A year after Skype and Nokia entered into a partnership, Skype has announced free Skype for Nokia mobile phones. Skype for Nokia will offer almost the same set of services that the Skype desktop client does.
The company has been experimenting with the free Skype client for about a year and now, finally the Nokia skype [...]
A crusty old journalism professor I once had used to preach the following: “To get where you want to go, you should talk to someone who has been there.”
Ideally, that’s where a mentor comes in. A wise and trusted counselor who influences our work and supports us along the way. You know, the older [...]
Given that Twitter, Facebook and others had the unofficial desktop versions available since quite some time now; Google Buzz for Desktop was inevitable!
People who like Buzzing with their friends and contacts will like this application because it lets you use Buzz without logging into Gmail.
The application is built on Adobe AIR platform [...]
Each of us who are even remotely related to technology have at least had a glimps of the Apple’s upcoming tablet, iPad. Apple decided to show its creation to the movie buffs who haven’t seen the gadget yet during the Academy awards last night. Millions watched and (probably) loved it.
HP released a new video on [...]
Panasonic is launching its new line of 3D televisions in the market this week. Panasonic will be the second company after Samsung to offer 3D technology to consumers.
Company has set aggressive goals of selling 1 million 3D televisions during the fiscal year 2011 and half of the sales are expected to [...]
Google Labs recently released one of the best Android apps, that employs Android handwriting recognition technology to enable gesture search on your Android Phone.
Gesture Search is an application for Android mobile phones that allows you to search your contacts, bookmarks, apps and music by scribbling a letter / gesture on the blank space of your [...]
The tradeoff between simplicity and features has been around for ages, but it was hotly debated on the web by two of the most forward thinking software luminaries: Jason Fried and Joel Spolsky. Their back and forth debate hit a crescendo last year around the time I attended the wonderful Business of Software conference put [...]
Apple has aired their first iPad commercial during the 82nd Annual Academy Awards, which features a man enjoying the new iPad features. Watch the commercial below.
Apple iPad will go on sale in the US on Saturday, April 3, for Wi-Fi models and in late April for Wi-Fi + 3G models, and preorders start March 12. [...]
Innovation never stops and so does not, competition. Engadget published new videos and images of Microsoft’s tablet called Courier. It truly looks like Microsoft is about to get it RIGHT and from what we’ve seen so far it has the potential of becoming one of the most popular gadgets under Microsofts [...]Guest post by Paul McCarthy.
This article is for those who are interested in running a long term, profitable and secure online business and for those who understand the importance of sticking to a high level and proven strategy with logical progression along the way.
I am going to describe three steps that can take as [...]
Apple announced a slight delay in the official launch of iPad and moved the date to April 3 for the blast. The giant iPod Touch was earlier reported to hit the US stores late march this year. However, the new iPad launch date is not far the originally reported date, and April 3 will make [...]Guest post by Amit Banerjee
It is a well known fact that Adsense ads perform the best when placed above the fold. “Above the fold” refers to the exact area of the screen which is visible to the user when the page has finished loading.
The area of your website or blog which gets the maximum focus [...]
Remotely controlling your PC is a good deal when you can access the info on your home or office computer from a remote computer and we all know that it’s something more-than-useful. And now to simplify things, you can even access your computer remotely from your iPhone easily.
The first thing we’d say is you cannot [...]
There has been revelations about the Microsoft ebook reader device that was rumored to be a tablet PC as well long since September last year.
Speculations concerning the how-abouts of the device continue to explode and amidst the rain now surfaces a slew of official information on this gizmo.
Well, to start with, we would disclose that [...]
Microsoft’s CEO Steve Ballmer addressed the concept of cloud computing at the University of Washington which led to the discussion about the future of Xbox somehow during the midst of a question and answer session.
Addressing the questions relating to the collaboration of Microsoft with hardware partners and the software services it offers, Mr. Ballmer suggested [...]
About Mission Statement History Advisory Board Staff Sponsoring Institutions Blogs Leadership 3.0 Blog OJR : The Online Journalism Review News for Digital Journalists Seminars Speakers How to Apply Training Resources Multimedia Training New Media Resources Contact OJR : The Online Journalism Review March 5, 2010 DIY and passion give birth to a new journalists' weekly on Twitter By Robert Hernandez No comments Archive Link For me , it began with a snarky tweet journchat Bad name , good . PR Apparently that tweet touched a nerve and prompted Web journalists to come out of the Twitterverse to express . agreement Before I continue , let me define two : things journchat is a Twitter chat that is âan ongoing conversation between journalists , bloggers and PR folksâ held weekly on Twitter . Created by PRsarahevans the first Twitter chat was held Monday , November 24, 2008. While it has âjournalismâ in the name , it skews heavily toward public . relations A Twitter chat essentially is a regularly held chat , usually weekly , on a specific topic⦠tied together through a hashtag . A group of Twitterers gather and talk about whatever⦠blogging , book editing , . etc Moments afterGuest post by Jennifer Brown Banks.
