financial times

FT 125 balloon at Tower Bridge

The FT fills Tumblr with 125 years of hot air Members Public

An e-mail arrived from the FT yesterday, telling me all about their 125th anniversary, and with some lovely photos to run – all of which I had no intention of doing until: 1. My journalism MA students [http://www.interhacktives.com] seemed to think the whole think was quite cool, making

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archives

FT Mobile event analysis: Life in API time Members Public

Key Points 1. Mobile is central to FT.com’s business 2. Online revenue and activity is shifting to mobile devices rapidly 3. FT.com is focusing on HTML5 for both web and native apps 4. Its apps are built on APIs [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_programming_interface]

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APIs

FT Mobile event - Liveblog Members Public

[![Rob Grimshaw](http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/Photo 29 May 2012 09:45.jpg)](http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/Photo 29 May 2012 09:45.jpg)**Rob Grimshaw, managing director, FT.com**Liveblogged notes – prone to inaccuracies and howling grammatical errors Just had first hack day at the FT. The winning hack

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APIs

Afternoon Tea Reading: National Newspapers Members Public

Some links about our friends in the nationals that have been hanging around in my Chrome tabs for too long now: * The Independent has switched its blogs from Livejournal to WordPress [http://publisherblog.automattic.com/2010/06/08/the-independent-switches-to-wordpress/] . Makes sense. LJ always seemed like an odd fit. * The Guardian

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Blogs

Those Paywalls That Work... Members Public

37signals on the [http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2245-when-opening-the-wallet-becomes-a-no-brainer] Wall Street Journal [http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2245-when-opening-the-wallet-becomes-a-no-brainer] and the [http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2245-when-opening-the-wallet-becomes-a-no-brainer] Financial Times [http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2245-when-opening-the-wallet-becomes-a-no-brainer] : > The easiest way to get people to pay you money is when they think they’

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financial times

Why Lionel Barber & Paid News are a Distraction Members Public

Oh, dearie me. I have a feeling that the issue of paywalls and charging for content is going to dominate the online journalism discussion for the rest of the summer, isn’t it? The Guardian has run a piece onFinancial Times editor Lionel Barber [http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/

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business models

Blogging Editorial Conferences Members Public

[https://i1.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2009/05/ftarena.png] An e-mail dropped into my inbox last week, encouraging me to have a peek at FT Arena [http://blogs.ft.com/arena/], a blog on the Financial Times site that allows readers to join in a debate

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Adam Tinworth
Blogging

Mobile FT.com is a River of News Members Public

I have a pet theory, one that is not widely shared amongst my colleagues. I think that what we now know as news sites will come to resemble what we now know as blogs. I don’t mean this in the broader sense of the conversational use of blogs so

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design