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Parody Google ad: Is Tiger feeling lucky?

As Tiger Woods recovers from a car accident and contends with reports of philandering, Slate V imagines what the golfing great might be typing into that familiar white search bar.

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Real-time reactions to Super Bowl ads on Twitter

BrandBowl2010 — a new Super Bowl advertiser tracking site from Mullen and Radian 6 — offers near real-time analysis for an immediate look at pre-, post- and in-game Twitter reactions to the Super Bowl spots everyone will be watching, Mashable reports.

Tag the Super Bowl: #SB44

The NFL has created a hashtag, #SB44, for the Super Bowl and a cool site that let’s you easily explore photos and tweets from fans from Twitter and Flickr.

Facebook overtakes Google News as media site traffic driver

Facebook was the #4 source of visits to News and Media sites last week, after Google, Yahoo! and msn, according to Hitwise. Google News accounted for 1.39% of visits to News and Media websites, and Facebook accounted for 3.52%. That’s a big shift since last April, when they were about equal. Read more »

How Americans use social media

Since 2006, blogging has dropped among teens and young adults while simultaneously rising among older adults, according to a new report on Social Media and Young Adults from the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project.

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News sites explore how to earn revenue from Twitter, Facebook

The New York Times, The Austin American-Statesman and The Huffington Post are all experimenting with ways to generate ad dollars using Twitter and Facebook, Poynter’s Mallary Jean Tenore reports.

Will the iPad save the news business?

Everyone seems to have an opinion on whether the iPad will transform the news business or do nothing of the sort. Here’s a roundup of some of the thinking.

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Viral video: How to report TV news

Comdedian Charlie Brooker has produced this hysterical and accurate video on how to produce the news, which is quickly becoming a viral hit.

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Why the iPad could be bad for publishers

IAB’s Randall Rothenberg argues that the iPad could be bad for publishers because the proliferation of device-based walled gardens risks fragmenting audiences and “a company’s opportunity to create, sell and use advertising effectively and profitably will depend on its ability to deliver it seamlessly across multiple devices.”

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The Incredible Potential of Location-Based News

ReadWriteWeb’s Marshall Kirkpatrick thinks the potential for location-based news is huge. He points to the deal announced this week by Canadian newspaper chain Metro, which is partnering with location-based social network Foursquare to deliver location-specific editorial content from the paper’s website to users’ phones when they check-in near a spot Metro has written about. Great idea, but the potential is much greater…. Read more »

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