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paidContent: Video: Web 2.0 Summit: WSJ, Google, NYT, HuffPo Execs MIx It Up
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Google Watch: Would Google Be Evil For Buying The New York Times?
| Jobber du i avisbransjen bør du se denne fra Web 2.0 Summit: http://bit.ly/1Sll81 11/5/2009 |
| Best quote I have heard in a long time, "no one has the right to exist in business." Great watch http://bit.ly/m274R 11/3/2009 |
| I can't help but speculate that Google's hinting that it IS building a New News Platform from scratch. See min. 27:00 : http://tr.im/D8a0 10/26/2009 |
Video: Web 2.0 Summit: WSJ, Google, NYT, HuffPo Execs MIx It Up
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The Robert Thomson quote machine was in full force during the obligatory Web 2.0 Summit look at the future of journalism. Federated Media’s John Battelle moderated the often chippy session featuring WSJ top editor Robert Thomson; Huffington Post CEO Eric Hippeau; New York Times digital head Martin Nisenholtz; and designated scapegoat/Google (NSDQ: GOOG) exec Marissa Mayer. Here are a few markers so you can fast forward to certain points but the 40-minute discussion embedded below doesn’t seem endless unlike many conversations about the same subject:
—6 minutes in: Mayer responds to Thomson’s concerns about ...
Dear WSJ: To Avoid Google Disease, Please Put A Condom On Your Content
Silicon Alley Insider —
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Would Google Be Evil For Buying The New York Times?
Google Watch —
Bloggers and reporters are reviewing Ken Auletta's new book "Googled: The End of The World as We Know It," where the New Yorker writer notes that Google CEO Eric Schmidt and Google Co-founder considered buying the New York Times. Evil alert!
I haven't read the book from Penguin Press yet, though I requested a copy today. The title alone sets us up for a treatment of an industry-changing company.
It looks from this interview on I Want Media that Auletta is painting Google as a company that is altering the course of media:
Google co-founder Larry Page and CEO Eric Schmidt told me that they had discussed buying the New York ...
Google CEO Schmidt tries to quell brouhaha over news aggregation
VentureBeat —
After News Corp.’s Rupert Murdoch paraded around in November threatening to de-index his properties from Google, this week has become the search giant’s turn to respond.
Google took several steps to manage its public image this week. Most of these are pretty minor concessions from the company’s standpoint:
It changed its first-click free program. First click free was a way you could read one story from a publication before hitting a paywall if you found it through Google search. It was also a great way to read The Wall Street Journal: instead of heading to WSJ.com, you could search the name of the story you were interested in ...


