The future of Facebook unveiledFacebook is going to turn the web into “one big cocktail party”, says CNN, with the company just announcing its new platform, Open Graph. Watch CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s keynote address here.
Future of media
Will Apple save or destroy the publishing industry?
With Amazon offering increasingly cut-price e-books, the publishing industry is looking to Apple’s iPad to kill the Kindle and save the book business. But is Steve Jobs really looking after the interests of publishers, or just his own legacy?
Beneath the skivvy: the dark side of Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs emerged, iPad tucked firmly under his arm, as the saviour leading publishers out of the paywalls darkness. But what happens when they realise Steve Jobs is just a ruthless businessman? asks Ryan Tate.
Welcome to the Great Magazine Freeze of 2010
2008-09 were the years that saw magazines folding and crumbling and Gawkers Great Magazine Die-off tag (rather like our own Newspaper Death Watch one) getting a work out. But times they are a-changing, with less mags dying and less being born.
Why authors should write apps, not e-books
Authors shouldn’t just think of the iPad as another place to publish their books, says Cody Brown: they should see it as an opportunity to communicate their stories and messages in new, “mind-blowing” ways.
Beecher: The iPad won’t save newspapers
The iPad is a wonderful device that will bring joy and utility to millions of people. But it won’t — and can’t — save the economic fate of newspapers.
Journicide: how you’ll earn more cleaning toilets than as an editor
Who says there are no jobs for young journos? Columbia Journalism Review has full-time graduate jobs, paying $27,000 p.a. Gawker compiles a list of better paying jobs, from working at Maccas to inseminating cows. Stay positive.
How the iPad will kill reading
E-books on the iPad probably will replace real books, says Paul Carr, but it’s a shame, because everyone will be too distracted with Flight Control and Twitter to actually read them.
Kohler: Rupert’s wrong: distribution, not content, is king
Content is not king and never has been. That was a journalistic delusion. The uniqueness and the money in newspapers has always come from distribution.
Video of the Day: Meet generation ‘i’
If there’s still any doubt over the future of the media, let’s settle it now. Watch this two-year-old playing with an iPad for the first time. And you still can’t program the DVD player.
Beecher: Why Murdoch defies gravity while other owners have to play by the rules
The fact that News Corp loses a great deal of money on its flagship newspapers doesn’t necessarily mean this is not a profitable formula.
Why the iPad can’t save the magazine industry
Business Insider crunches the numbers on the iPad economy: even if iPads sell beyond all expectations, the return for magazines will just be small change compared to their print revenue.
One iPad review for techies, one for everyone else
The iPad divides like no other technological device, writes David Pogue. All the tech nerds hate it while everyone else loves it. Meaning, two reviews are needed to properly cover it. Which one suits you?
What’s Murdoch got to lose?
Rupert Murdoch’s Times newspaper is hemorrhaging about £1.5 million a week — so while erecting an online paywall may seem risky, he has nothing to lose and everything to gain, says media consultant Philip M. Stone.
Focusing on the future of photography
The photography industry changed in a flash. With less magazine and newspaper assignments, professional photographers are losing out to cheap amateurs with digital cameras and stock photos.
Vanity Fair editor: Print’s not dead — just reincarnated
The internet may change print journalism, but it won’t necessarily kill it, writes Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter: a good story is a good story, whether you read it in a magazine or on an iPhone.
Is the social media bubble about to burst?
The social mediasphere is a lot like the subprime mortgage market, warns Umair Haque: “social inflation” is cheapening the value of relationships, and it won’t be long until we’re all foreclosing on our FarmVille farms.
Cheap, awesome TV: anywhere, anytime? Tell ‘im ‘e’s dreamin’
Any TV show, any screen, anytime. Free or cheap. “That’s the dream” says Gizmodo — but it may be just that. TV shows cost a lot of money to make, and the likes of Hulu and Apple haven’t quite worked out how to make it back.
How the iPad will change the world
The iPad isn’t just a really big version of an iPhone — Wired’s latest cover-story heralds it as the future of computing: no more files or peripherals, super-connected and super-fast
Why live-blogging doesn’t work
Yes, we here at Crikey do love ourselves a live-blog, but is the best way to communicate an event a bunch of quick one-liners? You need some time to think before you publish, writes Tim Burrowes.
Why the internet really is “serious business”
Yale computer science professor David Gelernter explains why the internet is so much more than LOLcats and porn, and it’s time we started to think about it and plan for it, instead of just “letting it happen”.
Margaret Simons: Crikey still meeting the challenge
Crikey has what so many traditional publishers want — the hybrid model whereby some content is paid for by the viewer, and other content is free.
Digital and online archives: This is the BBC
The BBC archives are going online! It’s a work in process — in three years, 50,000 hours of footage have been digitised, and that’s just 10% of total Beeb content — but it’s a whole new direction for the network.
Can the internet kill Rupert Murdoch?
Media mogul Rupert Murdoch is adept at hiding his many business failures, writes Michael Wolff, but MySpace — and Murdoch’s lack of internet savvy — is proving to be his biggest public disaster.
Microsoft unveils its iPhone killer
Microsoft has uncovered its Windows Phone 7 Series, and Gizmodo declares it “groundbreaking”. With Apple, Google and Microsoft now ruling the smartphone market, “Phones are officially computers that happen to fit in your pocket.”
