Written on November 26, 2008 – 12:38 pm Paul Vereijken, Next Web Journalism & Media editor
It’s always painful to read about job cuts at U.S. newspapers. But the news became even more painful when I spotted mashup Paper Cuts. This mashup shows how many layoffs and buyouts U.S. newspapers have to suffer from. According to Paper Cuts more than 13.748 people in the newspaper industry lost their job in 2008. And new layoffs and buyouts are reported almost every week…
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Written on October 24, 2008 – 5:07 pm Joop Dorresteijn, Contributing editor
When will we see foldable e-paper on the street? Will advanced algorithms and Internet eventually put publishers out of business? – Nobody knows… But we do witness a devastating momentum for traditional publishers, how can these companies reinvent themselves? Are they doomed?
Chosun media, showing off newspaper 2.0
Doomed? Not by a long shot! at least, if we have to believe the marketing manager of Chosun. Chosun is a Korean newspaper giant, based in the heart of Seoul. I have to admit, I never heard of the company before I visited them today. But like many unknown Asian companies, Chosun is a prominent player with amazing proportions, newspaper circulation surpasses that of well-known newspapers like the USA today. The marketing manager believes that businesspeople will always appreciate an edited and selected overview on the daily hot topics. And if it isn’t on paper, it would be on a different medium. And as much as I like to argue the contrary, he might have a point. Financial Times recently announced that their amount of online (paying) subscribers is increasing fast. We got a tour at the HQ, and they actually got excited of the Nintendo Wii again! (has been a long time)
Epic 2015
But if you ask me; newspaper publishers are biased towards their believe that a good paper requires manual work, something that will seize to exist in the future. This three-year-old videoclip made by Robin Sloan and Matt Thompson try to sketch that situation. Skip to 6:40:
Written on February 25, 2008 – 2:56 pm Ernst-Jan Pfauth, editor in chief
Hey you, new review service Blippr asks you something:
Have you ever thought to yourself, “Gosh, it’s really annoying I can’t organize all the media I’ve encountered over my brief years on this little planet known as Earth…”?
I know I did, I even started a blog once to write short reviews about all the cultural stuff I had done. After three reviews, the blog died a silent dead. Now the time has come for me to reconsider whether I want to organize my media or not. This time with an awfully-named new service.
Blippr has another advantage compared to the blog, since it also allows users to recommend each other new music, films and other types of media by either writing short reviews or rating them. ‘Not another social network!’, I hear you say, and it’s exactly what I thought. But the founders of Blippr claim that it will function within the context of your social network. You know the deal: Facebook apps and all.
However, we’ll have to wait a while, since the service is still in private beta. They’ll launch the sharing tools when they go in to a public beta. It will look something like this:
I must admit, I’m writing this article on the basis of their well-designed tour. I’ll definitely give it a shot when it’s in public beta, so I can start organizing my media again. They offer me three lists:
My sphere: every time I ‘blip’ - or dig for that matter - something, it goes on this list. So this is basically my archive.
My queue: Paul David Allen, author of Getting Things Done, will love this, since it’s a list to keep track of media you want to see, hear or read in the near future.
Wish list (or: Blippr’s money machine): show Blippr the money! Their business model is of course generating money through sending people to Amazon to buy all the media their friends recommend. I can put the stuff I want to buy on this list, which makes it also a useful list for my friends during the holiday season.
One thing though, my friends have to be on Blippr then. That’s the danger of starting a service like this, it only gets interesting as soon as the people you like are on it as well. My advice for the guys of Blippr, you’d better start thinking about how you gonna make this service at least as viral as NotchUp.
Written on January 24, 2008 – 2:01 pm Martin Kloos, Web Strategy Consultant
The title of this blog is ‘The Next Web’. We are constantly looking for events, technology, services and people who are changing the web. In a way, we are trying to predict the future so you can take advantage of that. And of-course we are not the only ones doing this.
Deloitte, a company that offers services in audit, tax, consulting and financial advisory, is also interested in the future of technology. But instead of just reading this blog they have invited the public to help them.
They are hosting a Dutch predictions event in association with Fast50.nl which will take place on February 13, 2008. During this event, Deloitte presents its vision on the Telecom, Media, and Technology market for 2008.
Prior to the event, everyone is invited to participate in a discussion on these predictions on the weblog www.dutchpredictions.nl. The input from this blog discussion will be an important driver for the event on February 13.
It will be interesting to see what will be the result of all these user generated predictions. If valuable information comes to light I’m sure we will see similar events in the other 139 countries where Deloitte is based.
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