Is your blog “Bookmark” worthy? Let’s face it. All Bloggers feel that their blogs are pretty bodacious! It’s the same sense of pride of ownership some feel with a car or a kid. :-) We tinker, toil and tweak, and with a sense of satisfaction, release it to the world. It’s [...]Guest post by Cyril.
We all make common web design mistakes. You must have read a lot about how to create an interesting website, or a good design or a user friendly design. But not all of them focus on one major aspect that is equally important.
Just as how important it is to drive traffic to [...]
When we started this team, three years ago, most people we talked to hadn’t heard of Facebook or Twitter and associated MySpace, assuming they’d heard of it, with something kids do.
Some people knew LinkedIn and that often helped get the wheels turning about social and how it could benefit work.
It was a lot like 1997 [...]Pete and Andrea, are on a unique mission to pay for their wedding by recycling 400,000 aluminum (wedding) cans. They set up WeddingCans.com and they have built a whole social media campaign on Twitter and Facebook around it!
Since Aluminum recycling is one of the most sustainable and useful forms of recycling, they are aiming for [...]Youtube hosted Hunger Bytes, an international video competition for inspiring filmakers, to make videos raising awareness about world hunger under aegis of United Nations World Food Program (WFP). A judging panel including Drew Barrymore, actress and WFP Ambassador Against Hunger selected the finalists, and now the winners are declared.
Top prize winners were filmmakers Carlos Antonio [...]Want to learn SEO from Google experts? Now you can download Google SEO Report Card, a free pdf ebook by Google for Google’s product teams with ideas on how to improve their products’ pages using simple and accepted optimizations.
Google says “These optimizations are intended to not only help search engines understand the content of our [...]Guest post by Pradeep.
I have been doing a lot of guest blogging for my cna training blog. A lot of us do guest blogging for the huge SEO benefit that it provides. However surprisingly most bloggers are not able to utilize even 20% benefit of the potential SEO benefits from their guest posts. I shall be [...]
: About Mission Statement History Advisory Board Staff Sponsoring Institutions Blogs Leadership 3.0 Blog OJR : The Online Journalism Review News for Digital Journalists Seminars Speakers How to Apply Training Resources Multimedia Training New Media Resources Contact OJR : The Online Journalism Review March 2, 2010 Creation or aggregation : What is the real added value of todayâ s journalism By Robert Niles 7 comments Archive Link The following is an edited transcript of remarks I delivered last week at the WAN-IFRA Future of News Media and Journalism Conference in . Singapore Generating original content , or aggregating someone else's If you're running or starting up a news website , which model should you choose Actually , this is a trick question . because they're the same thing . In journalism , our original content always has been the product of . aggregation Let's take a look at the newspapers where I've worked over my career , from a small daily in Bloomington , Indiana to the Los Angeles Times . Each paper has published reports from wire services , from feature syndicates , from freelancers . even letters and op-ed articles from readers . That's aggregation . Even the
Guest Post By Sourish Nath.
A question on a lot of people’s minds these days, is how to start a blog. Blogging refers to the current trend of posting online weblogs. Millions of people post blogs daily. Blogging is a culture that developed in countries like US & UK. But it has being adopted in third [...]When I think back to grade school, I still break out into a sweat remembering the horror of being called on unexpectedly by a teacher and asked to read a passage aloud. You always had the feeling that you were one stammer or mispronunciation away from being ostracized.
My wife, who is a teacher but [...]
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On a web conference today, I caught a glimpse of someone’s inbox.
Protip: Close your email and IM if you’re presenting something. Unless of course, you want me to see your email folders, including the ones where you store “house” email.
But I digress. The person’s inbox had probably 40 folders, [...]
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I’m convinced that innovation on the consumer side of the web is great for enterprise software.
I’m similarly convinced that innovation on the consumer side of the web is terrible for enterprise software.
Reading Marc Benioff’s post “The Facebook Imperative” on TechCrunch last week reminded me of these mutually-exclusive conclusions.
On the [...]As you learned from my Myers-Briggs self-assessment, I’m the kind of guy that rather blend in than stand out in a crowd. That means I can produce killer content, but don’t get a gold medal when it comes to self-promotion. As I was sitting in traffic this morning thinking up ways to promote my [...]A wise man once said, “Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.”
