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Webmetrics Shakeout? Nielsen Online Drops Compete from Rankings as Traffic Falls...Google Launches Trends for Websites.... (Beet.TV)

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 22:57:08 GMT

Compete, the Web metrics company, is being dropped from coverage by Nielsen Online due to its dip in traffic to 370,000 unique visitors in May, I was told by a Nielsen spokesperson earlier this week.

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Prakash wins doubles title (Hindu)

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 20:13:49 GMT

NEW DELHI: Prakash Amritraj and Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi defeated Jonathan Marray of Britain and Frederik Nielsen of Denmark 6-3, 7-6(6) in the doubles final of the 64,000 Euros ATP Challenger tennis tournament in Dublin, Ireland. The ...

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Online TV viewing catching on, traditional TV watching still preferred (Engadget HD)

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 14:12:44 GMT

Filed under: Internet We've known that individuals were turning to the internet to catch their favorite shows for some time now, but we aren't living in the future just yet . According to new research conducted by Nielsen and CTAM, most adults (94%) who "subscribe to cable or satellite television services prefer to watch television on traditional TV sets." Still, over a third of those surveyed...

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Effect of a positive cosmological constant on cosmic strings. (arXiv:0807.0543v1 [gr-qc]) (Arxiv)

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 03:50:51 GMT

We study cosmic Nielsen-Olesen strings in space-times with a positive cosmological constant. For the free cosmic string in a cylindrically symmetric space-time, we calculate the contribution of the cosmological constant to the angle deficit, and to the bending of null geodesics. For a cosmic string in a Schwarzschild-de Sitter space-time, we use Kruskal patches around the inner and outer horizons...

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Climatologist: Much of Texas in drought (News: Moldova.org: Politics)

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 21:07:00 GMT

At least half of Texas is locked in a severe drought that shows no signs of breaking in the near future, the state climatologist says.John Nielsen-Gammon, a meteorology professor at Texas A&M, said that the western, central and southern parts of the state are the hardest hit. Some areas have had less than one-quarter of normal rainfall.Texas had a very wet spring and summer last year, but then...

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Paper Version Of The Web (Business Opportunities Weblog)

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 18:11:46 GMT

DeepLinking: People have been sketching user interfaces since the birth of the web (possibly even before) but the sketches usually stay locked away in old notebooks and discarded bar napkins. Many of the websites we use started out as scrawlings, and with people like Jakob Nielsen and Bill Buxton spreading the gospel of faster, cheaper paper [...]

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July 3, 2008 - Joel McHale, Leslie Nielsen and Dana Gould in the studio (The Official Adam Carolla Show Blog)

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 16:58:42 GMT

CALL ADAM NOW!(866)901-ADAM 6:01 AM - THE VIEW TALK Adam talks about one of his favorite shows The View which he says “is such a horrible show,” he is therefore drawn to it like a moth to a flame, he loves to see if Whoopi will have her s. together! Of course she doesn’t [...]

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Downloads account for 15.4% of U.S. album sales in first half of 2008 (Tech Confidential Blog)

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 16:17:26 GMT

Downloads now account for 15.4% of record album sales in the U.S., according to a mid-year industry report from Nielsen SoundScan. Sales of tracks delivered online were up 34.4% during...

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Jeffery Nielsen Courageously Takes Another Public Stand (A Liberal Mormon)

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 15:17:15 GMT

Jeffrey Nielsen, professor at Westminster College and UVSC who fired from BYU after writing an editorial questioning the LDS Church’s support of the federal marriage amendment, has again been taking a very public stand as the issue resurfaces. He recently released “An Open Letter to California Mormons.” I am a member of the Mormon Church, a [...]

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Cbs - Whos Watching Tv (Contactmusic Ltd)

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:59:54 GMT

Only three scripted television shows wound up in the Nielsen top-ten last week, CBS's Two and a Half Men, Criminal Minds, and CSI: Miami , all of them reruns. During a week ...

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U.S. Album Sales Plunge In First Half (F-News)

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:25:00 GMT

NEW YORK (Billboard) - It wasn't as steep as last year's drop, but U.S. album sales posted another double-digit decline at midyear. Sales plunged 11% to 204.6 million units for the six months ending June 29, according to Nielsen SoundScan. That compares with 229.8 million units scanned in the first half last year, which was down 15.1% from the same period in 2006. This year's drop was fueled...

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Music sales down 11% in '08... (The Daily Swarm)

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 13:21:55 GMT

Album sales are down 11% from the midpoint of 2007, while digital sales continue to grow at a steady pace. Physical and digital album sales reached 204.6 million units in the 26 sales weeks between Dec. 31 and June 29, according to Nielsen SoundScan. CD sales have been a prime culprit in the sales dip, as they are off more than 16% from 2007 levels, which were significantly down from the year...

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Social Media Helps Consumers Cope with Economic Downturn (MarketingVOX)

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 12:50:13 GMT

US consumers are going online to discuss their growing frustrations about the economic downturn as well as share money-saving tips and strategies for deferring purchases, according to (pdf) Nielsen...

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Ten websites take up 30% of all Internet time (This is Herd)

Dirk @ Herd — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 07:11:00 GMT

Metrics firm Nielsen Online has published a list of what it calls the '500 club' - ten websites or communities that notch up 500 minutes of time per user per month in the UK. Over the last year, Britons notched up almost 34 billion minutes on websites and Internet-related applications every month, however Nielsen's 500 club makes up 30% of that total. According to Nielsen analyst...

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Arts, Briefly: America’s Got Viewers (New York Times)

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 06:40:23 GMT

“America’s Got Talent” raised NBC’s ratings on Tuesday as 12 million viewers tuned in to the talent competition from 9 to 11 p.m., according to Nielsen’s estimates. NBC led the night over all by a small margin, finishing third in the 8 p.m. time slot with “Celebrity Family Feud” (7 million), behind ABC’s “Wipeout” (9.4 million) and CBS’s “NCIS” repeat (8 million). CBS ranked second for the night...

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AMA and AHIP go head to head with TV ads (The Health Care Blog)

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 02:25:12 GMT

By Sarah Arnquist The American Medical Association this week began a television ad campaign, lambasting Republican Senators who failed to prevent the July 1 automatic 10.6 percent Medicare physician fee cut. In the one-minute ad, AMA President Nancy Nielsen says,...

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Arts, Briefly: Coldplay Remains No. 1 (New York Times)

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 01:59:13 GMT

After a big opening, Coldplay’s new album, “Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends” (Capitol), lost two thirds of its sales in its second week out, but it is still the No. 1 album in the country, selling 249,000 more copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan. Lil Wayne’s “Tha Carter III” (Cash Money/Universal) was No. 2 with 209,000, and Disney’s “Camp Rock” soundtrack, with the teenage stars...

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Will Google Be Equally Dominant in Mobile? (Screenwerk)

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 23:41:32 GMT

Nielsen Mobile came out with US mobile search market share data last month that looked like this: Source: Nielsen Mobile And here’s data that I developed at Local Mobile Search: Source: LMS/Opus Research (12/07); numbers are greater than 100% because people were asked to indicate any/all search engines they had used on their mobile phones. Caution should be [...]

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Auto racing is No. 1 on cable TV (Miami Herald)

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 18:25:00 GMT

Rankings for the top 15 programs on cable networks as compiled by Nielsen Media Research for the week of June 23-29. Day and start time (EDT) are in parentheses:

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Auto racing is No. 1 on cable TV (Seattle Times)

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 18:20:15 GMT

Rankings for the top 15 programs on cable networks as compiled by Nielsen Media Research for the week of June 23-29. Day and start time (EDT) are in parentheses:

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