Tuesday June 16, 2009
Nifty overview of new iPhone 3.0 features
The new iPhone operating system releases this Wednesday.
Tuesday June 16, 2009
Msnbc.com #1 for entire year: The mood here at msnbc.com HQ is exceptionally upbeat today as the latest monthly Nielsen numbers show us on top for the 12th consecutive month (total unique users). Beyond beating CNN and Yahoo, msnbc.com’s average monthly total of unique visitors outpaced the combined total of Fox News Digital Network (FoxNews.com), the ABCNEWS Digital Network (ABCNews.com) and the CBS News Digital Network (CBSNews.com). To mark the occasion, the image above appeared as a full-page ad in the New York Times today.
Tuesday June 16, 2009
CBSNews.com debuts new design: The new dark grey look features lots of photos, multimedia and a real-time Twitter stream. CBS News also revamped its show sites, from 60 Minutes to the Early Show. And it launched a new blog, 48 Hours CrimeInsider, which highlights the “most riveting crime stories of the day and features 911 calls, police interrogations and expert forensics.” More details on the redesign right here. Impressions?
Tuesday June 16, 2009
WNBC swapping 5 p.m. news for lifestyle show
Produced by NBC Local Media’s LX.TV, LX New York will air live from Rockefeller Center.
Monday June 15, 2009
What happened to MySpace?: When Rupert Murdoch bought MySpace in 2005, he was hailed a visionary. Now, MySpace is losing traffic (-2%) while Facebook continues its stratospheric growth (+87%). And MySpace parent Fox Interactive Media may have deep job cuts on the horizon. So now many are asking, what happened (or didn’t happen) after the acquisition?
Friday June 12, 2009
“The traditional TV industry — cable companies, networks, and broadcasters — is where the newspaper industry was about five years ago: in denial.”
— From Henry Blodget’s column in Silicon Alley Insider, “Sorry, There’s No Way To Save The TV Business.” If you work in TV, you’ll likely disagree with his grim assessment, but Blodget makes some thought-provoking points about video distribution.
Friday June 12, 2009
AOL buys local plays Patch, Going
AOL has acquired two local companies: Patch, which is a neighborhood news network, and Going, a social entertainment events site. The Patch acquisition may have you scratching your head, but there’s an easy way to explain it: Patch investor Tim Armstrong is now the CEO of AOL.
Patch has always been fascinating to watch because it launched after Next Door Media, the neighborhood news network founded by my wife and me in Seattle. Patch has 5 sites, a massive staff, a big technology investment and lots of press. Next Door Media has 5 sites, a full-time staff of one, off-the-shelf technology and no press. We’re not as flashy, but it appears we’re driving a good deal more traffic and advertising. (There, I feel better.)
Thursday June 11, 2009
When “good enough” journalism is better: I covered a story for MyBallard.com over the weekend about the opening of a time capsule. Since my wife was out of town, I was packing our 10-month-old with me, which for the record, adds a new layer of complexity when covering news. I shot a few photos, recorded the speakers on my iPhone Recorder app, and went home and posted the story. Meanwhile, a certain city paper sent a reporter and a photographer. I watched as the photographer shot well over a hundred photos while the reporter furiously scribbled notes. My story, which took me about 30 minutes to write, was posted shortly after the event here. The newspaper’s story, which took two people to cover, appeared several hours later — with just two photos — here. You can certainly argue that their story is better than mine, but does the small increase in quality justify the significant increase in costs, especially when the money isn’t there to spend?
Thursday June 11, 2009
YouTube adds Facebook, Twitter notifications
Upload a video to YouTube and you can automatically notify all your Facebook and Twitter friends. Pretty cool, but this has massive mobile implications: the new iPhone lets you record video and post it directly to YouTube. So it stands to follow you’ll be able to add Twitter notifications straight from your phone, essentially making YouTube the “TwitPic” of video. Or in other words, the de facto platform for video citizen journalism (which you could argue, it already is).
Thursday June 11, 2009
Seattle coffee shop hosts Facebook landrush meetup: What are you doing this Friday night? Grabbing Facebook URLs? A popular Seattle coffee shop is throwing a meetup for anyone who wants to use a lightning-fast internet connection to grab vanity URLs when Facebook opens them up at 9 p.m. PT. Crazy thing is, I think the place will be packed. (Via @jasonp107)
Thursday June 11, 2009
“There’s no question that local activity is going to continue forever. Organizing it online is probably the most difficult area [thumping his desk] because it is so local.”
— Barry Diller, whose IAC owns CitySearch, InsiderPages and UrbanSpoon, on the challenge of organizing local business information in an interview with PaidContent. He says CitySearch is “20 percent of the way there” and ahead of everyone else.
Wednesday June 10, 2009
Google expanding Street View to trails
Google has equipped a trike with a 360-degree camera and GPS receiver to begin expanding its Street View mapping technology to hiking and biking trails. Wow. I think many folks underestimate the value of Street View, but it’s one of the reasons Google Maps has jumped 49% in traffic year-over-year compared to declines at Yahoo Maps and Mapquest. And it translates wonderfully to mobile, especially when you have a compass-enabled device (like the new iPhone.)
Wednesday June 10, 2009
Conan's 'Twitter Tracker' sketch gets own site
With Conan’s move to the Tonight Show, he debuted a funny new sketch called “Twitter Tracker,” which takes (mostly) real celebrity Tweets and pokes fun at them. Conan’s team also has a Twitter account, @Tw1tterTracker, which is doing the same. And now they’ve launched Twitter-Tracker.com, which basically emulates the Twitter experience and throws some ads around it. But you could imagine growing it into something much bigger…
Tuesday June 09, 2009
1 note“I didn’t kill newspapers, OK?”
— Arianna Huffington, whose Huffington Post won for best political blog at the Webby Awards.
Tuesday June 09, 2009
This is YouTube? The video site gets all creative for the Webby Awards with this section allowing users to filter a ton of clips from the event, including those 5-word acceptance speeches.
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