Former Microsoft executive Erik Huggers is expected to be confirmed as the replacement for outgoing BBC director of future media and technology Ashley Highfield.
Tags: Ashley Highfield, BBC, Erik Huggers, microsoftMicrosoft has opened up the technology behind the New York Times’ e-reader to all publishers.
The Times Reader format, which creates a digitised version of the paper browsable on or offline, is now freely available to publishers.
The system has already been implemented by some publishers, Michael Cooper, director of advanced reading technologies at Microsoft, told delegates at the World Association of Newspapers (WAN) conference.
“What took Microsoft and the New York Times 18 months to develop has been adopted by other publishers in less than six weeks,” he said.
The technology, Cooper said, will allow publishers to deliver content to a range of devices in one go.
The growth of the mobile internet will not eliminate the need for the e-reader technology, he added, because of the format and offline accessibility to news it offers.
However, the next stage of the technology will be to develop it for use on mobile phones.
Tags: e-reader, e-reader technology, Michael Cooper, microsoft, mobile internet, mobile phones, the New York Times, The Times, WAN, World Association of NewspapersPublishing 2.0 takes the Yahoo/Microsoft story as a good example of where it is uneconomic to run news pieces that will just be swamped by leading and other news sources running the story.
Over 2000 news pieces on a Google News search about the latest developments about the deal - if your not it the top ten - is it really worth the bother?
“If each site were, as in print, an island unto itself, this would make sense - if the news outlet did not cover the story then its readers might not know about it,” wrote Scott Karp.
“But seen as a whole on the web, which connects each and every one of these websites, and especially seen through the lens of an aggregator like Google News or Techmeme, this huge mass of content about the same story doesnâ
Tags: google, microsoft, redundant web news, Scott Karp, YahooGoogle and Yahoo have announced a two week experiment that will see the web giants take a share of each other’s advertising space.
During the trial Google will be able to put ads next to 3 per cent of search results on Yahoo.
Microsoft, which recently offered to buy Yahoo, has criticised the scheme.
“Any definitive agreement between Yahoo and Google would consolidate over 90 per cent of the search advertising market in Google’s hands. This would make the market far less competitive,” Brad Smith, Microsoft’s General Counsel, told the BBC.
Tags: advertising space, BBC, Brad Smith, google, microsoft, search advertising market, search results, web giants, YahooThose guys at Tribune know how to have a laugh don’t they? Take this ‘hilarious’ press release I received today about the US media group’s latest appointment:
Surely You Can’t Be Serious? Marc Chase - President Of Tribune Interactive!
Randy Michaels’ run of acquiring radio-management stars
came to a screeching halt today with Chase’s appointmentCHICAGO, April 7, 2008 — Another freaking Clear Channel
Communications executive on the payroll and this one’s been
named President of Tribune Interactive.Tribune Broadcasting’s Randy Michaels’ past finally caught
up with him when Marc Chase obviously blackmailed his way
into a position he is not remotely qualified to hold.
Insiders are irate. Chase is a fraud. A source inside
Tribune HR, who wished to remain anonymous, pointed out that
Marc Chase’s resume (below) was obviously fabricated. First
of all, his name isn’t even Marc Chase–it’s Mark Thompson.
The whole thing is a sham.MARC CHASE
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue Washington DC 20500 202-456-1111PROFESSINAL EXPERIENCE
Vocabulary Advisorist for George W. Bush
President of the United States of America
Washington DC, 2004-presenteBay
President of Buying Crap
San Jose, California 2003-2004
Executive Vice President of Finding Crap Anywhere
Mountain View, California 2001-2002Microsoft
Senior Executive Vice President of Technology and Stuff
Seattle, Washington, 2000-2001CBS, ABC, NBC, FOX Television
Vice President of Watching TV A Lot
Los Angeles, California 1999-2000Harvard University
Dean of School of Internetology
Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1998EDUCASHION
Nearly Graduated with Honers
School of Alabama in Atlanta Georgia 1985COMMUNITY SERVICE
400 Hours (reduced from 600)
Judge gave time off for good behaviorChase was quoted as saying, “Timing and infrared photography
are everything. I couldn’t be happier! I know Randy is
relieved to finally have me on Sam’s payroll.”Tribune has undergone major changes in the past year, with
billionaire Sam Zell acquiring the company last April in a
complex deal that left it with $13 billion in debt. Since
then, Zell has brought in new executives to fill key roles.
This one takes the cake.Last December, Zell hired Michaels — who helped Zell to
build Clear Channel into a radio behemoth that he could then
sell — to oversee Tribune’s broadcast and Internet
divisions. It is obvious Michaels has lost his mind with
this hire.–By Hugh Jass – A Reputable Media Source
© 2008, Bogus Information, a division of Dewey, Cheatum, and
Howe. All Rights Reserved.
While you’re sewing you sides back together (and trying to make sense of the whole thing), you have to ask why? As Gawker points out Marc Chase has been hired - that’s about all you can determine from the message - but is it appropriate to send out a spoof release as the Tribune company faces mass redundancies?
Tags: 202-456-1111, Alabama, Atlanta, California, Cambridge, CBS, Chicago, Clear Channel, Clear Channel Communications, eBay, Finding Crap Anywhere Mountain View, funny, google, Harvard University, Honers School of Alabama, Hugh Jass, Internet divisions, Los Angeles, Marc Chase, Mark Thompson, Massachusetts, media group, microsoft, NBC, Sam Zell, San Jose, School of Internetology Cambridge, Seattle, the Tribune, Tribune company, Tribune Interactive!, United States, United States of America, USA, USD, Washington, Washington DCData management: Having trouble keeping track of documents across multiple PC or emailing between several accounts? Google Docs is basically all the same tools as Microsoft Office but online so you can access your documents from wherever you are. Tipster: Oliver Luft
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Tags: google, Journalism.co.uk, microsoft, Oliver LuftData management: Having trouble keeping track of documents across multiple PC or emailing between several accounts? Google Docs is basically all the same tools as Microsoft Office but online so you can access your documents from wherever you are. Tipster: Oliver Luft
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