How The Associated Press will try to rival Wikipedia in search results
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"An SEO firm called EveryZing recently produced a trial run of the AP’s landing pages, according to their vice president for client services and business development, Bob Fogarty. EveryZing has also created topic pages for Fox News and Newsweek. In the latter case, the project is actually called…Newsweekopedia."
Last week the world watched in wonder as Jill Peterson and Kevin Heinz's wedding party transformed a familiar and predictable tradition into something spontaneous and just flat-out fun. The video, set to R&B star Chris Brown's hypnotic dance jam "Forever," became an overnight sensation, accumulating more than 10 million views on YouTube in less than one week. But as with all great YouTube videos, there's more to this story than simple view counts.
At YouTube, we have sophisticated content management tools in place to help rights holders control their content on our site. The rights holders for "Forever" used these tools to claim and monetize the song, as well as to start running Click-to-Buy links over the video, giving viewers the opportunity to purchase the music track on Amazon and iTunes. As a result, the rights holders were able to capitalize on the massive wave of popularity generated by "JK Wedding Entrance Dance" — in the last week, searches for "Chris Brown Forever" on YouTube have skyrocketed, making it one of the most popular queries on the site:
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So, what does all of this mean? Despite compelling data and studies around consumer purchasing habits, many still question the promotional and bottom-line business value sites like YouTube provide artists. But in the last week, over a year after its release, Chris Brown's "Forever" has again rocketed up the charts, reaching as high as #4 on the iTunes singles chart and #3 on Amazon's best selling MP3 list. We've seen similar successes in the past with partners like Monty Python.
MediaPost PublicationsPrint accessed with GPS smartphones give you time and location of lots of people's behavior.
How Much Is Our Behavior Worth?
08/14/2009:
by Stephen DiMarco, 7 hours ago
". . . I'd assert that the information that the Web creates about consumers exceeds the commercial value of Internet advertising (nearly $25 billion in 2008). In other words, what we can learn about consumers' digital behaviors is worth more than what companies pay to reach them online."
This may be a provocative view for publishers and their ad sales teams, but it should ring true for the rest of marketers. Part of the challenge is that digital data has been pigeon-holed as only useful for online advertising decisions: simple Internet audience measurement on one end, and highly addressable, behavioral targeting on the other.
So as Internet marketing grew up, we became obsessed about the near-term impact of banner ads at the expense of more holistic Internet research. Many marketers, influenced by this CPA-mania, still view the Web as just a direct response medium and a cheaper channel for surveys. We now need to broaden the applications for digital research by measuring people and their behaviors, not just the ads. We have an opportunity to re-define what behavioral research is, so that marketers can more easily access and act on it.
In order to unlock the new value that behavioral research offers, it's first useful to point out what makes online consumer behavior data unique. Panel-based online behavior data is: 1) observational (passive collection mitigates bias); 2) dynamic (updates in real time as behaviors occur); 3) longitudinal (measures how behavior changes over the course of time); and 4) extremely comprehensive (measures behavior across all sites a person visits). And when combined with other data -- in particular, attitudinal information collected via surveys from the very same online panel -- it creates the most holistic view of consumers in history.As far as I can tell neither TinyPurls and Smart QRs are not on his radar. Someone should give him a call.
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commented on: August 14, 2009 at 4:19 PMVery insightful post! I agree with the points mentioned. The only word of caution is that online consumer behaviors do not always mirror offline activity...they are quick signs but not the whole story. Intersecting the information with offline measurement is criticalVery interesting Stephen, and I agree with your points. I get how you might be able to extend analysis of purchase funnels and profiles with online panels, and that would clearly extend the "Value" of the Internet as a part of the overall economic engine.The one thing I struggle with here is that a lot of these sales (and the media to drive them) are spent off line. Would you propose that all research on an off-line be synchronized to accommodate this reality? Quantifying the intersection of the two broad media types would certainly increase the impact on line media has on the economy.
MediaPost Publications Game Face: Verizon To Carry Yes Network Online 08/14/2009:
"A month after Cablevision began offering subscribers the opportunity to also access New York Yankees games online, telco TV competitor Verizon has joined the game.
