It was a misty San Francisco eve and there was not a geek to be found, that was, until you entered the doors of a
dark alleyway into the venue hosting Friday night’s most geek-a-licious event.
The occasion being the Revision3 five-year anniversary party and live Diggnation recording by our ever-so-popular heroes: Kevin Rose and Alex Albrecht. Hordes of fans, engineers, gamers and techies filled the dark-lit hall which was plastered with spotlights, tech banners and tunes that were blasting from everywhere.
The live Digg show looked to have brought in fans from many distant places, including some we met from Ireland. The laser lights turned on while the other music and lights went down. Everyone stared at the projector screens trying to figure out what was about to happen.
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So many online skirmishes.
There’s Yahoo and AOL vs. DemandMedia. And then there’s always Facebook vs. Google.
That’s the thing about techno-capitalism, it sets up some exciting rivalries. Facebook vs. Google is the new Apple vs. Microsoft (unless, of course, Steve Ballmer suddenly steps up.)
The latest development in the saga occurred this week, when Facebook confirmed (as reported by Nick O’Neil of AllFacebook.com) that “all Open Graph-enabled web pages will show up in search when a user likes them.”
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I like to think of emails as gifts, every day I approach my inbox filled with excitement for the riches of information that live inside. Some days are disappointing, filled with emails that get deleted within seconds of opening. Others days, I am blessed to discover something thought-provoking, clever and occasionally funny.
An Ari Rosenberg piece in defense of paid content from Media Post falls in the “thought-provoking” category. His title makes his position clear “Rupert’s Right.”
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I spend a tremendous amount of time online researching and reading various opinions on the “future of journalism.” It can be easy to become consumed by speculation about the iPad, the merits of paywalls or “metered models,” and the pros and cons of DemandMedia’s content strategy and to loose sight of journalism’s present issues.
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I often come across stories about how publishers are failing to maximize their content online while searching through stories tied to the future of publishing. Still wedded to print traditions, many publishers have yet to make the most of opportunities offered by the digital platforms.
Thus, I was happy to discover two recent stories of publications, which had (gasp!) died in print form, but have begun to successfully reinvent themselves in the digital arena.
Earlier this year the demise of Gourmet was bemoaned by foodies everyhwere. This week however, it was announced that Gourmet was being kept “alive” as a brand, as Conde Nast revives the magazine as an iPad app called (appropriately) Gourmet Live.
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And they say summer is slow?
After last week’s flurry of announcements from AOL and Google, could I be blamed for starting the week expecting fewer announcements from media behemoths?
On the heels of the Google vs. DemandMedia speculation comes the news that Google has debuted a “one-click tool” to allow easy online checkouts for paid content–essentially a PayPal for the paywall.
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Newspapers are worried.
And yet, they have some of the most enviable resources in the online space: professional journalists and opinion leaders with fact-checking chops capable of producing nuanced, in-depth and often tide-turning prose.
Yahoo, AOL and DemandMedia could be seen as potential competitors, but only if newspapers chose to relax their standards of journalistic excellence.
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First it was Yahoo, then AOL and now Google is starting to encroach on DemandMedia’s “demand” content creation space.
The Financial Times reported yesterday in “Google shadow over new media groups” that the dominant search engine obtained a patent for “technology that could position it to compete with a new breed of digital media companies that are generating story ideas for the internet by mining online search data.”
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OMMA Publish kicked off in New York on Wednesday with a conversation between All Things D’s Peter Kafka (@pkafka) and Yahoo’s VP of Media, Jimmy Pitaro.
Pitaro provided background on Yahoo’s decision to buy Associated Content (more on Media Post.) He also revealed that Yahoo’s decision to focus on creating more local original content (rather than strictly linking and aggregating) stemmed from access to greater “audience insight.”
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While perusing my twitter feed this morning, a particularly compelling link caught my eye. In fact, the link was retweeted so many times it was virtually impossible to miss.
The Wall Street Journal’s Digits Blog reported “Internet Is Set to Overtake Newspapers In Revenue.” It’s a little surprising that this link would be so “hot,” since the writing has been on the (Web) wall for quite some time.
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30 June 2010 By Perfect Market
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