That genius was Ferris Bueller, the fictional namesake of the ever-popular 1986 movie written and directed by John Hughes.
Time as a blogger flies by. When you’re not busy pounding out quality [...]I recently read an article where 64 graphic designers were asked to record their Myers-Briggs personality type results. For those of you unfamiliar with The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI), it asks the taker a series of questions (there are no incorrect answers) and then generates a four-letter acronym that lumps people into one [...]
Not long ago, Twitter announced its inaugural developer conference, whimsically called Chirp, would be held April 14 and 15, 2010 in San Francisco.
It may or may not be coincidental that the dates are one week earlier than Facebook’s annual f8 developer conference.
Anyway, Chirp looks to be an outstanding opportunity to learn more about Twitter, the [...]
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Last week’s kerfuffle about foursquare and how it exposes you to would-be burglars was hilarious to me.
More accurately, it’s Twitter that poses the risk, which isn’t a new problem. Foursquare encourages people to socialize their game-playing by adding friends from Facebook, Twitter and GMail. As with any [...]
I did some printer support over the weekend, which reminded me of the whole “facebook login” fiasco from earlier in the month.
Long story short, the person I was supporting couldn’t get Windows to recognize the printer.
The PC tower was under a desk and in a difficult spot to reach. The area was so snug that [...]As sure as I eat my breakfast, there are certain blogs that I read first thing in the morning. I’m not a coffee drinker, so caffeine addiction is foreign to me, but if you keep me from my A.M. blog reading, then I can get downright nasty!
Here’s my blog reading routine.
I log into my work [...]About Mission Statement History Advisory Board Staff Sponsoring Institutions Blogs Leadership 3.0 Blog OJR : The Online Journalism Review News for Digital Journalists Seminars Speakers How to Apply Training Resources Multimedia Training New Media Resources Contact OJR : The Online Journalism Review February 18, 2010 Top 10 reasons why you ought to apply for the News Entrepreneur Boot Camp By Robert Niles No comments Archive Link You have until midnight Friday Pacific Time on February 19, 2010 to apply for the 2010 News Entrepreneur Boot Camp Why should you apply Because we'll be bringing 20 journalists to Los Angeles in May for an intense , one-week camp in entrepreneurial thinking , and showing you how that applies to publishing a news website . By the end of the camp , you'll not only have been trained in the right mindset to run a successful publishing business , you'll have materials in hand with which you can pursue the funding that you'll need to continue your journalism . career Oh , and we won't charge you a thing for this : It's free . We'll even kick in 250 to help get you to LA . You need more reasons to drop whatever you were planning to do today , and apply Here are :
I’m a thief. Not in the Robin Hood philanthropic way, but in the robbing Peter to pay Paul kind of way. Let me explain. I recently started a blog about my puppy just for the fun of it. Unlike my other blogging endeavors, I have no real goal or agenda. [...]By now you’ve probably realized that a lot of your Web traffic is unexpected. By that I’m talking about the many people who stumble upon your blog in unexpected ways. Whether it’s a random page that has been crawled and ranked well by Google – or some random niche site picking up and [...]
Halfway through a blah post about Google Buzz, I ran across this post about the correlation between Facebook relationship status and happiness.
I’ve largely ignored Facebook for a while now, and it didn’t occur to me until Pete Warden released his initial observations about Facebook and US geography how much statistical gold exists there.
Turns out Facebook [...]
About Mission Statement History Advisory Board Staff Sponsoring Institutions Blogs Leadership 3.0 Blog OJR : The Online Journalism Review News for Digital Journalists Seminars Speakers How to Apply Training Resources Multimedia Training New Media Resources Contact OJR : The Online Journalism Review February 11, 2010 How the Vancouver Winter Olympics and other big stories can help a hyperlocal news website grow By Dave Chase 2 comments Archive Link Hyperlocal sites , by definition , are focused on their local community . However , periodically something happens in your community that has national significance that can draw some broader attention . More important is how it can accelerate your reach within your community by exposing your site to a new set of local people . This latter form of traffic is the most . sustainable The reality for most communities is that their neighborhoods either never received coverage from local media or that coverage has pulled back as budgets have tightened . This has left a big opportunity for hyperlocal sites to get a marketing boost like no other . I will share how that has worked tremendously well for my local site www.sunvalleyonline.com so that
Computers shouldn't make people feel like idiots.
A post from Signal vs. Noise titled “Computers shouldn’t make people feel like idiots“ has been open in a tab for nearly a week.