Partly channeling the TV Everywhere concept that is expected to increasingly take hold, customers who pay for a FiOS TV package and a Verizon broadband service can watch the games live on the Web.
The online-casts are the same that appear on the Yes Network, the regional cable channel that carries Yankees games. FiOS customers can pay a one-time fee of $29.95 for Web streaming for the rest of the season, or $19.95 to watch 30 games.
The opportunity is available only to those who live in the wider New York market and have a FiOS TV package that includes Yes. Yes Network and Verizon have signed a multi-year deal. Terms were not disclosed."
The Short and Simple Story of the Credit Crisis.
By Jonathan Jarvis.
The goal of giving form to a complex situation like the credit crisis is to quickly supply the essence of the situation to those unfamiliar and uninitiated. This project was completed as part of my thesis work in the Media Design Program, a graduate studio at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California.
For more on my broader thesis work exploring the use of new media to make sense of a increasingly complex world, visit jonathanjarvis.com
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August 13 , 2009The Good News for Print was posted last Sunday.Dear Friends,
We have some exciting news about our "next-generation textbooks!” CK-12 Foundation is thrilled to share with you the results of “The Free Digital Textbook Initiative” Phase One Report that was released by California State Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger on August 10, 2009.
During the first phase of The Digital Textbook Initiative, 9 different institutions and individuals submitted a total of 16 high school math and science digital textbooks for state education officials to review. Out of the 16 digital textbooks, 10 of those digital textbooks met at least 90 percent of the California State Board of Education’s adoption standards and 6 of those 10 were CK-12 FlexBooks.
In addition, of the 16 digital textbooks, only 4 met 100 percent of the standards and 3 of them were from the CK-12 Foundation: CK-12 Single Variable Calculus, CK-12 Trigonometry and CK-12 Chemistry. The reviewed digital textbooks are available for high schools to use this fall from http://about.ck12.org/ca/freetextbooks This is an important milestone and we truly appreciate your support in our effort to develop a more efficient, interactive and cost-effective learning environment for the young generation.
California State officials will review other academic subject digital textbooks in the next few months. We believe with the support and encouragement from our expert advisors, developers and contributors, CK-12 will continue to provide standards-aligned digital textbooks for free to every student in California and eventually to students around the world!
The full text of the report is available on the California Learning Resource Network’s Website: http://www.clrn.org/fdti/FDTI_
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PALO ALTO, Calif., Aug. 12, 2009 – HP today announced that Mercury Print Productions, a Rochester, N.Y.-based print service provider (PSP) bought a new HP Indigo W7200 Digital Press.I hope they have a really good strategy if that business implodes and reorganizes, which is what I think I'm seeing. Perhaps they will consider versioned personalized clickable print instead of one size, slow to market textbooks. Clickable workbooks is possibly a killer app.
Mercury, which produces textbooks, teacher's editions, workbooks and other materials for the educational market, is expanding its offerings with the increased productivity gained through this latest technology installation.
Designed to offer digital productivity with true offset quality, the HP Indigo W7200 Digital Press is a roll-fed liquid electrophotographic printing dual-engine solution for high volumes of variable-data and short-run-static printing. The HP Indigo W7200 can produce up to 7.5 million letter-size color images, or 30 million monochrome letter-size images, per month.It would be really cool if HP would follow Kodak's lead on the Prosper and publish the TCO of an four color and 1 color A4.
"The HP Indigo W7200's quality, speed and efficiencies are transforming the current limitations and scope of digital printing," said Christian Schamberger, vice president, Operations, Mercury Print Productions. "In a time when customers are changing the way that they look at inventory as to not tie up their cash flow, the press offers us the ability to provide cost-effective, high-quality products when they are needed at a price point that makes sense."
