paidContent - pC LIVE Podcast: How to monetize digital content: Advertising or paywall?, and more for Wednesday, May 22, 2013

May 22, 2013

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Top Headlines pC LIVE Podcast: How to monetize digital content: Advertising or paywall? Yahoo swears it isn’t going to screw up Tumblr — but how realistic is that promise? From Cronkite to Couric: Internet Archive gets $1 million to expand TV news collection Brow.si wants to make mobile websites behave like native apps Six finalists in the book discovery Publishing Hackathon; winner to be announced at BEA Why racist, nasty comments are better than none at all Flickr gets revamp — with 1 TB of photo storage free — and Yahoo gets new NYC office Buying Tumblr might make Yahoo cool — but buying Pinterest might have made more sense New York Times CEO calls digital pay model “most successful” decision in years By Chris Albrecht May 21 2013, 9:12pm PDT pC LIVE Podcast: How to monetize digital content: Advertising or paywall? From paidContent LIVE 2013, a re-broadcast of our panel featuring MLB Advanced Media, News Corp., Atlantic Media and ProPublica discussing digital monetization strategies. Read More » By Mathew Ingram May 21 2013, 2:47pm PDT Yahoo swears it isn’t going to screw up Tumblr — but how realistic is that promise? Fans of Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer say she shouldn't be blamed for the company's history of failed acquisitions -- but there are plenty of other reasons to be skeptical about Yahoo's $1.1-billion Tumblr deal. Read More » By Jeff John Roberts May 21 2013, 2:45pm PDT From Cronkite to Couric: Internet Archive gets $1 million to expand TV news collection The Internet Archive recently launched an ambitious project to collect and index all broadcasts since the start of television. This week it got a major boost. Read More » By David Meyer May 21 2013, 11:00am PDT Brow.si wants to make mobile websites behave like native apps The platform could give publishers a new tool in their quest to monetize online content. Not only does it let mobile websites issue push notifications, but it also introduces new real estate for ads. Read More » By Laura Hazard Owen May 21 2013, 9:21am PDT Six finalists in the book discovery Publishing Hackathon; winner to be announced at BEA The six finalists of the Publishing Hackathon held over the weekend in New York focus on discovering books in new ways -- whether it's by browsing book jackets or getting recommendations based on your web browser history. Read More » By Jeff John Roberts May 21 2013, 7:45am PDT Why racist, nasty comments are better than none at all Many publishers treat obnoxious comments as a problem to be solved -- Above the Law takes the opposite approach, and embraces readers as they are. Read More » By Laura Hazard Owen May 20 2013, 5:28pm PDT Flickr gets revamp — with 1 TB of photo storage free — and Yahoo gets new NYC office More news from Yahoo on Monday: The company is revamping photo-sharing service Flickr and is also opening a New York City office. Tumblr's employees, however, will remain at their current office. Read More » By Eliza Kern May 20 2013, 3:17pm PDT Buying Tumblr might make Yahoo cool — but buying Pinterest might have made more sense There are plenty of reasons why the announced Yahoo Tumblr deal makes sense for those companies. But Marissa Mayer might have seen a much greater payoff from acquiring Pinterest instead. Here's why. Read More » By Jeff John Roberts May 20 2013, 9:07am PDT New York Times CEO calls digital pay model “most successful” decision in years In a speech to Columbia business school graduates, the CEO of the New York Times described the company's role in media disruption. Read More » Follow paidContent:

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paidContent - Flickr gets revamp — with 1 TB of photo storage free — and Yahoo gets new NYC office, and more for Tuesday, May 21, 2013

