Press Release Central Opens Today on Web at KansasCity.Com
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By Jennifer Mann, The Kansas City Star, Mo.  Feb. 14--Newsmakers large and small have a new online venue for sharing information with the Kansas City community -- Press Release Central.   Today, The Kansas City Star launches Press Release Central on its Web site at Kansas City.com.
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Media analyst Paul Kagan announced today the launch of a new media  business research and information website, www.pkworldmedia.com.
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Barry Diller and IAC are going to launch something called &#8220;AskCity&#8221; next week, which will be a consolidated local offering under the Ask brand: The new Web-based city guides, due out on December 4, will be followed later in December by a redesign of IAC&#8217;s Ask.com search service, a small but fast-growing rival to Google Inc. [...]
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The Internet media conglomerate will introduce a local information service in one of the companyÂs broadest moves yet.
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The search giant has added a new local search component to its news aggregation service. Now users can enter their address or ZIP code to see relevant local news results. While the enhancement won't win over Google users in major metro areas, it's a welcome addition to those outside the big cities.
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By Benjamin J. Romano, Seattle Times  Jan. 30--NEW YORK -- Microsoft unleashed a marketing blitz across Manhattan and the world Monday to announce that its most important products are available to the masses starting today.
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The new Web site, DailyShow.com, will present almost all of the Comedy Central shows produced over nine years.
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A new hub for Comedy  Central&#39;s &quot;The Daily Show With Jon Stewart&quot; headlines a slate  of two-dozen targeted Web sites that Viacom&#39;s MTV Networks will  launch by the first quarter.
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Publishers and webmasters will be able to specify through a site map the articles they want Google News to index.
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Techpresident.com, which officially begins publishing Monday, will cover the online aspects of the coming presidential campaign.
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Cultural affairs staffer for this city government e-mails the IT director: She needs the ability to post announcements to media Web sites. Which ones? Pretty much all of them.
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Leading web search engine Google launched a new site for book lovers at the world&#39;s largest publishing show on Thursday that will provide a new avenue for sales.
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NewsForge.com has a new tutorial today about the creation of a dashboard with PHP and a browser.
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By Brad Cooper, The Kansas City Star, Mo.  Sep. 13--Overland Park is about to help drivers avoid traffic jams by giving them live Internet video of some of the city's busiest and most dangerous streets.
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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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In the spirit of holiday fun, Cal Evans has founded a city somewhere in Jamacia via the MyMiniCity.com site - PHPCity:   I thought it may be fun to do a PHP community building instead of real work this close to the holidays, so I set up PHP City. To participate, just click the link to PHP City and you are a resident. If you really want to get involved, pick yourself a title (I'm Mayor McCal) and post a proclamation as a news bulletin.   There's not much to it - each visit to the site increases the population by one and there's other links to help with other areas of the city (like Industry and Transportation and others down the line). So visit our city and check out how much its grown (top 10 in the first day!) and add your hits to the growing population of PHPCity.   Other people mentioning the city: Padraic Brady, Nick Halstead
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Acrobat 8 line, due in November, will allow people to view a common PDF file via a Web browser.