» Microsoft Updates Bing iPhone App and Removes It from All International iTunes Stores
20/03/10 00:31 from Read/Write Web
Microsoft just launched a new version of its Bing iPhone app. The iPhone app gives you comprehensive access to Bing\'s core services, including Bing maps and directions, as well as news and image search. Besides offering better stability an..
» Weekend Reading: Rework, by Fried and Hansson
20/03/10 00:30 from Read/Write Web
This week we\'ve got a book hot off the presses for your weekly dose of entrepreneurial reading as 37signals founders Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson are back with their second book in four months. Released earlier this month, Rewo..
» 4-Minute Roundup: Google TV Disrupts; Facebook Passes Google
19/03/10 22:49 from MediaShift
This episode of 4MR is brought to you by the Knight Digital Media Center, providing a spectrum of training for the 21st century journalist. Find out more at KDMC\' s website . It\'s also underwritten by GoDaddy, helping you set up your own w..
» How Much Did It Cost to Build YouTube?
19/03/10 22:10 from NewTeeVee
Let\'s say it\'s 2005 and online video is in its infancy. If you\'re a Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim, how much would it cost to start up and run a video sharing site with the hopes of flipping it for more than $1.6 billion? As of th..
» Stupid For Movies A Live-Streamed Odyssey in Film Nerdity
19/03/10 21:00 from NewTeeVee
When you watch Stupid for Movies , an independently-produced movie chat show live-streaming weekly on Ustream at 8 PM PST, you see Los Angeles-based film critics Mark Keizer and Wade Major sitting side by side on a red-curtained set that i..
» General Motors Wants To Augment Your Windshield
19/03/10 21:00 from Read/Write Web
Last week we told you about how Chevrolet , a division of General Motors , was bringing an augmented reality (AR) marketing promotion to SXSW in Austin. Now General Motors is kicking it up a notch with some experimental technology that wil..
» Travelers Love the Mobile Web - But Most Don\'t Use Travel Apps Yet
19/03/10 19:57 from Read/Write Web
Once upon a time, you had to bring travel guides, maps and paper tickets on every trip. Today, you can just take your smartphone and get access to all of this information without having to lug a couple of books and magazines around with yo..
» People on the Move | 03.19.10
19/03/10 19:48 from Folio Magazine
Bloomberg BusinessWeek has added three staffers to its creative team: Guardian features section art director Richard Turley was named creative director; Cynthia Hoffman, who most recently served as deputy art director at Time, was appointed..
» Formspring.me: Another Startup Packing Its Bags for Silicon Valley [UPDATED]
19/03/10 19:45 from Read/Write Web
News broke yesterday that popular online Q&A startup Formspring.me had raised some $2.5 million in venture funding and would be relocating to Silicon Valley from Indianapolis. As a user and fan of the service, I am happy to see the company..
» 3D Sports Gets an Early Premiere with Rangers vs. Islanders Game
19/03/10 19:32 from NewTeeVee
March 24 will mark the day that the first sports game ever will be broadcast live in 3-D to a U.S. audience, thanks to a cooperation between MSG and Cablevision . Hockey-loving Cablevision subscribers will be able to catch the Rangers face..
» Twitter Search Is About Popularity
19/03/10 19:26 from Read/Write Web
For many people, Twitter offers a larger, more diverse stream of constantly flowing data than they\'ve ever had to deal with before in their life. Depending on how many people you follow and how much they tweet, the information can become u..
» Novell Gets Ready To Release Pulse and Federation with Google Wave
19/03/10 18:42 from Read/Write Web
Novell is providing the first glimpse of Pulse, its new real-time collaboration service. The new service will eventually fully integrate with Google Wave . This version does not include Google Wave as part of its service. But there is an e..
» 3 Sacred Cows About Online Community That Need to Be Challenged
19/03/10 18:35 from Online Community Report
3 Online Community Misconceptions and how to stop them You don\'t own community, the community owns the community Original intention: To stop (mostly brand) community hosts from being overly-controlling of the community Why it is bad: No ow..
» If You Tell Them On Facebook, They Will Come...Again and Again
19/03/10 17:50 from Read/Write Web
In continuing to look at the way that Facebook has become a driving force behind online news consumption , Heather Hopkins of Hitwise has dove into the numbers again, this time examing how Facebook users compare with others in return visit..
