A huge proportion of charities already have a presence in social media, whether on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Pinterest or the latest platform. Raising awareness in a way people can relate to remains the first step to getting people to give, but the real potential of social is unlocked when campaigns are based on deeper insights about how the new channels are used.There was a popularity of YouTube make-up tutorial videos, by creating their own. Except their version featured a woman showing how to put make-up on to hide the cuts and bruises she'd suffered from being physically abused. It was a powerful example of brands channelling social behaviour for their own ends.
Google is integrating its Gmail service and Google+ social tracking network so that people without your Gmail address can send you emails by a name search. Google has also made the change opt-out, so that users will have to change their settings to prevent unknown people emailing them. The senders will not see the email address of the person they are sending the message to unless the recipient replies.
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Top Gear and Doctor Who dominate record ratings for BBC iPlayer
A record 3bn television and radio programmes were accessed on the BBC's iPlayer last year, with half of the top 20 TV shows made up of BBC2's Top Gear. The first part of an Africa special of theJeremy Clarkson motoring show was requested 3.4m times on the BBC's on-demand service, making it the most popular iPlayer programme in 2013, the corporation has revealed. The 50th anniversary special ofDoctor Whowas its third most popular show, followed by an episode of BBC3's Jack Whitehall comedy Bad Education, which was boosted by being made available online before transmission. 4.
General knowledge, from capital cities to key dates, has long been a marker of an educated mind. But what happens when facts can be Googled? Brian Cathcart confers with educationalists, quiz-show winners and Bamber Gascoigne
Is this where we are heading? A Google search, once you have keyed the words in, takes a broadband user less than a second, and the process will only get quicker. As for those laborious keystrokes, voice-recognition technology will enable us to bypass them. And soon pretty well everybody, from schoolchildren to drinkers in pubs, will be online pretty well all of the time. In that context, perhaps there is no longer any point in keeping facts in our heads. If you want to know who wrote “Skellig”, or whether Norway is a member of the European Union, or what Cary Grant’s real name was, you ask your laptop or your phone.
Technology
5. Candy Crush Saga boss says sorry for cloning, but defends trademark filings
older web game called Pac-Avoid, published by King, which was accused of being a clone of an existing game called Scamper Ghost which had been pitched to King before being published elsewhere. Which showed the maker of candy crush had cloned a previous game which was already out. He said We have taken the game down from our site, and we apologise for having published it in the first place. Let me be clear: This unfortunate situation is an exception to the rule. King does not clone games, and they do not want anyone cloning there games 6.
Strong demand for iPhones and iPads helped push Apple sales to a record $57.6bn, but the company saw its value slump $40bn as investors remain concerned its growth may be losing steam. The Californian technology giant sold 51m iPhones in the three months to the end of December, more than 3m more than the same period the previous year and a new high for the company.
At the end of 2013, there were more than one million apps apiece in the respective stores of Apple and Google, with both stores well over the 50bn downloads mark.Apps have made their presence felt across a swathe of industries: from entertainment, publishing and games through to the enterprise and education sectors. Apps have attracted big investments, generated lucrative acquisitions and made billions of dollars in revenues, yet they’ve also sparked debate around privacy, regulation and the question of whether they are fuelling another dotcom-style bubble that’s destined to pop.And so to 2014. What will be the big trends around apps and the developers, startups and brands that are making and releasing them? Here are a few thoughts.
Google has never revealed revenue figures for YouTube.
Google has never revealed how much money YouTube makes since buying the online video service for $1.65bn in 2006. That doesn't stop analysts and research firms taking guesses. The latest is eMarketer, which has published its first estimates for YouTube's advertising revenues today. The company predicts that YouTube's gross ad revenues will rise 51.4% to $5.6bn in 2013, accounting for 11.1% of Google's total. Once YouTube has paid ad partners and video creators their share, its net ad revenues are still expected to reach $1.96bn this year, up 65.5% compared to 2012's $1.18bn.
