by Allen Weiner | July 28, 2009 | Comments Off
As the wheels turns in every aspect of the e-book market, Amazon, the Seattle retailer who would like nothing better than to dominate all aspects of the emerging value chain (distribution, management, and devices), is “girding its loins” for the possible entry of Apple into its space. If, as rampant speculation implies, Apple comes out [...]
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Category: Mobile Newspapers Publishing Web 2.0 Tags: Adobe, Amazon, Apple, epub, iPod, iTouch, Kindle
by Allen Weiner | May 4, 2009 | 2 Comments
This is a story whose draft plot has all the makings of a thriller. Add up these story arcs and see what you come up with: *Amazon’s Kindle and Kindle 2 are gaining early signs of traction in the e-reader marketplace selling, by some estimates, around 300,000 units *The Kindle (a single function device) is [...]
Category: blogging economy Mobile Newspapers Publishing Tags: Amazon, e-readers, Kindle, magazines, Newspapers, Publishing
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 18, 2009 | Comments Off
Last year, I wrote about the concept of turning the mobile phone into the ultimate device for mobile reporting (a concept which applies to any content creator). Publishers, in keeping with the Web 2.0 notion of timely information in a variety of formats, would arm journalists with a tricked-phone phone from which they could write, [...]
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Category: blogging citizen media Conferences Mobile Publishing Tags: Dell, Flixwagon, journaist, netbook, Nokia, platypus journalist, Qik, SXSW
by Allen Weiner | February 11, 2009 | Comments Off
In the research that led to our report, “Publishers Explore Digital Editions, Devices as New Channel Opportunities,” Mike McGuire and I debated/handicapped the merits of various e-reader devices and their chances of becoming the go-to gadgets for reading books, magazines and newspapers. Our conclusions were, well…inconclusive. With recent events, those inconclusive conclusions are even more…well… [...]
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Category: blogging Mobile Newspapers Publishing Television Web 2.0 Tags: Amazon, Android, Apple, books, e-books, e-readers, Google, iTune, Kindle, Plastic Logic
by Allen Weiner | December 15, 2008 | Comments Off
HD camcorders from such CE companies as JVC are likely to be the rage at CES next month. Here’s a short video preview on what we may (or many not) see on the show floor. CES 2009: HD Camcorders on ParadeA look ahead at what we are likely to see @ CES 2009 in the [...]
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Category: broadcasting Mobile Publishing Video videocameras Tags: camcordrers, CES, Everio, JVC
by Allen Weiner | December 10, 2008 | Comments Off
A few year’s back, I told anyone who would listen that there’s a huge opportunity for a mobile handset that included functionality and applications that were geared for content creators. That segment is a fairly broad one with bloggers at one end and professional reporters at the other. One mobile handset company feverishly took notes [...]
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Category: blogging broadcasting citizen media Mobile Newspapers Publishing social media Tags: iPhone, journalism, N95, Nokia, reporters
by Allen Weiner | December 4, 2008 | 1 Comment
Faster than you can say, I am part of the Mapple Universe (thanks Lisa Simpson), a number of video services including Joost, mDialog and YouTube have brought rich on-demand versions of their web offers to the iPhone. Powered by innovative transcoder Ripcode, who has cracked the code in transcoding while a download is in progress, [...]
Category: blogging broadcasting Mobile Newspapers Publishing social media Television Video Tags: Apple, Google, iPhone, Joost, Livestation, mDialog, MySpace, Ripcode, Video, YouTube
by Allen Weiner | November 6, 2008 | Comments Off
I had a great chat today with Jim Kennedy, vice president and strategy director for the Associated Press, regarding the AP’s outstanding live coverage of Election Night which was “broadcasted” via its member newspapers and broadcast affiliates…. Sorry, faithful followers, the analysis and take-aways from that conversation will be part of an upcoming report available [...]
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Category: blogging broadcasting citizen media Mobile Newspapers Publishing Tags: Apple, Associated Press, iPhone, Mobile News Network