“Xippa says the District is making the right decision by re-evaluating the situation. It is great to see the District not back its previous decision with a process defense. The proper thing to do is to gather the facts, check the relationships at the door and then make the right decision.”Which lead me to this:
To be clear.Idaho School District Pulls Back Copier Contract
BOISE, Idaho — The largest school district in the state has recanted on a decision last month to award a contract paying Xerox Corp. more than $43,700 a month for copier services.
The board that governs the Meridian School District voted Tuesday night to restart the bidding process after an Idaho copier company complained, saying its contract would have saved taxpayers $680,000 over five years.
"It's a victory of sorts," said Gary Mahn, chairman of Fisher's Document Systems Inc. "They're not going ahead with the award to Xerox, which we felt was not justified."
Earlier this year, Mahn's Boise-based company bid about $32,417 per month to provide more than 120 copiers to the school district in southwest Idaho for 60 months.
Xerox Helps Healthcare System Cut Costs - Printing Industry News from WhatTheyThinkFull disclosure : Long on Xerox.
: "ROCHESTER, N.Y., – Healthcare organizations looking for simple ways to cut expenses and make better use of technology can take the lead from Methodist Healthcare. Methodist, the largest provider of healthcare in San Antonio and South Texas, is cutting millions from its annual operating spend by working with Xerox Corporation to better manage the documents flowing through its 23 facilities – and the costs associated with printing, sharing and updating them.
'Xerox knew more about managing our document needs than anyone else we interviewed,' said Geoff Crabtree, senior vice president, Methodist Healthcare. 'They took note of everything from regulatory requirements to employees' daily work processes and designed a print strategy that lets us keep our focus on the patients.'"
Canon boosts document management offering with IRIS buy | printweek.com |The really interesting to me part is
"William Mitting, printweek.com, 10 August 2009
Canon has bolstered its presence in document management with the acquisition of a 17% stake in Belgium-based intelligent document recognition company IRIS Group for $22m (�13.4m).
IRIS specialises in scanning and electronic document recognition from business cards to invoices and its products will bolster Canon's offering in a number of applications, including large-volume scanning and optical character recognition."
. . . intention was to maintain the independence and autonomy of IRIS with Canon collaborating only on strategic development within the document management market.It's usually very, very difficult for a global to do that. And of course just because you say that's what you are going to do doesn't mean that's what's going to happen.
There Are Barcodes and Then There Are Barcodes!:
By Guy Broadhurst, Oce
When is a bar code not a barcode? When it doesn't scan, is the answer!
Do you remember the 'olden days' when we went from impact printers to laser printers, thinking we'd found some kind of digital paradise, only to face a seemingly unending stream of font issues? Many times I remember hearing, “The font doesn't look good,' 'the spacing is wrong.' Or 'the reflectivity of the bar code is different from one press manufacturer to another, so they don't always read correctly . . .
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InfoPrint Solutions and Sinclair Oil
By: Cary Sherburne
August 11th, 2009 -- Yesterday, InfoPrint Solutions and Sinclair Oil announced a TransPromo partnership that has a slightly different twist than the programs we normally hear about. Most of the TransPromo case studies tend to focus on business-to-consumer applications: Companies who place marketing or educational messages on statements, invoices, notifications and other consumer (customer) communications, reducing costs and often converting these mundane documents from a cost center into revenue generators."
. . . according to Lee Gallagher, InfoPrint’s Manager, Direct Marketing Solutions. “Sinclair commercial accounts can offer this card to the truckers that drive their oil trucks.
It allows the consolidated, real-time capture of all of the relevant data when truckers refuel, purchase food, or make other business-related expenditures. With the program, Sinclair does all of the program management based on rules established by the customer.
For example, a Sinclair commercial account may have an established daily spending limit for driver purchases at convenience stores. When drivers make a purchase, they are able to get immediate point-of-purchase feedback with messages that indicate they have reached their daily limit for food expenditures. Or perhaps the message might thank them for filling up at Point A, but let them know they could have saved a certain dollar amount by filling up at Point B. It takes the burden of analyzing credit card information off of the customer and it allows them to reduce expense, maximize assets and become more cost effective in the management of their fleets.”
