Social TV Good reading on Good Friday (not all iPad-related either) By Mark Briggs on Apr. 2, 2010 - 11:16 AM It took a little extra effort, but I was able to crank out a quick roundup of intersting links that are not 100% iPad related. Personally, I’m going to try to wait before picking up the new device. (I’m the loser who b ...
Social TV GateHouse launches RadarFrog: Affiliate marketing at a local level By Mark Briggs on Apr. 1, 2010 - 8:47 AM Will readers pay for news online? That’s so yesterday. The new question is: will an online audience pay for access to special deals? Today GateHouse launched RadarFrog, a clearinghouse of deals, special offers and other shop ...
Social TV Lasso looking to bring real-time, social web to local ads By Mark Briggs on Mar. 30, 2010 - 12:24 PM Some of the hottest new companies in local advertising aren’t using technology that is all that new. Groupon, for example, attracted $30 million in funding based on a simple once-a-day email that is powered by a direct sales ...
Social TV UNC taps Baltimore Sun editor to lead new experiment By Mark Briggs on Mar. 25, 2010 - 6:47 AM The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill announced an ambitious new project this week, transforming part of its J-school into a research center that studies products, audiences and communities that form around the news. The ...
Social TV 1Cast brings video aggregation to local markets By Mark Briggs on Mar. 24, 2010 - 9:15 AM Aggregation is among the hottest buzzwords on the Internet today, right next to “real-time” and “location-based.” To this point, it has primarily meant text and images. Now, here comes video. Positioning it ...
Social TV Monday morning links By Mark Briggs on Mar. 22, 2010 - 9:14 AM Making the rounds through my RSS feeds this morning I stumbled across several links of interest to local media crowd. Happy reading … Bernstein: Broadcasters Once Again Have a License To Print Money (paidContent) Foursquare, ...
Social TV SXSW: The iPad is better than print By Mark Briggs on Mar. 15, 2010 - 9:58 AM Do you still run into people who tell you they like reading a newspaper or magazine or book in print vs. digital? The iPad is about to change that. Scott Dadich, creative director at Wired magazine, says Wired measures reader enga ...
Social TV SXSW: Obligatory celebrity party photos By Mark Briggs on Mar. 15, 2010 - 4:41 AM SXSW Interactive is all about the parties, so I feel obligated to post a few bad party pics from my iPhone. Here is Foursquare founder Dennis Crowley, who did not offer any details about who owns his code, and Anna Robertson from ...
Social TV SXSW: Highlights from online news of tomorrow By Mark Briggs on Mar. 14, 2010 - 9:36 AM The power of the human link, all that traffic that comes from Twitter and Facebook for example, will drive the new economy for news more than pay walls set up by Rupert Murdoch and the Associated Press. That was one of the key obs ...
Social TV SXSW: Mirror worlds are the next web, may redefine local By Mark Briggs on Mar. 13, 2010 - 12:34 PM Mok Oh, Founder and CTO of Everyscape, says mirror worlds are the next web and his company is positioning itself to be a part of this coming goldrush. What are mirror worlds, you ask? It’s a direct representation of our actu ...