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Dead Web?

Published 08/29/2010 Mobile , Strategy & Leadership , Technology Leave a Comment

By Frederic Filloux for Monday Note

We now live in an apps world. “The web is dead” shouts Chris Anderson, Wired’s editor-in-chief. To make his point, he teamed up with Michael Wolff, a Vanity Fair writer. According his latest theory, the internet is taken over by mobile applications, and the web as we know it, will be soon dead. Wired produces a Cisco-originated graph (below) showing the decrease in “web” traffic, down to a quarter of the traffic of the internet. The other 75%, says Anderson, include video, peer-to-peer, gaming, voice-over-IP telephony, a large part of it encapsulated in apps, blah-bla-blah.

Well. Two things. To begin with, Chris Anderson isn’t the first to notice the rise in applications used to access the internet. Every news outlet’s digital division Read More

iPad Expected to Maintain Position as Tablet Market Leader

Published 08/26/2010 Mobile , Paid Content Leave a Comment

By Eric Slivka for MacRumors.com

Research firm iSuppli today released a report detailing its predictions for how the nascent tablet market will shake out over the next several years, claiming that Apple will maintain its dominant share of the market.

According to iSuppli, Apple will command 74.1% of the tablet market for 2010, a market that includes long-standing “PC-style” tablets and slate styles similar to the iPad. And even though competitors will soon be launching a number of tablet devices seeking to compete directly against the iPad in form factor and functionality, Apple is predicted to maintain its leadership position with 70.4% of the market in 2011 and 61.7% in 2012. Read More

No Newspaper Growth Until 2014, VSS Forecast Says

Published 08/19/2010 Growth , Valuation Leave a Comment

By Editor & Publisher Staff

Declines in newspaper spending are expected to slow this year, with the market eventually stabilizing by 2013 and growth beginning in 2014. But with spending of only $36.76 billion in that year, newspapers will not come close to the $66.37 billion in peak spending the industry saw in 2005, according to the Veronis Suhler Stevenson Communications Industry Forecast 2004-2014. Read More

Aisle by Aisle, an App That Pushes Bargains

Published 08/17/2010 Advertising Management , Competition , Mobile Leave a Comment

By Stephanie Clifford for nytimes.com

It’s like the most persistent sales clerk you’ve ever encountered.

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Shopkick users can scan bar codes at participating stores to earn “kickbucks,” reward points good toward gift certificates.

Major retailers are working with a new smartphone application that tracks and offers promotions to shoppers as they move from outside the store, to counters, to cash registers — even inside the dressing room (now that’s persistence).

The app, called Shopkick, will be available on Tuesday for the iPhone and in the fall for Android phones. And with five major companies supporting it — Macy’s, Best Buy, Sports Authority and American Eagle Outfitters, along with the Simon Property Group, the prominent mall operator — it is getting a big introduction. Read More

AOL’s Plan To Own Your Neighborhood

Published 08/17/2010 Competition , Strategy & Leadership Leave a Comment

By Quentin Hardy for Forbes.com

SAN FRANCISCO — Patch, AOL’s effort to own America’s local news, said it has grown to 100 sites in 20 states, up from six sites since the company bought the fledgling news startup in June 2009. AOL also said it hopes to be in 500 communities by year’s end, and will hire 500 more journalists for Patch. That would likely make it the biggest hirer in the decimated industry in some years.

Patch offers local news and information in communities of 15,000 to 70,000 people, which AOL figures could have a local online advertising business worth a total of $20 billion. Each site Read More

The Times Of London Website Loses 1.2 Million Readers Following Paywall

Published 08/17/2010 Organizational Transformation , Paid Content , Strategy & Leadership Leave a Comment

From Huffington Post

The Times of London has been hemorrhaging online readers since erecting a paywall three months ago, according to data released today.

Internet marketing research firm ComScore reported that the websites for the News Corp-owned Times and its sister newspaper, The Sunday Times, have lost 1.2 million viewers in the three months since the formerly free site was reorganized and split into two separate sites — thetimes.co.uk and thesundaytimes.co.uk, each of which was placed behind a paywall.

That’s down from the 2.79 million that the free site attracted in May, the last month before Read More

iAd Rollout Slowed by Apple’s Control of Ad Creation Process

Published 08/16/2010 Advertising Management , Content & Design , Strategic Partnerships Leave a Comment

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

Gallup Poll: No Confidence in Newspapers or TV News

Published 08/15/2010 Consumers Leave a Comment

By Lymari Morales for Gallup.com

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Americans continue to express near-record-low confidence in newspapers and television news — with no more than 25% of Americans saying they have a “great deal” or “quite a lot” of confidence in either. These views have hardly budged since falling more than 10 percentage points from 2003-2007. Read More

Magazine Will Cater to Mobile Readers (and Freelancers)

Published 08/11/2010 Content & Design , Mobile Leave a Comment

By Tanzina Vega for nytimes.com

A small group of former magazine journalists and editors, including a former president of Newsweek, plan to publish a weekly digital magazine this fall, seeking to create content specifically for mobile technology. Read More

4 Questions for TBD

Published 08/07/2010 Strategic Partnerships , Strategy & Leadership Leave a Comment

By Steve Meyers for Poynetr.org

TBD, the new local news site run by the company that brought you Politico, and led by ex-Washington Post online head Jim Brady, will launch next week. On Friday, Brady and other top staff outlined their editorial and business strategy and showed screen shots of the website.

If you’ve been following the buildup to the much-anticipated unveiling, you know that the site will rely heavily on aggregation, geolocation and community engagement, through social media and outreach to local bloggers. But Friday’s talk provided further insight into how this news operation will be different from others.

As journalists, news consumers, and industry observers eagerly await next week’s launch, here are my thoughts on some critical questions the site may answer: Read More