May 21, 2013

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Top Headlines Flickr gets revamp — with 1 TB of photo storage free — and Yahoo gets new NYC office Buying Tumblr might make Yahoo cool — but buying Pinterest might have made more sense Marissa Mayer: Some Tumblr users “may never come to Yahoo,” and that’s OK New York Times CEO calls digital pay model “most successful” decision in years Distort puts a new twist on slow-mo, and on Revision3′s production How to make Twitter the ultimate news ticker Why Yahoo acquiring Tumblr for $1 billion makes a certain horrible kind of sense Crowdfunding a crack scandal — did Gawker go too far? By Laura Hazard Owen May 20 2013, 5:28pm PDT Flickr gets revamp — with 1 TB of photo storage free — and Yahoo gets new NYC office More news from Yahoo on Monday: The company is revamping photo-sharing service Flickr and is also opening a New York City office. Tumblr's employees, however, will remain at their current office. Read More » By Eliza Kern May 20 2013, 3:17pm PDT Buying Tumblr might make Yahoo cool — but buying Pinterest might have made more sense There are plenty of reasons why the announced Yahoo Tumblr deal makes sense for those companies. But Marissa Mayer might have seen a much greater payoff from acquiring Pinterest instead. Here's why. Read More » By Laura Hazard Owen May 20 2013, 10:25am PDT Marissa Mayer: Some Tumblr users “may never come to Yahoo,” and that’s OK In an investor call Monday morning, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer said Yahoo and Tumblr's audiences really don't overlap. She said that's fine: Yahoo users will be exposed to more Tumblr content, and Tumblr gets a new ad strategy and possible Flickr integration while remaining a separate site. Read More » By Jeff John Roberts May 20 2013, 9:07am PDT New York Times CEO calls digital pay model “most successful” decision in years In a speech to Columbia business school graduates, the CEO of the New York Times described the company's role in media disruption. Read More » By Liz Shannon Miller May 19 2013, 3:00am PDT Distort puts a new twist on slow-mo, and on Revision3′s production The upcoming Rev3 series Distort offers not only rich, compelling footage shot at high frame rates, but the on-camera presence of former Rev3 employees, who've struck an unusual deal for distribution. Read More » By Paul Armstrong, Guest Contributor May 18 2013, 1:30pm PDT How to make Twitter the ultimate news ticker Recent events, tragic and triumphant, emphasize the social web's role as a central source for disseminating breaking news. But getting the facts right continues to be a challenge, and a solution requires cooperation and technical innovation. Read More » By Mathew Ingram May 18 2013, 11:41am PDT Why Yahoo acquiring Tumblr for $1 billion makes a certain horrible kind of sense Fans of the social-blogging network might not like the idea much, but a $1-billion acquisition of Tumblr would arguably solve a number of problems for Yahoo -- and do the same for Tumblr CEO David Karp. Read More » By Jeff John Roberts May 17 2013, 5:20pm PDT Crowdfunding a crack scandal — did Gawker go too far? Gawker has just taken checkbook journalism to a whole new level -- asking the public to help buy a video tape that is likely to bring down the mayor of a major city. Read More » Follow paidContent:

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paidContent - Report: Yahoo’s board agrees to pay $1.1 billion for Tumblr, and more for Monday, May 20, 2013

May 20, 2013

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Top Headlines Report: Yahoo’s board agrees to pay $1.1 billion for Tumblr How to make Twitter the ultimate news ticker Crowdfunding a crack scandal — did Gawker go too far? Binge-watching forces “One Life to Live,” “All My Children” to cut back on new episodes Parakweet uses natural language processing to find value in your tweets When can a book be digital-only, and when does it need to be print too? How Google Music wants to take on Spotify, Rdio and Rhapsody By Laura Hazard Owen May 19 2013, 1:53pm PDT Report: Yahoo’s board agrees to pay $1.1 billion for Tumblr Yahoo's board has agreed to pay $1.1 billion for Tumblr, according to reports. Read More » By Paul Armstrong, Guest Contributor May 18 2013, 1:30pm PDT How to make Twitter the ultimate news ticker Recent events, tragic and triumphant, emphasize the social web's role as a central source for disseminating breaking news. But getting the facts right continues to be a challenge, and a solution requires cooperation and technical innovation. Read More » By Jeff John Roberts May 17 2013, 5:20pm PDT Crowdfunding a crack scandal — did Gawker go too far? Gawker has just taken checkbook journalism to a whole new level -- asking the public to help buy a video tape that is likely to bring down the mayor of a major city. Read More » By Laura Hazard Owen May 17 2013, 12:50pm PDT Binge-watching forces “One Life to Live,” “All My Children” to cut back on new episodes When soap operas "One Life to Live" and "All My Children" moved online, it wasn't clear how fans would watch them. It turns out that most viewers are binge-watching -- so the soaps' production company is cutting back on the number of new episodes each week. Read More » By Eliza Kern May 17 2013, 12:00pm PDT Parakweet uses natural language processing to find value in your tweets Looking for a book suggestion? Culling information from your Twitter feed and turning that into accurate recommendations is harder than it looks, but Parakweet is looking to use natural language procesing to do just that. Read More » By Laura Hazard Owen May 17 2013, 8:24am PDT When can a book be digital-only, and when does it need to be print too? Book publishers discussed digital-first and digital-only initiatives at the Making Information Pay conference this week. Read More » By Janko Roettgers May 16 2013, 3:11pm PDT How Google Music wants to take on Spotify, Rdio and Rhapsody Google launched its own music subscription service Wednesday. Currently, it's not very different from all the other services out there. So how does it want to compete? Read More » Follow paidContent:

