AP, Voxant reach online syndication deal
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The Associated Press on Tuesday said it has reached an agreement with Voxant Inc. to distribute a selection of its news stories, video and photos to blogs and other Web sites through Voxant's advertising-supported syndication network.
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TORONTO, Dec. 13  /PRNewswire/ -- According to the audio experts at Voices.com (http://www.voices.com/), the voice marketplace, Americans new to advertising on the radio are buying broadcast radio commercial slots for the first time via Google's Audio Ads beta testing program.
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The Associated Press and the Dutch news agency Novum announced a strategic news partnership in the Netherlands on Monday.
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A new feature allows users the chance to make the news.
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The online bellwether strikes up more deals with print media.
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With The New York Times picking up the recent story of the (mostly minor) anti-Adblock Plus protest, its worth looking into the subject and seeing just where a Webmaster/ad-block developer arms race could take us.
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One of the best weapons against Internet information overload has been Really Simple Syndication. It&#039;s a technology that feeds you updates from blogs or news sites as they&#039;re available, keeping you from having to troll Web sites to find what you&#039;re interested in.
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(InfoWorld) - Google took another step in its continued attempts to improve its relationships with wire services Friday when it announced a program to host full articles from news agencies on Google News pages. Google News, a site in which Google aggregates links to articles published on news outlets' Web sites, is generally valued by publishers who make money from online advertising and as such benefit from the traffic Google News sends to their sites. But Google News has been a tougher sell for wire services, which generally make money by licensing their content to newspapers and magazines and not by attracting readers to their own Web sites. Agence France Presse , one of the world's largest wire services, sued GoogleÂ for alleged copyright infringement on the News site. Although never publicly acknowledged, it's widely believed that the Associated Press threatened to file a similar lawsuit. Although Google maintains that running hyperlinked headlines, text snippets, and thumbnail images from news outlets in Google News is protected by the fair use principle,Â it eventually settled with AFPÂ and signed a licensing agreement with it, as well as with AP. Friday's announcement appears to be the first concrete result of those licensing agreements, although the AP deal is now more than a year old. The AFP settlement and agreement were announced in April. Now, if they want, people will be able to read the original articles from AP, AFP, the U.K. Press Association, and the Canadian Press in Google News pages. Google also entered into licensing agreements with the U.K. and Canadian wire services. Previously, because wire services' Web sites typically feature either a small sample or none of their stories, the way to read their articles was go to the sites of their syndication clients, such as newspapers. The new feature unveiled Friday is called "duplicate detection," which lets Google News identify the original source of a story that may appear in tens or hundreds of news outlet Web sites. If the source story is from one of the four news service agencies that Google has licensing agreements with, Google will display the story on a page that it hosts. But the feature will benefit all types of news outlets, not just wire services. For example, if a New York Times story gets syndicated, Google News will know that it originally came from that newspaper. For such outlets that have their own public Web sites, "duplicate detection" will simply let users click over to their sites, which is the traditional Google News model. Removing duplicated articles opens up more room on Google News, leading to a better user experience, said Josh Cohen, Google News business product manager. "Our goal with what we're launching today is to provide the best experience for our users and help our partners get credit for their content," he said. Asked whether the hosting of full articles on Google News will weaken the fair-use protection claim, Cohen said that it will not. "We respect copyright laws. When we go beyond fair use, we enter into licensing agreements," he said. The "duplicate detection" feature is already operational on the site, he said.
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NewsGator Technologies, the leading RSS platform company, today announced a partnership with Directory Xpress, a company that provides schools with tools to help connect teachers and staff with parents and students through personalized information portals.
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Google Inc.  said on  Friday it is acquiring Feedburner Inc., bolstering the Internet  advertising leader's capacity to distribute both media and  advertising to blogs via Web syndication technology.
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The newspaper powerhouse joins its peers in reporting earnings.
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NEW YORK More dollars are expected to be spent on online extensions of broadcast network shows in this upfront than ever before, but a sizable amount--as much as $150 million overall--also may be held back for digital opportunities that arise during the course of next season, according to media buyers. Call it the &quot;digital scatter market.&quot;
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File-swapping company Grokster is teaming up with newcomer Mercora to distribute an advanced streaming radio service to the peer-to-peer crowd.
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The New York Times Company and Monster Worldwide, the operator of the popular job-listing site, will form an alliance involving the newspaper companyâs Web sites.
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The Washington Post Co. is buying Microsoft Corp.&#39;s online magazine Slate in an effort to boost online traffic. The acquisition by the Post, which also owns The Herald, will reduce Slate&#39;s presence in the
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Washington Post Company holdings Newsweek and Kaplan Inc. are teaming up to offer an online M.B.A. degree program.
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To keep tabs on its content online, Reuters joins Associated Press in signing a deal with Attributor.