by Allen Weiner | March 13, 2010 | Comments Off
Saul Hansell made headlines when he left The New York Times to try his hand at creating an editorial business for AOL in the form of seed.com. Seed is one of the many “content factories” each with a different approach to creating text, images and videos that is then distributed to content providers. In this [...]
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Category: citizen media Tags: AOL, Saul Hansell, seed.com, SXSW 2010
by Allen Weiner | January 20, 2010 | 2 Comments
Amazon has plans to change its royalty schedule for publishers beginning this summer, doing a 180 on its 70-30 split. There are rules a’plenty, but it’s a clear pre-emptive move in the face of Apple’s possible launch of a tablet-based device. Apple is said to be willing to offer publishers a split that more resembles [...]
Category: blogging citizen media Microsoft Mobile Newspapers Publishing Yahoo Tags: Amazon, Apple, Apple tablet, books, Kindle, publishers, tablets
by Allen Weiner | December 9, 2009 | Comments Off
According to this report from Reuters, Yahoo is open to selling HotJobs fir the right price. If this report is true, then I suspect Yahoo’s newspaper consortium will lose much of its momentum if not outright come to an end; there are more than 600 newspapers in the consortium and HotJobs is one of the [...]
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Category: blogging citizen media Microsoft Mobile Newspapers Publishing Yahoo Tags: Bing, Google, HotJobs, Living Stories, newspaper consortium, Yahoo
by Allen Weiner | September 17, 2009 | 2 Comments
I met a few folks on my recent European travel who scoffed at the pervasive power of e-books as a replacement for the touchy-feely experience of holding a print book in their hands. “You can’t read an e-book in the bath,” one naysayer told me a few weeks back. To that romantic reader, I say, [...]
Category: Amazon citizen media Google Publishing Tags: Amazon, Espresso Book Machine, Google, On Demand Books
by Allen Weiner | July 29, 2009 | Comments Off
After walking halfway down the aisle with Google in 2008 in a proposed (and then scrapped) search-advertising pact, Yahoo! has inked a 10 year deal in which Microsoft will power Yahoo! search and sell self-service keywords through AdCenter while Yahoo! will become the exclusive worldwide relationship sales force for both companies’ premium search advertisers. The [...]
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Category: citizen media directories social media Television Twitter Uncategorized Tags: Bing, Microsoft, Search, Yahoo
by Allen Weiner | July 14, 2009 | 3 Comments
The cognoscente’s meme of the day is whether or not harsh words on Twitter cut off Sasha Baron Cohen’s “Bruno’s” U.S. box office hopes at the knees. Time’s noted film critic Richard Corliss believes that a decline in opening day revenue to the following day was due in part to bad cyberword of mouth. That [...]
Category: blogging citizen media film social media Twitter Video Web 2.0 Tags: Bruno, Richard Corliss, Twitter
by Allen Weiner | April 13, 2009 | Comments Off
A few weeks into my ownership of a Kindle 2, I must report that the Amazon e-reader holds great promise as it delivers a very intuitive experience for those who want portability and a virtual library at their fingertips. Adding books (from both Amazon and other sources) to the Kindle 2 is straightforward with the [...]
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Category: advertising citizen media Mobile Newspapers Publishing Tags: Amazon, books, e-readers, ereaders, Hearst, iPhone, Kindle, Libre Digital, Newspapers, Plastic Logic
by Allen Weiner | March 26, 2009 | 2 Comments
In this podcast, I talk briefly about a concept that I have been pondering (and talking about) regarding the notion of a mobile content creation device to facilitate content and audience immediacy. What should it be? What sort of functionality should it have? How much would it cost? Who are the buyers for such a [...]
Category: blogging broadcasting citizen media Mobile Publishing Uncategorized Video Web 2.0 Tags: content, Dell, devices, handsets, Mobile, Motorola, netbook, Nokia, podcast
by Allen Weiner | March 19, 2009 | 1 Comment
Mike Kaply of Brand Thunder talks about his company’s solution to help recording artists (and soon sports teams) create personalized, branded browsers to promote themselves and their products.
Category: advertising blogging citizen media social media Tags: Brand Thunder, browsers, Firefox, music, Sugerland
by Allen Weiner | March 19, 2009 | Comments Off
Tyler Barth, director of marketing for Blue Microphones, demos the new Mikey, a cool gadget that attaches to your iPod, iPhone, etc.. and facilitates amazing .wav recording.
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Category: blogging broadcasting citizen media Conferences Tags: Blue Microphones, SXSW
