April 2011
Study: NYT Visits Off As Much As 15 Percent A Day... →
“Under the New York Times’ paywall plan, visitors can read 20 articles a month free before being prompted to pay up, and, indeed, the data Experian Hitwise collected shows that traffic was off the…
Amazon To Sell Ad-Supported Kindle For $25... →
“Most of the valuable real estate on Amazon.com’s home page is currently covered by a promotion for the “Kindle with special offers,” as it’s being dubbed, and the full press release has more…
Comedy Central Promotes Comedy Awards On Twitter →
“Twitter has been making a persistent pitch to TV in recent months: Work with us, and we’ll boost your ratings.
And here’s a TV network taking them up on the offer: Viacom’s Comedy Central, which…
Google Survey Reveals How We Use Our iPads →
“Most notable findings of the survey of more than 1400 respondents include:
43% of respondents spend more time with their tablet than with their desktop/laptop
1 in 3 respondents spends more time…
ESPN launches live TV app, WatchESPN →
“Using TV Anywhere for authentication, the iPad and iPhone app streams live programming from ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU and ESPN3.com. No frills, just the stream. But you have to be a subscriber of Time…
November 2010
The iPad Election: Not quite ready to declare... →
“Turns out, most apps and sites fit into one of two categories:
Standard mobile coverage that worked fine, but was largely a collection of articles
Innovative coverage that reached to try…
Youth movement sparks the Android user explosion →
“So just who are all these Android smartphone users? They’re young—50 percent of Android owners in the U.S. are under the age of 35, The Nielsen Company reports. Twenty one percent of Android users…
Halloween Eve Was The Biggest Instagram Day Ever,... →
“Systrom gives three reasons behind Instagram’s record Halloween numbers: “1) We got featured by Apple 2) Halloween is an awesome time to share/take pictures and 3) There’s just the natural growth of…
It’s Official: News Corp.’s Paywalls Are a Bust:... →
“The bottom line is that News Corp. has managed to attract just over 50,000 paying monthly subscribers in the four months since it has been running its paywalls at its two British papers — which…
Mobile Snapshot: Smartphones Now 28% of U.S.... →
“The Nielsen Company today reported that as of the third quarter of 2010, 28 percent of U.S. mobile subscribers now have smartphones, cellphones with operating systems resembling those of computers.
Bogus Grass-Roots Politics on Twitter →
“Menczer says the research group uncovered a number of accounts sending out duplicate messages and also retweeting messages from the same few accounts in a closely connected network. For instance,…
Glam Media Set to Overtake AOL: Verticals vs... →
“The latest comScore Top 50 Properties (U.S.) statistics make sobering reading for AOL, the former king of the portals in the 90s and early part of this century. While AOL is the number 5 ranked U.S….
Microsoft Shifts From Silverlight to HTML5 →
“Despite its past efforts to shape Silverlight into the leading cross-platform runtime for the web and the desktop, Microsoft now says that its strategy and plans for Silverlight have “shifted.” …
It’s election night: Here’s what some news orgs... →
“It’s election day in the United States, and with election day comes election day coverage. With more media players than ever aiming for their own slice of the audience, here are a few highlights of…
Unique / information-carrying photos drive... →
“The commonality across all of these examples (and thousands more in our other studies) is that users pay attention to information-carrying images that show content that’s relevant to the task at…
0.5 Percent Of Times Online Readers Have Converted... →
“But, from a pre-paywall readership of 20 million unique monthly users, to a base of 105,000 cumulative reader payments in the last four months (figs, analysis), The Times has encouraged just 0.5…
To rally, perchance to dream →
“Oh, and I almost forgot: I was also delighted to see NPR and other haughty temples of journalism get shit from Stephen Colbert for forbidding their employees unless assigned from attending the…
My imaginary monologue with journalism... →
“You see, I’d say, that for each category I described, there are amazing Web journalists doing work that is changing our industry, but leadership hasn’t noticed, let alone appreciated it.
In fact,…
T-Mobile Comet sends $9.99 shot across the bow of... →
“The argument used to be that carriers’ higher pricing for smartphone data plans were what kept them out of the low end, regardless of the upfront on-contract cost — but now that T-Mobile has rolled…
October 2010
MSNBC.com, NPR, Pro Publica and CNN.com take top... →
“NPR.org’s Mobile Applications took home the first award for Outstanding Use of Emerging Platforms. ProPublica, the New Orleans Times-Picayune and Frontline won $2,500 and the new Gannett Foundation…
Top 5 Location-Based Services →
“We’ve rounded up what we believe to be the top five location-based services in a list that includes predictable names and lesser known upstarts. You’ll also notice that Facebook Places and Gowalla…
No Flash? No Worries: Majority of Online Video Now... →
“The percentage of online video available in the HTML5 standard format has grown 5X since January and more than 2X in the past 5 months, according to a report by web video cataloging service MeFeedia…
Sencha Takes On Flash With HTML5 Animator →
“If you’ve used Flash before, Animator should be fairly easy to pick up. It’s a tool for creating CSS3-based animations that will work on WebKit browsers — drag a few objects and images onto the…
How the shift to mobile is revolutionising online... →
“Designing for mobile first’ means getting down to the real atoms of delivering news. And services like Instapaper, or Readability are reminding us that news stories are there to be read without…
Nielsen Revises iPad App Stats →
“A high-profile market research company radically revised its findings about how many iPad users download iPad apps.
