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I reckon that this is a great opportunity to create an application that provides shoppers with more ethical or environmentally sound product recommendations – eg. "you selected CIF Mouse bathroom cleanser, we suggest Ecover instead"
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distribute audio content via itunes, emusic, amazon, etc through this hosting and download service
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We're in the window to change the way TV is delivered to the living-room flatscreen. Boxee could win the prize — and it's a big one. Don't sell to the past. Instead, be the future. It's there for the taking.
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Set to cost taxpayers £1million, the new 'Civil Pages' site has reportedly been dubbed 'the Facebook of the Civil Service…without the man in the Speedos' by Cabinet Secretary Sir Gus O'Donnell.
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You say they won’t pay for content online? They, if we mean consumers, do indeed pony up their credit cards regularly for online content—yes, even content from magazine brands. As we gear up for our own June 21 Webinar on “Cracking the Code” of paid content, we wanted to call out five models not everyone knows about yet. Each bears watching as publishers contemplate how to make digital media pay.
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From the start of August, every O2 customer will be able to switch on text notifications within Twitter and receive replies and direct messages completely free. You’ll also be able to send updates to Twitter as part of your normal text message bundle or for the cost of a normal text.
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37% watch video on their phone (6x as likely as the typical subscriber)
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In contrast, third party platforms such as YouTube, Joost and other portals, which have no direct vertical affiliation with major rights holders, nor direct access to premium content rights, will struggle to aggregate ad-supported movies and TV shows.
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Shows the growing, and declining, numbers of people doing specific tasks online.
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"But it wasn’t really designed to involve the process you and I would know as journalism. It was intended to produce a happy simulation of a television news broadcast to a standard adequate enough to satisfy regulators."
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shows retweet numbers on top of pictures sent via twitter – nice way to visualise news
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A Spanish community platform with blogs, profiles, networking, forums, etc…
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In the Philippines, the ABS-CBN TV network has been training citizens – 1,000 in the first recent class, 700 in the next – to report on the upcoming election there. They call it the Boto Mo iPatrol and count 15,000 members.
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Guardian's fourth plinth page
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The Guardian asks it's audience to help ensure not a single moment of Antony Gormley project isn't missed (the oneandother website is a headshift project)
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Another great one from Adam Gee at Channel4, Landshare connects landowners with would be farmers
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Personally narrated by Anderson, Free considers a brave new world where the old economic certainties are being challenged by a growing flood of free goods – newspapers, DVDs, T-shirts, phones, even holiday flights.
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Associated Digital Northcliffe, owner of the Daily Mail, launches hyper-local play
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"It shows that – once we get beyond the classic journalistic question of “why is this lying bastard lying to me?” – once the data is in the public domain – that this information can be used to model the big questions of our time – turned into interfaces that allow us to explore and model problems."
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Expanding copyright law to bar online access to copyrighted materials without the copyright holder's consent, or to bar linking to or paraphrasing copyrighted materials without the copyright holder's consent, might be necessary to keep free riding on content financed by online newspapers from so impairing the incentive to create costly news-gathering operations that news services like Reuters and the Associated Press would become the only professional, nongovernmental sources of news and opinion.
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"Not only did we get some great enthusiastic reactions on Twitter from the people we got in contact with, but we got great coverage in the blogosphere, with 60 blogs in five languages linking to the microsite, and at least another 24 discussing the stunt with Dunlop branding associated – amongst them blogs such as Gizmodo who had initially reported the leak were more than happy to set the record straight, strengthening the Dunlop brand association. And it wasn’t just about the sentiment – the total reach of the blogs involved was 8m unique users/month and 420k RSS subscribers, far outstripping the reach of the initial misinformed coverage from the leak – and almost all of the coverage was positive to boot."
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"2morro 09 will be the biggest ever festival in the UK for young people interested in changing the world and getting heard. Learn how to use technology and media to run your campaigns better, showcase and share your plans for a better future, and join us for a packed day where you can debate, explore and celebrate new possibilities."
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"2morro 09 will be the biggest ever festival in the UK for young people interested in changing the world and getting heard. Learn how to use technology and media to run your campaigns better, showcase and share your plans for a better future, and join us for a packed day where you can debate, explore and celebrate new possibilities."
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Huffington Post crowdsources information on low wages…
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In light of the explosion of citizen journalism in Iran, Jeremy Paxman asks Arianna Huffington of the Huffington Post and Anne McElvoy of the Evening Standard if internet journalism has come of age.
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Paul Bradshaw argues that using twitter, rather than RSS, is the way forward for newspapers…