Given that links appear to be more clickable when shared on Facebook, online publishers have scrambled to become savvy gamers of Facebook’s News Feed, seeking to divine the secret rules that push some stories higher than others. But all this genuflection at the altar of Facebook’s algorithms may be but a prelude to a more fundamental shift in how content is produced, shared, and consumed online. Instead of going to all this trouble to get people to click a link on Facebook that takes them somewhere else, the future of Internet content may be a world in which no video, article, or cat GIF gallery lives outside of Facebook at all. The post How Facebook Could End Up Controlling Everything You Watch and Read Online appeared first on WIRED. Continue reading at 'Wired'
[ Wired | 2014-10-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Facebook has altered its newsfeed algorithm, which is turning out to be great news for online publishers. Major sites say the social network has driven more referrals in the past month than ever before.The post A Facebook Tweak Gives Publishers a Traffic Boost appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2013-12-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The conversation about the Common Core standards will be a hot topic at this year’s ALA Midwinter Meeting, as many public librarians make efforts to reach their patrons and community members—as well as form partnerships with school librarians—to provide information on the standards. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2013-11-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Macmillan celebrated the relaunch of MyKindaBook.com, an online platform for teen and YA books,... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-11-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A new book retail site, The Great British Bookshop, is being soft-launched in December, vowing to... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-11-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Daily Mail is to launch an online operation in Australia in January 2014. The newspaper has gone into partnership with Mi9, the digital media company owned by Nine Entertainment. Mail Online will provide original Australian content alongside ninemsn, a joint venture between Nine and... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2013-11-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The European Commission's call today for stronger data privacy protections could help the web's biggest data collectors like Google and Facebook fight data requests from the U.S. government.As expected, the Commission published a collection of recommendations for stronger data protections,... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2013-11-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Speakers at last week's UK Futurebook conference offered ideas for combating Amazon dominance, including advocating government intervention and ending DRM. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2013-11-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Multichannel network distributes, syndicates and matches content creators with online publishersYou may never have heard of Rightster but you have more than likely watched videos it syndicates on YouTube, newspaper websites and specialist live streaming sites like one for the recent... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2013-11-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Mobile devices are increasingly being used for social reading and recommendation sites, the... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-11-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Local World's chairman, David Montgomery, has revealed his vision of the future role for journalists employed by his regional newspaper group.According to a Press Gazette report based on a sight of Monty's mission statement, a single journalist will fill a weekly paper by "skimming online... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2013-11-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Publisher aims to continue 2013's 50% growth to hit point at which website's income would exceed newspapers' declineMail Online has set a target of making more than £60m in revenues in 2014, with executives saying it is close to more than offsetting revenue declines at the Daily Mail and Mail on... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2013-11-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Facebook has sent unprecedented levels of traffic to publishers across the internet in recent months, a dramatic and unexpected increase affecting a large range of sites serving a wide variety of content. According to data from the BuzzFeed Networ ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2013-11-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Random House has partnered with Pinterest to help users discover popular content. It pulls up a page that is a lot like browsing a table at a bookstore. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2013-11-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos's wife MacKenzie defends Bezos and Amazon, while Facebook CEO Mark Zuckberg's sister Randi expresses ambivalence about social media. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2013-11-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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IBM is alleging that Twitter has infringed on its patents, including one that would seem to give the computing giant status as an inventor of online advertising.Revealed in a Twitter filing to the Securities and Exchange Commission this morning, IBM is claiming that Twitter has infringed on at... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2013-11-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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An audiobook version of Morrissey's Autobiography will be read by actor David Morrissey.... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-11-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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In a series of September and October posts (the most recent one right here), Ad Age has been taking a broad view of the "social buzz" surrounding the fall TV season's new shows. We worked with the Keller Fay Group, a market-research firm that specializes in tracking "real world" conversations --... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2013-11-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The World Book Night project is to be run by The Reading Agency (TRA), with WBN chief executive... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-10-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Last week marked Digiday's sixth Publishing Summit, a gathering of emerging and legacy publishers who are all confronting the same pressing issues in their industry. In case you weren't able to make it to Miami, here are a few highlights.The post Watch Highlights From The Digiday Publishing... Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2013-10-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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