New Media
- China’s Biggest E-Publisher Launches E-Reader and E-bookstore [Publishing Perspectives, 10 Aug 2010] China’s largest e-publisher, Shanda Literature Group, has launched the Bambook, a dedicated e-reader, as well as an e-bookstore featuring more than three million titles.
- Social Media Dominates Asia Pacific Internet Usage [nielsenwire, 9 Jul 2010] Social media usage has seen unprecedented growth in Asia Pacific in the past year and is now one of the most critical trends in the online sector, according to Nielsen’s Asia Pacific Social Media Report.
- Apple grabs 22 percent of e-book market with iBooks [Macworld, 8 Jun 2010] Users have downloaded more than 5 million books—approximately 2.5 for each device sold—in the first 65 days of iBooks’ availability.
- Facebook Inspires More Loyalty than Google for News, Media Sites [eWeek.com, 19 Mar 2010] According to Hitwise, an online competitive intelligence service, Facebook users are more loyal to news Web sites than are visitors from Google News.
- Watching the Games? Switch on your cellphone [Reuters, 23 Feb 2010] Cellphones and the internet are muscling in on more traditional media as ways to see the Olympic Games, and the trend will only deepen.
- From Print to Phone to Web. And a Sale? [New York Times, 10 Jan 2010] The availability of smartphones and cameraphones have enabled magazine publishers to add a bit of Internetlike interactivity to their pages.
- Media’s Next Big Thing : Cellphone News [The Times of India, 1 Dec 2009] The spread of news and advertising via mobile phones and social networks will shape the news industry in the years to come, say speakers at the World Newspaper Congress in Hyderabad, India.
- Internet, Cellphone Users Are “More Social” [Yahoo! Tech, 4 Nov 2009] The Internet and mobile phones are not linked to social isolation, says a new study by the Pew Internet and American Life Project. Online activities such as blogging and Facebook can lead to larger social networks.
- Teens know what they want from online news : Do you? [Media Management Center, 2009] This 2009 research study from the NAA Foundation and the Media Management Center at Northwestern University looks at how newspapers can engage with young people.
- Facebook ’suck sites’ to be tested in court [Chicago Tribune, 20 Sep 2009] Lawsuits involving so-called “suck sites” — Web pages on Facebook, MySpace or blogs created to harass or mock a person or place — are on the rise.
- 2014: a media odyssey [MediaWeek, 25 Aug 2009] In five years, experts predict that prime-time television will no longer exist, e-readers will replace print newspapers, and social media will be “a part of everything.”
- The Economist targets younger audience via Thinking Space forum [ejc.net, 20 July 2009] The magazine site has enlisted high-profile readers to take part in the pan-European campaign to attract a tech-savvy audience.
- Internet most popular information source: poll [Reuters, 17 June 2009] The Internet is by far the most popular source of information and the preferred choice for news ahead of television, newspapers and radio, according to a new poll in the United States.
- The rebirth of news [Economist.com, 14 May 2009] While the Internet may be killing newspapers, it will eventually give birth to “a new sort of news business,” according to The Economist.
- ‘Hyperlocal’ Seen as Future of Online News [CNN.com, 5 May 2009] A new crop of “hyperlocal” news sites is growing into the void left by failing local U.S. newspapers.
- Linking younger generations to the news through social networking sites [EditorsWeblog.org, 9 Apr 2009] Two new experiments in action to get the news to young Facebook users - mndaily.com and Hot Dish - could revolutionize the way young people engage and interact with news through their social network.
- Twitter Primarily Used As A Business Tool [Vnunet.com, 20 Mar 2009] Twitter has become primarily a business tool used by people in their late 20s to early 50s, according to data from market research firm Nielsen.
- Twitter Users Get Boost from New Feature [LATimes.com, 20 Feb 2009] Twitter accounts are seeing big jumps in the number of users subscribing to profile updates thanks to the new “suggested users” feature, which displays a sort-of featured personalities list.
- YouTube Adds New “Unlisted Video” Privacy Option [WebProNews, 12 May 2010] YouTube’s new option : Users can now upload videos and mark them as unlisted. Only people with the link to the video page will be able to view any video marked as such.
