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‘24’ Is Coming Back To Fox In May

‘24’ Is Coming Back To Fox In May

By Chris Crum May 13, 2013

24 is coming back to Fox, for at least one more season (though it will only be twelve episodes, as opposed to the custom twenty-four). In a rather surprising bit of news, the network announced that the show will return …

PRWeek: Industry Enters Age of PR 3.0

Almost within 24 hours of going on record stating that we will (should) not see anyone referring to PR 3.0 anytime soon, PRWeek runs an article about how the industry is entering a new age: PR 3.0. Hat tip to Constantin Basturea.

Yahoo Acknowledges Illicit Clicks Exist

The company has made its first ever disclosure on the clicks it discards, numbering between 12 and 15 percent of the ones it receives as either "invalid or of inferior quality.

YouTube Rolls Over On ’24′ Posters

If the users behind the name EcoTotal thought putting up four episodes of ’24′ on YouTube before they aired on television was a good idea, Fox lawyers are ready to find them and show them the error of their ways.

Developing a Profitable Web 2.0 Project in 24 Hours

It took seven months to get the One Million Masterpiece charity project online. The site is complex and needed the development time, but in the last few days I’ve had a yearning to see if I can still turn around a project in 24 hours.

TailRank, DiggTech, TechMeme and Google Reader

Kevin Burton released a new TailRank. Last week I asked the audience at ConvergeSouth how many people even knew about TechMeme. Very few hands went up.

JBoss Portal 2.4 Opens For Developers

Red Hat’s JBoss division announced the availability of a new version of their portal software, with full clustered content management system capabilities and Web Service for Remote Portlet (WSRP) support.

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LocalBrit Search Built In 24 Hours

Rome may not have been built in a day, to quote an obvious saying, but the search engine at LocalBrit.co.uk moved from scratch to launch in that time.

MySpace To Sell “24″

MySpace is diversifying yet again. The Internet social network has announced plans to begin selling episodes of the hit Fox show “24.” This move comes as part of an effort to grow the company into a business entity comparable to Yahoo or iTunes.

Yahoo Yields Search Game To Google

Yahoo has admitted to something thousands of search engine users already know: it’s not going to beat Google at search dominance. Game. Set. Match. Google. The best way to read the Bloomberg report on Yahoo’s fall from the search game would be with a glass of champagne and a dish of strawberries and cream, Wimbledon style.

Hitachi Recorder Can Store Seasons 1-5 Of ’24′

A terabyte of high-definition TV can be recorded on Hitachi’s high-end dual-drive digital video recorder.

BlackDog A Little Server With Bite

A Linux server that plugs into a system’s USB port turns any machine into a Linux box, and fits in your hand.

Viacom Eyes 24 Hour Broadband CBS News Presence

CBS News and its digital media counterpart will create a 24-hour news network that will be available exclusively online.

Get Used To Transparency, IABC

In yesterday’s edition of The Hobson & Holtz Report, our bi-weekly podcast show, Shel and I talked a little about IABC.

Eli Lilly Loses $2.4 Million

Eli Lilly & Co. experienced a loss of $2.4 million in the fourth-quarter with the costs of redesigning a plant and office closings.

Case In Point: Getting 24% ROI On Email Campaigns

So often we hear of individuals who get exceptional returns-on-investment from their advertising campaigns. However, what we don’t often hear are the intimate details of how these people work their strategies. Marketer Diane Hughes has agreed to give us the nitty gritty of her latest solo ad project, including how she consistently earns 24% in profits.

Taming your Tomcat: Filtering tricks for Tomcat 5

Designing maintainable high-performance systems

The new Tomcat 5 server takes filters to a new level of deployment flexibility. Tomcat 5′s support for the upcoming Servlet 2.4 and JSP 2.0 specifications gives filter writers a new way to integrate and deploy these flexible components — tapping directly into the request dispatcher’s operations. In this article, Sing Li takes you on a guided tour of the new enhancement and gives you some hands-on training. See how Tomcat 5 can benefit Web application frameworks and lead ultimately to the design of maintainable high-performance systems.