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Key Articles of the Week...
Posted in Publishing, News on November 23rd, 2007. By Eduard F. Vinyamata.
Everyone at Amazon’s Kindle press conference (which I liveblogged earlier today) received one of the electronic book readers. I played around with mine while I was waiting to interview Jeff Bezos. My initial impressions (…)
(…) The fact that it has a functioning Web browser, though, means that you can follow links in the feeds you subscribe to. More importantly, it opens up the world of linking to book authors. Now books can have links, and not just for citations. Authors who take advantage of the electronic book format will start to include hyperlinks for curious readers to follow, and books could become more tightly interwoven with the culture of the Web in general. Reading a book will no longer need to end with the final chapter. Rather, it could literally open up a whole world of information on the Web, just as blog posts or online news article do today.
Key Articles of the Week...
Posted in Television, Publishing, Mobile, News on November 11th, 2007. By Eduard F. Vinyamata.
Google Launches Mobile Phone Platform, Android: What it Means, What Experts Think
A fully integrated mobile “software stack” that consists of an operating system, middleware, user-friendly interface and applications. It will be made available under one of the most progressive, developer-friendly open-source licenses, which gives mobile operators and device manufacturers significant freedom and flexibility to design products.
Trends in Media: Freemium...
Posted in Television, Publishing, Music, Mobile, News, Free on November 2nd, 2007. By Eduard F. Vinyamata.
Freemium is business model that works by offering basic services for free, which potentially attracts a large customer base, and then charging a premium for advanced or special features. Let’s see how this Web 2.0 trend is working (or could potentially work) for media, from mobile platforms to publishing. (more…)
Links of the Week...
Posted in Citizen Journalism, Publishing, Music, Internet, News on September 28th, 2007. By Eduard F. Vinyamata.
Reflections of a Newsosaur: Yahoo! for Yahoo?
Newspaper publishers who partnered with Yahoo are seeing such significant online sales increases that they could start producing positive over-all revenue gains as early as 2009, says one Wall Street analyst.
The Future of News(papers)...
Posted in Publishing, News, Pro Am Journalism, Hyperlocal Journalism on September 21st, 2007. By Eduard F. Vinyamata.
The first stage is denial, the second is anger, the third is bargaining, the forth is depression, the fifth is acceptance…then you die. Steve Boriss of The Future of News reminds us of the 5 stages terminal patients go through as they accept their death, using this pattern to illustrate how newspaper’s are either dying of going through the same path as terminal ill patients do. (more…)
Newspaper’s Executioner and Savior...
Posted in IPTV, Publishing, News on September 13th, 2007. By Eduard F. Vinyamata.
Just last week we explained how the recent AP-Google alliance was basically one more source of competition for newspapers, coming from a front they didn’t expect. Steve Boriss of The Future of News believes that traditional newspapers face a bleak future. Last week’s news might just be not the beginning but the first step beyond “the tipping point in the great fall of newspapers.” (more…)
Links from last week...
Posted in IPTV, Publishing, Mobile, News on August 16th, 2007. By Maren Hermans.
1 The copyright-question remains a hard one. In a world where publishing is that easy: so are copying, pasting and stealing. New guidelines could help to redefine property in new media. (more…)
Google News: comments on the comments...
Posted in Citizen Journalism, Publishing, Internet, News, Pro Am Journalism on August 9th, 2007. By Maren Hermans.
Google wants to integrate comments from people and players related to each of the stories featured in Google News. This is another step into times of total information, and probably also necessary regarding the growing popularity of Citizen Journalism. (more…)
Harry Potter and Controlled Releases...
Posted in Publishing, Long Tail, Internet, News on August 9th, 2007. By Eduard F. Vinyamata.
The Spanish language version of the latest Harry Potter book will be released later on this year…the official one anyways. According to TechCrunch, a fan translated version of the book can be found on the net right now. (more…)
Links from last week...
Posted in Publishing, Internet, News on August 9th, 2007. By Eduard F. Vinyamata.
1 Content Makers Are Accused of Exaggerating Copyright (Link requires subscription)
An association of companies, some of which are the usual target of recent media lawsuits, have joined forces to fight overstated copyright infringement warnings from content creators. (more…)