Archives for July, 2010
by Allen Weiner | July 21, 2010 | Comments Off
I hate to spoil the party, but I am not enthralled by Flipboard, the new venture-backed content play that purports to be an application that creates personalized magazines based on what my social circle is reading/recommending. Assuming it was working (the buzz has caused a complete meltdown so neither I nor the socialsphere at large [...]
Category: Apple magazines Tags: iPad, Kleiner Perkins, magazines
by Allen Weiner | July 6, 2010 | Comments Off
True to its word, Yahoo is making good on two of its promises: 1) the company said it would take a new view of its role in search and 2) begin to create new content opportunities. Called into evidence is Upshot a news page on which a team of editors (two) and reporters (six) look [...]
Category: Yahoo Tags: news, Upshot, Yahoo