» Weekend Fun: New Apps for Your iPhone
19/03/10 17:17 from Read/Write Web
As one of ReadWriteWeb\'s iPhone users, I\'m always looking for new applications to try out. Some get downloaded for a day and then deleted right away, others slowly inch their way closer to my homescreen. Even rarer are the ones that become..
» OneRiot Brings Its Real-Time Ads to the Web
19/03/10 17:00 from Read/Write Web
Until now, anybody who wanted to implement real-time ads from OneRiot \'s RiotWise network had to get these ads through OneRiot\'s API and create a customized user interface around these ads. This severely limited OneRiot\'s appeal for websit..
» Adobe Demonstrates March Madness Live on Nexus One
19/03/10 16:54 from NewTeeVee
Want to watch a March Madness live stream on your Android mobile phone? Then let\'s hope that you\'ve got some good friends at Adobe. The company\'s Platform Evangelist Ryan Stewart just published a video on YouTube that demonstrates watching..
» Meanwhile, at that other trade show ...
19/03/10 16:47 from paulconley
I spent much of last week chatting with student journalists at the College Media Advisers convention here in New York. And since I was at the CMA conference, I could not be at the South by Southwest conferences -- the uber -events revolving..
» Three iPhone Apps To Save Yourself & The World
19/03/10 16:33 from Read/Write Web
We saw a cartoon recently that shows the attendees of a \"Climate Summit\", with a single naysayer yelling out from the back of the crowd \"What if it\'s a big hoax and we create a better world for nothing?\" Well, in the spirit of creating a b..
» Geo-Location, Sentiment Analysis, AT&T Blankets SXSWi
19/03/10 15:33 from MediaShift
As SXSW Interactive comes to a close and SXSW Music kicks off, it\'s worth taking a look at the ideas, trends, discussions, and issues that dominated the four-day technology summit. Here are the five areas that stood out the most to me. 1. ..
» BBC iPlayer About to Go Social
19/03/10 15:30 from NewTeeVee
BBC sites are responsible for 40 percent of the visits to iPlayer, according to Hitwise. The BBC will make viewing of its on-demand videos more social by adding Facebook, Twitter and Bebo integration into its widely popular iPlayer online ..
» The Million Follower Fallacy: Audience Size Doesn\'t Prove Influence on Twitter
19/03/10 15:19 from Read/Write Web
A group of researchers have proven something we already expected to be the case: your Twitter follower count is somewhat of a meaningless metric when it comes to determining influence. To reach this conclusion, the researchers examined the..
» TheFlyontheWall.com barred from republishing analyst recommendations in real-time
19/03/10 14:50 from Content Matters
In a court ruling yesterday, US district judge Denise Cote ruled against financial content aggregator TheFlyontheWall.com , barring them from distributing analyst recommendations from three key banks in near-real time. The suit was brought..
» Don\'t be K-Pigs
19/03/10 14:31 from Hear 2.0
(Sorry, couldn\'t resist). From Inside Radio : By a three-to-one margin, Inside Radio readers believe radio stations should keep their webcast available to listeners free of charge. Nearly three-quarters (73%) say radio has always been the ..
» For many, the local newspaper isn\'t dying - it\'s already dead
19/03/10 14:13 from Online Journalism Review
By Robert Hernandez: The doomsday scenario has been on everyone\'s mind, including some at SXSWi, since the revenue/circulation has dropped through the floor and the brilliant mind of Clay Shirky articulated \"thinking the unthinkable.\" The s..
» MPA Launches Magazine App Directory
19/03/10 14:07 from Folio Magazine
Recognizing the growing interest and development of magazine-related mobile applications by its members, the Magazine Publishers of America this week launched “mapps,” a directory of mobile apps produced by magazines and media c
» Vid-Biz: YouTube, Hulu, ITV
19/03/10 14:00 from NewTeeVee
The Numbers Behind the World’s Fastest-growing Web Site: YouTube’s Finances Revealed; Viacom releases YouTube\'s finances from before the Google acquisition. ( MediaMemo ) Hulu\'s Ad Sales Team Is Undercutting Its Parent Companies; Hulu\'s sa..
» First and never
19/03/10 10:07 from Seths Blog
I met a new addition to the family the other day. She was eleven days old.
It was the warmest day of her whole life the day I was there. And she had just eaten her biggest meal ever.
Firsts are fun and exciting and i..
