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When digital goes shopping for print Paid Members Public
Tortoise wants The Observer. Unherd has got The Spectator, and installed a new editor. The relationship between tradition print-era brands and digital startups has suddenly reversed.
What Twitter needs Paid Members Public
Nobody wants to buy Twitter. It made it obvious it was up for sale – but one by one the buys dropped out. The reasons seem numerous – the trolling problem for one [https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-10-17/disney-said-to-have-dropped-twitter-pursuit-partly-over-image] . But, at its core, the reluctance seems to be based around
MySpace: strangled by the corporate cord Paid Members Public
Corporate bureaucracy kills the network [http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/mar/06/myspace-what-went-wrong-sean-percival-spotify?utm_source=Stay+In+Touch&utm_campaign=2a23cf2a14-Newsletter21_19March15&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b8bd4077e5-2a23cf2a14-161471409] , says former MySpace VP, Sean Percival: > “The analogy I use is like you were the half-time
Social Media Verification is journalism's new frontier Paid Members Public
I missed this last week [http://newscorp.com/2013/12/20/news-corp-acquires-social-news-agency-storyful/] : > Accelerating News Corp’s digital transformation and video strategy, the company has acquired Storyful, the world’s first social news agency. Storyful, of course, are a brilliant lot, who have made the skill of verifying stories and
Box's Aaron Levie makes an enterprise forecast: cloudy Paid Members Public
[https://i2.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2012/06/aaron-levie.jpg] Aaron Levie [http://www.crunchbase.com/person/aaron-levie], co-founder, Box [https://www.box.com/] is being interviewed by Mike Butcher. And they’re talking about enterprise solutions. And yet, I’m awake… 🙂 What’s changed in the
How corporate structure can accidentally stifle innovation Paid Members Public
[https://i1.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2012/05/Screen-Shot-2012-05-15-at-20.09.45.png] Ah, Flickr [http://flickr.com]. In 2004 I loved that site. But today is not a day for nostalgia. Today is a day for looking at the mistakes corporates make, and how you learn from
