Media

If you’ve ever lost data, you know how devastating it can be. Every year, 43% of computer users lose important files such as emails, financial documents, photos, mp3s, office work, and more.
The obvious answer is to backup, but that can get complicated. First you have to buy an external drive, then install it, buy another program to manage the backups, and finally configure everything to work properly. No wonder so many people don’t bother with backups.
But Carbonite is making the backup process simpler, safer, and more affordable. With Carbonite Online Backup…, you simply download and install

Continue Reading Carbonite Online Backup

Tags: Backup, carbonite, carbonite backup, free trial, Online

The ax has fallen at Federated Media Publishing…, the online advertising company founded by former journalist John Battelle. Seven of the company’s 90 employees were laid off Friday.
The layoffs, according to a company representative, were almost exclusively on the display-advertising side of the company. Federated also creates interactive marketing campaigns, and with the display ad downturn in full effect, that’s where the company has chosen to focus. Federated doesn’t plan to ignore display advertising, but hope to make several hires on the marketing side.
“Given our journalistic heritage, we don’t want to bury the lede: Today FM

Continue Reading Federated Media Announces Layoffs, Shift Away from Display Ads

Tags: ads, display, display ads, federated, layoffs, Media

Yahoo has fired up a major part of its Yahoo Open Strategy, the ability to broadcast blog postings, tweets, photo uploads, Yelp reviews, and other activity to members of your online social circle.
The change to Yahoo Updates makes the company potentially more competitive with services such as FriendFeed and Facebook, which do much the same thing, though they also offer to show activity on other services including Amazon, Digg, and Google Reader.

…Yahoo Update lets you sign up to broadcast activity from various online services. (Click to enlarge.)
(Credit: Yahoo)
Offering the 21 third-party services helps with

Continue Reading Yahoo Shares Your Tweets, Other Online Activity

Tags: shares, Tweets, yahoo, yahoo shares

What makes a social network work? Is it the design of the site? The advertising on it? The logo? It’s none of these things, of course.
It’s the people.
MySpace proves that you don’t need pretty design, and Facebook shows that if you start by identifying an audience (college students) and give them a better way to do something they’re already doing (getting to know each other), it is enough to get a social project off the ground.
Fuego Nation…, a new social network launching into private beta Friday, runs counter to just about everything I know about

Continue Reading Fuego Nation Social Network Seems to Be Designed Around Ads

Tags: designed, display ads, fuego national

In another expansion of its Profiles site, Google has enabled people to share their contact information with selected contacts, a move that offers modest convenience for users of the service and valuable data to Google.
The feature shows as a “Contact info” tab; clicking on it shows whatever contact information you’ve entered and the note, “You are not sharing your contact information with anyone. Edit your profile to add contact info, and then choose who to share it with so that they always have the most up-to-date information.”
Google Profiles… is hardly a Facebook crusher or a LinkedIn slayer,

Continue Reading Share Contact Info, Social Graph via Google Profiles

Tags: contact, google profiles, info, News, profiles, share, social