Last week Nielsen published figures stating that 31 percent of iPad owners had…
3-D Newspapers hit sports stadiums in Japan →
“The Nikkan Sports Shimbun launched a special three-dimensional newspaper at Saitama Stadium in Saitama City, Japan on Sept. 25, Nihon Shinbun Kyokai reported.
The 12-page broadsheet special issue,…
There is No New Media: It’s All New Consumption →
“For the media industry (which is video, music and print), there has been one more, and perhaps the farthest-reaching, failure: the inability of the folks to grok that today’s audience is not…
The Goldmine Of Opportunities In Gov 2.0 →
“The opportunities aren’t just in mining financial data. Sonpreet Bhatia launched My City Way—a mobile applications platform, available in 30 cities around the world, that provides information on…
Conde Nast to use Adobe Publishing Tools for... →
“Here’s a win for Adobe, which could use one: Condé Nast, which has been testing the software company’s tablet publishing tool against a homegrown version, is going to use Adobe’s offering instead.
The move isn’t a total surprise, as Condé and Adobe have been working together closely for more than a year. But Condé wasn’t convinced that using Adobe, and/or any outside software company at...
New service unlocks value in dusty photographs →
“He said photograph collections are one of the most valuable assets a newspaper or magazine owns, yet many publishers don’t have the resources to maximize revenue potential of the assets. Instead,…
News Corp. abandons digital newsstand project →
“News Corp. has dropped a digital newsstand project that was part of an ambitious plan by the Rupert Murdoch-owned company to help publishers charge for content online, The Wall Street Journal…
Survey: 32% of iPad owners have never downloaded... →
“This is a fascinating little stat that echoes a few anecdotal statements I’ve heard before. Nielsenwire is claiming that a full 32% of iPad owners have never actually downloaded an app on the…
Amazon announces 14-day lending feature for Kindle... →
“Nook users can already lend ebooks they’ve purchased to others, and it looks like Kindle users will soon be able to do the same. Amazon has just announced that it will be offering a similar feature…
"Shiny app syndrome" and Gov 2.0 →
Why governments need to start with mobile sites, not native apps. (Via David Herzog)
Did Verizon just pull a KIN with the Samsung Tab... →
Gotta agree with this. Hopefully the other tabs coming to market will offer some competition.
Networks block shows from Google TV →
“We discovered a couple days ago that Hulu is blocking users from watching its shows on Google TV, and now ABC, CBS and NBC are doing the same, reports the Wall Street Journal. Fox has yet to make a…
CTIA's VP of Research Says: No More Flawed Surveys →
“If one is to conduct a credible, rigorous study of international wireless markets to compare against the U.S., it must:
Be an apples-to-apples comparison that not only takes into consideration the…
Tribune CEO Michaels Plans To Step Down; Replaced... →
“According to this morning’s Chicago Tribune, which is the company’s flagship paper, Michaels will be replaced by a four-member office of the president. Those four members include Eddy Hartenstein,…
Is the iPad Really the Savior of the Newspaper... →
“In order for the general public to consume their daily news on a tablet device, they have to own one. Although great things are promised for the consumer tablet, recent data from ABI Research…
USA Today's "Radical Restructuring" Means End of... →
“In essence, USA Today is disassembling its universal desk and a five-year effort at newsroom integration. That worked well as an interim step, Hunke told me over lunch Wednesday, but needs to be…
Google Broadband Gets its First Trial →
Google reaches out and helps out those tech-starved and broadband-oppressed Stanford-area professors with their broadband initiative.
Center for Public Integrity absorbs Huffington... →
“The Center for Public Integrity will absorb the Huffington Post’s nonprofit journalism arm, the Huffington Post Investigative Fund, it was reported in the New York Times. The merger would bring the…
September 2010
Canon EOS 5D Mark IIs used to produce the first... →
“This very interesting concept High Dynamic Range (HDR) video that was shot with two Canon EOS 5D Mark IIs (reviews) has quickly gone viral. I don’t know if that was because of the Canon EOS 5D Mark…
Nine years of insanity, and journalism shares the... →
“Television news in particular has failed to meet its journalistic responsibilities. Friday morning I saw all the network morning TV shows feature a crackpot hatemonger preacher from Gainesville,…
Froyo on 28% of Android Devices; 2.x Over 70% →
“The Android Platform Versions page has been updated yet again, only this time, Froyo (Android 2.2) is holding a large 28.7% slice of the pie. Granted, Eclair (Android 2.1) still clings to a decent…
Android Will Blow Past Apple And RIM To Become... →
“Google’s Android will become the second-biggest mobile operating system in the world sometime this year, according to the latest report from Gartner.
Nokia’s Symbian will have more marketshare than…
Betaworks and The Times Plan a Social News Service →
“Something is stirring deep within the technology incubator Betaworks: A personalized news service called News.me that is being developed in collaboration with The New York Times.
On Thursday, a…
The Opportunity for Minority Firms: Go Mobile →
“Mobile is the breakout platform African-American and Hispanic agencies need to master, own, and lead with. The mobile device is digital, its in a growth stage, and audiences are living and breathing…
The Rise of the Anti-Facebooks →
“Facebook is dominating social media in almost every country where it hasn’t been banned, and the six-year old site shows no signs of slowing down. It’s creeping across generations, replacing things…
Out of the Western Sky: It’s a Hyperlocal,... →
“The immediate news that caught the attention of the news world: The Deseret News — one of two dailies in the market, in a joint operating agreement (shared business operations) with the…