December 2008
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Boston.com being sued over links
As covered on the Media Nation blog, GateHouse Media will file a lawsuit against the New York Times Co., claiming that links to GateHouse content on Boston.com’s “Your Town” sites breach copyright laws. The Boston.com sites only take just a line or a brief summary of GateHouse content so it will be interesting to see how this plays out. If such use were found to constitute...
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Forbes.com story page: Now with personalization!
For example, like many sites, Forbes.com serves up the headlines to related stories. With the new infrastructure—designed in-house—the system will learn about an individual’s content preferences based on the stories he or she reads, as well as his or her ratings of each story. Thus, over time, the related story lists will become more personalized. “We’re now up close to 5,000...
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Study: Most prefer two ad units per page
Burst Media study about ad clutter. One of the conclusions is: “although respondents accept that advertising will appear on a web page, for a majority (52.6%), there is low tolerance for more than two advertising units per web page.”