» Why Facebook hasn’t overtaken Google in the UK (and won’t for the foreseeable future)
19/03/10 09:11 from Hitwise Intelligence
You may well have seen our data illustrating that Facebook picked up more US Internet visits than Google.com last week (and possibly even seen me talking about it on Channel 4 News ). As a consequence of the interest in the American data, ..
» Will Windows Phone 7 Series Be A Smartphone for the Enterprise?
19/03/10 07:49 from Read/Write Web
We\'re seeing a few glimpses from Mix10 of what Windows Phone 7 Series will look like for the enterprise. Perhaps most compelling is the continued emphasis on creating an experience more so than an enterprise \"phone.\" It appears that Micros..
» 5 Old-School Businesses That Rely On User-Generated Content
19/03/10 06:00 from Read/Write Web
You think the idea of user-generated content as a business model was invented in the Aughts? No way. Media outlets have been drawing on material created by amateurs, consumers and customers for generations and repackaging it for your enter..
» CNN: Pete Cashmore on the New Digg.com
19/03/10 05:18 from ChasNote
From Pete Cashmore\'s latest guest column at CNN : “In May 2009, YouTube announced that 20 hours of video content was being uploaded every minute. This week, the video sharing giant revised that statistic to 24 hours per minute. Last ..
» Bandwidth Isn\'t Free, Distribution Isn\'t Free, So Why Should Content Be Free?
19/03/10 05:02 from The Business Of Online Video
As the cost of delivering video continues to get cheaper every year and video syndication to devices and platforms continues to grow, it seems more and more people are under the impression that access to premium video content should be free..
» 8 Ways to Better Understand the Internet of Things
19/03/10 05:00 from Read/Write Web
The world\'s second Internet of Things Conference is scheduled to take place at the end of November in Tokyo. The deadline for papers was just extended to June 1 - which gave us an idea. Conference planners have put together a list of sugge..
» One Book, One Twitter ...
19/03/10 03:32 from Crowdsourcing
I have a dream. An idea. A maybe great notion. Actually, as Auggie March might say, \"I got a scheme.\" What if everyone on Twitter read the same book at the same time and we formed one massive, international book club? Usually such programs..
» Department Stores fastest growing retail sector online in NZ
19/03/10 00:25 from Hitwise Intelligence
Visits to Shopping and Classifieds – Department Stores websites grew by 55.6% year on year in February 2010 compared to all categories by New Zealand Internet users. Department Stores websites have attracted strong interest from shoppers s..
» Tongal Takes on MacGruber UGC Contest
19/03/10 00:00 from NewTeeVee
The site Tongal , a platform that helps brands crowdsource content under the framework of contests, launched a promotion this week with the upcoming Rouge Pictures film MacGruber . To promote the film, which originated as a Saturday Night ..
» Vid-Biz: Apple, Disney, RandomDorm
18/03/10 22:30 from NewTeeVee
Apple Races to Strike Content Deals Ahead of iPad Release; the company is still negotiating with media companies for a price cut on TV shows that people can download onto the device. ( Wall Street Journal ) Disney to Offer Mobile VOD in th..
» Viacom: Google, YouTube Founders Willfully Ignored Infringement
18/03/10 21:00 from NewTeeVee
With the release of court filings in the three-year old copyright infringement suit between Viacom and YouTube, we\'ve seen the video share site argue that it is not liable for infringing videos uploaded to its site , as it claims protectio..
» The Death of Truth?
18/03/10 20:45 from Online Publishing Insider
If Internet publishing is exclusively advertising-supported, will truth be threatened by overbearing advertisers?
» Did YouTube Jilt Viacom for Google?
18/03/10 20:40 from NewTeeVee
Here\'s today\'s wacky theory: Maybe the reason Viacom has gone after YouTube so litigiously is because YouTube is “the one that got away” — and anyone who\'s ever had an unrequited crush knows how much it hurts to see somet..
» Want to Control Boxee Remotely? There’s a Palm OS App For That
18/03/10 20:00 from NewTeeVee
The Palm Pre feels at times like the Jan Brady of the mobile world — lacking the Marsha-ish confidence and good looks of the iPhone, or the Cindy-like next-big-thing appeal of the Droid. Thus, no one pays it much attention or takes i..
» New York Wins ASME’s General Excellence Digital Ellie Award
18/03/10 18:45 from Folio Magazine
The American Society of Magazine Editors today unveiled the winners of its first-ever digital Ellies awards. New York magazine took the award in the general excellence category as well as best multimedia feature and package. The awards were..
