In Search of the Future of Local News Search Search : for Go Home Jobs Twitter iPhone RSS About you’re reading . Digital Newsstands Heading to New York City By David Weinfeld June 29, 2010 Post a comment Courtesy of DailyDOOH.com A team of companies from the digital out-of-home media industry have come together to make digital newsstands in New York City a reality . Led by CEMUSA the international outdoor advertising company that beat out competitors JCDecaux and Viacom to win New York’s 1.4 billion street furniture contract in 2005, the innovative newsstand effort utilizes a range of cutting-edge digital signage . technologies CEMUSA and its collaborators , including Show+Tell Display Devices Inc and Wirespring have succeeded in retrofitting a matrix of sunlight readable LCD screens into
Msnbc.com’s new look, teased back on June 11, is now live and takes a significantly different approach to news – one we find considerably encouraging. The msnbc story pages now feature all the information “right there” rather than forcing you to jump hoops to get a certain item of information from the story.
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: , In Search of the Future of Local News Search Search : for Go Home Jobs Twitter iPhone RSS About you’re reading . New content providers : Friend , enemy or frenemy By Mark Briggs June 24, 2010 Post a comment Some people call them the 5 th estate . Others call them content mills or content farms . Whatever you call them , new content providers are a force to be reckoned . with For example , Demand Media is now working with Gannett and Hearst . Yahoo recently purchased Associated Content to bolster its newly aggressive local strategy . And Examiner.com is one of the fastest growing sites in the U.S . with 14 million unique visitors in May . And there are dozens more out there , competing with traditional local news . operations Examiner.com’s Mitch Gelman , who started as a crime reporter
In Search of the Future of Local News Search Search : for Go Home Jobs Twitter iPhone RSS About you’re reading . Media partnership auction site boocoo’ launches today By Steve Safran June 21, 2010 Post a comment There’s a new auction site on the block as it were and it’s a partnership that includes more than 300 newspapers and TV stations . The site , boocoo opened for business today , taking on eBay , in an effort to make up ad money losses What makes boocoo different from other auction sites For one , slightly lower fees . If you’re selling something for , say 100, you’re on the hook for 80 cents plus 6 of the sale price . On eBay , the same listing would cost you a dollar plus 9 of the sale . Media partners with boocoo are also committed to giving the site print and broadcast ad
, : News Interviews Mobile Production Industry Announcements About Us Announcements Contact Blog Home page Apple FaceTime , Never Seen Before Apple FaceTime , Never Seen Before Image c . Apple Computers Apple is typically very good about locking down names for new products and I was wondering if FaceTime would have known about this on the day the Gen 4 iPhone was announced , this week clearly they were in the mix for a payout of their name and branding , either before or after the fact . nbsp Of course , Cornellians , those affiliated with Cornell University my wife did her undergrad studies there will have something to say about the co-opting of their over thirty year old mantra and song , Facetime as sung by the Cornell Glee . Club Facetime at Cornell meant that people where so caught up