The Las Vegas Review-Journal has launched an ambitious local mobile video site using the The AP Mobile News Network, said AP President Tom Curley, speaking at the NAA Annual Convention in San Diego. The site extends The Review-Journal’s leadership onto…
Here is a recap of posts from last week, in case you missed any. Click below to read each post in full. NAA 2009: Paying Attention to Newspapers (Still) Next week is the Newspaper Association of America’s Annual Convention in San…
It was kind of gutsy of NAA President John Sturm to go on Colbert's "Better Know a Lobby" segment last week on Comedy Central. But I don't think it turned out so well ... (Thanks to Steve Outing for the…
Next week is the Newspaper Association of America’s Annual Convention in San Diego. I’ll cover Google CEO Eric Schmidt’s keynote on Tuesday, in which he’ll express his support of the newspaper industry despite Google’s very public axing in January of…
Yelp has had lots of success with its iPhone app, which currently accounts for 5 percent of its overall traffic. This is partly because its base of urban "foodies" maps well to iPhone user bases. This was a smart platform…
Nokia Executive VP Anssi Vanjoki gave this morning's keynote at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, explaining the global mobile giant's vision of the future mobile Web, and why it paid $8 billion for Navteq. Nokia's influence and positioning…
A session today at the Web 2.0 expo examined how Twitter can be used as a business tool. Twitter has been gaining lots of momentum over the past year and has more recently reached mainstream status. But beyond the minutiae…
A session at the Web 2.0 conference today dug deep into strategies for traditional media companies to use APIs to better distribute their content online. First, what the heck is an API? Standing for application programming interface, it’s a set…
The IAB and PricewaterhouseCoopers are out with their semi-annual report on the online ad market. IAB/PWC say that interactive revenues were $23.4 billion for 2008, which is up 10.6 percent from the prior year. But everyone seems to be pointing…