"You play Noticings by uploading your photos to Flickr, tagged with 'noticings' and geotagged with where they were taken. We've got some instructions to help you out. "

"In this project, we consider the problem of reconstructing entire cities from images harvested from the web. Our aim is to build a parallel distributed system that downloads all the images associated with a city, say Rome, from Flickr.com. "

"Gawker–no babes in the woods on this issue–have been kind enough to share their correspondence with the scammers… Publishers have been warned!"

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"The service is looking to capitalise on the high volume of calls it receives from mobile phones – around 50% – by selling ads in the courtesy SMS messages it sends each customer. Ads will also be included in its text question-and-answer messages."

"More than three-quarters of people under 35 are happy for brands to contact them on social media sites, but half would leave a site if it became too commercial."

"How times have changed. 78% click-through? I now usually use the figure of 0.83%. But it seems if anything I was being generous as a Comscore blog post cites an even lower figure – 0.08%."

"Using behavioural targeting specialist AudienceScience, whose technology runs individually across each site, the campaign targets high net-worth rugby fans. Through the sponsorship, England captain Steve Borthwick will tweet his thoughts before and after games, which will be shown within the ads."

"At 3pm on Thursday the Yahoo portal will see thousands of user-created Space Hoppers jump out of a Sony Ericsson MPU and move across the page."

"Yahoo is believed to be in the final stage of talks with OneRiot, a real-time search engine that aggregates results from social networks to integrate real-time results into its existing search engine."

"Quoth the release: “The Hechinger Report will collaborate with print, broadcast and online news organizations and also produce coverage on its own for broadcast and publication and for distribution on a new website to be launched next spring.”

4. Community Management
"Not just about moderation, more like being a host at a party, creating conversation, external outreach"

"TweetFunnel will put you firmly in control of your organization’s Twitter use and help you to generate more consistent and varied content for your audience."

BSkyB should not be allowed to use Project Canvas, the venture to bring video on demand programming to Freeview and Freesat viewers, as a loophole to avoid proposed pay-TV regulations, Virgin Media and BT have said in a submission to Ofcom.

"From 17 November, the edition gets an editorial revamp while europe.wsj.com will expand with more online-only news, blogs and email alerts. Dow Jones is also stepping up its events strategy for the UK and Europe. "

"Lawyers for Sun publisher News Group Newspapers, a subsidiary of News International, said today that the paper accepted the stories were untrue. The Sun has agreed to pay Watson's legal costs and "a substantial sum" in damages. Watson, a former minister who serves on the Commons culture, media and sport select committee, was not in court today, but his solicitors, Carter-Ruck, confirmed the settlement."

"Some surprising trends: the New York Post has the same circulation it had two decades ago! Also, the once-captivating battle of the New York City tabloids has become completely moot."