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By Jeff Fleming for Editor&Publisher
The Chicago Tribune is probably not on Jobs’ acquisition list, but the following blueprint is how he might strategize its metamorphosis — and since new thinking is what newspapers need, what better choice than to think outside the Apple.
I imagine his first thought is “tablet,” and the first Read More
By Eric Slivka for MacRumors.com
Just a few days ago, we noted that early advertisers and developers participating in Apple’s iAd program have generally been pleased with the results so far, with advertisers finding high levels of user engagement and increased brand awareness and developers seeing solid financial returns.
The Wall Street Journal reports, however, that not everything is running so smoothly. In particular, Apple’s “tight control” over the entire process, including creation of the actual ads, has slowed the launch of offerings from a number of the program’s publicized launch partners. Read More
By Editor & Publisher Staff
Technology start-up Hawthorne Labs, Palo Alto, Calif., has introduced the Apollo News iPad app as a personalized mobile newspaper that learns the type of news that interests individual readers and delivers that news from dozens of categories and thousands of sources.
The $4.99 app refines its news selection according to a reader’s actions – articles clicked, favorited, liked, disliked, etc. Writing for TechCrunch.com, Robin Wauters explained that the new company’s first app’s “learning” algorithm is similar to that used by Pandora to recommend streaming music, and includes social media mentions and the interests of others with similar profiles.
Hawthorne Labs said it plans to create an Apollo iPhone app and work on a Web application. Wauters reported an Android-based device also is in the works
By Frederic Filloux for MondayNote.com
They see life as a game. They enjoy nothing more than outsmarting the system. They don’t trust politicians, medias, nor brands. They see corporations as inefficient and plagued by an outmoded hierarchy. Even if they harbor little hope of doing better than their parents, they don’t see themselves as unhappy. They belong to a group — several, actually — they trust and rely upon.
“They”, are the Digital Natives.
The French polling institute BVA published an enlightening survey of this generation: between 18-24 years of age, born with a mouse and a keyboard, and now permanently tied to their smartphone. All of it shaping their vision of an unstable world. The study is Read More
By Jeremy W. Peters, for The New York Times
Welcome to the era of the algorithm as editor.
For as long as hot lead has been used to make metal type, the model for generating news has been top-down: editors determined what information was important and then shared it with the masses.
But with the advent of technology that allows media companies to identify what kind of content readers want, that model is becoming inverted.
The latest and perhaps broadest effort yet in democratizing the news is under way at Yahoo, which on Tuesday Read More
PR Newswire
SAN FRANCISCO, June 21 /PRNewswire/ — Qewz, Inc. is launching www.qewz.com, a new website that uses a combination of technology and the human touch to highlight varying perspectives on the leading stories of the day.
Qewz draws from reputable, proven news sources and opinion columns – as well as thought-provoking blogs and other new forms of media.
Left, Right, Green, Democrats, Republicans, Libertarians, corporate America, middle America, far from America, ordinary Joe and offbeat: Qewz showcases them all. Beyond politics, Qewz covers arts, sports, culture and any major issue that arises. What it doesn’t do is pass judgment. Qewz is strictly non-partisan. It doesn’t filter out provocative Read More
By Jason Fell for Folio
Media giant News Corp. has announced a pair of major investments.
The Wall Street Journal and New York Post publisher has acquired Skiff LLC, an e-reading platform for magazines and newspapers that was incubated by the Hearst Corporation. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Separately, News Corp. also has made an investment in Journalism Online, which through its Press+ service aims to restore the ability of online media companies to charge for the content. Read More
By Jason Fry for Indiana University National Sports Journalism Center
Newspapers have spent the last several years getting used to a radical idea: that they now compete (and unwittingly collaborate) with hordes of individual bloggers dedicated to a single sport or team.
Now, they face an interesting new challenge: New competitors are coming to town, and they operate at a much larger scale than all those bloggers.
First came ESPN Local. In April 2009, ESPN rolled out the first of its local sites, ESPN Chicago. Since then, ESPN Local outposts Read More
By Joseph Tartakoff for PaidContent.Org
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is asking select publications to suggest stories which are then promoted as “editors’ picks” on the front page of Google News. The move, which Google describes as a “test,” is similar in some ways to the “curators of the month” program on YouTube, which features video playlists made by either individuals or publications.
But it also could point to a bigger shift at Google News. After all, the site established itself as an automatic aggregator Read More
