pAs the newspaper industry's prospects darken, and rounds of buyouts and layoffs have left little room for more cuts, The McClatchy Company (a href="http://finance.paidcontent.org/paidcontent?Page=QUOTETicker=MNI" class="ticker" title="MNI"NYSE: MNI/a) is joining with the non-profit iChristian Science Monitor/i on sharing foreign news coverage on a trial basis. The trial will last for three months and then the two will evaluate whether the combo worked. The exchange will involve two iCS Monitor/i correspondents, one in New Delhi and the other in Mexico City, and two McClatchy foreign correspondents in Nairobi and in Caracas. The arrangement comes two months after McClatchy said it would a href="http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-mcclatchy-eliminates-another-1150-jobs-or-10-percent-of-workforce-sees-" title="cut an additional"cut an additional/a 1,150 jobs—10 percent of its workforce—while iCS Monitor/i is a href="http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-christian-science-monitor-shifts-from-daily-paper-to-print-weekly-onlin" title="preparing to shift"preparing to shift/a from a daily to a weekly print pub and going online-only for breaking news. Meanwhile, the Associated Press is a href="http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-ap-to-cut-10-percent-of-jobs-in-2009" title="planning to slash"planning to slash/a 10 percent of its staff next year. a href="http://www.mcclatchy.com/pressreleases/story/2205.html" title="Release"Release/a /p p -- a href="http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003918219" title="Three Florida papers form tie-up with J-school"Three Florida papers form tie-up with J-school/a: The trend of cooperative content has been happening in Florida since August, when three of the state's largest dailies came together to pool resources. Now, the three—Tribune Company's iThe Sun Sentinel/i, McClatchy's iThe Miami Herald/i, and Cox's iThe Palm (a href="http://finance.paidcontent.org/paidcontent?Page=QUOTETicker=PALM" class="ticker" title="PALM"NSDQ: PALM/a) Beach Post/i—are forming a news service with online and print pieces reported by Florida International University j-school students, a href="http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003918219" title="EP reports"EP reports/a. The South Florida News Services launches next month and will run at least until March.nbsp; /p pstrongRelated/strong/p ul class="related" lia href="http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-cnn-positioning-its-wire-service-as-alternative-to-ap/" title="AP Acknowledges Threat From CNN's Wire Service; But Challenger Still 'Needs Improvement'"AP Acknowledges Threat From CNN's Wire Service; But Challenger Still 'Needs Improvement'/a/li lia href="http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-ap-to-cut-10-percent-of-jobs-in-2009" title="AP to Cut 10 Percent of Jobs in 2009; Mainly Through Attrition"AP to Cut 10 Percent of Jobs in 2009; Mainly Through Attrition/a/li lia href="http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-yes-it-is-bad-newspapers-online-ad-revenues-down-for-q3-as-well" title="Yes, It is Bad: Newspapers' Online Ad Revenues Down For Q3 As Well"Yes, It is Bad: Newspapers' Online Ad Revenues Down For Q3 As Well/a/li /ul p!-- iMark Logic Digital Publishing Summit, Thursday November 6, Westin Times Square. Insight and perspective from Outsell, Gilbane, Simon Schuster, BusinessWeek.com, more. Evening cocktail reception. Cost is complimentary. a href="http://content.adbureau.net/accipiter/adclick/CID=000010cb0000000000000000/SITE=PC_US/AAMSZ=PREMB_NEWS/relocate=http://marklogicdps.eventbrite.com/"Register now!/a/i --/p pa href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/pcorg?a=PPYCku"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/pcorg?i=PPYCku" border="0"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=tDVrO"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=tDVrO" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=atkvO"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=atkvO" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=BqjUo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=BqjUo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=gw8lO"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=gw8lO" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=YyQUO"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=YyQUO" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/pcorg/~4/472071499" height="1" width="1"/

