journalists
Sky News clamps down on Twitter use
www.guardian.co.uk
Reporters banned from reposting non-company tweets and told to check with the news desk before breaking news storiesSky News has told its journalists not to repost information from any Twitter users who are not an employee of the broadcaster.An email to staff on Tuesday laid out new social media guidelines...
In The Future, The Business Founder Will Not Be Ignored
techcrunch.com
Editor’s note: Adam Rodnitzky is a serial entrepreneur and co-founder of Favo.rs. He programmed his first startup using ColdFusion in 1999. Rodnitzky is based in San Francisco, and you can follow him on Twitter @rodtwitzky. The entrepreneurial world loves nothing like a good meme. One of the more recent ones making the rounds from...
Launching Spread.us; create massive social reach
thenextweb.com
At The Next Web we pride ourselves on not just being journalists or bloggers who report on technology from the sidelines. Instead we’re active entrepreneurs working on new services and technologies. That gives us a perspective on tech news that is different from many other technology blogs. It also means...
Journalist recovers video of his arrest after police deleted it
arstechnica.com
A Miami journalist has recovered video of police officers arresting him after it was deleted from his camera. The man was covering a police effort to evict Occupy Miami protestors. He plans to file a complaint with the police department and with the United States Department of Justice. On...
Carry on regardless: Sky News reporters shun new in-house tweeting guidelines
thenextweb.com
Sky News may be trying to keep its reporters on a shorter leash by issuing stricter tweeting/retweeting guidelines, but it seems some of its journalists aren’t taking as much notice as their employer would like. Just to recap, the new guidelines include a ban on retweeting other publications or reporters...
Spotify for iPad review
www.theverge.com
A couple weeks ago, Spotify and Coca-Cola held a press conference in New York where the two companies partnered on a deal to use Coca-Cola's worldwide brand recognition to bring Spotify to hundreds of new countries. Spotify would be featured prominently in beverage ads, as well as on Coca-Cola's...
TNW’s Daily Dose – 24 hours of tech news in 5 minutes [Audio]
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Path uploads your address book to its servers without permission, Flickr shuts down an app that’s trying to poach its users, and Sky News imposes strict rules on tweeting journalists. It’s all in today’s Daily Dose. You can catch The Daily Dose every Monday through Friday right here on The...
Google discloses paid bloggers and journalists, says Stanford professor Mark Lemley is outside counsel
www.theverge.com
Google has followed up with a judge's order to disclose anyone it might have paid to influence coverage of its trial against Oracle, and the list includes a well-known Stanford professor who is often quoted without mentioning his relationship to Google. Google had initially told the court it hadn't...
Google discloses paid bloggers and journalists, says Stanford professor Mark Lemley is outside counsel
Sky News to its reporters: ‘check with us before you tweet breaking news’
thenextweb.com
According to a report by The Guardian, Sky News has instituted new rules for its reporters when it comes to Tweeting news from their personal accounts. The report references an internal email sent to Sky News journalists about how to conduct themselves on the micro-messaging platform with a series of...
Gannett’s reason for embracing Apple products was Android’s fragmentation
thenextweb.com
Towards the end of last year, an internal memo was sent to Gannett journalists letting them know that they would be outfitted with new iPhones and iPads to assist them with breaking stories. It’s a forward-thinking approach for an old-school company that owns publications such as USAToday. Not only is...
To the BBC and others: Twitter is not your competition
gigaom.com
Just a day after Sky News told its journalists they should not post any kind of breaking news to Twitter — and also blocked them from retweeting anyone but an official Sky News account — the BBC has released a new version of its social-media policies that also requires...
Google Reveals Prominent Legal Expert Among Paid Consultants
marketingland.com
As you may recall the judge in the Oracle v. Google patent and copyright trial (William Alsup) asked both sides to reveal authors, bloggers, journalists and others with whom they had financial relationships. Oracle disclosed that it had retained Florian Mueller, who writes the widely read patent... Please visit Marketing Land for the full...
ASUS Padfone hands-on (video)
www.engadget.com
We're here at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona and ASUS just formally unveiled the shape-shifting Padfone -- just like it said it would. Even more than raw specs, what makes the phone striking are its accompanying accessories. Sure, you could use it as a standalone 4.3-inch handset, but i...
Samsung Galaxy S III preview: hands-on with the next Android superphone (video)
www.engadget.com
You remember that Galaxy S II? A phone so good they launched it, well, a whole load of times. But after seeing phablet cousins and LTE variants, the true handset sequel is finally here. The Galaxy S III is moments away from being outed in front of journalists and...
3 things any company can learn from Apple
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Yes, Apple is special. And no, not every company should emulate it. But here are key elements in its playbook other companies absolutely should adopt. FORTUNE -- The latest installment of Applemania debuts this Wednesday, when Apple is expect to unveil another wonders of consumer gadgetry. The Apple-obsessed world expects...
