links for 2008-10-30
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At VentureBeat’s Downturn Roundtable event this morning, Kleiner Perkins’ John Doerr came prepared with a list of the top things that start-up CEOs should do. He surveyed 18 of Kleiner’s companies, and here’s what they suggest.
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"Clearly, the sky is falling. The question now is, how many people will be left to cover it.."
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Rather than seeing your staff wasting time messaging, poking and sending virtual cocktails to their mates across the room via Facebook, bosses should encourage social networking among employees. A Demos think tank believes that social networking sites such as Facebook and Bebo at work actually encourages staff to build relationships with colleagues.
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Advertising is not a turnoff to people who love social media Web sites. In fact, many MySpace and Facebook users said ads on their favorite social sites have prompted them to buy something, according to a new report from Razorfish.
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Publishers using user-generated content (UGC) are not simply going for the cheap option, Neil McIntosh, head of editorial development at Guardian.co.uk, told the audience at last night’s New Media Knowledge (NMK) ‘What happens to newspapers?’ event.
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e Conservative government would relax media ownership rules to allow local newspaper groups to buy stakes in TV stations in their area, Shadow Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt said today. In a speech on public service broadcasting at London School of Economics today Hunt said that the lack of local TV in Britain is the biggest single failing of the British broadcasting industry, and that the current debate about regional news "misses the point".
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A recent study undertaken by Mobile Data Association reveals that UK phone users are sending nearly 217 million text messages per day. It seems that frequency of text messaging in UK is growing at an appreciable rate with an average rate of text messages being sent per day increasing by nearly 60 million over the corresponding period a year back
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