"Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast." ― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland I've been to see ALICE -- though there was no looking glass to jump through, just a retina scanner and one very long elevator ride down into the earth. I've toured a CMS that has nothing to do with online publishing. I've even gently laid my body on the most powerful particle accelerator in the world and raised the ire of surrounding engineers in the interest of a good shot. I did all of this at CERN, the international particle physics laboratory located near Geneva, Switzerland. But you probably know it best as the birthplace of the world wide web and home of the Large Hadron Collider. And, yes, it was all exactly like a walking fever dream. Gallery: CERN Gallery: CERN Large Hadron Collider Gallery: CERN CMS Gallery: CERN ALICE Filed under: Science Comments Continue reading at 'Engadget'
[ Engadget | 2013-07-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Yahoo-owned Tumblr wants in on livestreaming, and it's taking a different route than Facebook or Twitter's Periscope app. Today the site is launching a live video feature that will let content creators and brands push their clips to Tumblr. But unlike live video on Facebook, Twitter and... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2016-06-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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News UK is ramping up its Facebook Live output from a couple a week to five a day. For the last six weeks, live videos have been largely done by its tabloid title, The Sun, where it blends stunt-style videos, like grown men plunging into ice baths, with highly visual footage, like filling up... Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2016-06-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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For the past year or so, Facebook has conditioned advertisers and publishers to create video that can be understood without sound, as more clips that play automatically (and silently) when users scroll fill news feeds. With 100 million hours of video viewed every day and the explosion of... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2016-06-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Margaret Atwood has been awarded the 2016 PEN Pinter Prize at the same time it is announced she will be embarking on a UK book tour. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-06-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A new report that used eye tracking to understand user engagement with mobile video suggests certain types of video ads on publishers' websites perform better than those on social media. According to a study by Teads, a video technology platform that works with many of the world's top... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2016-06-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The publisher will use Wibbitz's new Listicle Format tool to increase engagement and monetize traffic. The post Bonnier Partners with Wibbitz to Produce Video Content appeared first on Folio:. Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2016-06-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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What medium delivers the biggest bang for the buck? A new study provides a definitive answer, at least for packaged goods, and it's probably not the one anyone expected.Magazines deliver by far the best return on ad spending when compared to TV, digital display and video, mobile and cross-media... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2016-06-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Economist has been experimenting with Facebook Live since January and, along the way, is trying to figure out how to translate its polished journalistic brand to the raw format. The publisher is still looking for that balance between "scrappy and slick," said deputy community editor Adam... Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2016-06-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The rise of social video has changed the game for publishers like Business Insider, which owns a Facebook-based property called Insider that generates more than 1.3 billion video views a month across all platforms. In April, Facebook updated its branded-content policies that opened a path for... Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2016-06-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Penguin Random House (PRH) Children’s is set to publish a series of books about Terraria, a video game that allows players to build their own environment. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-06-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Yuval Noah Harari will tour the UK this September in support of his new book examining the future of humankind Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow (Vintage). Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-06-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Publishers are addicted to the video format on Facebook, and it's easy to see why: they get much higher engagement on video posts than they do on article links, according to an analysis of NewsWhip data. The problem is that publishers have less ability to monetize the video they post to... Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2016-05-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Laughing Star Wars Chewbacca mask lady drives James Corden to work, Simpsons actor has a treat for graduates and a very happy wolfGame of Thrones fans who enjoy the cutting jibes and razor-sharp wit of Tyrion Lannister will love our Family Guy parody featuring Stewie Griffin as the Peter... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2016-05-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Canongate is to publish Penguin Bloom: The Odd Little Bird Who Saved a Family by Cameron Bloom and Trevor Bradley Greive on Super Thursday (6th October). Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-05-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Video has become the content and advertising format of the year, with publishers, advertisers and social platforms all publicly pronouncing its importance.Facebook, of course, has become one of video's most vocal cheerleaders. It's rolled out a number of video products, for both advertisers and... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2016-05-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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In a major expansion of the Facebook Audience Network, Facebook is now extending its capabilities by adding pre-roll, mid-roll and post-roll video ads for brands advertising on third-party publishers websites and apps. Third-party publishers such as USA Today Sports Media Group and Daily Mail... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2016-05-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Playboy showed off its new, fully-clothed self during its first-ever NewFronts presentation Friday afternoon at New York's Skylight Modern. "This is the most exciting and complex brand transformation of my career," said CEO Scott Flanders kicking off the 30-minute presentation. He added that... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2016-05-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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While Daily Mail made a few product announcements at its Daily Content NewFronts presentation today, it was its data that stood out more than anything else. And the eyebrow-raising numbers the publisher presented underscored that its site is the most popular English-language destination in the... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2016-05-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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World’s largest computer game publisher also hopes broadcasts on Twitch and Instagram will help take e-sports mainstreamThe world’s largest computer game publisher, Activision Blizzard, is hoping to use Facebook’s live video to turn e-sports into a mainstream attraction, and make the people who... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2016-05-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Although Colson Whitehead says that he wrote The Underground Railroad (Doubleday, Sept.) “pretty quickly” last year, this novel has been 15 years in the making. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-05-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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