Social media firm Pluck will supply technology to Hearst Digital’s uber-web portal Allaboutyou.com
It will provided blogs, discussion tools and media-sharing applications to the new community site for women, which combines content from six Natmag’s UK tiles.
The move is part of an ‘aggressive’ push of the business, says the Guardian.
For Hearst, it’s the second major partnership for its magazine websites after securing the services of Brightcove to supply its digital video hosting.
Magazine publisher Dennis – home of such venerable tiles as Monkey and Maxim – has signed a deal with online poker operator PKR to produce a quarterly PKR print magazine for their players.
The magazine will be the first produced by its new customer magazine wing, Dennis Communications.
The first issue of the magazine, which will be distributed free to some of PKR’s leading players, will be published in June 2008.
Dennis has already established itself as publisher of consumer poker titles with its Inside Poker and Poker Player brands.
Publishing 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
BBC World has tied up a deal with six mobile service providers in India to provide video clips to phones.
BBC also plans to increase it news programming on its television channel BBC World News and generate content for video on demand and podcasts as well, reports Indiainfo.
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 searching easily though web images and video with PicLens.
1) Who are you and what’s it all about?
Hi, I’m Alec Jeong from Cooliris.
We’ve developed PicLens, a plug-in that transforms your browser into a 3D environment where you can search, drag, and zoom around thousands of images and videos across the web.
PicLens makes your online media come to life in a full-screen, cinematic presentation that goes beyond the confines of the traditional browser.
2) Why would this be useful to a journalist?
Journalist regularly search for photos and videos on the web, tediously clicking in and out of web pages and image search engines to find the perfect image or video.
PicLens changes all that, by allowing you to search and view 100s or even 1000s of online photos and videos in an instant.
Need to see the photo in detail? Just click a toggle button and the photo or video will go full screen. Jump to the corresponding page of the image or video? No problem.
3) Is this it, or is there more to come?
There is much more, much more to come. In the coming months, we will be adding features that will completely transform the way you use online media.
4) Why are you doing this?
We asked ourselves the question: What would the web be like if, rather than having to browse click by click, we were able find and share information quickly and directly through a single, rich media navigation layer that frees you from the confines of the traditional browser window and web pages?
We believe that you would discover that the web is richer than you’ve believed before, and that the added spatiality would enable you get much more from the rich online media and from your social connections.
5) What does it cost to use it?
PicLens is free to use and available for Firefox, Internet Explorer and Safari.
The “3D Wall” interface is available now for Firefox and IE and is coming to Safari soon.
6) How will you make it pay?
Our goal has always been to focus on providing the ultimate user experience. With several million downloads of our product in just the past few months, we are on a fast trajectory to bring in the next generation online media experience.
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, Robert Hardie, from UK regional newspaper publisher Northcliffe Media.
1. Who are you and what do you do?
Robert Hardie, content strategy director for Northcliffe Media.
2. Which web or mobile-based social media tools do you use on a daily basis and why?
All Northcliffe’s 56 This Is websites for obvious reasons, LinkedIn, Facebook (probably weekly) and my Attensa for Outlook RSS reader.
We get 200,000+ interactions across the This Is network, which is an amazing insight into what normal people use UGC and social media for.
LinkedIn to keep aware of who’s doing what that we might benefit from, Facebook to see what it’s doing more than what my friends are doing (I just speak to them), Attensa for Outlook so that all my RSS feeds end up on my Blackberry.
3. Of the thousands of social media tools available, could you single one out as having the most potential for news either as a publishing or a news gathering tool?
Google News, it works for both readers and publishers and indexes better and wider than anyone else.
4. And the most overrated in your opinion?
Del.icio.us. I’ve never met anyone who isn’t a media type who’s ever heard of it, let alone used it.
CNET is reporting that Twitter last week took an additional $15 million or $20 million in funding last week.
A source told News.com about the extra money being made available to the company.
Last summer it took a first round funding of $5 million.
The good people at Readwriteweb explain how they use Twitter for journalism.
Pretty much the same as us at Journalism.co.uk – they say it falls into four distinct categories:
The discovery of breaking stories
People they follow tipping them off
Interviews
“When we got to interview Mark Zuckerberg at SXSW this year, we solicited interview questions via Twitter.”
Quality assurance
Readers picking up on their factual errors.
Promotion
Tipping off the people that follow them
Google’s Chewy Trewhella gave a presentation to the Telegraph developers day to show off the kind of things that can be done with the media giant’s Google Earth feature through developing mash-ups and apps that run in conjunction with the mapping technology.
Despite the possibilities open to developers through the service, Press Gazette says, he admits that Google have had problems keeping people interested in the technology.
iPM is working with the CASA (Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis) – developer of a website for sharing maps – to use the technology more closely for journalistic ends.
Aside from this (and in a totally non-scientific way, they say) iPM wants to create a mood map of the credit crunch, assessing how people the length of the country feel about possible financial choppy waters ahead that it can use it to inform journalism.