David Eun, VP, Content Partnerships, Google (NSDQ: GOOG), closed out the SIIA Information Industry Summit by offering a summary of Google’s principles ("Perfection is the tyranny of good enough,” i.e.,…

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A modest proposal for future conference panels covering online video: there ought to be a moratorium on sampling Gil Scott Heron’s “The Revolution Will Not be Televised.” Heron’s introduction, which…

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Though he didn’t directly come out and say it,ex-WSJ publisher Gordon Crovitz, had a different message in his SIIA keynote than what we heard yesterday from Reuters CEO Tom Glocer.…

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The fascination with Rupert Murdoch was center stage during a discussion on old media vs. new media at the SIIA Information Industry Summit. When Tribune CEO and chairman Sam Zell’s…

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During a Q&A at SIIA, Caroline Little, CEO of Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive discussed the role of digital at the Washington Post (NYSE: WPO) and how it fits strategically with the print…

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The SIIA panel titled ”After the Froth” started off as a discussion of the economy and how recent issues would affect information businesses. But this turned out to be a…

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In his keynote to the SIIA conference, Reuters (NSDQ: RTRSY) CEO Tom Glocer promised he wasn’t just there to deliver a commercial for the planned merger with Thomson (NYSE: TOC).…

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Another conference, another view of the VC market: At SIIA, it was a more subdued affair than the “all things disrupted” pep rally this morning at AlwaysOn. That’s not to…

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At SIIA Summit the week before in NYC, a panel about the M&A activity in the content industry. Moderator Joel Dreyfuss, Editor-in-Chief, Red Herring Panelists Rene Benedetto, Principal, Halyard Capital…

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Rich Zannino, CEO of Dow Jones, gave the opening keynote at SIIA held last week in NYC (Staci covered it and moderated a panel as well). Below is the two…

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As Staci mentioned previously, she moderated a fireside chat with Jim Spanfeller, CEO of Forbes.com and Jeff Price, President of SI.com yesterday at the SIIA conference in NYC. Below is…

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A good panel at SIIA, with David Verdlin, CEO, Carat Americas & Chairman of Asia Pacific; Clare Hart, EVP, Dow Jones & Company & President, Dow Jones Enterprise; Saul Hansell,…

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Listening to MarketWatch’s Jon Friedman moderate a panel on multimedia business models—no conference is complete without one these days. My session is next so will have go to the tape…

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An excellent line-up today but sad to say I had to skip out when I lost a skirmish in the winter cold war. I’ll write up my notes on DJ…

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Time Inc. CEO Ann Moore covered a lot of ground in her early a.m. keynote at SIIA. One tidbit: Time Inc. is about to announce a partnership with Google that…

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Hit some sort of trifecta today—three separate events in just under eight hours. In the middle slot, SIIA Previews featuring demos by content-related companies interspersed with a couple of sessions.…

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Last week, San Francisco for one of our best mixers yet; this week New York for the last conferences of a jam-packed January. I’ll be at the SIIA Information Industry…

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We weren’t the only ones blogging from the 2006 SIIA Information Industry Summit, earlier this week in NYC. John Blossom of Shore Communications was also bloggin’ away, and his posts…

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: Welcome to Analytics-R-Us ... Tim Armstrong, VP-ad sales for Google, is giving a rapid-fire overview of Google’s ad sales philosophy. At the very core, “pipes in versus pipes out.”…

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: An energtic panel led by conference chair Adele Morrissette with Mike Kelly, president, AOL Media Networks; Mark McLaughlin, VeriSignl Dennis Miller, Spark Capital, looking at the kind of deals…

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Laid-back Craigslist CEO Jim Buckmaster threw interviewer David Kirkpatrick off a tad by zigging where others zag. Buckmaster, clad in black turtleneck and jeans,

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: Work in progress. Yahoo News soon will be the online home of “Dear Margo,” an advice column from Margo Howard and will add other columnists—part of continuing efforts to…

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: Updated:Safe to say Esther Dyson spoke some truth to power about users and control, telling attendees that not all user contributions are equal and not all users deserve equal…

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[Staci D. Kramer] Most of the SIIA session featuring Joe Mansueto centered on the founding and evolution of Morningstar, with only a few q-and-a minutes on his recent acquisition of…

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“There are two major events today: the State of the Union and the Google earnings ... You won’t see the Google guys sitting next to Laura Bush.”—James Kollegger, Genesys Partners,…

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