CNN.com said Thursday it is introducing a new interactive online news trivia quiz called the CNN Challenge.
CNN Challenge will focus on both historical news events and the top stories of the week. New quizzes about historical events will be available every Tuesday and Wednesday, and a new current news quiz will be available every Thursday.
When it comes to Internet marketing and social media marketing one of the most important metrics of success is the return on investment (ROI). Everyone demands to see something that measures this although most can’t agree on just how to accomplish that. Twitter is one outlet that people are trying to measure as to just how much value do their efforts get on the micro-blogging service.
Who is the most famous person in the world? A simple question with thousands of possible answers.
Some might say the Pope while others might say President Obama. It's total speculation; an argument can be made for just about any well-known person.
About 2 a.m. East Coast time, Ashton Kutcher declared victory in attracting one million followers on Twitter. For what it’s worth—is it worth something?—CNN piggyback publicity team conceded victory, but would reach a million itself sometime in the wee morning hours.
About 7:30 last night, just about the time the Twitter-battle was being hyped on entertainment news, bookies reached out to my inbox to inform me the odds favored CNN. Odds were even on Kutcher, long on Britney.
Who knew the race to be the first Twitter user with a million followers was so important? It’s not, but it is kind of fun to watch. Ashton Kutcher, CNN, and Britney Spears seem the most likely contenders, but one shadow organization lurks to manipulate while Oprah’s late entry could be an upset.
CNN has acquired "the services" of the creator of one of the most popular accounts on Twitter, which is "cnnbrk," an account that posts CNN breaking news. Currently, the account has just under a million followers.
Jason Kincaid at TechCrunch spoke with James Cox, the account holder and has confirmation from CNN that the account is now in their possession. But it's not like they just bought "the account"...
Hackers have launched a new email scam that attempts to lure unsuspecting users to a bogus CNN.com news site using the Gaza conflict in an effort to steal passwords.The RSA FraudAction Research Lab discovered the scam and says the result of the attack is the infection of computers with a Trojan.
Hitwise has released election online traffic results that show Yahoo News was the most visited Web site overall among the news and political Web sites grabbing .72 percent of all U.S. visits representing a 55 percent increase on election day.CNN.com was the most visited TV network Web site receiving .61 percent of all U.S. Internet visits. CNN.com's visits increased 146 percent on Tuesday compared to Monday. MSNBC.com was the second most visited Web site receiving .40 percent of Internet visits and seeing a 122 percent increase in traffic.
Although I have ruthlessly defended new media's potential for legitimacy as a news source, nobody said citizen journalism was a flawless concept. Today a story was posted at iReport.com claiming that Apple CEO Steve Jobs had suffered a severe heart attack. He did not.
Extinction probably isn’t the right word when it comes to assessing the state of journalism; evolution or revolution might be closer. Yesterday, Internet giants like Google and Yahoo, among others, announced enough traditional news media partnerships (and one citizen journalist partnership) that the volume of them became newsworthy itself.
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