The newspaper on your wall
Here is Living Room 2.0 – New York Times‘ vision of how the news site content on the work on your living room wall. It is another video which Nieman Journalism Lab has recorded from the R&D Group...
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How the internet really affected the election
After all the hype and all the disappointment, a report from Reuters Institute for the study of Journalism digs deeper into the effect of social media on the 2010 campaign. This article titled “How the...
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Does technology pose a threat to our private life?
Google’s Eric Schmidt suggests we may need to invent new identities to escape embarrassing online pasts – while Facebook has launched a tool to share users’ locations. So does technology pose a threat...
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What I love – and what I hate – with iPad
For a few weeks I have used iPad for news consumption, daily tasks and fun. It is wonderful. And terrible. Here is why. Join BetaTales on Facebook Subscribe by RSS iPad is my first Apple product. As...
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iPad chokes netbook sales
Gartner and IDC data shows slower growth in sales of PCs than expected – with Apple tablet reckoned to account for shortfall. This article titled “iPad chokes netbook sales” was written by Charles...
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Waiting for the tornado: How media’s business model will break down
From Copy Economy to Access Economy: The media industry must prepare itself for a future in the cloud, claims a digital future expert. Media futurist Gerd Leonhard was the keynote speaker of the Future...
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iPad is all male fun in high tech country Sweden
Even before iPad has been launched in Scandinavia, ten thousands of people have managed to get hold of a tablet. But they are almost all male! In hardly any other parts of the world there is as high...
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iPad apps – still more dash than cash
Screenshot of VG+, the iPad app from Norwegian news company VG Apple’s ‘Jesus tablet’ seemed to be the news industry’s best hope of salvation but few publishers are finding apps to be the...
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Do you need to catch up on the latest mobile internet trends? Check this excellent presentation from the highly respected analyst Mary Meeker. Few analysts receive as much attention when presenting the...
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Five reasons news companies should have a strong presence in social media
In 2011 it is no longer possible to be a top professional journalist without mastering social media. Here are five reasons why news organizations need to care about the new trends. Social media is...
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News holograms: Is it a threat to media’s credibility?
It was described as a hologram – and was used for the first time in the TV business. But is CNN’s hologram experiment really adding value to the news coverage? I must admit I was intrigued. And also...
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Everything you wanted to know about Google
Image via Wikipedia I came across this excellent presentation of Google from the French consulting company Fabernovel. It promises to tell you “everything you wanted to know about Google … But were...
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The word that should be banned in all media companies
It is used in lots of board rooms these days – as an expression of the danger newspaper companies are in. But in fact the executives would be wiser to ban the word. What word? Read on. Publishers'...
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Helping publishers easily produce HTML5 apps
GUEST BLOG POST: Developers from Poland create an easy Do-It-Yourself tool for publishers to prepare tablet apps on their own. Rafal Oracz from Spoti.pl explains their HTML5 tool for publishers By...
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Norway: One in five use media content on mobiles every day
One in five Norwegians now consume media content on mobile platforms on a daily basis. Changes happen so fast that media companies struggle to keep up. Hardly before has the media industry seen changes...
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Apple’s top grossing lists – and what they tell publishers
Media companies hope to build solid revenue streams by betting on user payment on mobile platforms. But a look at Apple’s top grossing lists for iPhone and iPad sends a warning signal. I was involved...
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Nude pictures of national hero were censored by Facebook
Norway’s largest newspaper Aftenposten published nude pictures of the national hero Fridtjof Nansen. That was too much for Facebook – and references to the photos were removed from Aftenposten’s...
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Top Internet trends in 2011
Few other analysts give as comprehensive and solid analysis of current Internet trends as Mary Meeker of Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers. Here is her latest presentation of mobile and other digital...
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Redefining which content has value
Looking for ways to make users pay for digital content, many editors consistently make a wrong assumption: That stories from the printed newspaper have higher value than the web stories. I have read it...
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Why I don’t dare to publish with Apple’s iBooks Author App
Apple is tempting authors with an easy-to-publish book platform. But as an author I would be stupid to take their offer. I have for the last couple of years worked on a book about Cambodia. As a former...
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