Earlier this year something called Fourwhere popped up offering a simple geo-location mashup of Foursquare comments and Google Maps. Now the Canadian firm behind it has added Gowalla and Yelp. It’s pretty cool. Read More
The Los Angeles Times has launched its new iPhone app today featuring the paper’s full content for $1.99, and says it plans to launch a “Hollywood Star Walk” app later this month, while USA Today has held off charging for its iPad app in favour of chasing a bigger audience. Read More
I wanted to try and write a post in the style of Dave Trott, advertising legend, about the difference between advertising and digital. So I did. Let me know what you think:
The client is the most important person in the world. Person.
An Italian newspaper is reporting that Google plans to launch a paid content system for publishers before the end of the year, according to a report in an Italian newspaper. Read More
New York Times personal technology columnist David Pogue said at the weekend that he could not name an under-25 year old who subscribes to a print newspaper. Is he right? Read More
Sony has unveiled the poster for the upcoming Facebook movie ‘The Social Network’, which already has the social network already on 500 million users before the official announcement has been made. Read More 
There are somethings that just shouldn’t be tweeted about. In the early hours of Saturday morning the Attorney General of Utah, Mark Shurtleff, tweeted from his Apple iPhone the death of a man by firing squad – using 134 or his allotted 140 characters .
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A new report out examines what companies are looking for when hiring social media talent. In short “a digital native with a mix of IT, PR, customer service, sales and marketing” skills. Read More
A great read on The New Yorker by Susan Orlean on how social media helps keep books alive as we share recommendations digitally giving hope to the beleaguered publishing industry. Read More
According to PricewaterhouseCoopers’ Global Entertainment and Media Outlook (2010 to 2014) another milestone is about to be passed with the internet poised to overtake newspapers as the second-largest U.S. advertising medium by revenue behind television. Contrast that with some bleak but revealing figures from the OECD report on The Evolution Of News And The Internet, which tells us that since 2007 the UK has seen one of the heaviest global newspaper circulation declines at 25%, second only to the US at 30%. Read More
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