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- AP Begins Crediting Bloggers as News Sources
- Samsung To Increase Its AMO-LED Production By Tenfold
- Mark Hurd gets a Labor Day present – hired as co-president of Oracle
- Make Rudy proud and follow the Fighting Irish on your iPad
- Think it all happens in Silicon Valley? You’re wrong! – Skitch
- The allure of SocialNet’s features will catch, and please, anyone with an iPhone.
- Is LinkedIn Checking Out?
- Christchurch Earthquakes Visualized On Google Earth
- After a Twitter revolt, Paper.li makes its auto-tweets less spammy
- Orange and T-Mobile To Merge Networks
- Windows Phone 7 Ad Promises A Forthcoming Revolution
- Read all about it! Newsworthy for iPhone takes your money and gives you nothing.
- Podio: A game-changing virtual office that forms to your needs.
- The End of the Address Book
| AP Begins Crediting Bloggers as News Sources Posted: 07 Sep 2010 02:39 AM PDT
Are AP slow off the mark?I don’t want to risk downplaying the significance of the move from AP, but you could very well argue that they’re actually a bit late to the game with their most recent change. In ‘The Source Cycle‘, an analysis of articles from the New York Times & Washington Post over 6 years finds that blogs are increasingly referenced as a credible news source. And this was carried out in 2008. It’s when you look at it in this context that you realise just how much work is still to be done when it comes to recognising bloggers and importantly growing the area overall. AP is a huge news agency yet only now are they making this change. As exciting as this announcement is, we must question who is looking after the blogger’s rights and how can they make a living from their blog? It’s one thing to attribute them as a news source, but you would hope that this change from AP may well affect the blogosphere overall and we may start to see more bloggers employed by news organisations who recognise the collective power of bloggers in regional areas. This is where blogger’s ability to influence and set the news agenda really starts coming in to play and can change the traditional news industry.A fascinating study by Pew into news online, finds that 99% of links to news stories in blogs, are to traditional news outlets or mainstream publishers. I find this figure incredibly surprising. Typically when I link to stories, I tend to link to other blogs not so much as a conscious decision, but because they’re what prompt me into writing a blog post myself. There’s simply more content out there on blogs, and I find it a bit juicier than that offered by mainstream publishers. Given that so many blogs rely on traditional outlets to reference in the post, you can’t help but wonder if there is a third way on offer here. Not so much journalist v blogger, but what skills do the two of them have together that can offer a unique news product? A new project that shows just what’s possible for online collaboration and news – is TBD.com. Its a local news site that focuses on Washington, DC. The owners describe the site as an ‘integrated newsroom’ which is enough to get the juices flowing in itself! Importantly, it aims to bring different news sources and types together online, to offer realtime news from a wide range of sources. It combines in a very real way, traditional journalists, bloggers and other online news sources, in what they collectively call their community network. And the people that make up this network see their own work on the site, not just an aside as a news source. This shows the potential of what’s possible as we increasingly seek new ways to consume our news, combined with publishers finding new ways to monetise – think the Times’ paywall. This in itself shows that there’s big changes to come in the structure of news organisations. The traditional monetisation routes need to change, and with it so does the overall layout of the newsroom. We’re seeing this start to happen now and in a couple of years our news outlets will probably look completely different. I belive that blogging is largely the reason for this change and I look forward to what’s coming next. Original title and link for this post: AP Begins Crediting Bloggers as News Sources     |
| Samsung To Increase Its AMO-LED Production By Tenfold Posted: 07 Sep 2010 12:53 AM PDT
The obvious quality and power efficiency of the technology has led to supply shortages as Samsung struggled to satisfy demand from major smartphone manufacturers, resulting in companies such as HTC employing alternative technologies like Sony’s Super LCD in its newer handsets in order to satisfy the backlog of orders for its devices. Samsung is hoping supply shortages will be a thing of the past once it opens its new $2.1 billion facility in July, ramping up production of its displays by tenfold. Supply will be boosted from 3 million units per month up to 30 million in the same period. Lee Woo-Jong, vice president of marketing at Samsung told Reuters that the company expects demand for AMO-LED technologies will grow 30 times up to 600 million over the coming years, signaling that after many years of heavy investment, Samsung will continue to increase its profits as demand for smartphones and portable devices surges. Once its new facility opens, Samsung will once again be able to fulfill orders of its own smartphones but those also of its closest competitors. Original title and link for this post: Samsung To Increase Its AMO-LED Production By Tenfold    |
| Mark Hurd gets a Labor Day present – hired as co-president of Oracle Posted: 06 Sep 2010 05:01 PM PDT
