World Wide Scanning

Every time you open a publication, you are bound to stumble upon an up and coming media concept.  They are small, they are uniform, they are scan tags.  These small images that viewers capture, via their camera phones, are popping up everywhere!  But what’s really the appeal? Scan tags come in two formats, a QR [...]

News readers customized to your liking

When I come into work each morning, as I brew my tea and toast my english muffin, it’s always the same routine: I get my news updates from Ad Age and my other favorite websites, check my Facebook and Twitter accounts, check on the Pioneer Woman–it’s safe to say, I get my content fix. The [...]

More Newspapers to Charge for Online Content

Do you still pick up the paper in the morning? Read the headlines while sipping your morning coffee? Or do you scroll through the news on your ipad or blackberry on your way into the office? Well if you’re like a lot of people these days then you probably get your news online. Once for free [...]

Um, sir, you’ll have to pay for that.

Last week brought the “announcements” that the Providence Journal thinking about possibly monetizing it’s content and that Twitter is probably going to offer a paid business account soonish that would offer analytics. A sign of the economic times or a factor of inevitability… In an interview Jonathan Fildes for BBC News, Twitter co-founder Biz Stone [...]

My Sunday Morning and the Boston Globe

Adam Here: On Sunday morning I woke up before the kids, grabbed my cup of coffee, sat at the kitchen table and read the Boston Globe section by section, folding and flipping while the tips of my fingers slowly turned gray… Wait wait wait, that isn’t exactly how it went. With mug in hand, I [...]

APPLE TRIES TO KILL STEVE JOBS STORY IN SUNDAY TIMES

“Apple hates personality stuff and press intrusion. ‘We want to discourage profiles’. Strong words from an Apple PR. Apparently Apple didn’t want the Sunday Times to publish the 4000 word plus profile for the fact that it may reveal more about jobs past, present, and future than the company is willing to disclose. I think [...]

Facebook – Short & Sweet

So Facebook has ‘accidentally’ disclosed that it has plans for a new site, dubbed Facebook lite. Unlike the current Facebook site, Facebook lite offers users a simplified, no-frills Facebook experience – eerily similar to Twitter, Facebooks biggest competitor. But Facebook claims that its new chip-off-the-old-block is merely the manifestation of a solution to many worldwide [...]

Wanted: New Internet Homepage

Wanted: New Internet Homepage For years my browser’s homepage has been http://www.boston.com/. Well not any more after reading this article The Boston Globe will soon begin charging for its website, publisher P. Steven Ainsley told the paper’s union bosses. What will I do? Where will I find my news? (insert sarcasm here) I used to get [...]

IE6 No More?

The campaign asks sites to include code that detects IE6 visitors and encourages them to upgrade to Firefox, IE8, or Google Chrome. On Tuesday the movement composed of around a dozen sites, today that number exceeds 70 participants. The sites jumping on board are by no means insignificant: they include established internet startups, consulting firms [...]

Google Buys Web Video Software Firm

Google, on Wednesday, anounced that it has agreed to buy On2 Technologies, which sells video compression software, in a stock deal valued at about $106 million. The per-share price was 57 percent above On2’s closing stock price on Tuesday, and On2’s shares soared on the news. Similar to Google’s 2006 acquisition of YouTube at a [...]

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