The fast growth of the internet on interactive map
The BBC has released an interactive chart of the growth of the internet. You can find it here. The chart tracks the growth from 1998 to the present. By using the slider to browse through the years the incredible growth acceleration becomes clear. The chart shows how in 1998 only a few countries had extensive [...]
Mobile devices to become biggest internet connector
Morgan Stanley has released a report about the rapidly changing mobile internet market;’ ” The mobile internet report” Morgan Stanley believes that within five years more users will connect to the internet with mobile devices than with desktop PC’s For those licensing media content this should be an important part of future plans. In many [...]
Are bigger libraries the answer to pricing pressures?
Judging by the news this week it seems Stock Photography companies are involved in an arms race for the size of their collections. With increased pressure on prices perhaps the hope is that that adding a significant amount of new images to sites will help keep revenues up (or stop the decline). But is this [...]
New magazine with articles from bloggers
The Blogpaper has launched on friday in London where it was distributed at four underground stations. In a strange twist to a world where most printed media go online the opposite is happening here. The blogpaper allows users to upload and nomimate stories from blogs on its site. Users then vote for the best ones and these [...]
Esquire’s innovative magazine experience
Esquire magazine is experimenting with new media applications in their ‘Augmented reality’ edition. In this video editor David Granger explains how it works’ by holding the magazine up to a webcam new content is unlocked on the screen. The software can be downloaded here. The edition combines photography, video, animation to create a 3d interactive experience. [...]
More campaigns to make people happy
One month ago I shared two video’s of the Volkswagen sponsored ‘campaign for happy people. A new video has now been released on the fun theory website. Here it is: The site now also features ideas of visitors on how to make fun use of day to day objects. Here are some of the entries for the [...]
Linkedin and Twitter to work together
Twitter and Linkedin will create connections between the two systems, Linkedin announced today. This will be implemented over the coming days. When you set your status on Linkedin you can now tweet it as well, amplifying it to your followers and real-time search services like Twitter Search and Bing. And when you tweet, you can send [...]
Advertising agency leaders too old to innovate
With 25% of WPP’s revenue coming from digital they are ahead of many competitors. According to WPP CEO Sir Martin Sorell this is because of the age of some of the people that run the agencies: “The people who run agencies tend to be of an older vintage – to put it politely,” said Sorrell. [...]
From library to contextual media; Thought Equity Motion
This company has embarked on a path to re-invent itself and move from being a library to, what they call, the ‘holy grail’ of contextual Media; delivering contextual content around live events in a fully automated fashion. Thought Equity Motion describes itself as the world’s largest supplier of online motion content, delivering video in a wide range of [...]
Where would content be without links
Jeff Jarvis is the author of What Would Google Do? He is also associate professor and director of the interactive journalism program at the City University of New York’s new Graduate School of Journalism. He is consulting editor and a partner at Daylife, a news startupand that has recently partnered with Getty Images (Getty Images made a [...]
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