JEFF MOLANDER

E-books and Self-Publishing Roundup, May 17, 2012

17 May 2012, 5:51 pm
The best stories of the week from across the web on e-books and self-publishing 1. E-book pricing lawsuit moves ahead (via NYT) 2. Authors have ramped up writing pace to meet feverish e-book demand (Christian Science Monitor) 3. Debating the right price for digital books (Columbia Journalism Review) 4. Screenplay for upcoming Wes Anderson movie will come out as e-book in the UK (GalleyCat) 5. Pulitzer Prize-winning book critic Michael Dirda talks. […]

Daily Must Reads, May 17, 2012

17 May 2012, 4:54 pm
The best stories across the web on media and technology, curated by Lily Leung. 1. Want to buy Facebook shares now? You may be too late (Reuters) 2. 15 key stats on Facebook's analytics (Experian) 3. Pinterest snags big-time investor in Japan (AllThingsD) 4. Pinterest tries email to keep users engaged (PaidContent) 5. Turner Broadcasting invests in Funny or Die (Lost Remote) 6. What is Facebook's plan with mobile? (GigaOm) Subscribe to Daily Must. […]

Twitter Announces “Do Not Track” Setting

17 May 2012, 4:29 pm
Twitter on Thursday gave privacy advocated a big win by announced a new “Do Not Track” setting that allows users to opt out of being tracked by Twitters platform. The plan was unveiled at an Internet Week panel in New York Thursday morning by chief technology officer for the Federal Trade Commission, Ed Felten. Twitter also revealed [...]

Can Web-Only Original Programming Finally Stick?

17 May 2012, 2:00 pm
The days of skateboarding dogs holding sway on the web may be numbered. Technology companies and advertisers are professing their belief in the value of professionally produced original content. Portals and platforms like YouTube, AOL, MSN and Yahoo -- once known for aggregating and optimizing video produced by others -- are spending millions of dollars to develop and acquire programming of their own. The demand is clearly there. YouTube reported. […]

A CIO Who Gets Social Business

16 May 2012, 5:43 pm
One of my favorite CIOs is Tom Murphy, who long headed IT at AmerisourceBergen and who is now in transition to a new role (any company will be lucky to have him). Tom addressed the CIO Solutions Gallery at the … Continue reading →

Daily Must Reads, March 16, 2012

16 May 2012, 4:45 pm
The best stories across the web on media and technology, curated by Lily Leung. 1. E-book pricing lawsuit moves ahead (NYT) 2. General Motors plans to pull the plug on its Facebook ads (WSJ) 3. Despite its huge population, Google+ is a 'virtual tumbleweed town' (Businessweek) 4. Bitly may be launching a real-time viral search engine (The Verge) 5. Flipboard now does audio, too (Time) 6. Research explains how journalists verify information on Twit. […]

Facebook App Gogobot Attracts 1 Million Users

16 May 2012, 4:13 pm
Gogobot, a Facebook travel app that just launched in January 2012 announced on Wednesday that it has passed the 1 million registered users mark. Gogobot officially launched in private beta 18 months ago but came out of beta in January. The company now claims that a new users signs up for the program every 15 [...]

How Design Links Storytelling to Social Enterprise

16 May 2012, 2:00 pm
That a story can give voice to a cause and incite a social movement is an old concept. But at a recent gathering of more than 100 documentary filmmakers, social entrepreneurs and designers, the real question was not whether stories can make change happen, but how to make storytelling a systemic part of how a social enterprise disseminates its message and gathers support for its cause. So how do you link storytelling to social enterprise? In a wor. […]

Could Facebook, Twitter Be Charged Under Thailand's Computer Crime Act?

16 May 2012, 2:00 pm
On June 3 of last year, MediaShift published the article "Crisis in Thailand Leads to Net Crackdown, Censorship" on the harassment journalists and netizens faced as political clashes arose in the country. Many of the comments in a long thread following its publication mentioned the monarchy. Some of the comments were just opinions, but according to the lese-majesté law, they could be considered a threat to Thailand's national security. According. […]

Three Reasons Why a Psychologist Wouldn’t Invest in a $100bn Facebook

16 May 2012, 8:40 am
So it’s IPO time for the leading social commerce platform on the planet, and Facebook thinks it’s worth half of Google ($104bn vs $196bn), as much as Amazon ($101bn), and twice eBay ($52bn).  But here are three reasons why a psychologist wouldn’t invest, and why, if you are in the social commerce game, a psychologist wouldn’t [...]