Things worth reading for May 10th:
YouTube – SURPRISE MUSICAL – Gotta Share! – Must see!
Media Firms Become More Willing to Work With Netflix – WSJ.com – Interesting take on the turning tide for IP based VOD.
Fortune Keeps Apple Story Off Web, On iPad and Kindle | Peter Kafka | MediaMemo | AllThingsD – Interesting piece about Fortune’s experiment with not releasing their Apple-icious cover story online but making users pay $.99 on the Kindle or subscribe.
Connected Devices: How We Use Tablets in the U.S. | Nielsen Wire – “When asked whether they used other connected devices more often or less often since purchasing a tablet, 35 percent of tablet owners who also owned a desktop computer reported using their desktop less often or not at all, while 32 percent of those who also owned laptops, said they used their laptop less often or never since acquiring a tablet. Twenty-seven percent of those who also own eReaders said they use their eReader less often or not at all – the same percentage as those who also own portable media players. One-in-four tablet owners who own portable games consoles are using those devices less often, if at all, since purchasing a tablet.”
Race to save digital art from the rapid pace of technological change | Technology | The Observer – “Race to save digital art from the rapid pace of technological change.<br />
“Pioneers of computer art are in danger of becoming the lost generation of our cultural heritage because scientists are unable to preserve their work”
A List Apart: Articles: Orbital Content – “Most online content today is stuck. It has roots firmly planted in one of the many sites and applications around the web. Because content is rooted, we are forced to spend precious time recording its location in the hopes of navigating back. We bookmark websites. We favorite tweets. We create lists in text files.”
MediaPost Publications Kids Are Multi-tasking Technology At Younger Ages 04/29/2011 – “It’s hard to believe there was a time, not terribly long ago, when the idea of 6-year-olds having media habits — much less media habits requiring them to multitask — would have seemed absurd. Now, however, kids are using a range of media platforms from smartphones to console games — and starting younger. And they are engaging far more than in the past with content and platforms designed for older kids and even adults.”
LA Flood – “The LA Flood Project is a [work in progress] locative media experience made up of three segments:-Oral histories of crises in Los Angeles-A locative narrative about a fictional flood-A flood simulation. Check here for updates.”
L.A. Flood, the emerging narrative – LA Observed – Nice overview of a fascinating transmedia experiment happening around the L.A. Festival of Books and on Twitter. Next link will be directly to the site.
The Science of Why We Don’t Believe Science – Truly interesting survey of decision research.
Where does good come from? – Boston.com – ‘On a recent Monday afternoon, the distinguished Harvard biologist Edward O. Wilson was at his home in Lexington, talking on the phone about the knocks he’s been taking lately from the scientific community, and paraphrasing Arthur Schopenhauer to explain his current standing in his field. “All new ideas go through three phases,” Wilson said, with some happy mischief in his voice. “They’re first ridiculed or ignored. Then they meet outrage. Then they are said to have been obvious all along.”’
You Are the Ad – Technology Review – “Suddenly, large companies are running multimillion-dollar ad campaigns on Facebook. Startups, such as the social-game maker Zynga and the daily-deal service Groupon, are mounting similar though smaller campaigns, and so are hundreds of thousands of local businesses, such as fitness salons and photographers. Facebook ads hauled in nearly $2 billion in revenues last year, according to the business information service eMarketer, and a leaked document belonging to investor Goldman Sachs revealed that the privately held company made a profit of about $500 million in the same period. This year, revenues are on track to reach $4 billion—making the $75 billion valuation investors are placing on Facebook seem slightly less crazy.”
Are ‘enhanced’ e-books the future of books, or mere footnotes? – Technology Review – “Ecologist Tim Flannery’s new book Here on Earth is available as a hardback, a paperback, a kindle ebook, and, somewhat unusually, an app. The app version of the book, produced for Atlantic Monthly press by a collaboration between writer/producers Arcade Sunshine and development studio Element 84, just went on sale in the iTunes App store. ”
This Tech Bubble Is Different – BusinessWeek – Terrific article on why we’re in a new and less-impressive bubble right now. Interesting and the kind of writing that is a best-case for magazines sticking around.
Groupon Buys Pelago in Bid to Expand User Discovery: Tech News and Analysis « – “Groupon has been about helping people discover deals. Now, it’s buying Pelago, maker of local discovery app Whrrl, in a bid to improve its ability to bring together consumers and local discount offers. The acquisition means the end of Whrrl on April 30 but it could also mean a broader direction for Groupon as it looks to expand beyond daily deals to more mobile and personalized discounts.”
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