"Despite the tremendous growth in mobile usage and the substantial investment by many businesses in the space, the mobile web is still in its early stages. We believe that great mobile advertising products can encourage even more growth in the mobile ecosystem. That's what has us excited about this deal."
- Joanna Geary
"We believe that by adding audience insights to what would otherwise be not differentiated inventory, you make it more valuable," he said. "Starting from the social networking environment … people tell you a lot about themselves in unstructured data. Once you structure it and make it useful not only as a seller, you make it useful to a buyer."
- Joanna Geary
SoundCloud lets you move music fast & easy. The platform takes the daily hassle out of receiving, sending & distributing music for artists, record labels & other music professionals.
- Joanna Geary
"News Corporation's Fox Audience Network (FAN) and WPP Group have forged an alliance that will see the two companies share key consumer insights from the digital space, it has been announced. Under the terms of the deal, WPP will be entitled to tap FAN's audience segmentation service to bolster planning and measurement projects. "
- Joanna Geary
The technology industry is where the automotive industry was 20 years ago - nervous boys at the school dance who do not quite know what to do or say to women. They end up leading with two left feet.
- Joanna Geary
So why have a professional edition for a paper that is arguably already for professionals? According to Hart, it is an attempt to recognize the middle ground between “regular” readers (like my mom) and financial clients who use the super-charged “terminals” from Thomson Reuters and Bloomberg that provide news along with sophisticated and deep financial information.
- Joanna Geary
"It's interesting to see that people are much better at putting up with things that happen to them than they are at living with the consequences of a bad choice. When you can blame someone else (or the gods of spite, chance and bad luck) it's emotionally safer than it is to acknowledge you made a lousy choice."
- Joanna Geary
this is all fine and good, but can you give a concrete example?
- soulhakr
To create the app, Johnson relied on a company called Swebapps.com, one of a new crop of services that help clients order up their own smartphone apps—often in less time and for less money than it would take to develop an app from scratch.
- Joanna Geary
An ongoing quest to track the Daily Mail's classification of inanimate objects into two types: those that cause cancer, and those that cure it. Inspired by and a direct continuation of the Daily Mail Oncological Ontology Project, now sadly defunct.
- Joanna Geary
"While the German ad market has been every bit as ugly as the UK’s or US’s, the lack of pages hasn’t had the same effect on media houses in Berlin, Hamburg and Munich. Where there’s scarcely a magazine job available in Manhattan, one of Monocle’s correspondents in Munich is locked away in a project office in the centre of the city working on a new top-secret launch for one of the country’s more muscular media houses. "
- Joanna Geary
"Newspaper reps including myself and The Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger able to sit around the same table as bloggers such as Jeff Jarvis via skype, hyperlocal activists including co-chair William Perrin, industry analysts, civil servants, broadcasters, commentators, people with experience of the local news landscape both in the UK and US."
- Joanna Geary
"Nothing happened in the Forest according the FoD police. Nothing. Even when a serving police officer - who went on the run from the North East following a string of dubious incidents, including how he attained the status of widower - turned up dead in a bathtub in a Cinderford semi, after assuming a false identity and joining the local am dram group."
- Joanna Geary
The proportion of citizens actively engaging in decision making about local services has not changed significantly. The survey found just over one in ten (11%) of people were directly involved to some degree in such decisions.
- Joanna Geary
Microsoft is hoping to form partnerships with local newspapers and other news providers to offer its users hyperlocal news within its MSNlocal environments. The fact the site carries property listings in a far more user-friendly, attractive and deeply content rich way than many local newspaper websites looks like it will be a source of disquiet to regional editor
- Joanna Geary
"Executive editor Bill Keller tells public editor Clark Hoyt he guesses a decision is coming "within a matter of weeks." And yet it doesn't sound like he sees a straight path to that decision: "It's a much tougher, more complicated decision than it seems to all the armchair experts. There is no clear consensus on the right way to go." "
- Joanna Geary
The detective whose eloquent, award-winning blog illuminated the darker corners of 21st-century law enforcement – and landed him in trouble with his superiors – is returning to the literary beat to judge the prize that made his name.
- Joanna Geary
"For me, it is significant that this happened at all. Normally these sorts of events are dominated by large publishers with lobbying muscle. Yet here we had a group combining hyperlocal bloggers, successful startups like Facebook, Ground Report, Global Voices and the Huffington Post, social media figures like Nick Booth and Jon Bounds, and traditional organisations like The Guardian, BBC, RSA and Ofcom. Jeff Jarvis pitched into the mix via Skype."
- Joanna Geary
"We have to support the means for entrepreneurial journalism," Professor Jeff Jarvis argued at the 'Is World Journalism in Crisis?' event at Coventry University on Wednesday.
- Joanna Geary