David Black

"Just as the iPad has proven to be a boon to magazine publishers, newspapers have flocked to the device too. In this post we'll look at how some of the leading newspapers are using iPad, what the user experience is like, and what could be improved still."

Facebook Partnering With Gowalla And Foursquare For Places: http://tcrn.ch/bqFIeM via @techcrunch

TV, phones and internet take up almost half our waking hours: http://bit.ly/cdmWVH via @ofcom

Britons 'multi-task' with media: http://bbc.in/9t0wDg via @bbcnews

What Does ‘Mobile’ Mean? How Apple And The iPad Are Forcing The Debate: http://bit.ly/aJXewN via @paidcontent

AOL’s Patch Aims To Quintuple In Size By Year-End: http://bit.ly/aufqbK via @paidcontent

The Web Isn’t Dead; It’s Just Continuing to Evolve: http://bit.ly/bJkaC9 by @mathewi via @gigaom

Putting changing internet traffic in perspective: http://bit.ly/cBu7dP via @boingboing

The Web Is Dead. Long Live the Internet: http://bit.ly/9CkYNk via @wired

Trinity Mirror has launched a new series of hyperlocal news websites partnering with local bloggers and community news sites.

Our new Birmingham Communities hyperlocal network is now live, including aggregation of local placebloggers.

Times paywall: more analysis of the data: http://bit.ly/bu8b9B via @beehivecity

Times paywall: the numbers are out (should we charge for this?): http://bit.ly/cfcmoU via @beehivecity

@Cybersoc @paulbradshaw Think @packratius has an option to feed favourites from twitter to delicious: http://packrati.us/

"This is a collection of mobile resources"

"More and more, we're logging into websites using our credentials from sites like Facebook, Twitter, Google or Yahoo. But which one is leading in the battle of the third-party login?"

Hyperlocal network MainStreetConnect founder aims for 3,000 sites: http://bit.ly/cvWlnH via @journalismnews #hyperlocal

Latest UKOM audience data and trends released.

ABI Research: "28% of mobile users use the internet on their mobile every day, a 'huge increase' on figures from just 14 months ago. This shift in consumer behaviour will drive the increase in spending on mobile ads from just under USD313m this year to more than USD1.2bn in 2015."

"Twitter is supporting 800 million queries a day, or 33 percent more than it said it was handling back in April, according to co-founder Biz Stone, who spoke at the Aspen Ideas Festival today."

"A friend noticed a change in Nietzsche’s work after he began to use the machine – and Nietzsche agreed, noting that 'our writing equipment takes part in the forming of our thoughts'."

"Some new tidbits for metrics fiends today, from The Guardian’s optimisation and effectiveness head Tim Gentry. Presenting to an Association of Online Publishers forum, he said online revenue was merely a “tartlet” compared to the larger pie chart of print income."

"Taking the path into paid content was 'a very terrifying business', but essential to staying away from commodified news, the Times' assistant editor and head of online told an audience of online publishers today."

"Last night we wrote about Time magazine’s removal of full-length magazine stories from its website. Readers now get an abridged version paired with a pitch for the print edition or Time’s iPad app."

"Some 34% of cellphone owners polled this year send and receive email on their mobile devices, up about one-third from 25% last year. Some 38% access the Internet, also up from about 25% last year."

"For more than a year, Digg has been working on a major redesign of the popular link-sharing site, one that makes the social features of the site much more obvious, encouraging users to 'follow' their friends and subscribe to preferred sources."

Creating New Revenues Around Content: Find Your Popcorn: http://bit.ly/9Pgw8E via @forrester

"Are paywalls the answer? They may be an answer — but to the wrong question. Instead of asking how much more money they can get for the content, companies should be focusing on how that content can help create new revenue streams."

"Take a look at the all-in cloud strategy of the Telegraph Media Group. It's an instructive lesson in how rapidly the business world is changing and why IT must take an approach that supports it."

Sports Illustrated HTML5 demo video from Benedicte Autret's #ukaop forum presentation.

"In this forum we examine the increasingly creative ways that publishers are boosting and diversifying their digital returns."

"Some media outfits chase scale, while others pursue premium pricing."

"We believe that the hidden facts and statistics that drive our stories should be made public and shared with everyone."

"I’ve since noticed many SEO companies who are developing infographics for their clients and pushing them in the social media sphere. When I discovered that so many SEO infographics already exist, I decided to rate them."

"Click to follow these publishers, check in near one of the locations they have annotated and your phone will get special tips pushed to it just like you get when near a place where one of your individual friends has left a tip."

"To put things into perspective, it’s helpful to look back at the impact that TV had on the ad business in the mid 60s and draw some parallels with where we are today."

"Social news site Digg.com is set to launch the fourth major iteration of its site. Last week the company invited an extra 20,000 users to its version four alpha test–a number that is likely to grow in the coming days and weeks."

"Apple Inc., with a storehouse of billions of music, movie and software downloads, is studying the buying habits of many of its 150 million iTunes users to show more appealing mobile ads and fuel competition with Google Inc."

"Since our launch in 1997, we've worked to make sure the site continues to develop to meet your needs and expectations. This is the latest stage in that process of evolution. We have focused on design and navigation, looking to see how we can make all the existing content we produce each day easier for you to find, use and share."

"Some 85% agreed with the statement: the internet has mostly been a positive force on my social world. And this will only grow more true in the future.”

72% of brands could do more with increased PPC budgets

"So exactly how much money could the strategy bring in?"

"Which brings us on the the game theory.  The question here is: does the news industry as a whole hope to charge online readers for access one day?"

"And it’s up – the long awaited News International paywall for the new Times and Sunday Times websites has gone up today."

"In order to create lasting value, location-aware social networks need to look at what motivates their users to share with one another and make it central to the app’s design and user experience."

"Fully 54% of all teenagers contact their friends daily by sending text messages, making texting the most common form of communications among teens. This includes face-to-face conversations; just 33% of teens talk face-to-face with friends daily."

"The collaboration begins with Groupon distributing content about shops and deals that are only available to 28 of McClatchy’s local websites. Daily Groupon deals will launch first in the Sacramento and Kansas City markets; other sites will be added over the next few months."

"TheTimes.co.uk and SundayTimes.co.uk are going live at £1 for the first 30 days."

"With social media growing at an ever increasing pace, there is now a wealth of data about how people interacting with one another on the web. Naturally, infographics have proven an excellent aid in expressing high volumes of social web information in a clear, visually appealing manner. Here are 10 infographics that prove as beautiful as they are interesting."

"Yesterday, Apple announced on their developer website that iAds will begin to make their way internationally in the coming months."

"Right on time, iAd advertisements have begun to go live, although their presence appears to be very spotty on iAd-compatible applications at the moment with banners appearing only occasionally while at other times the apps simply show blank space in the banner location."

"TheTimes.co.uk and SundayTimes.co.uk will move to pay-only access with an introductory offer of £1 for 30 days"

"The Huffington Post, the one time liberal blog and now something more akin to an online newspaper, says it is positioning itself now as a social-media company."