Low Tech Solution at a High Tech Venue: Hanger Networks at AlwaysOn
VIDEO: ScribeMedia at AlwaysOn:NYC discovers the Hanger Network and the monstrously terrible impact Martinizing is having on the environment.
Usability v Searchability: Is it an Either/Or Proposition?
VIDEO: In an age where search is king, and Microsoft wants Yahoo! so it too can join the search kingdom, how do you balance the searchability of Rich Internet Applications with its usability. Anthony Franco, President, EffectiveUI, discusses the possibilities.
Search as an Editorial Tool - New Forms of High-Value Content Aggregation
Video: As the search engine marketplace consolidates there are new ways of looking at content that go beyond traditional search engine technologies into forms and formats that place more emphasis on enabling editorial capabilities and complete content products. Yesterday’s search results page is becoming one of many filtered feeds that support today’s mined analytics, rich editorial output and on-the-fly aggregation tools. How do search technologies create marketable content value today - and how do more valuable content products get built using search technologies?
B2B Social Networking - Content Provider Strategies
Video: The trend is to empower B2B professionals to harvest value from their core professional relationships as well as to pull in their more multidimensional selves from social media online portals to help relationships become deeper more quickly and more effectively. The next generation of applications is likely to start mining social media content more effectively to provide alerts, trends, behaviors and other key indicators that can effect both relationships and transactions.
David Eun, VP, Content Partnerships, Google
Video: Google first focuses on the user. It doesn’t start on technology, but backs into whatever applications are interesting. The practice of this is remarkable. Bottom-up innovation, not one product comes from a senior executive, always a small group of people. Google management always says don’t present me with a problem, present me with a problem with a possible answer. Googlers thought “wouldn’t this be great.”
Case Studies: Information Industry Innovators
Video: innovation can thrive in many publishing environments, it’s not all about Silicon Valley but applying their lessons and the tried and true lessons - speak to your customers is Steve Goldstein’s mantra, and it’s an important one - is possible in any content company.
An Interview With Caroline Little, Publisher, WashingtonPost.com
Video: The Washington Post is a good example of a strong local news organization with national impact that is still struggling to find growth in spite of being profitable. the rise of ad networks has broken papers’ lockhold on local ads and created far more competition for national and global ads. Newspapers are reluctant to move into virtual aggregation of local content and becoming ad networks in their own rights, yet that’s where the money is going.
After the Froth - How the Financial Markets Will Affect Information Companies
Video: Information companies large and small have been going through a cycle of active investment and M&A activity over the past 24 months. Strategic buyers as well as private equity firms have pushed valuations to high levels, and caused an unprecedented level of industry consolidation.
Tom Glocer, CEO of Reuters on The Future of Information and Technology
Video: How does a company founded in 1851 based on delivering stock ticker data by carrier pigeons stay relevant in the 21st century? By keeping in the thick of changes in content technology every step of the way.
Andrew Keen on The Cult of the Amateur: How Today’s Internet is Killing Our Culture
Video: The San Francisco Chronicle recently wrote that “every good movement needs a contrarian. Web 2.0 has Andrew Keen.” Keen’s relentless “polemic” is on target about how a sea of amateur content threatens to swamp the most vital information and how blogs often reinforce one’s own views rather than expand horizons.
