Juan Antonio Giner in his Innovations in Newspapers has a great list of “Wrong Predictions” and he puts Bill Gates’s reported remarks on the invevitable move of reading to the web in the same camp: another wrong prediction.
Bill Gates was clearly saying a lot of different things in this presentation. Some surely right, some pretty questionable. I am sure that he is wrong to say that newspaper subscriptions are in inexorable decline. You never know, overall newspaper subscriptions … Keep Reading
Google has made a subtle but important change to the way it offers users ‘Search’. Here is the BBC’s brief summary:
Google is overhauling its search system so it returns “universal” results not just those from webpages. The change means users will also get results from news sites, blogs, video services and other relevant places…….. The expanded results will be available via a series of tabs that will appear on the results page.
There is a lot more detail … Keep Reading
Yesterday was a free day for me. But with a Blackberry you are never totally on holiday. Two work items piqued my interest.
Sad news for Tom Moloney, CEO of EMAP. He has left the company and the speculation is that it may be snapped up by a private equity company.
Another tiny item from feedback also snagged my interest (yes feedback gets forwarded to our Blackberries and, sad as it may be, I often look at it even … Keep Reading
Tim O’Reilly presents a fertile thought experiment. But it is not just our commercial and financial activities which can be enhanced by web-scaled interaction. How would it help our reading on the web, if the process of reading, to think and to write, was enhanced with intelligent feedback: to the reader, the publisher, the author or journalist?
When, soon, most of our reading (magazines, newspapers, books, blogs, by definition, etc…) is web-based, how will the different reading applications co-ooperate … Keep Reading
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