Back to The Future – How Facebook Will Use Traditional Newspaper Design Elements

From NewsInc.net: Google Will Have It’s Own Online Payment System

( Full story from NewsInc.net) Newspass will compete with Journalism On-line’s Press+ A system that will allow publishers to charge small amounts for access to on-line content appears to be gaining speed at Google Inc., reports last week indicated. The system, called Newspass, will roll out before the end of the year, said the Italian [...]

New examples of Media Getting It: Content Creation and Curation Grow

We are seeing several fresh examples of main stream media beginning to focus on what it has to do to survive and thrive in the future. Every day we find another example of media companies daring to change their model to adapt to the new world the face, and give the consumer a more relevant [...]

Coffee ‘n Email

From the Center for Media Research: According to a new study by ExactTarget, based on more than 1,500 consumer interviews, 58% of U.S. online consumers begin their day interacting with companies on Email, compared to 20% who start their day on search engines and 11% on Facebook. Consumers’ early morning online preferences reflect key differences [...]

Bob Bowman on MLB.com and How It Has Become a Half Billion Dollar Business

MLB.com has become a digital media powerhouse and one of the best extensions of a traditional business. All sports have had interesting moments figuring out their long term relationship with their fans. Every major sport now has broadcast businesses of their own, including in the case of Football, Basketball and Baseball and even some college [...]

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The Killer App: Google News + Human Editors?

Four years ago, when I was running digital media at CBS, we had a meeting with Google’s top management to see how we might work together on some projects. We started the discussion with video, which Google wanted badly from us because they were hungering for video content to help jump start what was then [...]