According to The New York Times, Hurd’s close friend at Oracle – who happens to be CEO Larry Ellison – criticized HP for letting Hurd go and believes that "Mark did a brilliant job at H.P. and I expect he'll do even better at Oracle. There is no executive in the I.T. world with more relevant experience than Mark." Hurd is replacing Charles E. Phillips Jr. as co-president and director of Oracle. There had been rumors circling around the tech scene for days that Hurd would be joining Oracle, and now – ironically perhaps on Labor Day – Hurd has himself a new job. Original title and link for this post: Mark Hurd gets a Labor Day present – hired as co-president of Oracle    |
| Make Rudy proud and follow the Fighting Irish on your iPad Posted: 06 Sep 2010 04:20 PM PDT
The free app (iTunes link) was released by NBC Sports, which has the exclusive broadcast rights to Notre Dame games. The app offers a pretty thorough set of ways to follow the team’s season, including a complete schedule, news, live scores, video clips including recaps and interviews, team stats, roster, photo galleries, Twitter updates and a display of the “Inside the Irish” blog. Of course, the app also allows you to pay for live streaming of home game for either $5.99 for the entire season or $1.99 per game. That said, the two coolest features come in the form of notifications. On game day, you can set the app to remind you of the game – by playing the Notre Dame fight song. Then during the game, the app offers push notifications every time there is a score. Both features are brilliant ideas. The iPad app is a “HD” counterpart to the iPhone/iPod Touch version, instead of the preferred “universal” approach, i.e. the app works on all three devices. However, since both versions are free, this isn’t too much of an issue (though we’re not sure if purchasing games transfers to other devices, which could be an issue). One other somewhat annoying aspect of the app is that right now it prominently display advertisements. Normally in a free app, that’s not even noteworthy, but especially as NBC is charging for the live games, it’s a little too much. Beyond the lack of a universal app and the prominent ads, NBC really seems to be onto something here, and we’d suspect that many sports fans would like a similar app for their favorite team, regardless of the sport. Also, beyond mobile, we could certainly see this kind of sports app transfered to the living room, perhaps on the upcoming Google TV (the NBA has built something similar for Google TV already). So if you’re a fan, this would seem to be a must have app. Fight fight fight! Here’s a couple more screenshots:
Original title and link for this post: Make Rudy proud and follow the Fighting Irish on your iPad    |
| Think it all happens in Silicon Valley? You’re wrong! – Skitch Posted: 06 Sep 2010 04:16 PM PDT
Sponsored by Kodak, Silicon Beach Australia and The Next Web, Techfluff.tvdecided to delve a little deeper into Melbourne's startup scene and video interviewed ten of these companies. This week we caught up with Cris Pearson from Skitch. Cris talks to us about the easy-to-share webservice Skitch provides and his experience of being an entrepreneur in the Melbourne tech community. Stay tuned for next week as we will bring you an interview from 99designs. Original title and link for this post: Think it all happens in Silicon Valley? You're wrong! – Skitch    |
| The allure of SocialNet’s features will catch, and please, anyone with an iPhone. Posted: 06 Sep 2010 03:07 PM PDT
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We were given the idea that we could connect with former co-workers, bosses and friends, and then by providing career information about one another, we’d have the best possible way to acquire recommendations that we could use to further our paths. Sadly, it has never come to fruition in the way that it should have. LinkedIn, to this day, has a number of problems that 70 million users and $103 million in funding haven’t been able to fight off. These problems, coupled with a somewhat rising global economic outlook have set LinkedIn into a death spiral that doesn’t seem to be ending anytime soon. The Problems2003-era features in a 2010 InternetIt wasn’t long ago that LinkedIn finally overhauled its internal messaging system. The service that is supposedly so important was getting a pretty large upgrade. That “upgrade” amounted to nothing more than bringing LinkedIn into 2005…5 years too late. In short, if LinkedIn is going to market itself as a pace-setting site, then it needs to at least be toward the front of the pack instead of bringing up the rear in terms of features and capabilities. Non-weighted RecommendationsLinkedIn seems to think that Internet users aren’t lazy. The fact is, we are. In viewing recommendations on LinkedIn, every one is given the same weight, whether it’s from Steve Jobs or your friend Bob. Anyone viewing your profile would have to do more digging in order to figure out which one is more important. Recommendations, which are the basis of the entire site, need to hold value. Lacking a scale by which the importance of a recommendation can be measured is a huge oversight on the part of the site. Today, social influence scales are taking off in a way that LinkedIn should have been able to capitalize on years ago. In short, LinkedIn should not have to prove that it is the Klout of careers. It does. Lack of Use is a Downward SpiralOur own @ChadCat wrote about the downward spiral of LinkedIn not long ago. He, like many of us, continues to find little value in the site. Of course, we all go on the connections bender once in a while, but nothing ever seems to come of