p—bNintendo releases e-Book collection for DS/b : Move over Kindle, there's a new e-Reader in town—the Nintendo DS. Well ... not quite, but the game giant did announce the availability of "i100 Classic Book Collection/i" today. The game features classic tomes from Charles Dickens, Jane Austen and Shakespeare, among others. DS owners flip the portable console on its side to read, use the stylus to flip through pages, and can even search through and bookmark segments. Currently, the title is only slated for a European release, with 10 additional titles available via download via the DS Lite Wi-fi feature. Still, U.K.-based a href="http://www.electricpig.co.uk/2008/12/01/nintendo%E2%80%99s-ds-e-reader-priced-and-dated/" title="tech site Electric Pig"tech site Electric Pig/a begs the obvious question: does anybody really want to read an entire book on the DS' tiny screen?nbsp; /p p —bAcclaim unleashes iRockfree/i, free music game/b : MMORPG publisher Acclaim is developing iRockfree/i, an online game that will let players create avatars, open up their own rock "club" and battle against other players online. Slated to go live in Q109, a href="http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=21292" title="Gamasutra says"Gamasutra says/a Rockfree will feature tracks from Warner Music, Sony (a href="http://finance.paidcontent.org/paidcontent?Page=QUOTETicker=SNE" class="ticker" title="SNE"NYSE: SNE/a) and EMI artists, in addition to more than 40 songs created just for the game. The title also has free written all over it: gamers don't have to pay to play it, nor will they have to pay for extra downloadable tracks. /p p —bAOL preaches game safety on new site/b : AOL (a href="http://finance.paidcontent.org/paidcontent?Page=QUOTETicker=TWX" class="ticker" title="TWX"NYSE: TWX/a) has launched a href="http://www.playsavvy.com/" title="PlaySavvy.com"PlaySavvy.com/a, a new site aimed at helping parents understand gaming consoles, interpret the game rating system and better determine which titles are appropriate for their kids. The site features reviews and how-to guides, and of course, "relevant advertising." Wonder if there will be any conflict of interest issues (like the ones a href="http://www.gamespot.com/" title="GameSpot "GameSpot /afaced last year, a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2007/12/05/gamespot-addresses-gerstmann-gate-concerns-in-depth/" title="per Joystiq"per Joystiq/a) or concern about ads being run for games that aren't exactly family-friendly ... a href="http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/?ndmViewId=news_viewnewsId=20081201005158newsLang=en" title="Release"Release/a. /p p —bDouble Fusion beefs up in-game ad lineup for PS3/b : Game advertising company Double Fusion has inked exclusive deals with THQ (a href="http://finance.paidcontent.org/paidcontent?Page=QUOTETicker=THQI" class="ticker" title="THQI"NSDQ: THQI/a), Sega, Eidos and Midway to handle the in-game ads for their PS3 titles. This is in addition to the deal they first brokered in July with Sony to put ads in PS3 games, though Sony announced a similar partnership with Double Fusion rival IGA Worldwide in June, and launched its own in-game ad division in October 2007. a href="http://doublefusion.com/press/html/PS3_12_01_08.html" title="Release"Release/a.nbsp; /p p!-- iMark Logic Digital Publishing Summit, Thursday November 6, Westin Times Square. Insight and perspective from Outsell, Gilbane, Simon Schuster, BusinessWeek.com, more. Evening cocktail reception. Cost is complimentary. a href="http://content.adbureau.net/accipiter/adclick/CID=000010cb0000000000000000/SITE=PC_US/AAMSZ=PREMB_NEWS/relocate=http://marklogicdps.eventbrite.com/"Register now!/a/i --/p pa href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/pcorg?a=LURJGK"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/pcorg?i=LURJGK" border="0"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=7YRrO"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=7YRrO" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=EzwFO"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=EzwFO" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=Pke8o"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=Pke8o" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=NCcjO"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=NCcjO" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=YLkHO"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=YLkHO" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/pcorg/~4/472017563" height="1" width="1"/

pBlog tech and advertising company a href="http://www.sixapart.com/" title="Six Apart"Six Apart/a has acquired micro-blogging platform a href="http://pownce.com/" title="Pownce "Pownce/a for an undisclosed sum, a href="http://venturebeat.com/2008/12/01/six-apart-acquires-and-shuts-down-pownce/" title="VentureBeat reports"VB reports/a. But don't expect Pownce, which lets users broadcast short messages (including videos, photos and mp3s) to be embedded into any of Six Apart's current blogging tools—at least not in its current form—as Six Apart is pulling the plug on the service as of Dec 15. Pownce's lead developers Leah Culver and Mike Malone will likely take on similar roles within Six Apart, and its technology will be pulled into Six Apart's overall infrastructure. /p p Pownce was founded in January 2008 by Culver and Digg vets Kevin Rose and Daniel Burka; and though the service was hyped as Twitter's top competitor, it ultimately failed to catch its rival in terms of user adoption. But clearly, the micro-blogging space remains hot: Facebook was a href="http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-this-phantasmagoric-life-acquisition-talks-between-facebook-and-twitter" title="eyeing a Twitter buyout"eyeing a Twitter buyout/a as recently as a month ago (for about $500 million worth of its stock, no less), Stocktwits, a Twitter-based stock tracking service a href="http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-stocktwits-gets-angel-funding-for-twitter-based-financial-message-board" title="got