Tom Foremski
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New Revenue Opportunities for Newspapers: Teaching
Foremski’s Take: The Guardian newspaper’s plans to offer courses in digital media production is an important development and one that should be followed by US newspapers. It would provide much needed revenues to many struggling media businesses. [Every Company Is A Media Company – The Guardian Newspaper Will Teach You How] I’ve written many times ...
The Guardian’s Google Revenue Fantasy – And the Future of Newsrooms
The UK newspaper The Guardian, claims that Google’s Android operating system is far less valuable than Google’s revenues from Apple devices. Google’s Android has generated just $550m since 2008, figures suggest | Technology | The Guardian Android generated less than $550m in revenues for Google between 2008 and the end of 2011, if figures provided ...
Thought Leaders: JP Rangaswami – Chief Scientist At Salesforce.com
Salesforce.com recently held its Cloudforce conference. I caught up with its Chief Scientist JP Rangaswami, who’s based in the UK. I first met Mr. Rangaswami several years ago when he was Chief Scientist at British Telecom. And I’ve been an avid reader for many years of his blog confused of calcutta where you can find ...
Incapsula Report: More than Half of Website Visitors are Machines
Incapsula, a provider of cloud-based security for web sites, released a study today showing that 51% of web site traffic is automated software programs, and the majority is potentially damaging, — automated exploits from hackers, spies, scrapers, and spammers. The company says that typically, only 49% of a web site’s visitors are actual humans and ...
Facebook Woos Wall Street: It Just Added 25 Banks – GOOG Shunned Wall Street with its IPO
Facebook has added 25 banks to its IPO offering — a massive expansion from the original six banks named. It allows the banks offer Facebook stock to their clients in special deals and spreads a lot of favors among the Wall Street investment community. David Benolt in The Wall Street Journal, reported: The social networking ...
San Francisco PR Firm LaunchSquad Launches Premium Content Company
I like San Francisco based PR firm LaunchSquad because they tend to be a little bit ahead of the pack. This week it launched Original9 Media, a company combining content creation with online marketing. Jason Mandell, co-founder of LaunchSquad tells me: Over the past couple of years, we have been aggressively building our services in ...
Infographic: Active UK Users of Social Media Platforms
My recent article about the true size of social media platforms has prompted a lot of people to examine how many real people are followers or friends, and there has been some interesting additional data made available. Social media agency Umpf released the results of a survey of about 2,400 UK consumers with active profiles ...
Is Skype a Social Network?
Surely Microsoft’s Skype should be counted as a social network. It fulfills many of the same functions that Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc. You can set a status ‘mood’ message, you can text message, use it as a group chat system, you can share files, photos, your computer screen. Plus, you can talk with people plus ...
‘Dear Instagram…’ – Here’s How to Apply for a Job at a Hot Startup
Alice Lee just upped the ante by a factor of 100 in what you need to do to get noticed when applying for a job at a hot startup: Click on the image to see the entire job application. [Cross-posted at Silicon Valley ...
Google’s M&A Chief Says Deal Focus Has Changed
Google made 79 acquisitions last year, mostly small companies and mostly for their engineering talent. The largest acquisition was Motorola Mobility, a $12.5 billion deal. This year, the search giant expects to focus on smaller numbers of deals in strategic areas such as mobile and video, said David Lawee, VP of Corporate Development. In an ...