Amy Krouse Rosenthal's interactive Textbook uses smart bots to engage with readers in real time. A new tech lit is born. Amy Krouse Rosenthal's interactive Textbook uses smart bots to engage with readers in real time. A new tech lit is born.Do you ever feel like your book... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2016-09-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
A food container for Ikea that warns when its contents are about to spoil, an AI voice interface for Amazon designed for seniors and an app that reads books to children via Facebook Messenger were among the winning student work of this year's Future Lions awards at the Cannes Lions International... Continue reading >> [ Source: Advertising Age | 2016-06-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
When the earth shakes in California, the first place you are likely to hear about it is on social media. "Earthquake!" "Did you feel that?" "How big?" are common messages on Twitter and Facebook as Californians try to share information on their mobile phones in real time. Now, UC Berkeley... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2016-02-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Every weekday, we bring you the Ad Age/iSpot Hot Spots, new and trending TV commercials tracked by iSpot.tv, a company that catalogs, tags and measures activity around TV ads in real time. The New Releases here ran on TV for the first time over the weekend. The Most Engaging ads are showing... Continue reading >> [ Source: Advertising Age | 2015-08-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Springer has developed a new platform, Bookmetrix, to offer title and chapter level metrics across all of their books. Bookmetrix has been developed in partnership with Altmetric. The data captured on Bookmetrix is displayed on the book pages of Springer's content platform SpringerLink and... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-04-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
The car industry isn't slowing down when it comes to employing more data for everything from vehicle malfunctions to marketing. In fact, in terms of digital advertising, the category looks like it's putting the pedal to the metal, as tech vendors, publishers and other players increasingly roll... Continue reading >> [ Source: AdWeek | 2015-02-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
David Krantz took the reins as YP CEO in 2012, when the listings directory spun away from AT&T Interactive, which was his former employer and the brand's former parent. Since then, he's been busy pushing what consumers for more than 125 years called the Yellow Pages—which rebranded to its... Continue reading >> [ Source: AdWeek | 2014-07-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Annabelle Gurwitch, author of "I See You Made an Effort: Compliments, Indignities, and Survival Stories from the Edge of 50" (Blue Rider, 9780399166181), will appear on "Real Time with Bill Maher" on Friday, April 25. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-04-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Mike Cole thinks brands should be more like Bill Murray. At the Digiday Publishing Summit on Tuesday, the reddit sales exec urged brands to be flexible and not pass up opportunities to "be awesome." Cole, who believes the legendary comedian can teach brands a thing or two about responding in... Continue reading >> [ Source: Digiday | 2013-10-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
This past summer media and entertainment company The Chernin Group (founded by former News Corp. president and COO Peter Chernin) released a digital reality series that took the notion of digital media and ran with it.Mr. Parks: The first thing I did was call all my favorite smartest people... Continue reading >> [ Source: Advertising Age | 2013-10-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Books, including Blurb books, were always kind of after the fact,” said Eileen Gittins, CEO of Blurb, the fast-growing POD self-publishing platform. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-08-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Charlotte Williams Publication Date: Tue, 05/07/2011 - 08:39 Redhammer has relaunched children's author Michelle Paver's fansite, The Clan, with a new look and additional features including simultaneous translation which will enable fans from different countries to talk in real... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-07-05 00:00:00 UTC ]