funding in late September"got funding in late September/a, and social video startup a href="http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-seesmic-acquires-twitter-client-twhirl" title="Seesmic acquired Twhirl"Seesmic acquired Twhirl/a, a micro-blogging and messaging aggregation service in April. /p pstrongRelated/strong/p ul class="related" lia href="http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-this-phantasmagoric-life-acquisition-talks-between-facebook-and-twitter/"This Phantasmagoric Life: Acquisition Talks Between Facebook And Twitter Break Down/a/li lia href="http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-seesmic-acquires-twitter-client-twhirl/"Seesmic Acquires Twitter Desktop Client Twhirl/a/li /ul p!-- iMark Logic Digital Publishing Summit, Thursday November 6, Westin Times Square. Insight and perspective from Outsell, Gilbane, Simon Schuster, BusinessWeek.com, more. Evening cocktail reception. Cost is complimentary. a href="http://content.adbureau.net/accipiter/adclick/CID=000010cb0000000000000000/SITE=PC_US/AAMSZ=PREMB_NEWS/relocate=http://marklogicdps.eventbrite.com/"Register now!/a/i --/p pa href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/pcorg?a=HbfyIh"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/pcorg?i=HbfyIh" border="0"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=7xJYO"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=7xJYO" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=U9LGO"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=U9LGO" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=g9Gzo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=g9Gzo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=5kgSO"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=5kgSO" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=sxzdO"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=sxzdO" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/pcorg/~4/471691550" height="1" width="1"/

pimg src="http://paidcontent.org/images/uploads/wolffbook.jpg" alt="image" align="right" width="130" height="191" /Michael Wolff's much anticipated a href="http://www.amazon.com/Man-Who-Owns-News-Murdoch/dp/0385526121/" title="book about Rupert Murdoch"book about Rupert Murdoch/a, which comes out tomorrow, is all the rage on this media Monday, and is at least something better to distract us from the depressing news all around us. Reviews are a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/01/books/01masl.html?_r=1" title="coming"coming/a a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088sid=aw9uBrEvK070refer=home" title="in"in/a a href="http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/rupert-murdoch-explained-newsers-michael/story.aspx?guid={BAA9A961-D720-40C2-BD5D-57C0A62EA02C}" title="fast"fast/a, a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/reutersEdge/idUSTRE4AR6KS20081128" title="and"and/a a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2008/12/01/1227979890212.html" title="most"most/a have their own judgments about Murdoch, not so much about the book. /p p Our parent iGuardian/i is the only one to run an extract (outside of Vanity Fair's a href="http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2008/12/murdoch200812" title="long extract this month"long extract this month/a) of the book, and a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/dec/01/wall-street-journal-dow-murdoch" title="this one is about"this one is about/a the time when Rupert met then Dow Jones (a href="http://finance.paidcontent.org/paidcontent?Page=QUOTETicker=NWS" class="ticker" title="NWS"NYSE: NWS/a) CEO Rich Zannino, when the wooing began. Some doubts will always be cast on Zannino's role in this, and as former CEO Peter Kann questions in the book: "Why the fuck was Rich going for breakfast with Murdoch?" /p p From the extract: Murdoch: "I know that. I was thinking I'd take the offer directly to the board. I know the family feels that way. I've called [Michael] Elefante in the past. He won't even take a number. The number I'm thinking of is ... 60." Zannino: (internally) Holy Shit! (externally) Silence. /p p For a official version of how these meetings went about, read the old SEC filing which we pointed a href="http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-news-corps-buyout-of-dow-jones-the-gory-details-in-s-4/" title="out here last year"out here last year/a. /p p!-- iMark Logic Digital Publishing Summit, Thursday November 6, Westin Times Square. Insight and perspective from Outsell, Gilbane, Simon Schuster, BusinessWeek.com, more. Evening cocktail reception. Cost is complimentary. a href="http://content.adbureau.net/accipiter/adclick/CID=000010cb0000000000000000/SITE=PC_US/AAMSZ=PREMB_NEWS/relocate=http://marklogicdps.eventbrite.com/"Register now!/a/i --/p pa href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/pcorg?a=gvxIny"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/pcorg?i=gvxIny" border="0"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=aocsO"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=aocsO" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=9GeTO"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=9GeTO" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=IBX1o"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=IBX1o" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=LmgoO"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=LmgoO" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=prH4O"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=prH4O" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/pcorg/~4/471550386" height="1" width="1"/