» YouTube Accuses Viacom of Uploading Clips, Making Its Life Difficult
18/03/10 18:45 from NewTeeVee
Court filings in the three-year old copyright infringement suit between Viacom and YouTube have finally been made public, which should make some interesting reading and take over the rest of my afternoon. But in the meantime, YouTube Chief..
» Private Equity Returns to Magazine Buying
18/03/10 18:24 from Folio Magazine
Basketball hall of famer Magic Johnson might not have acquired Johnson Publishing’s Ebony and Jet, but the overall market for magazine-related M&A deals was certainly active during the first quarter of 2010. According to media investment b..
» Sandow Media Buys Eight Magazines from RBI
18/03/10 18:24 from Folio Magazine
Reed Business Information has sold off another big chunk of its once-giant trade magazine business. Worth magazine publisher Sandow Media is expected to announce today that it has acquired eight magazines from RBI.
» Hearst Carpet-Bombs the App Store
18/03/10 17:54 from Folio Magazine
Is the company's new app-generation scheme schmaltzy or savvy?
» BPA Committees Vote to Allow Optional Reporting
18/03/10 17:42 from Folio Magazine
» Squires: E-Reader Content, Ad Formats Need to be Standardized Immediately
18/03/10 17:04 from Folio Magazine
NEW YORK—It’s very early days but the opportunity, and ways to realize that opportunity, with digital reading initiatives are becoming clearer, according to John Squires, managing director of Next Issue Media, the joint publishing venture b..
» Brightcove, Gotuit Partner for Advanced Metadata Services
18/03/10 17:00 from NewTeeVee
Gotuit announced a partnership with Brightcove today that will enable joint customers to easily create multiple metadata-rich video clips from their existing long-from video assets, without having to edit them. The system will also help im..
» NYT Local Experiments Grow with FWIX
18/03/10 16:12 from Content Bridges
Breakfast cereal with fruit? Ammunition for the argument that all the good urls are gone? FWIX is partnering with the New York Times, a statement that would have seemed like a punchline a decade ago. Now the FWIX partnership is part of the..
» Radio\'s Innovation Funk
18/03/10 15:51 from Hear 2.0
\"P&G is on an innovation tear. It will have 30% more new products in core categories in 2010 than in 2009.\" In fact, innovation and expansion into new markets are the two primary ways P&G sees itself growing in the years to come. Recently ..
» Live Streaming Sites Beat YouTube in Video Hours Uploaded
18/03/10 15:09 from NewTeeVee
Ustream Broadcaster YouTube yesterday touted the fact that it now processes about 24 hours worth of video content each minute — a milestone for the site. But while that number is impressive, there are a few others that say they can b..
» McGraw-Hill Extends Publishing Contract with Association
18/03/10 14:07 from Folio Magazine
McGraw-Hill Construction has reached an agreement with the Associated General Contractors of America to continue publishing the association’s Constructor magazine, as well as its online membership directory, for another two years. The origi..
» Kaltura Launches HTML5Video.org, Publishes HTML5 Media Library
18/03/10 13:00 from NewTeeVee
Open source video platform provider Kaltura launched a new site called HTML5Video.org today that is meant to be an industry resource for HTML5 video-related issues. The site is supported by Mozilla, the Open Video Alliance and the Wikimedi..
» Learning Without Schools: Four Points To Free Yourself From The Educational Get-Certified Mantra
18/03/10 10:30 from Robin Good\'s Latest News
I guess we can agree : the world is changing at an increasingly faster pace, and the volume of information is growing at an explosive rate. Change is the name of the game these days and who lives and works off the Internet knows how true t..
» Radio Berkman Minis: Kalamazoogle?
18/03/10 10:00 from MediaBerkman
High speed internet may be scarce in the US, but the dream of having web be fast/cheap/everywhere is snowballing. The FCC’s much anticipated National Broadband Plan was finally released Tuesday. And Google’s Fiber Initiative ..
» Anxiety is nothing...
18/03/10 09:53 from Seths Blog
but repeatedly re-experiencing failure in advance. What a waste. [and a bonus from George Orwell: \"In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.\"]
» Euro Ad Firm VideoPlaza Receives $5M in Funding
18/03/10 09:00 from NewTeeVee
Ad serving technology firm Videoplaza announced today that it has raised a €3.5 million ($5 million) financing round led by Nordic venture capital firms Creandum and Northzone. The company, which focuses on helping major media companies in..
