Archive for the 'socialsoftware' Category

Take the poll and read the article by Chris Leckness of mobilitysite.
Thank you, Mark Meyhew (aka TwitterTutor) for sending this link via twitter.
Share This

How do newspapers gain a bigger audience and sustain it?
Be the “EveryInfo” for your readers. It’s like the term “Everyman.”
By “EveryInfo,” I mean the place where an individual goes to get all the information one wants and needs.
Newspapers need to act like comprehensive libraries. Huge databases of breaking news, recent new and historical news. Databases […]

C|Net’s 2008 Webware 100 Contest
Share This

View my page on Wired Journalists
Share This

Robb Montgomery doesn’t seem to sleep.
Today, he launched the very cool, social, mashed up, Web 2.0 version of Visual Editors with the help of Ning, social software for anyone who wants to create online social networks.
Thank you, Ning, for existing.
The old VizEds is fun to hang around.
The new VizEds magnifies that fun 100 times.
Journalists: […]

Audio, video, interactive maps and charts, RSS feeds, automatic updates, candidate match-up quizzes, fun and engaging.
Network news and public radio websites may have the more visually-friendly election coverage, but along with newspapers all three entities are using the above devices/elements to cover the U.S. Presidential Election 2008.
From what I’ve observed so far, the one attribute […]

Don’t send a lame Holiday eCard. Try JibJab Sendables!
As one editor said to me, “Who really reads an entire ‘Year in Review?’” For print, stick to lots of photos and pithy cutlines. For online sites, JibJab creates great examples of what readers/viewers want. Journalists don’t have to make the videos glib. Make them entertaining and […]

One-stop news videos

Voxant’s The Newsroom is a great place to find news videos from a myriad of news sources such as The Wall Street Journal, BBC and CBS.
Share This

A point which I wanted to bring up regarding my recent post on “defining Web 2.0″ was lost amongst everything else going on these past couple of weeks.
Thankfully, someone inadvertently reminded me.
Back to that quick conversation with those two young University of Michigan computer science majors:
Though I walked away from the conversation concluding Web 2.0 […]

Ten winners in ten categories
Analysis of the 100 Webware 2.0 winners.
Definitely check out the video analysis by Rafe Needleman of c|net’s webware.

Share This




Close
E-mail It