paidContent - Starting today, new episodes of All My Children and One Life to Live are airing online, and more for Tuesday, April 30, 2013

April 30, 2013

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Top Headlines Starting today, new episodes of All My Children and One Life to Live are airing online Weather Company unveils three new web series, offers “four-screen” ad opportunity Target to promote products endorsed by Wired, including Fitbit and Belkin WeMo Court backs artist in Rasta case: less copyright control for image owners? Huffington Post to launch in Germany with digital media group Tomorrow Focus It’s not just Tumblr — most social networks don’t understand original content Dear Diary: What’s the role of a personal journal in the digital age? Banned in China: Bloomberg and New York Times say they had no choice By Laura Hazard Owen Apr 29 2013, 3:23pm PDT Starting today, new episodes of All My Children and One Life to Live are airing online Two years after ABC canceled them, soap operas One Life to Live and All My Children are coming back to life online, with four new 30-minute episodes per week available on Hulu and iTunes. But soap fans who are not used to online viewing may not tune in. Read More » By Jeff John Roberts Apr 29 2013, 3:05pm PDT Weather Company unveils three new web series, offers “four-screen” ad opportunity The Weather Company continues to expand beyond its core programming with new web series devoted to adventure and human interest. The new content comes as the company deepens its content and advertising strategies. Read More » By Laura Hazard Owen Apr 29 2013, 10:26am PDT Target to promote products endorsed by Wired, including Fitbit and Belkin WeMo Target will sell electronics products endorsed by the editors of Wired in stores and online. Selections include the Square credit card reader, Fitbit and Belkin WeMo. Target also has an editorial partnership with CNET. Read More » By Jeff John Roberts Apr 29 2013, 9:02am PDT Court backs artist in Rasta case: less copyright control for image owners? When is the use of another artist's image "transformative" and when is it just copyright infringement? A major court ruling provides broader protection for appropriation artists. Read More » By Laura Hazard Owen Apr 29 2013, 8:39am PDT Huffington Post to launch in Germany with digital media group Tomorrow Focus The Huffington Post will launch in Germany this fall. The company has already expanded to Canada, the U.K., France, Spain and Italy, and a Japanese edition will roll out May 7. Read More » By Austin Powell, Guest Contributor Apr 27 2013, 11:00am PDT It’s not just Tumblr — most social networks don’t understand original content The trend among social networks to produce original content often ends badly, as Tumblr's shuttering of Storyboard showed. Here's where other big services, from Facebook to YouTube, are going wrong – or, in the case of LinkedIn, going right. Read More » By Laura Hazard Owen Apr 27 2013, 8:00am PDT Dear Diary: What’s the role of a personal journal in the digital age? I started keeping my diary 15 years ago, before Twitter, Facebook and a deluge of email. In a digital era, personal journal-keeping has changed and adapted to the more technological world -- but those who privately chronicle their lives still find the practice useful. Read More » By Jeff John Roberts Apr 26 2013, 4:07pm PDT Banned in China: Bloomberg and New York Times say they had no choice Should news outlets in China engage in occasional self-censorship for the greater good of reaching readers and projecting influence? Read More » Follow paidContent:

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paidContent - It’s not just Tumblr — most social networks don’t understand original content, and more for Monday, April 29, 2013

