News International’s Daily and Sunday newspaper and online teams are to merge, reports the AOP.
The company plans to increase its online audience and profitability through this streamlining of online and print editorial teams, and increased use of the web and mobile services to attract a younger demographic, which is less receptive to print.
Murdoch’s Damascene conversion is now complete.
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Google has launched Maplets, widgets that anyone can make to mash up data (say, airports or cheap petrol stations) with Google Maps and then share them with anyone.
More on the problem of measurement in a Web 2.0 world from Jeff Jarvis. Problem is, he says, if it’s not measured then advertisers won’t buy it and that would be bad for innovation. He lists maps, widgets and RSS feeds as some example of place where people are spending their time, but which aren’t getting the credit for it.
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The Guardian has published its seventh annual Top 100 most powerful people in media (registration needed) – though one of the listings (Facebook at number 100) is a site not a person. Eric Schmidt, Google ceo tops the list, followed by Rupert Murdoch, Mark Thompson, BBC DG, Michael Grade, famous TV mogul and new boss of ITV and James Murdoch, ceo of Sky.
The old media certainties are no more. In a world where print journalists have become podcasters, video-on-demand has replaced the video cassette, and two-year-old new media start-ups sell for $1.65bn, it is apt there should be a changing of the guard in the MediaGuardian 100. So this year we ripped up the list and started again with the help of several new members on our panel of judges. Out of the list go the likes of Radio 4 controller Mark Damazer and Daily Express editor Peter Hill, in come the vanguard of the social networking revolution – YouTube founders Chad Hurley and Steven Chen, MySpace chief executive Chris DeWolfe, and Bebo’s Michael Birch. Nearly half of this year’s list are new entries.
EWeek sees the latest Google acquisition of security firm Postini as evidence that it is gearing itself up to challege Exchange in the corporate email space.
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How to build a real-time fuel price map with mash-ups? Use Google’s mash-up editor and Yahoo! Pipes. Easy.
Google is working on a new social network called SocialStream which would act as a central point where all contact data from other social networks could be kept and updated. It works on the assumption that the competitors open up their services through APIs and don’t continue as “walled-gardens” as is now the case. Meanwhile, Yahoo! is rumoured by Techcrunch to be working on its own new social network, Mosh.
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The world famous Washington Post has published its 10 principles of online journalism which among other things commits it to posting “most” scoops online as soon as they happen, and publishing news as it happens 24/7. As Jeff Jarvis points out: good as far as it goes but the paper conspicuously fails to place itself as part of a two-way conversation with “those formerly known as readers”. The Post is still the centre of the journalistic universe.
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Presentations are soon to join documents and spreadsheets in Google’s suite of online “office” applications. Two recent acquisitions – Zenter and Tonic Systems – will be at the heart of the offering which is promising to debut this summer.
AOP reports that the government intends to push more recruitment advertising of Government positions online. Press will still be used, according to the report, but ads will be smaller and will direct applicants to Government websites. There is a silver lining of sorts for print publishers; apparently the moves will apply to senior jobs only as the view is that not everyone who might apply for lowly jobs have access to the internet.