it. That lack of interaction, the lack of results, is the elephant in the LinkedIn room. Nobody wants to talk about how it simply doesn’t do what it’s intended to do, for most of its users. If in time, we continue to fade away from the site, there will be less critical mass to LinkedIn, something that is propping it up. Less interaction and use means less critical mass and a slowing trend that the site will be hard pressed to turn around. How To Fix ItFirst off, it should go without saying (but this is blogging, and if I don’t say it someone will call me an idiot after saying it themselves) that LinkedIn needs a serious amount of cosmetic surgery. We’re not just talking a facelift; the site needs a ground-up restoration. Ugly is not acceptable, and for a company that claims to be profitable they can afford a real design team. It simply must be able to compete with what else is out and available on the Internet. People are finding considerably more value in Facebook and Twitter connections than they are with LinkedIn, and that’s a fact that the site can’t afford to ignore any longer. So what comes after the reconstruction? Here are some ideas: Dump the IntegrationLinkedIn has become an aggregator. People feed information into it and don’t bother doing much on the site itself. Looking at my main LinkedIn page is akin to going to Twitter and seeing the updates of my friends. There’s little else that happens. LinkedIn needs to think backwards of where it is presently. It needs to connect to Twitter and Facebook so that you can push your information to those networks if you want, rather than telling everyone with whom you’re connected that you just got your second Starbucks of the day. Hire a FaceIf you know about LinkedIn, it’s because you just happened to. It’s not likely that you know anyone who has ever turned a connection into a job. LinkedIn has done an abysmal job of marketing itself, and the lack of function is partially to blame for that. The “buzz” wore off nearly as fast as it came on. If LinkedIn is to do its job, it needs to bring some people on board who are amazing at developing buzz and relationships. Get the buzz going, then show your newly-buzzed users why your site is important to them. Show ExamplesIt’s entirely possible that everything that we’ve written here is wrong. Maybe there are people who have gotten loads of jobs because of the site. If that’s true, though, why don’t we know about it? LinkedIn needs to show its users what happens when you’re well connected. As of now, that hasn’t even been started. The site has promise, it has users, and it has cash. It has everything that any web company could ever want, except our attention. If it does that, the site should be able to reclaim its former shine. Original title and link for this post: Is LinkedIn Checking Out?    |
| Christchurch Earthquakes Visualized On Google Earth Posted: 06 Sep 2010 01:26 PM PDT Based on data collected from New Zealand’s GeoNet website from Saturday morning’s 7.0 earthquake near the country’s second largest city, Christchurch, a reader of the unofficial Google Earth Blog, has created a KMZ file that visualizes the main quake and the subsequent aftershocks. In all it displays 216 quakes over about a 50 hour period and shows depth and magnitude. You can either click around in Google Earth to visualize the data and/or can simply press the play button (in the upper left corner after you download and launch the KMZ file) – just make sure to hit the settings button first (the wrench) and slow down the timeline of the visualization. Image: Google Earth Blog Thumb image: The Telegraph Original title and link for this post: Christchurch Earthquakes Visualized On Google Earth    |
| After a Twitter revolt, Paper.li makes its auto-tweets less spammy Posted: 06 Sep 2010 01:05 PM PDT
In case you’re unfamiliar with it, Paper.li a service that organises links from the people you follow on Twitter into a ‘newspaper-style’ web page. It can create a daily newspaper from any Twitter user, List or hashtag. A nice idea, but its automatic tweets have proved a major annoyance for many. Tweets like “The John Smith Daily is out – featuring @user, @AnotherUser and @SomeoneElse” have become especially irritating for Twitter users with many followers. Why? Well, popular TV comedy writer Graham Linehan summed up the problem yesterday. Over a number of tweets he wrote:
Robert Scoble decried the tweets as “Spam” while our own Editor in Chief, Zee summed up his own frustration succinctly:
It’s easy to understand the annoyance of all your Twitter replies being mentions in online newspapers. Now the people behind Paper.li, SmallRivers, have acted to quell the bad feeling by changing their promotional tweets. On the Paper.li blog today they write:
Here’s what the new default tweet looks like, so all those people annoyed by their Twitter streams clogging up should be satisfied – Twitter username mentions in the tweets are no more. The tweets are opt in, so auto-tweeting should be kept to a minimum and if they still annoy you, it’s the user, not the service that you can direct your anger at. Original title and link for this post: After a Twitter revolt, Paper.li makes its auto-tweets less spammy    |
| Orange and T-Mobile To Merge Networks Posted: 06 Sep 2010 08:13 AM PDT