Windows 8 hits 200m licences - at a pace putting it on a par with Vista
Microsoft announces 200m licences for new version of OS, well behind Windows 7 - which had sold 300m by the same time - and putting it on a similar strike rate to unloved V
Windows 8 has passed 200m licences sold - including the slow-selling Surface tablet. Photograph: TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP/Getty Images
Microsoft has sold 200m licences for Windows 8, the company announced late on Thursday. The announcement comes 15 months after the release of the software, and nine months since the last milestone - of 100m licences sold. But it contrasts starkly with figures for Windows 7, which by the same period had sold 300m licences. Instead, the comparator for Windows 8 seems to be more closely with Vista, the poorly received version released in November 2005 which saw many people either hanging on to Windows XP, or avoiding it and waiting for its successor, Windows 7.
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Thousands of Tesco.com customer accounts suspended after hacker attack
Tesco has been forced to deactivate online customer accounts after thousands of login details, including passwords, were posted online. A list of over 2,000 Tesco.com internet shopping accounts was posted online by hackers on Thursday, allowing access to online shopping accounts, personal details and Tesco Clubcard vouchers.
“We take the security of our customers’ data extremely seriously and are urgently investigating these claims,” a Tesco spokesman said in a statement.
The data is thought to have been compiled by hackers using stolen details from other web services, testing email and password combinations released in other high-profile hacks against Tesco’s website.
“We have contacted all customers who may have been affected and are committed to ensuring that none of them miss out as a result of this. We will issue replacement vouchers to the very small number who are affected,” added the Tesco spokesman.
Daily Mail and Guardian digital 'minnows', says News UK chief
Mike Darcey says relying on online ads as main revenue stream is risky in market containing rivals such as Google and Facebook
News UK chief executive Mike Darcey has called the Guardian and Daily Maildigital "minnows" – despite the publishers' boasting a combined monthly online readership of almost 300 million – in the latest round of the debate about finding a sustainable model for professional journalism.
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Apple aims to boost iPhone 5c sales with cheaper 8GB model
Apple's iPhone 5c 8GB model is £40 cheaper, but will sales take off? Photograph: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images. Apple has launched a new entry-level version of its iPhone 5C smartphone, with 8GB of internal storage and a lower price of £429.
The handset went on sale from the company’s online store in the UK and other countries this morning, sitting alongside the existing 16GB and 32GB models, which sell for £469 and £549 respectively.
Operators are already selling the cheaper 8GB model from their own websites, with O2 the first to make it available. Apple said in a statement: “The 8GB iPhone 5C model will be available in the UK, France, Germany, Australia and China on 18 March.”
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Firefox on Windows 8 Metro only had 1,000 daily users
The Mozilla Foundation has stopped developing a Windows 8 “Metro” version of Firefox because of a lack of users.
“In the months since, as the team built and tested and refined the product, we’ve been watching Metro’s adoption. From what we can see, it’s pretty flat. On any given day we have, for instance, millions of people testing pre-release versions of Firefox desktop, but we’ve never seen more than 1,000 active daily users in the Metro environment,” said Jonathan Nightingale, vice-president at Mozilla, in a blog post.
Newspapers
14. The readers' editor on; sometimes forgetting that our roots are in Manchester
In general I would agree that the Guardian does sometimes forget that its roots are in Manchester. However, to be fair, at least two of the journalists were writing about places in which they had either grown up or spent time as young men. Seymour did indeed write: "The small-town, provincial life of Northern Ireland is changing."
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UK mobile advertising set to overtake newspaper ad revenue in 2014
UK mobile advertising spend is forecast to top £2bn and overtake newspaper ad revenue for the first time in 2014, according to new research.
Total digital media advertising spend is predicted to increase from £6.3bn in 2013 (44.3% market share) to £7.1bn this year (47.5% market share), according to the latest forecast from eMarketer published on Monday.
The estimated figures reveal that advertising in newspapers (national and regional) will fall from £2.2bn in 2013 (15.3% market share of media) to £2.1bn in 2014 (13.8% market share), marking the steepest drop in market share across all media categories between 2013 and 2014.
