Archive for the ‘New Media’ Category

Printing Film Festival Now Playing at YouTube

Sunday, February 10th, 2008

YouTube, that Google-owned cultural phenomenon, showed nine million videos in a single month last year.* Within YouTube’s ever-expanding video vortex are, believe it or not, a fair number of clips related to printing. This was noticed by Offset Guy, a participant in a thread on envelope feeding over at PrintPlanet.com. ...

Yahoo to Reject Microsoft Bid

Saturday, February 9th, 2008

An update to this post (Fortune) -- Yahoo plans to reject Microsoft's $44.6 billion takeover bid, the Wall Street Journal reported Saturday, citing a person familiar with the situation. The source, according to the paper, said Yahoo's board believes Microsoft's offer of $31 per share "massively undervalues" the company and does not ...

Microsoft Offers $45 Billion to Buy Yahoo

Friday, February 1st, 2008

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Microsoft Corp. made an unsolicited $44.6 billion cash and stock bid for Yahoo on Friday, a deal that could shake up the competitive and lucrative market for Internet search. Training their guns clearly on Google. Is it too late? Apparently they made a run last ...

Adobe’s Latest Partnership Brings Ads to PDF Documents

Thursday, November 29th, 2007

Adobe and Internet portal Yahoo! have announced an agreement that creates an "Advertising Service For PDF Publishers:" Adobe Systems Incorporated and Yahoo! Inc. today launched Ads for Adobe PDF Powered by Yahoo!, an opt-in service that enables online commercial publishers to drive new revenue by including timely, contextual ads next to ...

Should a Magazine Launch First in Print or Online?

Thursday, November 29th, 2007

FOLIO: magazine has an article by Jason Fell on "the Launch Dilemma: Print or Digital First," that looks at the benefits of launching a magazine first in print or starting out online-only. Fell turns to magazine publishers that offer a compelling case for choosing one or the other. One comment that ...

Are the Yellow Pages Still Relevant?

Thursday, July 5th, 2007

Joe Wikert vice president and Executive Publisher in the Professional/Trade division of John Wiley & Sons, Inc recently pondered about the death of the Yellow Pages on his Publishing 2020 Blog. Wikert sees the death of the Yellow Pages on the horizon, but thinks its death is slowed by the ...

Competition Between Print and Online-only Magazines

Wednesday, June 13th, 2007

Scott Karp has an article at Folio examining the ability of print magazine publishers to compete with online-only publishers. Scott points out a few online magazines that are succeeding and why an online publishing model has its advantages over traditional print media. He ends with some solid advice for print-centric publisher: So ...

Dvorak on Murdoch and New Media

Tuesday, May 15th, 2007

He gets it. He really gets it. That's John Dvorak's claim over at pcmag.com. But can Rupert save newspapers?: He may actually see the trends in the newspaper business and be the only one capable of correcting the spiral dive now being experienced by many dailies. At least ...

“Mr. Magazine” Believes We’ll Always Crave Ink on Paper

Thursday, May 3rd, 2007

Magazines may not be following the way of dinosaurs and passenger pigeons, at least according to Mark Glaser, host of PBS' MediaShift. Glaser "digs deeper" in an interview with Samir Husni, chair of the University of Mississippi's Department of Journalism, known as Mr. Magazine. Read the entire interview here - ...

Transcontinental’s Desjardins: The Myth of an Endangered Industry

Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007

You may have noticed this at WTT earlier in the week: Transcontinental CEO addresses the Web Offset Association I wanted to point you to the full text of the speech as well, and point specifically to this part: a new technology does not make the previous ones disappear: radio did not eliminate newspapers, ...