http://www.minonline.com MinOnline en-us 2008 Sat, 17 May 2008 15:23:40 EDT Acquisitions and Launches Afoot In an uncertain economy, bold moves are often necessary to remain ahead of the pack, as demonstrated by two b2b media companies recently. PennWell Corp., moving aggressively into live events, is acquiring U.K. company Avionics Expo Limited, a civil and military aerospace... http://www.minonline.com/b2b/7094.html Mon, 12 May 2008 0:00:00 EDT Publishers hosting events should leverage the fact that the point of events is to get key people engaged in a conversation and act, as any good host should, as an indicator of what direction that conversation should go in. According to John Failla, CEO of Tesoro Events, your team, when hosting, should figure... http://www.minonline.com/b2b/7095.html Mon, 12 May 2008 0:00:00 EDT The table displays b2b media M&A deal activity for January through April 2008, compared with activity from the same time period in 2007, which is up in all sectors except for b2b magazines. The downward trend in acquisitions for b2b magazines--4% in 2008, down from 11% in 2007--is likely due to the... http://www.minonline.com/b2b/7096.html Mon, 12 May 2008 0:00:00 EDT Veldran Joins Crow's Team Nella Veldran leaves her post as VP and publisher at Access Intelligence May 23 to join Sabrina Crow's team at Nielsen as VP and group publisher of the Travel Group. Veldran spent eight years at AI, most recently as VP and publisher of Chemical Engineering. She starts her new... http://www.minonline.com/b2b/7097.html Mon, 12 May 2008 0:00:00 EDT Like many Internet terms in common usage, "Web 3.0" references are popping up everywhere despite the lack of a universal definition. In 2007 at the Seoul Digital Forum, Google CEO Eric Schmidt said that Web 3.0 consists of small, fast, customizable, viral "applications that are pieced together." Virtual... http://www.minonline.com/b2b/7098.html Mon, 12 May 2008 0:00:00 EDT By Steve Smith, Digital Media Editor for min, min's b2b and min's Digital Media Report Who really knows how many of us consume podcasts in any given month? The basic format and distribution mechanism of podcasting (RSS feeds) is designed to decentralize the format and make it easy for us to grab the content... http://www.minonline.com/b2b/7099.html Mon, 12 May 2008 0:00:00 EDT These are tough times in b2b. What is motivating the business media industry's new investors is a key question industry insiders are asking, and one that media investment experts are eager to answer. Alta Communications general partner Philip Thompson points out that it is a difficult time to refinance... http://www.minonline.com/b2b/7100.html Mon, 12 May 2008 0:00:00 EDT Computing books appear to be in a decline in general, with an overall loss of nearly 12% YTD and 13% in the first quarter of 2008 versus 2007. UBM's Informationweek, however, gained more than 32% in revenue for that period. The magazine gained 26% in ad page sales in the first quarter of 2008, compared with... http://www.minonline.com/b2b/7101.html Mon, 12 May 2008 0:00:00 EDT Developer boxscores indicate an overall increase in revenue for the first quarter (January through March) of 2008, up 13.43% from the same period in 2007. The revenue for these titles is up nearly 19% overall during that period and up 5% YTD. BZ Media's SD Times enjoyed a 5.62% revenue increase in the first... http://www.minonline.com/b2b/7102.html Mon, 12 May 2008 0:00:00 EDT The table below shows the top 20 titles in ad page sales for 2008, compared with 2007, regardless of category. 1105 Media's Redmond Developer leads the pack with a more than 100% increase.   Biggest Titles by % Gain, January - March (2008/2007)   TITLE (Publisher) 2008 2007 % 1 Redmond Developer... http://www.minonline.com/b2b/7103.html Mon, 12 May 2008 0:00:00 EDT