There is a great enthusiasm among digital pioneers to offer the readers of news websites the chance to personalise their editorial choices. But readers appear, at present anyway, somewhat underwhelmed by the concept. Research by a journalism academic, Neil Thurman, shows a disconnect between the growth of personalised news services in Britain and US, and [...]
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Fiona Graham BBC Hoy en día, no hace falta ser un técnico experto para crear aplicaciones. Crear aplicaciones es algo que sólo saben hacer aquellos que dominan el lenguaje secreto de las computadoras: los desarrolladores de software. ¿O no? Si se pretende crear algo que supere la complejidad de Adobe Photoshop, la respuesta es sí. [...]
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Valuations of social media companies are starting to remind us of 1999. But are they overvalued? Now that Microsoft bought Skype for $8.5 billion, LinkedIn’s IPO valued the company at $8.9 billion after its first day of trading, and Facebook’s estimated value is pushing $100 billion, you might be starting to wonder if buying into [...]
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¿Cuál es el papel de los periodistas en el diálogo en las redes sociales? Jeff Jarvis cree que los periodistas se esfuerzan demasiado en “convertirse en los lÃderes” de la conversación en internet, pero afirma que esto no deberÃa ser asÃ. Explica que las noticias son una parte mas en este diálogo, pueden añadirle valor, [...]
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Updated: In the wake of a number of events, including the use of Twitter as a real-time reporting tool by New York Times writer Brian Stelter during the aftermath of the recent tornado in Missouri, media theorist and journalism professor Jeff Jarvis has written a post about how the “article†or traditional news story may [...]
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In our new weekly blog analysing media, tech and business models, Frédéric Filloux of Monday Note says that blurring the line between advertising and editorial is becoming a standard practice on today’s internet Last week, the Columbia School of Journalism released The Story so Far. For news zealots, this is tantamount to the Vatican publishing [...]
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Más de un tercio de los ciudadanos se sienten ajenos al desarrollo tecnológico, mientras el 23% lo incorporan como una realidad propia.
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Facebook really doesn’t want you criticizing its technology. Especially via a domain name you bought for that very purpose. That’s why the social network has assumed control of such incredibly specific domain names as IHateTheFacebookLikeButton.com. Paranoid much? Uptime monitoring firm Pingdom stumbled across several anti-Facebook domains registered by Facebook, including IHateFacebookCredits.com, LikeButtonSucks.com, LikeSucks.com and FBCreditsSuck.org [...]
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La página web TechCrunch presentó ayer un análisis con las 165 páginas de compañÃas de todo el mundo con el mayor crecimiento de “Likes†en sus fanpages de Facebook en el primer cuatrimestre de 2011. Entre los primeros aparecen Sprite, Puma, Zara y Forever 21. Ahora @briascoi‎ descubrió que también hay una empresa 100% argentina: [...]
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Ashton Kutcher fans who can’t get enough of the star on Twitter are about to get some very good news. And the rest of you — even if you aren’t necessarily huge Ashton fans — will want to pay attention too. Mr. Kutcher, who will be interviewed by Charlie Rose at TechCrunch Disrupt tomorrow, is [...]
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