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Making the transition from old to new media
The demise of the old media appears to have slowed but it hasn’t gone away as the transition towards a digital business model continues…
Tynt: A business built on ‘copy and paste’
Who would think that there is a business in providing an online copy and paste service? Tynt believes that there is a very large…
Intel launches newsroom to tell own stories
I’ve been writing a lot about how every company is a media company and Intel is one of those companies that understands this idea very…
The Twitter founder who doesn’t tweet
Last week I went to see Twitter co-founders Evan Williams and Biz Stone talk at an Inforum meeting of the Commonwealth Club of California….
Five lessons about iPad magazines from Condé Nast
Condé Nast reports that readers of iPad versions of its magazines spend more time with the electronic version than the print version. Also, iPad…
Twitter founders seem to know very little about Twitter
If you missed Twitter co-founders Ev Williams and Biz Stone interviewed by Brad Stone from BusinessWeek on Monday — you were fortunate. The two…
ScribbleLive: Live media technologies for real-time newsrooms
I recently met with Michael de Monte, CEO of Scribble Technologies, based in Toronto, Canada. The company offers a very interesting media technology called…
The speed of Google or the stickiness of Facebook?
Google’s most important launch this year was its recent debut of Google Instant search which cuts user search time down by as much as…
Revenge: A Jason Calacanis-inspired Techcrunch Disruptor?
American Internet entrepreneur and blogger Jason Calacanis used to be a good friend and business partner with Techcrunch founder, Mike Arrington. Together they launched…
BitTorrent attempts to shake off ‘illegal’ tag
I recently attended a media roundtable in San Francisco with top executives from BitTorrent, which invented the popular file sharing technology that now has…
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