Tag Archives: News
Sky News joins the anti-social media brigade
Even as some news outlets like Associated Press hire social-media editors to try and figure out how to make use of tools like Twitter for journalistic purposes, others seem to be intent on locking these tools down and removing as … Continue reading
Amazon gets good and bad news in financial numbers
Amazon reported stronger revenues but much smaller profits in its financial numbers for the fourth quarter of 2011 while only saying it has sold “millions” of its Kindle line of devices. Read more… Neowin.net
Uberpaper aims to kill the echo chamber of social news
Personalized algorithms and social networking sites are great for helping people navigate a lot of things online — music, movies, restaurant recommendations and the like have benefited greatly from high tech curation. But according to serial entrepreneur Dmitry Shapiro, when … Continue reading
Joe Paterno’s death and the reality of news as a process
There’s been a lot written already about how a student-run news website at Penn State issued an erroneous news report over the weekend saying legendary football coach Joe Paterno had died, with some critics of the event focusing on how … Continue reading
A Calendar update for LiveSide (thanks to MSDN) just in time for a big year of Microsoft news
Back in 2009, the Hotmail guys published a blog post detailing how to get an embedded calendar for your website using Windows Live (now Hotmail) Calendar, and we’ve been using that little iframe snippet ever since. To be honest, other … Continue reading