Fred Wilson has some interesting thoughts on how feeds and widgets play into the online publishing model: “One of the biggest changes out there is the world of distributed media. Feeds, widgets, embed codes, apis, and other tools that allow the publisher to make their content available on other pages. You have to do this,… Continue reading Write Once, Publish Anywhere and Everywhere
Why You Never Make it to the Digg Homepage
Scott Karp tells you why your article never makes it to the Digg homepage: “As with everything else, it’s all about who [you] know. Digg, to its credit, is fundamentally social. The success of Digg users in getting stories to the homepage presents as a long tail in no small part because of the power… Continue reading Why You Never Make it to the Digg Homepage
Mashups: Remixing Data
TechCrunch looks at 5 services that allow you to “mix, rip, and mash your data.” A review: Yahoo PipesA GUI web app that lets you create new data feeds by remixing syndication feeds (RSS, Atom, RDF.) Teqlo You build mashups by dropping specialized widgets onto the canvas and specifying interactions between them. ProtoUsed to join… Continue reading Mashups: Remixing Data
6,000 Words About Time Magazine
New York magazine has a 6,000 word piece on Time magazine: past, present and future. It is an eery tale of one brand’s journey from old media titan wading the waters of the online world.
Social Software: Always Collaborating
Fred Wilson posits that all software should be social: “I can barely use software that doesn’t have other people in it. I want profiles and faces and connections. I want to see what others are doing with the software. I want to connect and be connected… a huge social net that’s made up of millions… Continue reading Social Software: Always Collaborating
Investigative Journalism vs. Blogging
Jeremiah Owyang muses on his experience at a recent journalism meet-up at Stanford: “I was blogging in real time, and some guests found that it was interesting that we were publishing in real time, while some of them were working on issues for their July publications. I was also asked about the editorial process and… Continue reading Investigative Journalism vs. Blogging
Social Media the Key to Traditional Media’s Future
Barry Parr, an analyst for JupiterResearch, notes how social media can drive an audience to traditional media: “Bill Grueskin of WSJ.com shared an interesting anecdote about how Digg made a two-year-old column one of the most-read stories on a particular day. Interestingly, WSJ.com is getting tremendous lift from promoting their videos to bloggers. We’re all… Continue reading Social Media the Key to Traditional Media’s Future
The Integration of Social Networks
Social networks are becoming more an more integrated into tools that we use every day. Cisco Systems is buying social network Tribe.net, likely to integrate the Tribe technology into Cisco’s network and service solutions for large companies. “Netscape co-creator Marc Andreessen, say that social networks will soon be as ubiquitous as regular Web sites. They… Continue reading The Integration of Social Networks
Social Media Hits USA Today
USA Today has redesigned their website with this goal: “create a community around the news, one that connects readers to reporting.” The new site features: Unmoderated commenting. The ability to create your own profile & blog on their site. Journalists will participate in this online community as well. Open forums. Further details on PaidContent and… Continue reading Social Media Hits USA Today
Lost in a Sea of Information
Read/Write Web gives a phenomenal overview of the attention economy. The crux of their focus: There has been an explosion of new types of information. People no longer read, they skim. News that used to last a day now lasts just a few hours, simply because we need to pay attention to the new news.… Continue reading Lost in a Sea of Information