Sky News joins the anti-social media brigade
gigaom.com
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 much of the social aspects from them as possible....
Infographics For Everyone: Visual.ly Launches First Automated Tool Out Of Beta
techcrunch.com
If you are among those who feel that we see too many infographics these days, be prepared for a little more eye candy: Visual.ly, which offers an online tool to create instant visualizations of data, is launching its first public product out of beta. The service will let users take...
Knight-Mozilla OpenNews wants to bring journalists and hackers together
thenextweb.com
Have you heard of OpenNews? This is the new name of the Knight-Mozilla News Technology Partnership, its head Dan Sinker announced today in a blog post. As you may remember, Mozilla and the Knight Foundation have been partnering since 2011, with the ambition to invent the future of journalism by...
This app generates gorgeous and informative infographics about your Facebook usage
thenextweb.com
While the tide might be turning on the use of infographics by journalists or bloggers, we can imagine they’re still pretty popular among social media users. Especially when the topic of the infographic is you. With the new Facebook-powered app, GetAbout.me, you can generate three pretty cool infographics about you...
New Mac details leak: MacBook Airs with more RAM, crazy expensive Retina MacBook Pros
venturebeat.com
As eager developers and journalists line up for Apple’s WWDC keynote this morning, some intriguing new details about Apple’s Mac hardware announcements have leaked out. Among the scheduled hardware upgrades, Apple will offer the MacBook Air with up to 8 gigabytes of RAM and a 512 gigabyte SSD for...
You've Got 30,000 Days To Live... Reverse Engineer Your Life To Make Them Count
techcrunch.com
New Zealand’s Sir Ray Avery has a simple method for getting the most out of his life. The 65-year old Kiwi scientist and inventor accomplishes what he does by keeping tabs on the days he has left to live, and by setting and tracking daily goals to best take advantage...
Feds Find An Anonymous Fish To Fry
readwrite.com
You now can get hauled into federal court in the United States for sharing a link in a chat room, apparently. Barrett Brown, the journalist covering Anonymous-related activities for news outlets like The Guardian, was charged late Friday with 12 charges including linking, identity theft and fraud related to...
Is it ethical to pay bloggers to tweet? | Sunny Hundal and Helen Lewis
www.guardian.co.uk
Sunny Hundal and Helen Lewis discuss whether journalists should be paid by TV companies for tweeting about programmesSunny Hundal: Tweeting is no different to writing an opinion pieceOccasionally I get a call from Sky News asking if I would like to tweet about the Murnaghan show on Sunday mornings. Here's...
My Month With a ChromeBox: How I Survived Without Windows or Mac
www.readwriteweb.com
Just about a month ago, I stopped wrestling with an operating system and learned to love the Web. Windows? Gone. My MacBook? Hardly touched. Instead, I've relied on a Samsung Chromebox 3 running Google's ChromeOS for virtually all my daily computing needs. And I not only survived, I actually prospered....
Urge iOS app helps you keep impulse spending in check (exclusive)
venturebeat.com
While personal financial services like Mint.com offer a pretty dashboard that shows detailed information about how your money is spent, it does little to prevent the powerful emotional responses associated with impulse purchases. For instance, the knowledge that you’ve already spent $50 at Starbucks this week won’t prevent you from...
Vibrant Media, The Company Behind Those In-Text Ads, Announces Lightbox Video Units
techcrunch.com
Vibrant Media is probably best-known for its in-text advertising, but it has been expanding its lineup of ad units. The latest edition is something it’s calling Vibrant Lightbox Video. Vibrant already offered video ads, but a spokesperson tells me there are a number of new pieces here. For one thing,...
Okay, Here's What It Was Like To Meet The President...
www.businessinsider.com
The White House was kind enough to invite Business Insider and me to a private briefing on the economy yesterday. The briefing featured the President's whole gang--Alan Krueger (Chair of the Council of Economic Advisors), Gene Sperling (head of the National Economic Council), et al. Basically, we got a...
Live Blog: Microsoft Expected to Unveil a Tablet
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Microsoft is holding an event in Los Angeles today where it plans to announce the first tablet computer under its own brand. Unlike Apple, which makes both the hardware and software that power its Mac computers, iPhones and and iPad tablets, Microsoft has traditionally ceded the hardware design, development and...
Hands On with Microsoft’s New Surface Tablet
www.readwriteweb.com
A few minutes spent actually handling a prototype of Microsoft’s new Surface tablet reveals a solid device, combining a slightly bulky chassis with a clever Touch Cover keyboard that appears to work well - all powered by a Windows RT operating system that seems to to be a viable competitor...
How Journalists Are Using Pinterest
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Pinterest is quickly finding its way into the social strategies of media organizations large and small, even as the company itself is still figuring out its business model. Here's how they're using the virtual scrapbooking service. (This is part two of a four-part series on how journalists are using social...
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