April 29, 2013

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Top Headlines It’s not just Tumblr — most social networks don’t understand original content Dear Diary: What’s the role of a personal journal in the digital age? Banned in China: Bloomberg and New York Times say they had no choice iOS reading platform Readmill partners with digital marketplace Gumroad NYT says new products to be profitable by late 2014 By Austin Powell, Guest Contributor Apr 27 2013, 11:00am PDT It’s not just Tumblr — most social networks don’t understand original content The trend among social networks to produce original content often ends badly, as Tumblr's shuttering of Storyboard showed. Here's where other big services, from Facebook to YouTube, are going wrong – or, in the case of LinkedIn, going right. Read More » By Laura Hazard Owen Apr 27 2013, 8:00am PDT Dear Diary: What’s the role of a personal journal in the digital age? I started keeping my diary 15 years ago, before Twitter, Facebook and a deluge of email. In a digital era, personal journal-keeping has changed and adapted to the more technological world -- but those who privately chronicle their lives still find the practice useful. Read More » By Jeff John Roberts Apr 26 2013, 4:07pm PDT Banned in China: Bloomberg and New York Times say they had no choice Should news outlets in China engage in occasional self-censorship for the greater good of reaching readers and projecting influence? Read More » By Laura Hazard Owen Apr 26 2013, 8:47am PDT iOS reading platform Readmill partners with digital marketplace Gumroad iOS reading platform Readmill announced three partnerships Friday. The Berlin-based startup is working with digital marketplace Gumroad, and has also partnered with U.K. companies Faber Factory and Firsty Group, which offer services to independent publishers and authors. Read More » By Jeff John Roberts Apr 25 2013, 1:49pm PDT NYT says new products to be profitable by late 2014 The New York Times is planning new lower-priced digital subscriptions for certain types of digital content. Executives provided some -- but not many details on the company's earnings call. Read More » Follow paidContent:

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paidContent - Marco Arment on Instapaper’s sale and the “big” market for read-it-later apps, and more for Friday, April 26, 2013

