Jeff Sonderman
Mar. 27, 2013
2:10 pm
Inside Flipboard | All Things D | Giga Om
If you wanted to draw up a plan for drastically remaking the landscape of mobile news discovery, it might look something like this: 1) Release a beautiful news aggregating app that attracts 50 million readers, then 2) Empower those readers as curators who can create thousands of hand-picked digital magazines.
Flipboard, one of the most popular news-reading mobile apps, has just done that. It is shifting its focus toward empowering users to create their own curated "magazines" for others to read.
"Now everyone can be a reader
and an editor," a
company blog post says.
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Jeff Sonderman
Mar. 25, 2013
4:43 pm
The Dish
After raising a few hundred thousand dollars immediately and about
$611,000 after a few weeks, subscriber growth is slowing for Andrew Sullivan's Daily Dish blog.
Sullivan
wrote Monday that income is now at $653,000 out of the $900,000 he needs to break even. If you do the math, that's about $42,000 in new revenue over the past 30 days. "That’s 72 percent of our goal in almost three months," he said, "but almost all the likeliest subscribers have joined already. It gets tougher from here on out."
- A Daily Dish chart of subscription sales shows the decline after a strong launch.
As a result, Sullivan has
tightened the meter from seven free reads a month to five over two months, and on Monday announced a new
monthly subscription option for $1.99. (Annual is $19.99.)
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Jeff Sonderman
Mar. 25, 2013
2:41 pm
NPR officially moves into a new headquarters in Washington, D.C. today, five years after it
bought the property and began planning for the move.
NPR had been based in a narrow triangular building in the Mt. Vernon Square neighborhood since 1994. The new headquarters is a historically preserved, four-story warehouse from the 1920s, joined with a new seven-story office tower on North Capitol Street. It offers
much more space, including "a two-story open newsroom with broadcast and production studios," as well as
views of the Capitol.
The historic NPR sign was relocated to the new building Monday morning.
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Jeff Sonderman
Mar. 22, 2013
1:30 pm
This tweet looks pretty real, doesn't it?
It's not, though. I faked that tweet using a Web service named "
Let Me Tweet That For You." It's pretty simple -- you type in a Twitter username and a message, and it generates a realistic-looking image of a tweet from that person. It even adds fake retweet and favorite counts to lend some more credibility.
The site is
a project of OKFocus, a New York-based marketing agency. It's actually about a year old, but has been somehow rediscovered this week and is really
taking off on Twitter.
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Jeff Sonderman
Mar. 18, 2013
2:53 pm
Android Police | The Next Web | Read Write
A newspaper section is coming to the Google Play store for Android-powered mobile devices, according to a report by
Android Police. Google Play News would join the store's existing marketplaces for apps, magazines, books, movies and music.
The scoop is based on Android Police noticing some hints in the JavaScript code that runs the Play store, with various messages for users to purchase "issues" or "subscriptions" of news "editions."
It could become an important market for news publishers, as
Android-powered tablets surpass iPads in market share. Publishers have been able to
sell subscriptions within their Android apps for nearly a year now, but having a special storefront for news in the Play store could help drive readers that way.
But this news app market will face some significant hurdles.
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Jeff Sonderman
Mar. 14, 2013
3:49 pm
The image-sharing network Pinterest released a
new analytics tool this week that serves up lots of data about how its users engage with your website's content.
Here are some of the questions you can now answer pretty easily.
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Jeff Sonderman
Mar. 12, 2013
1:37 pm
Google Glass, a pair of wearable computer-enhanced eyeglasses, is possibly the next-big-thing in mobile computing.
- Google co-founder Sergey Brin wears Google Glass glasses at an event in San Francisco in February. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
About 8,000 developers have prototypes, and the public is expected to be able to buy them soon.
Early reviews are a mix of awesome and awkward -- life-changing technology held back only by concerns about privacy and aesthetics.
We've been expecting this evolution since at least 2011, when Poynter friends and former fellows Matt Thompson and Robin Sloan created a futuristic video called "
The Storm Collection" depicting a future where "photo frames, windshields and eyeglasses
become heads-up-displays for information. Call them NUDs: news-up-displays."
It's here.
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Jeff Sonderman
Mar. 8, 2013
2:28 pm
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Jeff Sonderman
Mar. 7, 2013
2:50 pm
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Mar. 7, 2013
2:03 pm
NBC’s Richard Engel describes being kidnapped in Syria:
A group of about 15 armed men were fanning out around us. Three or four of them stood in the middle of the road blocking our vehicles. The others went for the doors. They wore black jackets, black boots, and black ski masks. They were professionals and used hand signals to communicate. A balled fist meant stop. A pointed finger meant advance. Each man carried an AK-47. Several of the gunmen began hitting the windows of our car and minivan with the stocks of their weapons. When they got the doors open, they leveled their guns at our chests.
Time was slowing down as if I’d been hit in the head. Time was slowing down as if I were drowning.
This can’t be happening. I know what this is. This can’t be happening. These are the shabiha. They’re fucking kidnapping us. …
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NBC correspondent Richard Engel, writing for Vanity Fair
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