pa href="http://www.feedroom.com/" title="The FeedRoom"The FeedRoom/a, a longtime player in the online video services sector, has acquired ClearStory Systems, a digital asset management (DAM) software provider, for an undisclosed sum. The two are focused on enterprise and white label online and digital video services. FeedRoom has been around since 1999, and has raised at least $61 million since launching. More details a href="http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/081201/20081201005570.html?.v=1" title="in the release"in the release/a. /p pstrongRelated/strong/p ul class="related" lia href="http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-video-platform-the-feedroom-gets-another-12-million" title="Video Platform The FeedRoom Gets Another $12 Million"Video Platform The FeedRoom Gets Another $12 Million/a/li /ul p!-- iMark Logic Digital Publishing Summit, Thursday November 6, Westin Times Square. Insight and perspective from Outsell, Gilbane, Simon Schuster, BusinessWeek.com, more. Evening cocktail reception. Cost is complimentary. a href="http://content.adbureau.net/accipiter/adclick/CID=000010cb0000000000000000/SITE=PC_US/AAMSZ=PREMB_NEWS/relocate=http://marklogicdps.eventbrite.com/"Register now!/a/i --/p pa href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/pcorg?a=f1LRfz"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/pcorg?i=f1LRfz" border="0"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=pmD1O"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=pmD1O" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=O7YJO"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=O7YJO" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=oLpQo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=oLpQo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=4DmJO"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=4DmJO" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=pFybO"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=pFybO" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/pcorg/~4/471463120" height="1" width="1"/

pAfter weeks of denials and a href="http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-huffpo-raises-15-million-expansion-in-face-of-high-cash-burn" title=""no comments,"""no comments,"/a political blog a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/" title="The Huffington Post"The Huffington Post/a has closed a $25 million third round funding from Oak Investment Partners, the company said in an e-mailed press release this morning. We a href="http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-huffpo-raises-15-million-expansion-in-face-of-high-cash-burn" title="reported earlier"reported earlier/a about a $20 million and above round with post-money valuation in the $110 million range. This probably puts it right at $115 million. /p p The company said it planned to use the proceeds to support general growth efforts and for "focused acquisitions." HuffPo also wants to build up its in-house ad sales team, as even the internet is succumbing to the wider economic turmoil. The three-year-old HuffPo had previously raised roughly $12 million from Softbank Capital, Greycroft Partners, co-founder Ken Lerer and Bob Pittman. /p p On the content side, the $25 million will go towards the jump-starting of a new investigative journalism initiative, expanding its video offerings and ba rollout of local versions of the HuffPo aimed at an unspecified number of cities/b. It already has a a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/chicago/" title="Chicago-centric site"Chicago-centric site/a. The funding comes as HuffPo says farewell to what appears to have been a successful and long campaign season. With interest in politics expected to wane compared to the height of its election coverage, HuffPo hopes to become known for more than its left-leaning politics coverage, by building on its other sections, which include media, living, style and green. While broadening its content should attract more advertisers, this is a tough time on the local ad front, as Borrell Associates and other analysts have a href="http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-the-local-online-ad-locomotive-slows-little-or-no-growth-in-08-borrell" title="pointed out"pointed out/a that the growth in that area had and will continue to slow down considerably. /p p In conjunction with the funding, Oak Investment's Fred Harman is joining HuffPo's board. Harman said in a statement: "Much of the news media business needs to be reassembled online around an ad-supported model and the timetable for this has been accelerated, not slowed, by this economic down cycle." /p pstrongRelated/strong/p ul class="related" lia href="http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-huffpo-raises-15-million-expansion-in-face-of-high-cash-burn" title="Update: HuffPo Finishing On $20M Round, Oak and Others; $110 Million Valuation Ballpark"Update: HuffPo Finishing On $20M Round, Oak and Others; $110 Million Valuation Ballpark/a/li lia href="http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-huffingtonpost-raises-another-5-million-same-investors-including-pittma" title="HuffingtonPost Raises Another $5 Million; Same Investors Including Pittman"HuffingtonPost Raises Another $5 Million; Same Investors Including Pittman/a/li lia href="http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/huffingtonpostcom-does-close-5-million-funding-led-by-softbank" title="HuffingtonPost.com Does Close $5 Million Funding; Led By Softbank"HuffingtonPost.com Does Close $5 Million Funding; Led By Softbank/a/li /ul p!