Skeptical about the impact of Twitter on the unrest in Tehran? The State Department isn’t: It asked the service to reschedule its planned maintenance/outage so Iranians could use it to communicate in and outside of the country.
TheStreet.com is worth about $100 million. So is The Huffington Post. But investors are much more optimistic about one of these Web businesses.
At this point, it’s going to be difficult to find a media company that hasn’t gotten a bump from Tuesday’s election and the run-up before it: Local TV got ad dollars; national TV got ratings; the New York Times’ Wednesday edition became a collector’s item; it was a record day on Digg and Twitter; etc. And one more: Google’s YouTube, where users are furiously uploading versions of Obama’s victory speech.
Who says newspapers are dead? New York has three dailies, and it’s impossible to buy any of them at newsstands today, according to an informal channel check conducted by … me. Capitalism/speculation to the rescue: An eBay seller is asking a mere $19.99 plus $3.99 shipping costs for a copy of today’s edition of The New York Times. Any takers?
Two early winners in today’s voting: Mark Zuckerberg’s social network and Ben & Jerry’s ice cream–both of which are going to get plenty of exposure tonight and in the days to come.
Peter Kafka has been covering media and technology since 1997, when he joined the staff of Forbes magazine. Most recently, he has been the managing editor of the tech and media Web site, Silicon Alley Insider. Read more »
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