"Twitter is our competition" Paid Members Public
> “Twitter is our competition, we have faced up to that reality,” said Matt McAllester, Europe editor at Time. That’s a controversial start to a nice piece from Abigail at journalism.co.uk, from a Web Summit panel on journalism and social media [http://www.journalism.co.uk/news/
How Google helped Buzzfeed catch the social media bug Paid Members Public
There’s a rather famous graph of Buzzfeed’s traffic kicking around. I’ve used it a bunch of times in lectures and training, and it looks like this: There’s a crucial point where the Google referral traffic drops sharply for a while. Jonah Peretti, Buzzfeed founder and CEO,
Morning Coffee Reading 16/7/14 Paid Members Public
Four good reads that I think are worth your coffee time this morning: * Looking for a job in journalism? Kevin Anderson, who recently landed a great one, has some really excellent advice for preparing for the journalism job interview [http://charman-anderson.com/2014/07/10/journalism-job-seekers-what-to-bring-to-the-interview/?utm_source=rss&
Reports of Google+'s death have been greatly exaggerated Paid Members Public
Google+ is still being developed. For now.
Saying Goodbye to Gmail Paid Members Public
Last night I switched the e-mail hosting provider behind @onemanandhisblog.com from Gmail to Hover’s e-mail service [https://www.hover.com/email]. Why? Two reasons mainly: * I very rarely use webmail. Maybe I’m just showing my internet age, but the majority of my e-mail is done through Mail.
The fundamental difference between Apple and Google Paid Members Public
Benedict Evans defines the fundamental philosophical difference between Google & Apple [http://ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2014/6/4/digesting-wwdc-cloudy]: > For Google, devices are dumb glass and the intelligence is in the cloud, but for Apple the cloud is just dumb storage and the device is the place for intelligence.
Google announces mercy killing of guest blogging Paid Members Public
[http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/assets_c/2014/01/8706796388_87665496e1_h-3472.html] Once upon a time, when the digital world was young and full of idealism, people would occasionally guest post on other people’s blog, to comment on something they didn’t normally write about, or to bring
Google: no longer a webby company Paid Members Public
Marco Arment has used the demise of Google Reader to explore how Google has changed since the rise of Facebook [http://www.marco.org/2013/07/03/lockdown] – and how the big three web players (Facebook, Twitter and Google) are no longer “webby” in the sense we once used the
