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They don’t understand their audiences because they’re not used to using data aggressively.
They view their sites as mere brand extensions and fail to treat them as stand-alone media properties.
They don’t understand usability and make their sites pretty but impossible to navigate, and then naively think they’ll educate their users to find their content.
They don’t understand Web metabolism and produce content that’s stale.
They think Web content is inherently inferior when it’s merely different, and create inferior Web products as a result then wonder why they’re not succeeding.
They fail to monetize their products properly, then underpay talent and wonder why they can’t recruit good writers.
Elizabeth Spiers on how traditional mainstream gets digital wrong (via soupsoup)
I did a Q&A with the Knoxville News on web media, etc.
(via spiers)
Free Wireframing Kits, UI Design Kits, PDFs and Resources (via Smashing Magazine)
In this post, we’ve prepared an overview of useful web and mobile user interface kits, handy PDFs and resources that you can use in your projects. We’ve carefully selected the most useful kits and resources to get you going in the early stages of a project.
A great overview of how Noah tweaked AppSumo.com to increase conversions from 1.5% to 3%. Some good, specific examples.
Wait, what does your startup do?
WAIT, WHAT DOES YOUR STARTUP DO?
SO, BASICALLY, IT’S LIKE A
JOOJOO CLONE
FOR
GOVERNMENT CORRUPTION!
Great concept. Complex for larger companies, but good to see them focused in the right direction.
2105:
COPE: Create Once, Publish EverywhereGuest poster Daniel Jacobson, Director of Application Development for NPR:
The digital media world is in the process of dramatic change. For years, the Internet has been about web sites and browser-based experiences, and the systems that drove those sites generally matched those experiences. But now, the portable world is upon us and it is formidable. With the growing need and ability to be portable comes tremendous opportunity for content providers. But it also requires substantial changes to their thinking and their systems. It requires distribution platforms, API’s and other ways to get the content to where it needs to be. But having an API is not enough. In order for content providers to take full advantage of these new platforms, they will need to, first and foremost, embrace one simple philosophy: COPE (Create Once, Publish Everywhere).
The great virtue of a dynamic capitalist economy, the economist Edmund Phelps argued in his 2006 Nobel prize lecture, lies in the opportunities it provides for more engaging work rather than for more leisure.
“But the idea that an uptick in angel-backed companies will result in fewer huge successes is just silly. Yes, it’s possible that angel-backed companies are happier with smaller exits than their VC counterparts. But if the VCs see an opportunity there to become the next Google, they’re more than welcome to buy the company themselves: they certainly have $25 million lying around to do just that. More realistically, VCs can certainly take over as and when original investors feel like cashing out, just as public stockholders take over when VCs cash out in an IPO.”—
Do tech entrepreneurs need VCs? | Analysis & Opinion |
Haha. Yeah. That would be awesome. But that does not seem to happen. So far as I can tell is that the new investors basically invest in the company, take a shit ton of equity, dilute the angel’s share, and tie the angel to their liquidity plans.
I mean, I suppose this COULD happen, but one rarely hears of VCs buying the angel’s shares out for a good, exitable amount, and taking up the mantle.
Quickening liquidity for angels would be good for those early in the game to scale their efforts.
“The ability to locate anything, anywhere, at anytime, would cause crime to decrease, stores to remain stocked, healthcare to be improved, road accidents to be reduced, energy to be saved and waste to be eliminated.”—
Whatever happened to the “Internet of Things”? Babbage tracks down a long-promised revolution.
It’s coming.
tedr:
Today at XOXCO, we’re launching a new Safari extension called SendTab. It lets you send your open tab - a funny video perhaps, to another computer - your living room computer/TV, if you like. That way you and your pals can view the funny video on the big screen without a bunch of needless typing and mousing.
You’re welcome!
08/20/10 9:10 AM
Very clever! Way to go most clever, great people.
Wonder if there is a chrome extension like this? Edit - looks like they are working on it!
fek:
Know anyone in college who can get credit for an internship through their school? Not that I’m this person, but would you trust the life of someone you wouldn’t want to hate you with them? Would you really? Because I get the feeling you’d like Jen and not that our interns have Jen’s life in their hands ever, but for this purpose, let’s say they do. And do they have a blog/know how to blog/eventually want to make money blogging though are well aware that by the time their “time” to do so comes it will inevitably be something altogether different, like writing news blurbs in four-inch fingerpaint “burst” transmissions? Well, have them email me at work. We’ll see what we can do.
I’ll get to checking the web’s vital signs in a moment, but one thing is clear: The hype and hucksterism of packaging, promoting, and presenting magazine articles is very much alive. I found Chris Anderson’s Wired article and Michael Wolff’s sidebar pretty nuanced and consistently interesting, which made for an awkward fit with the blaring headlines and full-bore PR push.
“Web media needs to move to TV metaphor — with full-screen imagery and other content interrupted with full-screen ads. Everything right now is so, um, bitty.”—
I’m still not convinced this is the case. I’d love to see someone do a study that takes into account the opinion of actual web users as well as a study of their behavior regardless of their opinion when it comes to the blog format vs. this magazine style format.
Denton tends to be ahead of the curve on these things. I think in gossip this makes a ton of sense.(especially as he tries to grow Gawkers audience.) It varies so much by brand and content. This is not the future for all, but a good segment of bigger web media properties could increase their margins operating this way.
I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