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18/03/10 07:00 from Ross Mayfield's Weblog
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» Facebook Visitors Come Back Again and Again
18/03/10 05:37 from Hitwise Intelligence
A few weeks ago when I posted my blog entry about Facebook being the largest news reader I received a few comments and emails noting that visitors aren\'t as valuable if they don\'t come back. Advertisers and retailers need some assurance th..
» Digg Announces New Digg.com at SXSW
18/03/10 04:57 from ChasNote
“The big daddy of social news sites is getting a flashy new suit of clothes. “Digg has offered a first glimpse of its new website design, a radical reboot that not only alters the entire look of the site, but also ditches Digg’..
» 2009 Ad Revenue: TV Down 10%, Internet Display Up 7%
18/03/10 04:31 from ChasNote
Overall US ad revenue for 2009 was $125 billion, down 12%. Newspapers and radio fared the worst (down 20% each) with magazines (down 17%) not far behind. Online display ads were up 7%. Infographic supplied by the Business Insider\'s Chart o..
» Catalyst Investors Digital Media Panel – Fuzzy Online Metrics
18/03/10 02:13 from eMedia Strategist Blog
Here\'s another video clip from the Catalyst Investors Digital Media Panel last year. In this clip I talk about email metrics that we were using at Aspire/Interweave to measure the ROI of each marketing email we sent out, the value of a sub..
» The Case for the Fat Startup
17/03/10 21:33 from blog.pmarca.com
These days, nearly all the entrepreneurs who come pitch at our venture firm Andreessen Horowitz highlight how little money they are raising and how \"lean\" they are planning to run the company. While we don\'t want to invest a single dollar ..
» Seth Godin on Social Networking
17/03/10 19:30 from MEDIA 2.0
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» Enough With the E-Reader Prototypes—Give Us the Content
17/03/10 18:53 from Folio Magazine
It's time to put real digital content into the hands of real consumers.
» What\'s Television\'s Next Business Model?
17/03/10 18:15 from Video Insider
Despite all these new media opportunities, sometimes it feels like we are back inside the Internet bubble. Like shuffling cards in a deck. Hearts, we go for audience and brand awareness. Spades, we focus on ROI. Add mobile into the mix, and..
» PR Pros Use Twitter to Reinvigorate Brands, Engage in Conversation
17/03/10 17:43 from MediaShift
Fairmont Hotels & Resorts operates luxury properties in countries all over the world, from the U.S. and Canada to Asia the Middle East and Africa. Aside from traditional promotions, one of the ways it connects with current, past and future..
» Worldcolor Updates Digital Publishing Service
17/03/10 15:49 from Folio Magazine
Magazine printer Worldcolor has updated its digital edition technology to include interactive features such as search, video, audio and Flash. The new service, called V2, is being marketed to publishers of magazines, catalogs, directories a..
» How Virtual Can Bolster a Live Event
17/03/10 15:44 from Folio Magazine
In December 2008, Haymarket’s SC Magazine hosted its SC World Congress tradeshow (dedicated to IT security), right at the time when publishing events began feeling the pinch. While the event attracted 900 people over two days, it still fell..
» Bonnier Title Taps Barcode Tech, Lures Back Advertisers
17/03/10 14:39 from Folio Magazine
Boating magazines were among some of the hardest hit last year in terms of advertising revenue losses. Bonnier Corp.’s WakeBoarding recently turned to technology to help offset some of those dramatic losses.
» ABC Revises Definition of Digital Magazines
17/03/10 14:15 from Folio Magazine
The Audit Bureau of Circulations' board of directors has ruled to modify its definition of a digital magazine in the U.S. and Canada to accommodate new devices such as the Apple iPad.
» W Moved Out of Fairchild Fashion Group
17/03/10 13:56 from Folio Magazine
Consumer fashion title W no longer will be managed by Condé Nast’s Fairchild Fashion Group, the publisher announced Wednesday morning.
» How to avoid what\'s happened to American newspapers: Part two
17/03/10 13:53 from Online Journalism Review
By Robert Niles: Following my talk in Singapore last month, I decided to delve deeper into the question about what newspaper publishers outside the United States can do to avoid the market meltdown that\'s already claimed a few papers in the..