Aftonbladet rolls out social network for readers
Posted on May 9, 2008 - Filed Under Europe, Newspapers, social networks, online communities | Leave a Comment
Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet has soft launched a new community for users called Snack, Media Culpa reports.
It is hoped the site, which lets users share comments, images and videos, will be populated by readers acting under their own names rather than anonymous pseudonyms.
According to Media Culpa, the newspaper will soon open up commenting facilities across its […]
Social Media Journalist: “The problem with most news organisations is a lack of editorial understanding of social media” Kevin Anderson, Guardian blogs editor
Posted on May 9, 2008 - Filed Under Newspapers, RSS, guardian, Social Media Journalist, Bookmarking, social networks, Facebook, multimedia experiments, Online Journalism, online communities, blogs, Twitter, Journalism | Leave a Comment
Journalism.co.uk talks to reporters across the globe working at the collision of journalism and social media about how they see it changing their industry. This week, Kevin Anderson, Guardian.co.uk.
1) Who are you and what do you do?
Kevin Anderson, blogs editor at Guardian.co.uk.
My title is misnomer seeing as desk editors handle most of the commissioning.
My role […]
Spleak apps deliver politics and sport news to social networks
Posted on May 8, 2008 - Filed Under widgets, social networks, Politics | Leave a Comment
Spleak Media Network has launched two new applications for delivering short-form sport and political news to social networks.
SportSpleak and VoteSpleak will serve up news headlines and gossip to users on social networks and instant messaging services, who can then comment on the updates to their friends.
Both will function along the same lines as CelebSpleak, which […]
Innovations in Journalism - Opinion Tracker
Posted on May 1, 2008 - Filed Under poll, Innovations in Journalism, social networks, blogs, Online Journalism | Leave a Comment
We give developers the opportunity to tell us journalists why we should sit up and pay attention to the sites and devices they are working on. Today, it’s monitoring what people are talking about on the web with Opinion Tracker.
1) Who are you and what’s it all about?
Hi, I’m Chris Quigley, managing partner at Delib […]
The European News Interactivity Index
Posted on April 30, 2008 - Filed Under social networks, Twitter, online communities, Technology, Online Journalism | Leave a Comment
Nicolas Kayser-Bril, contributor to the Online Journalism Blog and Observatoire des Media, has created an index of the interactive tools used by European news websites.
The index compares and contrasts which media organisations make use of tools such as Twitter, mobile alerts and social networks, as well as noting their policy on user registration for interactive […]
Twitter service soars to new heights in Japan
Posted on April 29, 2008 - Filed Under google, business, social networks, Twitter, Online Journalism | Leave a Comment
Last week’s launch of Twitter in Japan is showing early signs of success, reports ReadWriteWeb.
The new version was born when it was noticed that a significant percentage of Twitter usage was originating from Japan, despite the service being in English.
Now the dedicated Japanese version has been launched many sites are predicting an explosion of Twitter […]
Tip of the day from Journalism.co.uk
Posted on April 25, 2008 - Filed Under Top tips for journalists, Newspapers, social networks, Journalism | 2 Comments
Sources: News desk staff, add MySpace/Facebook and other social networking site checks to your morning story lead gathering - these sites are bursting with stories. Tipster: Oliver Luft
Got a tip? Submit it here - we will pay a fiver for the best ones published.
Read More..>> Full story...Paid Content: Ning raises 60m dollars - worth 500m
Posted on April 22, 2008 - Filed Under Funding, Editors' pick, business, social networks | Leave a Comment
Social network in a box, Ning, has raised 60m dollars in a fourth round of venture capital money from ‘unspecified institutional investors’ taking valuation of the company to 500m, according to Paid Content.
The company raised raised 44m last summer, which then valued the company at $170 million - says PC.
Read More..>> Full story...Brand Republic: MySpace gives advertisers more control with new platform
Posted on April 22, 2008 - Filed Under Myspace, Editors' pick, social networks, Advertising, Handy Technology | Leave a Comment
MySpace has launched a trail advertising platform across its site aimed at giving advertisers great control over what they do across the social network.
The Community Builder platform allows advertisers them to build and customise campaigns.
The platform also providers analytics to help gauge performance.
Read More..>> Full story...Hearst in content deal with social network firm
Posted on April 15, 2008 - Filed Under widgets, magazines, social networks | 1 Comment
Hearst Magazines Digital Media division has entered into an agreement with instant messaging and social network firm Spleak, Media Week reports.
The deal will see content from titles including CosmoGirl and Teen distributed through the recently launched CelebSpleak application, which is now available on MySpace, Facebook, and AOL and MSN’s instant messaging services.
The app delivers ‘tattles’ […]
