Online media

Buzzfeed, Summ.ly and Twitter on the future of media [Wired 2013]

The third annual Wired Conference kicked off today with a rousing session about, perhaps not so ironically considering Wired’s heritage, the future of media….

A first for internet TV: Netflix wins at the Emmys with House of Cards

A first for online television, streaming video site Netflix has walked away with an Emmy for David Fincher for his work on the popular…

BitTorrent Bundle for publishers wants to make direct-to-fan file sharing easy

In a recent announcement, popular peer-to-peer file sharing service BitTorrent — probably better known as the thing you used to download Game of Thrones with…

Publishers should focus on original content over reblogged news: TNW founder

Patrick de Laive is the co-founder of The Next Web, Twittercounter and Paydro. Oh, and he is also the initiator of The Next Web…

Moneyweb set to do legal battle with Fin 24 over plagiarism allegations

South African financial site Moneyweb is taking Fin 24, part of Nasper’s 24.com stable, to court over alleged plagiarism, copyright infringement and unfair competition….

Jeff Bezos’ plans for The Post? To focus on readers and let it experiment

Wondering why a man who made his fortune by starting one of the world’s biggest online stores would buy a newspaper? You’re not alone….

Blog, magazine in a marriage of print and pixels

Newsweek, the venerable but struggling US magazine, and two-year-old news and blog site The Daily Beast joined forces on Friday in a marriage of…

Major US title dumps print, goes online only

US News & World Report, which dropped its weekly format two years ago and went monthly, is now abandoning print entirely for the Web….

Humans vs machines: Aggregation vs curation

Curation is becoming an increasingly important term and for good reason: the online world is increasingly messy, muddled and full of blind alleys. Search…

What online publishers can learn from gaming

The demise of mainstream print media is now taken as gospel by many leading editors and media thinkers, while an even more radical idea…

Who is the most powerful editor in the world?

Mediaite.com is an online and print analysis site which is exhaustively documenting the relative influence and power of the top-ranking editors in the world….

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…

What the Techcrunch deal means

Congratulations to Michael Arrington and team on the TechCrunch acquisition by AOL. Techcrunch is a leading Silicon Valley technology blog ranked 302 on Alexa’s…

The 100 most influential news media Twitter accounts

Undoubtedly, the nature of news is changing with the advent and immense popularity of social media. Media is painfully aware it needs to be…

Lead developers from web giants share their insights at Tech4Africa conference

A Question and Answer session at Johannesburg’s first Tech4Africa conference featured developers from some of the world’s best known tech companies, and revealed insights…

The rise of eBooks and the myth of affordability

Major drum roll from the guys at Amazon.com for their announcement that “Amazon.com customers now purchase more Kindle books (eBooks) than hardcover books.” The…

Newspaper paywalls are freemium business models

Newspaper paywalls have been criticised by many people in geek communities across the world and also by popular journalism bloggers such as Clay Shirky,…

Newspass: Why Google’s paywall plans may just work

Google has been quietly testing a new paywall system for publishers it is calling “Newspass”. According to Italian newspaper La Repubblica, Google has been…

Financial Times crowdsources growth strategy with SA company

The London-based Financial Times, a leading global newspaper specialising in ﬁnancial and business news, has commissioned a South African company to help it crowdsource…

Productivity On A Large Screen

Everlytic Launches Cutting-Edge AI Studio with WhatsApp Chatbots for Smarter Communication

Everlytic’s new API Communicator feature enhances customer engagement across multiple channels

Savant Launches Savant Build Cohort 3 to Accelerate Deep-Tech Innovation in the Green Economy

Simplicity at scale: The role of leadership in agile transformation

Microsoft launches new Surface devices in new AI era

Honor Magic V3 launches, four things to know

Honor Magic V3, a Guinness world record attempt

Nio Firefly brings Galaxy design to compact EVs

Google Cast and other Christmas goodies for Rivian

GM switches-off Cruise control on $10bn robotaxi project