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Tag Archives: Publishing Services
The Reimagination of Publishing
Last Friday I did a presentation at The Project [R]evolution conference in Auckland, New Zealand. I presented on a topic I’ve been writing a lot about recently: the reimagination of publishing. I haven’t been this excited about innovation in Web publishing since the early, experimental days of blogging, when I started ReadWriteWeb circa 2002-03. In…
Why Topic Pages Are The Next Big Thing
Chronological and real-time consumption of content just doesn’t work anymore. It’s time for topic pages to add a layer of organization on top.
In last week’s post, 5 Reasons Why Web Publishing is Changing (Again), we explained why online publishing is going through another sea change. One of those reasons was topical organization of content in…
5 Reasons Why Web Publishing is Changing (Again)
We’re witnessing another sea change in Web publishing. From Pinterest at the beginning of this year to the launch this week of a new product from two Twitter founders, Medium, 2012 has been a year where the norms of publishing are being challenged. It wasn’t that long ago that Tumblr and Wordpress were the cutting edge of publishing. But there’s…
Live: Thinking Differently About Web Publishing
We’ve gathered an illustrious bunch of friends, readers and technologists to talk about the new insurgent players in Web publishing, like Branch, Medium and App.net. There’s definitely a shift happening in how we produce for the Web, and how we read, watch and talk about what’s there. We’re discussing it live in this Branch conversation. Want to…
Read-only Launch For Medium & Branch, But Twitter Founders Promise More
Twitter founders Evan Williams and Biz Stone have been busy developing two new services, both of which were publicly launched this week by their incubator company The Obvious Corporation. Unfortunately, both products are read-only for most people right now. So first impressions will be muted – perhaps even mystified, since Medium has very little…
Parse.ly Dash Will Make Web Publishers Eat Their Vegetables
This morning, Parse.ly launched Dash, a content management system smart enough to make a blogger weep with joy. It analyzes the Web to show publishers what’s hot. It tracks trends within the site, revealing what works for the audience. It points out when old posts are getting popular again. It follows individual authors over time and shows how…
Parse.ly Dash Will Make Web Publishers Eat Their Vegetables
This morning, Parse.ly launched Dash, a content management system smart enough to make a blogger weep with joy. It analyzes the Web to show publishers what’s hot. It tracks trends within the site, revealing what works for the audience. It points out when old posts are getting popular again. It follows individual authors over time […]
Jason Calacanis: “Blogging Is Dead” & Why “Stupid People Shouldn’t Write”
“Blogging is largely dead.”
“There are a lot of stupid people out there … and stupid people shouldn’t write.”
“There needs to be a better system for tuning down the stupid people and tuning up the smart people.”
Serial entrepreneur and publisher Jason Calacanis has never been opposed to saying what is on his mind. In fact, it is the…
WordPress 3.3 Update Is Slick: Tumblr Importer, iPad Optimization, Co-Editing Alerts
Yesterday WordPress launched version 3.3, named “Sonny,” in honor of the great jazz saxophonist Sonny Stitt. The release has two goals: To make the editing process easier for return users, and help introduce new bloggers to the platform.
The new toolbar is a combination of the admin bar and the old Dashboard header. There’s now support for…
Web Publishing’s Next Level
We’re not out of the woods yet, but Web publishing is starting to hit its stride. Product offerings are getting smarter, prices are getting better and, most importantly, the content is getting more interesting. We might not even be half way to the future of publishing yet, but the industry is picking up steam.
There are new ways to read, new…
Google Currents is No Flipboard Killer
Ending months of rumors, Google today launched its own personalized news-reading app for tablets and smartphones. Google Currents, as it’s called, is an app for iOS and Android that presents content from magazines, news sites and blogs in a format that’s far more digestible on mobile devices.
It lands in a somewhat crowded space occupied by…
How WordPress Helps The Little Guy Make Money
Yesterday, WordPress announced WordAds, a program for hosted WordPress.com blogs to make some money off their sites. The first ads will come from the WordPress partnership with Federated Media announced at Web 2.0 this October. Interested users must apply to join WordAds, and it requires a custom domain, a service for which WordPress charges.
In…
Easy E-Books for Everyone! PressBooks Launches to the Public
PressBooks, a simple online book production tool built on WordPress, launches to the public today. It lets authors use a content management system they already know to produce ePubs, typeset PDFs and other XML formats, as well as a Web version. The Web version can be private, or it can be free or paywalled to the public.
PressBooks has spent six…
How Open Source Can Help Digital Magazines Proliferate
The Web may have opened up and democratized the once top-heavy world of publishing, but the next frontier in digital publications is still young. While anybody can master the tools needed to publish a blog, putting out a rich, magazine-like digital publication for tablets is still cost prohibitive for some.
The folks behind Letter to Jane, an…
Can the iPad Save Magazines and Newspapers After All?
Before Apple even officially announced the iPad, traditional publishers started to get excited about the potential of the device. Much like the iPod did for music, Apple’s rumored tablet could help them make the transition to digital, and perhaps even allow them to solve the problem the Web couldn’t: monetization.
The iPad finally did launch…
Livefyre’s SocialSync Brings Twitter & Facebook Back to Blog Comments
Commenting system Livefyre has announced version 2.0 of its platform, introducing new features to bring conversations from the social Web into on-site comments. SocialSync grabs related Twitter and Facebook comments automatically, so there’s always a conversation on the page, even if no one has commented yet directly. It also adds @ mentions from…
Springer to Digitize 65K Tech Books from 1840 to 2005
German science, technology and medical publisher Springer Science+Business Media, will digitize its entire catalog of books back to 1840 by the end of the coming year, including works by Einstein, Niels Bohr and Sir John Eccles and Rudolf Diesel. (Yes, that Rudolf Diesel.)
The books, 70% of which are in English and nearly 30% in German, will total…
IPad App Publishing to Become Faster & Cheaper Than Ever With MagAppZine 2.0
A new service called MagAppZine was the subject of an interview by Jenn Webb on O’Reilly Radar today and is aimed to substantially lower the barriers to entry required for publishing content into the iTunes app store. It’s a white label, DIY app-publishing platform that is limited to PDF uploads, website viewing in an in-app browser and in-app…
Infographics: Anticipation Builds For New Visualization Tool & Community
People love data visualization; when done well, it communicates new knowledge about otherwise inaccessible information in new and pleasing ways. Good visualizations can be efficient and effective; bad visualizations can be seductive and deceptive. That’s why visually designed data-based content, both good and bad, is so popular online. People…