A deal has been established allowing 30 million combined UK customers on both networks to initially share 2G signals, seamlessly switching between networks if a primary signal cannot be found. Both sets of customers will need to sign up to a free “roaming” service which is likely to be effective from October 5th onwards. The service will act in a similar way to when you use your mobile phone abroad, choosing networks automatically, sometimes changing to a stronger network mid-call. Everything Everywhere, the company that will control both T-Mobile and Orange operations, intend on rolling out 3G services to its customers, when this goes live Orange customers will be able to take advantage of a 3G network owned by Mobile Broadband Network limited, a company owned by both Three and T-Mobile. Orange customers are already able to take advantage of the Orange network for their 2G calls. In the future, Everything Everywhere will look to build a LTE mobile network, a network that will offer significant data speed improvements, as soon as the government hold the auction for the mobile spectrum in 2011. Original title and link for this post: Orange and T-Mobile To Merge Networks    |
| Windows Phone 7 Ad Promises A Forthcoming Revolution Posted: 06 Sep 2010 07:53 AM PDT
Well then world, buckle up and strap in, war is coming to the world of mobile. Go ahead and watch the video, you know you want to: You can read all our previous coverage of Windows Phone 7 here. Original title and link for this post: Windows Phone 7 Ad Promises A Forthcoming Revolution    |
| Read all about it! Newsworthy for iPhone takes your money and gives you nothing. Posted: 06 Sep 2010 07:28 AM PDT
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| Podio: A game-changing virtual office that forms to your needs. Posted: 06 Sep 2010 07:14 AM PDT
Context is, seemingly, the single biggest issue that Podio solves. Podio is headed by CEO Tommy Ahlers, who you might remember from ZYB a couple of years ago. Ahlers sold ZYB for €31 million and then invested into Podio. It’s probably easiest to think of Podio as a virtual office, but with better features and endless possibility. While in most cases you’re limited to the tools that are included, Podio takes that context ability further by allowing nearly anyone to create applications that are specific to your needs. The main features of Podio are unsurprising. You have calendars, tasks and activity streams plus a few more. Starting with Meetings and Minutes, in this picture, are user-made applications that we’ve added to our own account: What’s truly impressive, though, is the depth to which each of these is integrated. Let’s say that someone writes a Team Blog entry (using the Team Blog app) that addresses a concern. Someone else can then come behind them and create a task that uses the blog entry as a point of reference. Instead of having to worry about selecting the wrong link, addressing the wrong thing, etc., Podio makes it really simple to integrate one feature with another. The App Store seems to have a near-limitless selection of applications. They range, predictably, from the simplistic to the truly in-depth, broken down by 5 categories:
Beyond the applications, the rest of what Podio does is similar in theory to other work platforms. There are groups, calendars, activity streams and the like, which we’ve all seen before. But the customizable applications are what truly set Podio apart from the crowd. Our sole complaint, and the one thing that would likely keep us from using it as our office here at TNW, is the lack of a real-time messaging function. True, we all have instant messaging, but typing a message into the activity box should allow that message to automatically populate for other users. At present, others will have to refresh to see your communication.
We’re told that Podio will open its platform, in the near future. In doing so, it will have an API as well as mobile apps and is setting its sights on small businesses. For now, if you’d like to give Podio a shot, you’ll have to sign up for an invitation. Please do, though. It’s likely you’ll find Podio is the answer to many of your virtual office problems. Original title and link for this post: Podio: A game-changing virtual office that forms to your needs.    |
| Posted: 06 Sep 2010 05:52 AM PDT
Patrick just asked me for the emailaddress of Jeff Jarvis. He said “Do you have Jeff Jarvis’ email address?” and I replied “Sure!” and opened my AddressBook app. No record for Jeff Jarvis. Odd? No, not at all. He spoke at our conference once, attended dinner at my house and we met again in Germany at another conference. In the past 2 years we exchanged maybe 6 or 7 emails. I know Jeff and know how to reach him. More importantly: I know he knows me*. So I did a search for ‘Jarvis’ in my email application and within seconds I had a few email threads and all the contact details I needed for Jeff and passed them on to Patrick. My next logical step would be to add Jeff to my AddressBook. By why would I really? It makes so much more sense to look him up in my email application and hit reply on his last message instead of composing a new message. The advantages: 1: bigger chance I will email him at his most current emailaddress So no, I didn’t add Jeff to my AddressBook. Basically the only reason to keep up my AddressBook is because it is easier to access phone numbers that way when I want to call someone on my iPhone. But how often do you imagine I’m going to give 99% of my AddressBook a call? I currently have 2073 addresses in my AddressBook. I wish I could just delete them all and start all over. I would keep only the people in there that I actually want to call now and then and whose home address matter to me. The rest is easier to find though my email archive. * = Please Jeff, tell me you remember me! :-) Original title and link for this post: The End of the Address Book    |
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