There’s a lot of harsh criticism going out about the changes being introduced in iOS 7, and even a few publishers who are very happy about some of the new features, but what do these changes mean for your apps?
The UI and visual changes that have been introduced at WWDC this year are the most extreme since the introduction of the iPad, or iPhone 5.
Is traditional journalism old news? That is the question asked in an infographic from WorldWideLearn (shown below) that features statistics from Pew Research’s State of the News Media 2013 report as well as statistics from the Federal Communications Commission, the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and more.
According to the data in the infographic, 58% of print news subscribers who frequently use an iPad report that they are very likely to cancel their print news subsciptions within the next six months.
The SIIA Digital Content and Media Summit will be held on September 23-25, 2013 in London, and innovative companies in the information industry are invited to apply to present at SIIA Previews during the event.
SIIA Previews gives applicants the opportunity to present their companies and products to a panel of industry experts and information technology decision makers.
At SXSW 2013, WordPress CEO Matt Mullenweg boldly stated that content curation would be one of the key areas of focus for his company in the future. How did content curation become such a hot topic for publishers and a strategic priority for a company like WordPress? Let’s take a high-level look at the evolution of content curation to learn more.
As news organizations cut staff and more freelance reporters and writers are expected to foot the bill for their expenses, a new media model is developing. Writers are turning to crowdfunding to raise the money needed to develop stories, and publishers are turning to crowdsourcing to generate the quality content they need to publish on their websites.
Google is gearing up for the release of Penguin 2.0, which will put link analysis in the spotlight and revive the almighty Google PageRank.
Those rumors were confirmed by Google’s Matt Cutts in a recent video on the Google Webmaster Help channel on YouTube. Matt made it clear that black hat SEO, particularly questionable SEO tactics related to link building, will be targeted in the next major Google algorithm change.
This week, I Want Media hosted its annual Future of Media panel discussion at New York University, which was held in conjunction with Internet Week New York. This year, digital publishing executives discussed three key topics during the panel: the acquisition of Tumblr by Yahoo!, web video, and original content.
Panelists for the Future of Media: 2013 event included HuffPost Live president and co-creator Roy Sekoff, BuzzFeed CEO and founder Jonah Peretti, New York Times CEO Mark Thompson, Salon Media Group CEO and CTO Cindy Jeffers, and Business Insider Editor and CEO Henry Blodgett.
Newstex marketing consultant and publisher Susan Gunelius is the #1 women and leadership influencer online according to a ranking report by social media influence moderation company Traackr.
Traackr used its Influencer Network Analysis feature to identify the top people who are influencing content and conversations about women and leadership online. Based on its analysis, Traackr identified and ranked the top 49 women and leadership influencers.
Newsweek stopped publishing its print magazine at the end of 2012 saying its focus would shift entirely to the weekly Newsweek Global tablet edition. This week, Newsweek offered an introduction to its new online strategy with a beta launch of the redesigned Newsweek.com.
Michael Sebastian of Ad Age explains that Newsweek sees the reimagined Newsweek.com as the first step toward developing a new “long-form, immersive and multi-media experience in the web browser.”
At launch, the redesigned Newsweek.com includes seven key elements:
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