As Sam discussed in his post (below), Facebook recently opened up its network to many other sites, allowing outside content to be fed through users’ news feeds, and allowing users to interact with other sites in the same ways that they interact on Facebook. ReadWriteWeb recently delivered their take on Facebook’s new initiative, saying that “newspapers [...]
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I was reading an article on the Washington Post website, and I happened to notice their social networking options at the bottom of the page. I think this picture just about sums up how Google Buzz is doing: Yep, that’s right. The article that I was reading was shared 361 times on Facebook, tweeted 273 times, and [...] A Swiss startup company named Kooaba is attempting to bridge the gap between traditional forms of print journalism and new media technologies with a new iPhone app called “Paperboy.” This app lets people reading print media, like newspapers and journals, to take a picture of the article, and see additional content about the article on their [...] In a couple weeks, Google Buzz will be two months old. It was released at the beginning of February to much hype (and controversy), and it seemed like it could become a big hit, with tens of millions of users and nine million posts and comments made in the first two weeks. However, ReadWriteWeb reports that [...] For the post following up on my presentation, I want to elaborate a little more on a few aspects of Scott Brown’s campaign that I found important. First, I wanted to mention that many of the new media strategies used in the campaign were developed by the campaign’s new media strategist, Rob Willington. Willington said, “We [...] RSS (really simple syndication) feeds and various feed reading services like Google Reader have been around for a while now. They let people subscribe to news feeds from various websites, from the New York Times to Jalopnik (a blog covering cars and the automobile industry), and then receive updates through their browser, feed widget, or reader [...] An interesting debate has been going on between George Packer of The New Yorker and Nick Bilton, who writes for the “Bits” blog on the New York Times website. George Packer typically writes about politics and foreign affairs, but he recently turned his attention to the hyper-connected world that we live in today, in his article [...] |
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