Social media platforms & web publishing services

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The Rocky Mountain News is one of many newspapers closing around the world today.

Reams are being written as to why newspapers are closing, whether bloggers can replace them and what can be done for newspapers to stay open.

But this is just a documentary about all of that.

This morning I could not get my regular dose of BBC Radio 4’s Today programme. The iPlayer was down. The BBC message boards were buzzing with complaints, and at 9 am there had still not been one BBC response.

And on none of the progamme pages where there any communications either. Nada.

Not good. Have the BBC not learned …

It’s been added by an algorhythm. No kidding.

TV viewing is - besides for coverage of live events -  in slow decline. Sites like YouTube on the other hand is generating thousands of streams daily but very expensive to run.

But videos on YouTube and elsewhere online are very difficult to monetise. Users don’t like their viewing interrupted.

Enter ZunaVision, a technology based on an academic research …

The Netsize guide is a yearly comprehensive report on the state, structure, products and trends of the mobile industry. It’s a must read report if your interested in the way things mobile are going.

It addresses things like whether mobile advertising is finally making headway, whether the operators will become dumb pipes, whther the internet giants will dominate the mobile space, and much more.

Tonight Techcrunch announced that it had integrated via a Wordpress plugin, an implementation of Facebook connect.

What does it do? It allows you to sign in super easy with your name and Facebook password, and then leave a comment. Facebook automatically includes a pic from Facebook as an avatar as well as your name, linked to your Facebook profile.

What’s the implications of this?

If your a commenter and blogger:

…like me I’d be weary.

I want people …

Sam Leith is an acquaintance of mine. He is also a terribly good writer. This evening I got a message in my HelloTxt (a status feed agregator I work on) feed, it said:

Sam Leith is fired, pending appeal.

On Facebook I was greeted by a stream of disbelief from other fiends. One pointed us to to an official confirmation.

On this blog I have written a lot about the shake up of traditional media by new media like Facebook. …

Advertisers are increasingly realising the power of social media like blogs and Twitter, and they want in on the action. Said Techcrunch yesterday:

“Like much-criticized PayPerPost for blogs, German/UK startup Be-A-Mapgpie will pay you to insert advertisements into your Twitter stream.

Advertisers pay on a cost-per-thousand-impression basis, and the ads are promised to be delivered to relevant audiences based on keywords. That means Be-A-Magpie will analyze the content of your Twitter messages to see if there is a …

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There’s a new way to search Twitter. Techcrunch says of Tweetag:

“The app, like most Twitter-related applications, is fairly simple: you enter a tag, and Tweetag will show any public Twitter messages that contain that particular keyword, but more interestingly also a list of other tags that are related to it.”

Then of course there is Tweetscan who also keeps a database of historical ‘Tweets’ which you can download and search to your hearts content.

Kiss Me

Originally uploaded by KennethMoyle

Don’t you think it’s surprising that you don’t really read about or hear people talk about web 2.0 and social media and what the difference between the two are.

But today the formidable Techcrunch blog did pronounce - in passing - on relations between the two. They are kissing …

Last Friday I gave a talk to a large UK PR agency about social media. I told them they (PR) were (or should be) much better placed to engage people through social media than traditional advertising agencies.

The Wikipedia definition of PR is -

“Public relations (PR) is the practice of managing the flow of information between an organization and its publics. Public relations - often referred to as PR - gains an organization or individual exposure to their audiences using topics …

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