Archive for the ‘Bookmarks’ Category
links for 2010-02-11
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SOFTWARE BILLIONAIRE Bill Gates, who famously dismissed the Iphone, has been telling the world plus dog that Apple has put out a lemon with its Ipad. http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1591506/ …
links for 2010-02-03
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By now, we’ve all seen the iPad and know just about everything about it that we possibly can. But did you know that the secretive company may actually be hard at work on a second device already? http …
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The Associated Press has signed a licensing deal with Yahoo Inc. that gives the news cooperative a steady stream of revenue at a time less money is flowing in from newspapers and broadcasters. The an …
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Close scrutiny of the iPad which Steve Jobs presented at Apple’s special event last week shows what may be webcam, tucked away in the black screen bezel just like it is on the MacBook Pro. http://www …
links for 2010-01-26
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"Google News has implemented a recrawl feature that allows us to focus on getting the newest articles around while still ensuring that we're displaying the most up-to-date information."
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The Kindle may not be able to save the struggling newspaper industry, according to a UGA study.
Researchers at The University of Georgia said Monday that portable e-readers are unlikely to win readers back to newspapers unless they include features such as color, photographs and touch screens.
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Apple may be giving the media industry a kind of time machine — a chance to undo mistakes of the past.
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An Acer executive has confirmed the PC vendor plans to launch an app store, an e-reader, and a netbook running Google’s Chrome.
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Some scientists want to send signals into space in search of aliens but others warn we may get more than we bargained for.
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Apple's tablet will be a handheld media gaming machine designed to provide users with every byte of their daily media consumption. Or so says analytics firm Flurry in their January 24 special report on Apple's tablet. The company believes it has identified around 50 devices "that match the characteristics of Apple's rumored tablet" and can "confidently" identify them as Apple's pre-release tablets.
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Should Steve Jobs introduce Apple's tablet (the iPad, iSlate, iTablet, or perhaps iBook) at the company's press event on Wednesday, the device will likely contain a number of features: users will be able to play games on it, surf the Web, read e-books, and much more. But perhaps the most important feature it may contain will be the ability to save the press from its demise.
links for 2009-01-20
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"Responding to various recent postings about journalism, including Ethan Zuckerman, Seth Godin, Dan Gillmor, Amy Gahran and Lisa Williams. I think the economics of journalism and ethics are deeply related and we tend to talk about them separately, emphasizing the dying channels for distribution at the expense of understanding the net loss of reporting."
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The Lebedev affair has had loads of coverage over the weekend. But have people looked at it hard enough from the Murdochian point of view?
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They can use it as a marketing tool. But many execs don't even know the micro-blogging service exists.
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Most of the PR sections of sites we've studied fail to support journalists in their quest for the facts, information, and contacts they can use to write stories about companies and their products.
links for 2009-01-05
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Posting by US journalism academic Carrie Lisa Brown on the difficulties faced by print journalists as the industry moves online.
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From start-ups to big media, it's all about sharing – content, costs and platforms.
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With bosses focused on commerce and ratings, papers are falling behind where it really matters, says Roy Greenslade – creating online material and innovations people are prepared to pay for.
links for 2008-12-09
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Consulting firm faberNovel have picked apart Google's strategy and its business model in this 34-page slideshow. It asks, and answers, why Google won't be affected by the economic crisis,how it plans to compete with Facebook and why it is expanding into projects as diverse as voice recognition and satellites.
links for 2008-11-18
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The rule that Internet veterans have sworn by for years, that a website should be designed so that a user finds their content within three clicks is not a valid principle, Hoa Loranger told the audience at the NNG usability workshop in Amsterdam.
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Here are ten things every newspaper (magazine or other) website can do to build their business by building their community.
links for 2008-11-13
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Webmasters often ask us at conferences or in the Webmaster Help Group, "What are some simple ways that I can improve my website's performance in Google?" We thought it'd be useful to create a compact guide that lists some best practices that teams within Google and external webmasters alike can follow that could improve their sites' crawlability and indexing.
links for 2008-11-12
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The BBC is to introduce social networking across its websites, having dropped out of the top five most popular sites in the UK last month. October's Comscore UK figures showed that Facebook had climbed to fifth in the rankings, edging out BBC sites, including BBC iPlayer.