-- iMark Logic Digital Publishing Summit, Thursday November 6, Westin Times Square. Insight and perspective from Outsell, Gilbane, Simon Schuster, BusinessWeek.com, more. Evening cocktail reception. Cost is complimentary. a href="http://content.adbureau.net/accipiter/adclick/CID=000010cb0000000000000000/SITE=PC_US/AAMSZ=PREMB_NEWS/relocate=http://marklogicdps.eventbrite.com/"Register now!/a/i --/p pa href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/pcorg?a=sw9xir"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/pcorg?i=sw9xir" border="0"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=ZmAMO"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=ZmAMO" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=2uEKO"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=2uEKO" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=9olCo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=9olCo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=53EvO"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=53EvO" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=SXJeO"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=SXJeO" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/pcorg/~4/471328664" height="1" width="1"/

pFacebook, in an increasing attempt to prove its utility beyond its own site (and hence build on its advertising potential in the long run), is expanding its a href="http://developers.facebook.com/connect.php" title="Facebook Connec"Facebook Connect/a service on some major media and services sites, including Discovery.com, SFChronicle, Digg, Citysearch, CBS.com, Hulu and others. The Connect service allows a federated identity system of sorts, competing with other services/efforts such as a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opensocial" title="OpenSocial"OpenSocial/a (backed by Google and MySpace) and a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenID" title="OpenID"OpenID/a, and also allows Facebook services to go outside its own site onto other services. It allows Facebook users to sign in on these third-party sites, connect with their friends who also use the sites, and then share their info and action on the social networking service. /p p Facebook, which has 120 million members worldwide, will not be monetizing Connect in any direct way yet, a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/01/technology/internet/01facebook.html?_r=2ref=technologypagewanted=all" title="reports NYT"reports NYT/a, mindful of the Beacon disaster last year, but down the line could help serve more personalized ads on partner sites. Connect on other sites will drive traffic back to Facebook, thus increasing possibilities. For now, the service on third party sites is available by approval only, but in the next few weeks it plans to allow sites to register themselves for Connect, without having to seek approval. /p p Interesting to watch out for the next phase of the battle in social networking sites, and who wins out in making their identity systems more pervasive... /p p!-- iMark Logic Digital Publishing Summit, Thursday November 6, Westin Times Square. Insight and perspective from Outsell, Gilbane, Simon Schuster, BusinessWeek.com, more. Evening cocktail reception. Cost is complimentary. a href="http://content.adbureau.net/accipiter/adclick/CID=000010cb0000000000000000/SITE=PC_US/AAMSZ=PREMB_NEWS/relocate=http://marklogicdps.eventbrite.com/"Register now!/a/i --/p pa href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/pcorg?a=EKhrFB"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/pcorg?i=EKhrFB" border="0"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=W4TgN"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=W4TgN" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=JD1aN"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=JD1aN" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=K0Jnn"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=K0Jnn" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=CTznN"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=CTznN" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=d2uRN"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=d2uRN" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/pcorg/~4/470864249" height="1" width="1"/

Sur Times Square, à l'entrée du théâtre dans lequel est jouée la comédie musicale Legally Blonde, a little bit shocking :

(BTW, j'ai un peu coupé le premier mot, shame on me... IYKWIM... AITYD).