Some media companies are spending in excess of 100% of their digital revenue on site development, management, and hosting, says Cisco's Scott Brown.
Cisco aims to capitalize on this inefficiency and save publishers as much as 60% of technology costs with a hosted solution called Eos.
Launched earlier this year, the' [...]
It seems as if there's hardly a week that goes by lately without some major announcement from Google, Microsoft and other technology providers that has major repercussions for the content industry. In the past week, we've had not just a major announcement but a major rumor' [...] RealPlayer SP, A small desktop application from RealNetworks, which allows users to save and share Flash videos, has been downloaded 100 million times, the company said today.
Earlier this year, we spoke with RealNetwork's Jeff Chasen about the new application. We have republished the interview today.
Andy Plesser, Executive Producer [...]
Adobe sees a big growth opportunity in the emerging eReader market, says Bill Rusitzky, who heads media alliances for the software company.
The company is heavily promoting the ePub format which will be used in the Nook and the Sony eReader. It is not used in the Kindle and [...]
Pierre Omidyar, founder of eBay, announced in a blog post that he plans on starting a local news service for Hawaii.
Allvoices, a citizen journalism network that uses a combination of algorithms and user feedback to assess the reliability of contributions, is to start a Provoices network for professional journalists, aiming to cover beats and [...] 
YouTube is releasing a new open-source interface called YouTube Direct that aims to make it easier for news organisations to have access to relevant clips from citizen journalists, it was widely reported. The application, to be unveiled today, will allow media outlets to [...] It's hard to gauge the impact of New York Times and Wall Street Journal moves into metro markets. They could be simple, print retention strategies aimed, at holding on to valuable print readers -- the magnets for still-lucrative print advertising -- for as long as possible.
Longer-term, it could be' [...]
Boingo’s sponsored Wi-Fi program caught my eye earlier this week. I’m a student of marketing programs, especially when quantitative measurement is involved. Boingo claims to have increased revenues by up to 35% at selected airports by allowing sponsors to subsidize internet access for travellers. The program requires the user [...]
The Associated Press and Verve Wireless are teaming up to provide a 'white label' mobile app builder for publishers. The service will allow publishers to create a customized mobile platform for their products, based on the AP mobile app.
The offer is aimed at smaller publications that don't have the resources' [...]
NBC Universal's ten regional web sites, which are affiliated with local owned and operated television stations, has reached an audience of 12 million monthly unique viewers, according to internal numbers.
More on the results on Mediabistro's WebNewser.
Earlier this year, we spoke with Gregory Gittrich, Executive Editor of the sites and [...]
As anticipated, the Times of India, the world's largest English speaking newspaper with a circulation of four million, has announced that it will be launching an elite weekend edition aimed at its well-educated, affluent readers. The new publication, called the Times of India Crest, was [...] 
Russian Information Agency Novosti, a state-owned news agency based in Moscow, has denied allegations of cooperating with a Western PR company in an attempt "to justify Russia's great power ambitions" and improve the reputation of former Soviet Union dictator, Joseph Stalin. 
The German coalition, led by recently re-elected Chancellor Angela Merkel, has pledged to try to introduce a form of copyright legislation to help protect the content produced by journalists online, the New York Times is reporting. Isn't Slate supposed to be above the level of "random Internet troll?" One wonders after reading the anti-Drupal rant by Slate Washington correspondent Chris Wilson, who first claims to explain "Why running the White House Web site on Drupal is a political disaster waiting to happen," then fails to' [...]
It’s great to see celebrities showing AIM some love!
Thanks, Amanda Bynes! AIM thinks you’re awesome, too!
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Singapore media company MediaCorp has launched an integrated newsroom called the NewsHub. It aims to group journalists across news platforms to produce local content which is then tailored for print, online, radio or television, reported ChannelNewsAsia.com, part of MediaCorp.Microsoft's Silverlight software is powering the new videoplayer used by NBCSports.com for Sunday Sunday Night Football.
It is registering extraordinarily high "engagement" with users, Microsoft's Brian Goldfarb told me on Tuesday.
He said that engagement, meaning time watching and interacting, is 10 times normally, with 50 minute sessions per [...]
Facebook yesterday turned on a bunch of new features on its news feed (here is TechCrunch’s writeup of the new features). It looks a lot more like FriendFeed, even though Facebook claims that the FriendFeed team didn’t work on these new features.
What does it do? Now Facebook mostly displays [...]
