Archive for the ‘Scribefire’ Category
Tuesday, March 25th, 2008
Platforms are important. That's pretty deep, I know. I've been trying to figure out how to explain this best to people for the better part of a week. Here's why they are important: they create a foundation that everyone can build applications up, which in turn allows more people access, ...
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Tuesday, March 25th, 2008
One of the big drivers of traffic to news websites is traffic and weather (along with breaking news), but that may soon go the way of the classified ads thanks to Global Positioning System devices that can transmit data (uh oh, there's that word again. The bane of all newspaper ...
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Tuesday, March 25th, 2008
Rachel Happe posted a blog about high school girls' use of social media. Her theory: these girls have a more sophisticated understanding of how social media works than adults.In theory, I don't disagree. Howard Rheingold wrote about this phenomenon a few years back in Smart Mobs, a book that chronicles ...
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Tuesday, March 25th, 2008
We're still waiting to see what the breakout application is from the South by Southwest Interactive Conference (SXSWi), which probably means there isn't one; however, streaming live video from a mobile to the Web sure seems like a good bet for next year.
I've been inundated with Qik requests on Twitter ...
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Monday, March 24th, 2008
The New York Times has a story today about the death of the Lily Pad, an ingenious name for wireless hotspots that were supposed to blanket metropolitan cities.Turns out putting together an altruistic version of wireless access for everyone isn't a profitable business. So much for helping the poor.But this ...
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Monday, March 24th, 2008
This via Dave Thomas, my good friend and long-time game journalist who is also on The Modern Journalist mailing list.
Seems a SXSW attendee had his Xbox 360 stolen while he was attending the big Austin confab. The police weren't helping out, so our intrepid investigator turned to Digg and Twitter ...
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Monday, March 24th, 2008
I've written about traditional media companies looking for a way to compete with Yahoo, Microsoft, Google and soon America Online, but it's starting to look like the strategy some of the traditional giants are deploying may be the wrong tact.
Some have joined ad networks that aggregate content from several sources ...
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Friday, March 21st, 2008
There's no need to belabor the point that archives are a treasure trove for sales. Technologists have long known that the past is a ripe source of information.
That was the core reason behind say, Napster's popularity. (And if a college student knew that, possibly the rest of us knew that ...
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Friday, March 21st, 2008
There's a lot of talk these days about community building, platforms for social networks and business/customer relationships.
These three seem to be the Holy Grail for newspapers. Tap into communities, give them tools to talk with each other and monetize the outcome. It's great in theory. It's absolutely wrong in practice.
You ...
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Friday, March 21st, 2008
There's been much chatter on Twitter recently about the nature of the mobile Tweet platform.
If that sentence just confused you, be thankful I haven't brought up the Great Color War of 2008. But I digress.
The point is this: Twitter, the mobile social network, is largely made up of the digerati, ...
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