Septiembre 2011
19 publicaciones nuevas
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DreamWorks prefiere el streaming de Netflix a la... →
DreamWorks Animation, the company behind successful movie franchises like “Madagascar” and “Shrek,” said it had completed a deal to pump its films and television specials through Netflix, replacing a less lucrative pact with HBO.
The Netflix accord, which analysts estimate is worth $30 million per picture to DreamWorks over an unspecified period of years, is billed by the companies as the first...
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Google News destacará los trabajos especiales... →
Google News ha presentado en la conferencia de la Online News Association (ONA) una nueva etiqueta que puede ayudar a que el contenido publicado pueda tener más relevancia, y tal vez más tráfico. “Standout” (destacado) permitirá agrupar los “reportes originales, trabajos de investigación, exclusivas y proyectos especiales” de los medios de comunicación. Al colocar la etiqueta en el header del...
Peter Orszag: Too Much Of A Good Thing - Why we... →
(…) Psychology research shows that, when people with similar opinions are put together, their views become more radical. In Going to Extremes: How Like Minds Unite and Divide, Cass R. Sunstein, the legal scholar who is now administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, reviews a variety of evidence and concludes, “When people talk to like-minded others, they...
How Dolphins Could Help Us Communicate with Aliens... →
Dar algo por supuesto tiene el inconveniente de que quizá ese supuesto no sea tal cosa. Entiendo que esto sucede con quienes plantean que los delfines pueden ayudarnos a comunicarnos con los alienígenas…
(…) “There are many sentient species on our own planet, and that would probably be a good model to start looking at how we might communicate with extra-terrestrial...
Problemas para la financiación estatal de... →
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is threatening to revoke a $420,000 subsidy his state’s Economic Development Authority is giving to MTV’s “Jersey Shore” for filming there. Italian-American groups have been complaining, since the tax credits were announced last week, that New Jersey is subsidizing stereotypes. While the Newark, N.J.-based Star-Ledger newspaper acknowledged in...
Facebook 'Credits' Revenue Now Growing Faster Than... →
Facebook ad revenue is growing fast, but its currency system, called “Credits,” is growing even faster.
Facebook will collect revenue of $470 million this year from Credits alone, according to a new estimate from eMarketer, up from $140 million in 2010.
Facebook in July began requiring that all merchants in its ecosystem use the Credits currency. The social network takes 30% of...
Scott Monty: Speakin' Like Them →
“If you wish to persuade me, you must think my thoughts, feel my feelings and speak my words.” - Cicero
I’ve previously cited this quote by Cicero as one that demonstrates the timelessness and universality of human nature. First uttered some 2,000 years ago, it is a quote that today is even more important for marketers and communicators to keep in mind as we think about what...
The Wall Street Journal launches Facebook news... →
The Wall Street Journal has been making waves in the news world lately. After the launch of WSJ Live, its very own online broadcasting service, the paper is launching WSJ Social, a Facebook based news site, to go live today.
The Wall Street Journal is not the only news organisation to be launching a Facebook site. As Jeff Bercovici reveals, several other major news networks have been approached...
Salaverría: “Tendrán éxito los que aporten... →
Ramón Salaverría (Burgos, 1970), director del Departamento de Proyectos Periodísticos en la Facultad de Comunicación de la Universidad de Navarra, hace un análisis sobre los medios de comunicación y las características más resaltantes que, a su entender, deberían explotar las empresas informativas mirando hacia el futuro.
Los múltiples modelos de negocios planteados hasta la fecha no han dado...
Netflix to Split DVD and Streaming Businesses →
Netflix will spin off its foundational DVD-by-mail service, the company announced this morning, ceding its iconic red envelopes to a new site that will go by the name of Qwikster. Netflix says it intends to focus on the increasingly popular streaming-video model. Customers, already upset by an earlier decision to split DVD and streaming services and change the rates, are bemoaning this further...
Buen artículo del Poynter: How America’s news... →
Although most Americans experienced the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, through their televisions, many chose to remember it with their newspapers.
On a Sunday night in May almost 10 years later, most Americans learned via TV that Osama bin Laden, the man behind the attacks, finally had been killed. Newspaper presses went into overdrive, just as they did when the towers fell.
Much...
The Huffington Post launches an e-book →
When the name of The Huffington Post is evoked, many people’s first thought is of unpaid bloggers and aggregated content - which makes many journalists slightly unsettled.
Yet The Huffington Post has made a move which not only reasserts its reputation as a publication which pushes the established model of a news organisation, but which also does more than a little to silence some of its...
Juan Varela: La crisis aprieta a los diarios →
La crisis de los diarios no amaina. Tanto las grandes cabeceras nacionales como las locales viven una crisis de la que no se vislumbra el fin.
— La publicidad huye de la prensa y la difusión cae, con los lectores cada vez más volcados en los soportes y dispositivos digitales.
— Una crisis estructural que no respeta a diarios de pago ni a gratuitos, agravada por la...
TIME Magazine has decided to launch two Tumblr... →
The renowned American publication TIME Magazine has decided to launch not one, but two Tumblr blogs. In a staff memo published on Poynter, Jim Frederick, the magazine’s managing editor, explains why TIME Tumblrs are a great idea.
The magazine has chosen to use Tumblr, which is now a more popular blogging site than Wordpress due to its social features, to launch a reduced version of its...
Juan Varela: "Edición social" en Reuters →
Seleccionar, agregar en un flujo, valorar y comentar. Es la receta de Counterparties, el nuevo agregador lanzado por Reuters y creado por su bloguero Felix Salmon con la colaboración de Ryan McCarthy de Percolate, un sistema para crear un flujo de contenidos filtrado con los contactos en las redes sociales y las fuentes RSS de cada medio o periodista.
Reuters se une a la agregación inteligente y...
¿Divorcio por aburrimiento? →
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En un artículo publicado en The Daily Telegraph, la periodista Angela Neustatter reflexiona sobre la tendencia actual al emotivismo sobre los proyectos duraderos, lo que lleva a algunos a romper sus compromisos conyugales cuando desaparece el encanto de los comienzos.
Neustatter se apoya en las conclusiones de un informe realizado por Grant Thornton-Reino Unido,...
