http://www.blogzinger.com Fri, 06 Jun 2008 13:20:55 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In a recent TechCrunch post Eric Shonfeld raises questions about how exactly YouTube’s market dominance will or will not translate into a lucrative business model. According to comscore, 37 percent of all videos watched on the Internet are viewed on YouTube and the site attracts about half of the online ... http://www.blogzinger.com/2008/06/06/can-youtube-turn-market-dominance-into-a-killer-business-model/ The Massachusetts Innovation & Technology Exchange (MITX) announced the winners of its fifth annual MITX Technology Awards at a ceremony last night in the Royal Sonesta Hotel in Cambridge. These awards recognize innovative technologies developed in New England. MITX gave out awards in 14 categories which ranged from recognition of qualities ... http://www.blogzinger.com/2008/06/04/everyzing-wins-mitx-technology-award/ In a recent ars technical post “How Viacom can sink the pirates”, Anders Bylund argues that content producers are tackling the problem of content distribution, ownership and control from the wrong angle. While at the Seoul Digital Forum 2008, Sumner Redstone—who controls the twin media giants ... http://www.blogzinger.com/2008/05/21/online-video-pirates-controlling-content-distribution-on-the-web/ Three reports came out last week from Radar Networks, StumbleUpon, and ClipBlast offering what Search Insider blogger David Berkowitz calls, “more clues on how search and discovery are converging and diverging.” “Web video is asking to be discovered” according to the ClipBlast! survey, which reports that for online video, traditional search ... http://www.blogzinger.com/2008/05/02/online-video-search-or-discovery/ In a recent study at Penn State, results showed that about 80-percent of online searches are informational in nature, whereas 10-percent are navigational and another 10-percent are transactional. Although millions of people use Web search engines, Penn State researchers show that most queries submitted can be classified into these ... http://www.blogzinger.com/2008/04/22/study-shows-80-percent-of-searches-are-informational-do-the-search-engines-have-the-information-needed-to-showcase-your-content-in-their-search-results/ In a release that went out this Monday, iProspect revealed that according to a recent study comparing universal and vertical search: ...in the case of news, image, and video results, search engine users click specialized content within general search results more than they do within vertical search results. The study, conducted by ... http://www.blogzinger.com/2008/04/10/users-prefer-blended-search-when-selecting-news-images-and-video/ Information Week had an interesting article last week responding to the addition of the extra site-constrained search boxes that now appear on Google search results pages. Google believes these new destination search boxes will help make information more accessible to users as they allow searchers to conduct follow-up searches, drilling ... http://www.blogzinger.com/2008/04/04/googles-search-within-search-will-affiliates-loose-revenue-and-control-of-content/ Net radio ads are on their way to becoming "premium inventory", as they follow the growth and evolution of online search engines and the search ads that have rocketed to fame (and fortune) in recent years. That's the prediction TargetSpot CEO Doug Perlson lays out in the Forbes article, “The ... http://www.blogzinger.com/2008/03/17/could-net-radio-ads-follow-in-the-successful-footsteps-of-search-or-will-the-value-of-audio-content-become-lost-in-translation/ Big changes at EveryZing this morning. First, we issued an exciting announcement here detailing our two new products, ezSEO and ezSEARCH . With these products, for the first time audio and video content producers have the ability to integrate all of their content into ... http://www.blogzinger.com/2008/02/27/big-changes-at-everyzing/ According to Peter Morville, we are “at the crossroads of ubiquitous computing and the Internet” however as he sees it, “the user experience is out of control,” and “findability” will become the real story moving forward. In a recent post on Read Write Web, Richard MacManus examines Morville’s ideas, particularily ... http://www.blogzinger.com/2008/02/22/ambient-findability-and-the-%e2%80%9csemantic-web%e2%80%9d/