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paidContent - How Google Music wants to take on Spotify, Rdio and Rhapsody, and more for Friday, May 17, 2013

May 17, 2013

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Top Headlines How Google Music wants to take on Spotify, Rdio and Rhapsody Is sensor journalism feasible, or even ethical? Columbia’s Tow Center hopes to find out Google CEO Larry Page: Do as I say, not as I do Producer of The Ring and Mulholland Drive releases new horror movie as an iOS app Top jobs of the week in digital media Publishers to testify against Apple in price-fixing trial New Yorker launches “open-source anonymous inbox” built by Aaron Swartz Ebooks made up 20% of the U.S. consumer book industry in 2012, up from 15% in 2011 German online publishers’ anti-adblock campaign backfires Crowdsourcing is here to stay — now it’s about building tools for networked journalism By Janko Roettgers May 16 2013, 3:11pm PDT How Google Music wants to take on Spotify, Rdio and Rhapsody Google launched its own music subscription service Wednesday. Currently, it's not very different from all the other services out there. So how does it want to compete? Read More » By Laura Hazard Owen May 16 2013, 1:06pm PDT Is sensor journalism feasible, or even ethical? Columbia’s Tow Center hopes to find out Journalists and organizations now have the ability to use sensors to collect their own real-time data and report on it. The practice raises both practical and ethical questions, Columbia's Emily Bell said Thursday. Read More » By Om Malik May 16 2013, 1:00pm PDT Google CEO Larry Page: Do as I say, not as I do Google CEO Larry Page, who has been suffering from vocal cord issues, showed up at the end of the Google I/O keynote and spent some time talking about his vision of technology and took questions from the audience. And that's when the fun started. Read More » By Laura Hazard Owen May 16 2013, 8:00am PDT Producer of The Ring and Mulholland Drive releases new horror movie as an iOS app Neal Edelstein, producer of hit movies like The Ring and Mulholland Drive, has a new film project: A film delivered in chunks directly through an iOS app. Read More » By Connie Hwong, Community Manager May 15 2013, 5:55pm PDT Top jobs of the week in digital media Looking for a job in digital media? Each week we highlight some of the most interesting positions posted to paidContent's jobs board. Check out the latest gigs at media companies across the country. Read More » By Jeff John Roberts May 15 2013, 2:02pm PDT Publishers to testify against Apple in price-fixing trial Apple's exposure in a closely-watched price-fixing case over ebooks looks more serious as the CEOs of major publishers -- which have already settled with the government -- will testify about Apple's role in the case. Read More » By Laura Hazard Owen May 15 2013, 11:15am PDT New Yorker launches “open-source anonymous inbox” built by Aaron Swartz The New Yorker has launched Strongbox, an open-source software system that allows users to submit confidential documents to the magazine anonymously. Strongbox was built by Aaron Swartz before his death. Read More » By Laura Hazard Owen May 15 2013, 12:01am PDT Ebooks made up 20% of the U.S. consumer book industry in 2012, up from 15% in 2011 The U.S. consumer book publishing industry had a strong 2012, fueled in part by the growth of ebooks. Read More » By Janko Roettgers May 14 2013, 2:42pm PDT German online publishers’ anti-adblock campaign backfires A public campaign by some of the biggest German online publishers against ad-blocking software may have backfired, as downloads of one popular ad-blocking product have more than doubled. Read More » By Mathew Ingram May 14 2013, 2:06pm PDT Crowdsourcing is here to stay — now it’s about building tools for networked journalism NYU journalism professor Jay Rosen says that many of the cultural barriers to doing "networked journalism" have been lowered, and he is trying to help media outlets develop smart tools and ways of making use of crowdsourcing. Read More » Follow paidContent:

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