Joe Jaffe explains how our desire to game with each other can be a useful marketing tool
At the Diggnation party at SXSW, I caught up with author and social media maven, Joe Jaffe of Jaffejuice and Jaffejuice.tv. Joe had [...]
At the Diggnation party at SXSW, I caught up with author and social media maven, Joe Jaffe of Jaffejuice and Jaffejuice.tv. Joe had [...]
Events are a vertical that cuts across many segments: travel, retail, sports, entertainment, education, dining, culture and others. Major players include specialists such as Zvents, Eventful, Americantowns.com and Center’d. City sites such as Citysearch and Yelp are active in the [...]
Nearly three years after it was first announced, Monday marks the first broadcast of Moscow's latest radio station, Kommersant FM, The Moscow Times reported. The radio station, which has been in development since the spring of 2007, is the audio equivalent of Kommersant, the city's largest [...] 
Nonprofit investigative news website California Watch is aiming to boost reader participation by offering a free iPod touch to its best commenters each month over the next six. A new Pew study on the economics of news does not give comfort to news sites planning pay schemes. It also does not give me comfort that we’re wasting precious time futzing over walls when we should be paying attention to the big problems we have — one [...]
LONDON -- STV, the digital arm of Scottish television, is gaining 10 percent of new registered users through its integration with Facebook Connect, according to Alistar Brown, who heads new media for the company.
I spoke with Brown last Monday, at the Beet.TV Online Video Roundtable in London.
(let's leave it with that, from GigaOm.)
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Heading up the Commission of Inquiry into the Future of Civil Society, an independent investigation looking at the future of public life, Geoff Mulgan has branded the majority of online news as little more that "recycled 'churnalism'", the Guardian reports. To combat this, the commission has [...] 
Apple has received roughly 152,000 pre-orders for the iPad since Friday morning, according to early estimates by InvestorVillage.As I was leafing through the Guardian on Saturday morning I came across an article with the rather alarming headline
Google news tax could boost local papers, report says
Google and other websites that carry news they do not produce should be taxed and the money generated used to prop up [...]
I've posted Monday's Signal over at the FM blog. From it:
What I find interesting is the media's response to the iPad (and I include tech blogs in the category of "media"). Overwhelmingly, the media wanted to believe that a hip magazine like Wired (caveat, I was' [...]
Interesting ideas coming out of South by Southwest (SXSW). Here are a few good summaries:
The 5 Cs of Chinese Innovation: Copy an idea, combine two things, compete and differentiate, which leads to [...]
PALO ALTO -- Facebook has 80,000 sites using Facebook Connect, in addition to the 500,000 applications on Facebook, according to Ethan Beard, who heads up the company's developer network.
The most popular application/category is gaming, says Beard, citing the massive success of Farmville.
In Austin at SXSW, CNET's Caroline [...]
In a taxi with @noreaster ready to rock @techcocktail SXSW: Blackout Sunday presented by @BizSpark & @Volusion
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