7 posts and columns on Australian

Exclusive: Yahoo Nabs Microsoft Exec Brett Wayn to Help Local Efforts

in News on April 4, 2011 at 12:26 am PT

After it struck its online advertising and search partnership with Yahoo, Microsoft tapped longtime Internet exec Brett Wayn to work with Greg Nelson durung the integration. Well, Wayn must have liked what he saw at the Silicon Valley Internet giant, since he is bouncing there from his job at the Redmond, Wash. software giant to run local efforts at Yahoo.

Rupert Murdoch Introduces the Daily, His iPad Newspaper

in Media on February 2, 2011 at 7:40 am PT

News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch, along with Apple’s Eddy Cue, rented out the Guggenheim Museum to show off their newest creation: A newspaper built for the iPad.

Australia's Scoopon Won't Sell URL for $286,000, So Groupon Sues

in Commerce on January 4, 2011 at 3:30 pm PT

Here’s the kind of attention you get when everyone thinks you have deep pockets.

Viral Video: Here Come the Facebook Movie Spoofs!

in News on July 19, 2010 at 2:55 am PT

It was inevitable, I suppose, that the highly stylized trailers for the upcoming movie, “The Social Network,” would be ripe for mocking. The full trailer from Sony unit Columbia Pictures uses a creepy Vega Choir version of the Radiohead song, “Creep,” and has all kinds of dramatic flourishes–making it perfect for spoofs. Here are three.

Jeff Goldblum Defies the Web, Denies His Death on “Colbert Report”

in Media on June 30, 2009 at 4:33 am PT

Jeff Goldblum has been making a string of appearances on “The Colbert Report” over the past few weeks, but last night was by far his best work. For starters, the Internet and Twitter declared him dead last Thursday.
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No Tech Tapeworms Here! We Update Voices Policies on All Things Digital.

in News on April 20, 2009 at 12:20 am PT

As of today, we have made important changes to the All Things Digital Voices section. Why? Well, a few weeks ago, ATD was caught up in a bit of the controversy that broke out due to louder-than-usual complaints by several traditional media companies about how their content is treated on the Web. Without going into a long explanation: They expressed displeasure that some sites were misusing their content via aggregation. Those complaining included the editor-in-chief of Dow Jones, which owns this site. The ensuing debate made us realize we needed to be a lot clearer and more explicit about what we are doing in our Voices section, which includes short excerpts of third-party content from outside our site, and to make those policies more prominent and transparent. Some will disagree with the changes we have made and some will not think they go far enough. But we hope we have addressed the key issues.
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