Jeff John Roberts (@jeffjohnroberts), legal and media reporter for GigaOm and paidContent, reports that “Twitter is teaming up with everyone from Bloomberg Television to Major League Baseball as the social media site expands its range of “multi-screen” partnerships.” Why? To provide advertisers who advertise on TV an integrated cross-platform tool for reaching the social conversation… Continue Reading
Category Archives: Publishing & Technology
Subscribe to Publishing & Technology RSS FeedOver half of top 100 blogs run on WordPress
Pingdom reports that WordPress has strengthened its position as the dominating blog platform or Content Management System (CMS) for the world’s most popular blogs. 52% of the world’s top 100 blogs are published on WordPress, up from the 48% last year. Here’s a breakdown on the blogging platforms used. And the changes on each platform… Continue Reading
Financial Times joins Flipboard : Signals change for legal publishing
Jeff John Roberts (@jeffjohnroberts) of paidContent reports that like the New York Times the Financial Times is now making its content available through Flipboard. Flipboard, a popular tablet reading platform for lawyers, enables users to draw on their social networks to assemble content from a variety of publications to create their own magazine-like experience. The… Continue Reading
Google’s Schmidt : YouTube has replaced TV. What’s it mean for law firms?
In a presentation to advertisers this week Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt declined to forecast that Internet video would replace television, Schmidt said, “That’s already happened, the future is now for YouTube.” As reported by the AP’s Jack Coyle (@jake_coyle), Schmidt explained that YouTube recently passed 1 billion unique visitors. But that’s nothing compared to… Continue Reading
Mobile more important than desktop for blog publishers
As reported by Joshua Benton (@jbenton) of Nieman Journalism Lab, the New York Times launched yesterday a revamped mobile site. A simplified design and an experience closer to the Times’ mobile app (this upgrade is for a browser) is what you’ll take away from the revamped site. The more important message through for you as… Continue Reading
LinkedIn’s acquisition of Pulse : Media company or better networking?
LinkedIn has agreed to buy Pulse, a newsreader app that aggregates online sources, including your social networks, for $90 million. Not bad for the two Pulse founders who met while students at Stanford in 2010. Pulse is similar in nature to Zite and Flipboard, though I have never found its interface as pleasing or it’s… Continue Reading
Flipboard : 3 million new users since launch of personalized magazines
Two weeks ago Flipboard, a social network aggregation magazine, released a new feature allowing users to create personalized magazines. Each of us essentially became a magazine editor with the power to pull individual sources, subjects, and stories into one magazine available to others. The result? Half a million personalized magazines have been created and Flipboard… Continue Reading
Mashable : Good source for current affairs
When I moved to the West Coast 13 years ago to found my first tech company, I read that one should visit open houses to stay abreast of what people were reading (books & magazines), listening to (CD’s), and viewing (art & pictures). The idea was that it kept you abreast of today’s culture, something… Continue Reading
Want to get your blog posts shared? Use images
Quinton O’Reilly (@qoreilly) of Simply Zesty shares eight ideas on how to make your content more sharable. Number one was the use of imagery. If you look at the most popular posts out there, you will see that nine times out of ten an image will be involved. It’s easy to see why: Images are… Continue Reading
2013 is year of mobile business development for lawyers and law firms
It’s all about mobile when it comes to business in 2013. That’s the word from Clair Cain Miller (@clairecm) in a post in the New York Times’ Bits Blog yesterday. [A ComScore Report] shows that the effects of a movement toward mobile are everywhere, from shopping to media to search. According to the report, “2013… Continue Reading
What’s the relevance of your public library in a digital world?
Running by our Island’s library yesterday I was struck by the ‘OPEN’ sign all lit up in one of the windows. ‘Open’ to me was a shout out, “We’re still here, we’re still relevant.” When I passed the library on the way home I saw women who worked there leaving for the day. It must… Continue Reading
Feedly : Slick RSS reader for iPhone or Android
I’ve been looking for a slick, fast, easy to use RSS reader with a nice interface for my iPhone. I use Mr. Reader, Flipboard, and Zite on my iPad. Though Flipboard and Zite work well on my iPhone, they have limitations. Zite is a personalized magazine that feeds me relevant content by categories, but it… Continue Reading
Mobile engagement, not desktop websites key for law firms
The New York Times’ Quentin Hardy (@qhardy) reports Intel’s earnings were down 27% with the decline of PC sales. Why? Instead of PCs, more people and businesses are buying smartphones and tablets. Microsoft’s release of its Windows 8 operating system did nothing to excite PC buyers. Consumers and businesses did not buy new computers in… Continue Reading
25 to 30% of search from mobile devices by years end
Nowhere have we seen as much in change in technology the last year as with mobile. People are leaving their desktops and laptops for smartphones and tablets. Jay Yarow (@jyarow), Senior Editor at The Business Insider, reports that search on desktops was down for the fourth straight month in December. Based on recent comScore stats,… Continue Reading
Listening internationally : Social media opens opportunities for lawyers
I started getting feeds from the Irish Independent, Ireland’s largest newspaper, a couple months ago. My interest in Ireland comes from my first job as lawyer, 30 years ago, being in Ireland and now the IDA (Irish Development Authority) having visited me this year about the benefits of doing business in Ireland. I don’t get… Continue Reading