the Meadowlands later this month.
• Bands find large Web fanbase doesn’t equal big money
  In other news, band have found that signing with a major label doesn’t equal big money, getting played on the radio doesn’t equal big money, and having your video on MTV doesn’t equal big money.
• MySpace Can Be YourSpace
  MySpace primer for authors: a cautionary tale.
• Numbers leave music retailers numb
  Obvious solution: better music, better exposure. Probable solution: lame attempt to repackage CDs with better jewel boxes.
• Far Removed From the Multiplex
  Number two in the series on teens and the world they digitally inhabit.
• Microsoft Drops Name IE 7+
  Keeps name Internet Explorer. Market research in action.
• Survey: Consumers lose to online schemes
  Wethinks it’s time to educate users about get rich quick schemes and other nefarious tricks.
• Sony to launch a new wireless handheld
  "mylo" – not a cell phone, but maybe it doesn’t need to be.
• Congress seeks truth in video game ratings
  Instead of seeking truth about how we got into the War in Iraq.
• Legitimate P2P to be unclogged
  Is this the solution for speedy delivery of gigantic video files over the web?
• Exclusive Interview: Edward James Olmos
  SPOILERS!! " I?ve been doing this for 41 years, man, and *Battlestar Galactica* wins the Peabody?" SPOILERS!!