August 11th, 2009 -- Yesterday, InfoPrint Solutions and Sinclair Oil announced a TransInfo partnership that has a slightly different twist than the programs we normally hear about. TransPromo case studies tend to focus on companies who place marketing or educational messages on statements, invoices, notifications and other consumer (customer) communications, reducing costs and often converting these mundane documents from a cost center into revenue generators. TransInfo focuses on delivering timely appropriate information at the appropriate time to improve the efficiency of infrastructure transactions.
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Gallagher explains, “Sinclair commercial accounts can offer this card to the truckers that drive their oil trucks. It allows the consolidated, real-time capture of all of the relevant data when truckers refuel, purchase food, or make other business-related expenditures.
For example, a Sinclair commercial account may have an established daily spending limit for driver purchases at convenience stores.
When drivers make a purchase, they are able to get immediate point-of-purchase feedback with messages that indicate they have reached their daily limit for food expenditures. Or perhaps the message might thank them for filling up at Point A, but let them know they could have saved a certain dollar amount by filling up at Point B. It takes the burden of analyzing credit card information off of the customer and it allows them to reduce expense, maximize assets and become more cost effective in the management of their fleets.”
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from WhatTheyThink:I'm hoping Dr Joe will talk about how printers should fire their bad customers, keep the good ones and go into the publishing business. That's what Ben Franklin did. If content is easy but printing is hard, it should work.
There are studies indicating that whether started in good times or in bad, new businesses have the same survival rates. An article in US News offers some of the possible reasons:...depending on your kind of business and location, you could find reductions in costs. Suppliers may cut better deals, rents could be lower, and workers may be more willing to sign on for less. "When times are tough, people don't hold out for higher salaries," says Scott Shane, a professor at Case Western Reserve University and author of The Illusions of Entrepreneurship: The Costly Myths That Entrepreneurs, Investors, and Policy Makers Live By. "You could probably hire better people more cheaply starting out now than you could when things were booming."
There is a great need in our industry for more entrepreneurship, which will be the subject of my Print '09 presentation on September 14. I'll have much more to discuss at that time. It's hard to start from scratch, and it's even harder to start from scratch when you need to extract yourself from a legacy business. It can be done, and in the case of our industry, it must be done.
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For print versions, the organization envisions working with a marketplace of on-demand presses to provide customized, but traditional looking, paper textbooks at low cost. This cost will be born by the user at their discretion directly at the on-demand press."
The attacks and their aftermath show just how vital Web tools and services are becoming to political discourse — and how vulnerable they are to disruption.According to the NYTimes, last week's attack on Twitter was a skirmish in the Russia v Georgia conflict.
Professor Main Target of Assault on Twitter
"The cyberattacks Thursday and Friday on Twitter and other popular Web services disrupted the lives of hundreds of millions of Internet users, but the principal target appeared to be one man: a 34-year-old economics professor from the republic of Georgia.
During the assault — the latest eruption in a yearlong skirmish between nationalistic hackers in Russia and Georgia — unidentified attackers sent millions of spam e-mail messages and bombarded Twitter, Facebook and other services with junk messages. The blitz was an attempt to block the professor’s Web pages, where he was revisiting the events leading up to the brief territorial war between Russia and Georgia that began a year ago.The blogger, a refugee from the Abkhazia region, a territory on the Black Sea disputed between Russia and Georgia, writes under the name Cyxymu, but identified himself only by the name Giorgi in a telephone interview. Giorgi, who said he taught at Sukhumi State University, first noticed Thursday afternoon that LiveJournal, a popular blogging platform, was not working for him. “I decided to go to Facebook,” he said. “And Facebook didn’t work. Then I went to Twitter, and Twitter didn’t work. ‘How strange,’ I thought, ‘What a coincidence they all don’t work at once.’ ”
Security experts say that it is nearly impossible to determine who exactly is behind the attack, which disrupted access to Twitter, Facebook, LiveJournal and some Google sites on Thursday and continued to affect many Twitter users into Friday evening.
But Beth Jones, an analyst with the Internet security firm Sophos, said the assault occurred in two stages
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