Wired editor Chris Anderson, famous for saying that the nature of digital abundance (as opposed to physical scarcity) would create a race to the zero-price-point has now come out proclaiming the web dead. Read More »

Wired, The Wall, The New York Times and the Huffington Post have all pronounced the web on its last legs. Wired appears to believe that because there’s a popular new way of interfacing with the internet – apps – the web has had its last hurrah. Huff’s Josh Silver bases his pronouncement on the news that Google and Verizon have done a deal that may make it possible to have a privileged access scheme for content providers disseminating video to customers. Read More »

Here’s a question and it is serious: is the web dead? Are mobile apps and Apple iPad apps about to supplant the vast untamed stretches of open and free content with a wide variety of subscription based services? Read More »

In another example of fighting fire with, um, oil, BP has been desperately buying up search terms to lead people to an insipid microsite that says more about its obsession with image than it does about its efforts to clean up the oil spill. Read More »

A design director in the Bay Area of San Francisco has been outed as the person behind the fake @BPGlobalPR Twitter account. Read More »

The Wired iPad app had just gone live launched with the message that Apple’s device finally gives s the magazine the “opportunity to make the Wired we always dreamed of”. And isn’t that a great cover to kick off with? Read More »

The iPad is making its mark on magazine publishing – albeit a rather small one –according to figures release by GQ publisher Conde Nast. The glossies publisher announced that 365 people downloaded the December issue of GQ onto Apple’s latest must-have gadget. Read More »

Doug Bowman Twitter’s creative director has lifted the lid on what he says will be a major redesign.

He has posted a picture online showing a page that  Twitter will offer users more stats as part of its revamp.

“Working on what may end up a significant redesign. Not final yet. What we can show without giving away the farm,” Bowman posted. Read More »

Sick as I am of the hype around the iPad, you’ve got to admire the Apple publicity machine. And now the magazine publishers will be getting in on the act with, no doubt, rather clumsy versions of the paper editions, faster than you can say “hold the front page.” Because now you can, literally. Take a look at Wired’s versioning efforts on this neat film and see what you think.

And if that doesn’t work, try this link. Gotta love irony.

Time Inc and Condé Nast are reported to be among a group of magazine publishers  who are working on a plan to jointly build an online newsstand for publications in multiple digital formats.

According to a report on The New York Times, the publishers will form a new company that is being described as an “iTunes for magazines”. Hearst and Meredith are also said to be involved and each will take an equity stake.

The paper says the new venture might be announced in early December. The deal would bring together magazines such as Cosmopolitan, Vogue, GQ and Esquire. It was recently revealed that Conde Nast was working on a digital version of Wired for Apple’s secret tablet computer.