April 26, 2013

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Top Headlines Marco Arment on Instapaper’s sale and the “big” market for read-it-later apps Betaworks acquires Marco Arment’s read-it-later platform Instapaper After a radical transformation, Blip gets ready to take on cable Amazon earnings beat the Street, turns focus on original TV programming NYT says new products to be profitable by late 2014 Google: government censorship requests jumped 20% in last six months Snoop’s new “Reincarnated” app shows off Citia’s expansion of its iOS publishing platform Startup BookShout raises $6M; no longer lets users import their Kindle and Nook books New York Times issues soft earnings, plans “new strategy for growth” The future of TV, according to Netflix CEO Reed Hastings What I learned at paidContent Live: No one has all the answers on the future of media, and that’s good Tumblr turns toward user-driven discovery with improved sharing, Pocket and Instapaper support Three things that Reddit did right during the Boston bombings and why that matters Google gets serious about toolbar scams with new ad policy, forcing AVG to retreat Aereo is coming to Boston in May Is this plagiarism? A new web extension can help answer that question New York Times lifts paywall for video, plans ‘franchises’ paidContent Live Re-Run: Blogging Elite with Andrew Sullivan, Maria Popova, Tim Ferris and Andrew Ross Sorkin By Laura Hazard Owen Apr 25 2013, 6:56pm PDT Marco Arment on Instapaper’s sale and the “big” market for read-it-later apps Marco Arment sees a bright future for read-it-later services, and says that Instapaper's acquisition by Betaworks will allow it to get some new features that he hasn't had time to add. Read More » By Laura Hazard Owen Apr 25 2013, 6:02pm PDT Betaworks acquires Marco Arment’s read-it-later platform Instapaper New media incubator Betaworks has acquired Marco Arment's popular read-it-later platform Instapaper. Betaworks acquired Digg last year, and the firm is focusing on both short-form and long-form content companies. Read More » By Janko Roettgers Apr 25 2013, 5:13pm PDT After a radical transformation, Blip gets ready to take on cable Blip used to be just another video hosting site trying to compete with YouTube. These days, it's looking very different - and it's getting ready to take on cable TV. Read More » By Laura Hazard Owen Apr 25 2013, 4:10pm PDT Amazon earnings beat the Street, turns focus on original TV programming Amazon delivered its Q1 2013 earnings report Thursday afternoon, beating analyst expectations. In its release, which comes a day after renewed reports of an Amazon set-top box, the company highlighted its original television programming initiatives. Read More » By Jeff John Roberts Apr 25 2013, 1:49pm PDT NYT says new products to be profitable by late 2014 The New York Times is planning new lower-priced digital subscriptions for certain types of digital content. Executives provided some -- but not many details on the company's earnings call. Read More » By Jeff John Roberts Apr 25 2013, 11:15am PDT Google: government censorship requests jumped 20% in last six months Google has published new numbers that show how governments around the world are asking to remove more content from services like YouTube than ever before. Read More » By Laura Hazard Owen Apr 25 2013, 10:16am PDT Snoop’s new “Reincarnated” app shows off Citia’s expansion of its iOS publishing platform Citia, a New York-based startup formerly known for its ebook apps, is expanding into new content areas. The company is behind Snoop's new "Reincarnated: Track Notes" app, out today, and is also expanding from iPad to iPhone and the web. Read More » By Laura Hazard Owen Apr 25 2013, 10:00am PDT Startup BookShout raises $6M; no longer lets users import their Kindle and Nook books Dallas-based book startup BookShout has raised $6 million in its second funding round. When the company launched, it allowed users to import their Nook and Kindle books onto the platform, but that function has been turned off. Read More » By Jeff John Roberts Apr 25 2013, 8:45am PDT New York Times issues soft earnings, plans “new strategy for growth” The New York Times's latest quarterly earnings estimates slightly missed analysts' expectations. The company also announced a new plan to offer a variety of new, lower-priced digital products. Read More » By Janko Roettgers Apr 24 2013, 4:31pm PDT The future of TV, according to Netflix CEO Reed Hastings TV is fundamentally changing from a linear delivery model to a world in which apps compete with each other, and Netflix is spending billions to be part of that future. Read More » By Mathew Ingram Apr 24 2013, 1:49pm PDT What I learned at paidContent Live: No one has all the answers on the future of media, and that’s good One thing that emerged from our media conference was that there is no single solution when it comes to the future of content, or the monetization of media -- and that is probably a good thing. Read More » By Laura Hazard Owen Apr 24 2013, 1:11pm PDT Tumblr turns toward user-driven discovery with improved sharing, Pocket and Instapaper support Tumblr wants users to discover content by themselves, rather than pushing it out to them. The updates to its iOS app Wednesday are aimed at helping users share and save Tumblr posts. Read More » By Mathew Ingram Apr 23 2013, 4:46pm PDT Three things that Reddit did right during the Boston bombings and why that matters While much of the attention during and after the Boston bombings focused on how one Reddit thread got things wrong, there were other important parts of the community that were doing good -- and even doing something approaching journalism. Read More » By Jeff John Roberts Apr 23 2013, 10:52am PDT Google gets serious about toolbar scams with new ad policy, forcing AVG to retreat Google's published a blog post last week about "bad apples" in the ad industry. The meaning of the post is now clear: it was intended to rein in shady software, but also to send a message to other advertisers to clean up their act. Read More » By Jeff John Roberts Apr 23 2013, 10:33am PDT Aereo is coming to Boston in May Aereo, a service that lets you watch live TV on your phone, is going live in Boston on May 15. Read More » By Laura Hazard Owen Apr 23 2013, 9:57am PDT Is this plagiarism? A new web extension can help answer that question Churnalism, a new browser extension and website from the Sunlight Foundation, aims to help detect plagiarism online by checking content against Wikipedia and a database of press releases. But it won't pick up on plagiarism from other sources. Read More » By Jeff John Roberts Apr 23 2013, 9:46am PDT New York Times lifts paywall for video, plans ‘franchises’ The New York Times is no longer restricting non-subscribers' access to its video content. The move, which comes as the Times tightens other parts of its paywall, is part of the paper's plans to expand its brand in the video space. Read More » By Chris Albrecht Apr 23 2013, 7:30am PDT paidContent Live Re-Run: Blogging Elite with Andrew Sullivan, Maria Popova, Tim Ferris and Andrew Ross Sorkin What can you learn from today's blogging elite? Check out this audio re-cast from our recent paidContent LIVE show to learn from some of the medium's masters. Read More » Follow paidContent:

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