Reading it, and other iPad coverage, has me torn. I know that I exist in a world populated by geeks, and I know that many outside this [...]
Thought of something interesting (see disclaimer) yesterday, namely observing the evolution of how design solves problems with software.
Take a common requirement for the interwebs and its viewer, the browser, like wanting to view more than a single web page at a time.
In the first few iterations of browsers, this was possible only by launching multiple [...]As I’ve warned you before, there are a ton of other bloggers applying for that freelance opening. In fact, the last time I was looking for a blogger, I received over 800 inquiries!
That’s a lot of noise to cut through. There are several tactics you can employ to help increase your odds of [...]: About Mission Statement History Advisory Board Staff Sponsoring Institutions Blogs Leadership 3.0 Blog OJR : The Online Journalism Review News for Digital Journalists Seminars Speakers How to Apply Training Resources Multimedia Training New Media Resources Contact OJR : The Online Journalism Review February 9, 2010 Wanted : Required Web journalism skills By Robert Hernandez 9 comments Archive Link Editor's : note OJR welcomes USC's Robert Hernandez , who will be writing for us on technology and . journalism Also , a continuing reminder : We're taking applications for the 2010 News Entrepreneur Boot Camp Please consider applying if you're looking for better training on how to make your online news publishing efforts an income-producing business . With our industry in such turmoil , the constant technological changes , the evolution of news consumers and the uncertainty of the future , the question on the minds of veteran and aspiring journalists alike is what skills do I need to stay relevant , employed and . innovative That's the number one question I have gotten over the years . That and equipment recommendations . Everyone has an . answer There have been pieces written recently
Writing and maintaining a blog requires a fair amount of effort. Hence the rise of micro-blogging, which is almost frictionless (one of my favorite interface-isms), creating mountains of content, a long tail for blogging as it were.
That’s actually pretty funny, since blogging was initially the long tail of online content publishing, which was kind of [...]
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I’ve been thinking about comments lately, mostly because several interesting points have converged to draw my attention.
First, Cult of Mac pointed out that John Gruber’s Daring Fireball will now have comments, via another site, i.e. DaringFireballWithComments.net.
Next, Engadget turned off their comments because the had “really gotten out [...]They come in short spurts and are unannounced; even I am unaware they are about to occur. I’m speaking of blogging blackouts, periods of time where some unknown force keeps me from blogging. Has is it ever happened to you?
These stretches of time find me allergic to the keyboard. I suddenly [...]About Mission Statement History Advisory Board Staff Sponsoring Institutions Blogs Leadership 3.0 Blog OJR : The Online Journalism Review News for Digital Journalists Seminars Speakers How to Apply Training Resources Multimedia Training New Media Resources Contact OJR : The Online Journalism Review February 5, 2010 Writing skill is no longer enough to sustain journalists By Robert Niles 9 comments Archive Link A reminder : We're taking applications for the 2010 News Entrepreneur Boot Camp Please consider applying if you're looking for better training on how to make your online news publishing efforts an income-producing business . What's the value of journalism The short answer is , of course , whatever someone will pay for it . But a more thoughtful response gets at why people are willing to exchange something of value for news . information Economics 101 teaches that if more people want something , and the scarcer it is , the higher the price . With millions of new websites competing for people's attention , advertising rates across all media have plunged , threatening news businesses that depend upon advertising income . But the Internet hasn't just created more advertisingAbout Mission Statement History Advisory Board Staff Sponsoring Institutions Blogs Leadership 3.0 Blog OJR : The Online Journalism Review News for Digital Journalists Seminars Speakers How to Apply Training Resources Multimedia Training New Media Resources Contact OJR : The Online Journalism Review February 3, 2010 Have you talked with a customer recently By Robert Niles No comments Archive Link To encourage OJR readers to apply for our 2010 News Entrepreneur Boot Camp I'm writing again on some of the things you need to know , and skills you might need to develop , to become the successful publisher of a thriving news website . Much of what you'll learn at the camp , should you be one of those selected to attend , focuses on mind-set . The skills necessary to run a news website are remarkably similar to the skills needed to work as a reporter . But the mindsets of a successful entrepreneur and a newsroom reporter , unfortunately , are very often quite . different To that end . have you talked with a customer lately Or a potential one By customer , I mean a person who writes or might someday write you a check to fund your site . Your current boss does not count It could be an
iTasveer, one of my favorite online photo printing service has recently launched a wonderful facebook application called Mast Calendar. This application lets you create a personalized calendar with your photographs and lets you put nearly 20+ b’day events. Once you’ve chosen the photographs and events – you can either download a high resolution calendar [...]