Newspapers will be eclipsed by UK mobile ad spend for the first time, according to eMarketer. Mobile ad spend is forecast to increase from £1.9bn last year to £2.3bn in 2014.
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Phone hacking: Wall Street Journal wins ruling on reporting restrictions
The Wall Street Journal has won a ruling allowing it to fully report on the Rebekah Brooks phone-hacking trial, without having to sign an undertaking that it will abide by reporting restrictions imposed by the judge. This ruling raises the prospect of the New York-based financial newspaper, owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp, reporting differently in the US and Asia in its print editions to its European edition, available in the UK, and the subsequent risk of this being picked up by the internet
The Sun links up with O2 to offer Premier League clips with 4G deals. The Sun has struck a deal with mobile operator O2 to offer its 4G customers content including Premier League football goal clips, a groundbreaking move that could transform its Sun+ digital subscription offering. Tapping in to the marketing clout of O2, the UK's second largest mobile network with 23 million customers, with Sun+ offered as a mobile package could significantly boost subscriber takeup of the £2-a-week Sun+ digital service.
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'Three-fifths of Twitter's UK users follow a newspaper or journalist'
Guardian and Times top list as research finds those following press accounts are twice as likely to tweet as those who don't
Nearly three-fifths of Twitter's 15 million UK users follow at least one national newspaper brand or journalist and are twice as likely to tweet as those who don't, according to new research. The study, NewsOnTheTweet, has been carried out by the marketing body for national newspapers, Newsworks, in an effort to demonstrate how the social media site is benefiting national newspapers.
Some 59% of Twitter users follow at least one UK national newspaper brand or national newspaper journalist, it said. The majority of these (35%) follow a main newspaper brand on Twitter, such as the Daily Telegraph or the Times, while 17% follow a newspaper sub-brand, such as the Sun's motoring Twitter account, Sunmotorsport. Just under half (49%) follow at least one national newspaper journalist.
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Karisma Kidz app aims to give kids emotional tools to deal with stress
‘People say ‘just talk to your children, you don’t need an app to do it’, but not everyone does, and not everyone can’
If you watch British TV show Dragon’s Den, you may have already seenKarisma Kidz and its founder Erika Brodnock being given sharp words – and no funding – by the assembled dragons. The show aired on 23 February, but was actually filmed last May. Since then, a lot has changed for the startup, which aims to teach children social and emotional skills through a mix of physical toys and digital games.
Karisma Kidz was accepted onto telecoms firm Telefonica’s Wayra startup accelerator scheme in the UK last year, for example, while securing one deal to put its products into the shop of Telefonica subsidiary O2, and another to preload its first app on 1.8m children’s tablets made by Kurio.
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Nokia sees closure of Microsoft deal delayed to April
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/nokia/10718444/Nokia-sees-closure-of-Microsoft-deal-delayed-to-April.html Microsoft until April, as talks with Asian regulators drag on.
Analysts said the delay meant Nokia, which had expected to close the deal by the end of March, might have to make concessions over the license fees it will charge on patents that will remain with the Finnish firm after the deal is closed.
I believe that david is comparing both the internet and newspaperss together and discussing and telling us how th internet is free as we are able to get the news through various free websites. however some people still have a habbit of reading the actual 'newspaper' everyday which we know wouldnt get old as newspapers have been out over dozens of years now. It also shows that radical revisiting of the dynamic between newspapering and the Internet, there will be little cohesive, professional, first-generation journalism at the state and local level, as your national newspapers continue to retrench and regional papers are destroyed outright.
Section 2
I believe it shows that time is the enemy, however, and the wariness and caution with which the Times and The Post approach the issue reveal not only how slow industry leaders have been to accurately assess the realities, but how vulnerable one national newspaper is to the other. Should the Times go behind a pay curtain while the Post remains free, or vice versa. I believe that from this article it shows that web sites have combined to batter paid print circulation figures, more people are reading the product of America’s newspapers than ever before. Certainly more of them are reading the Times (nearly 20 million average unique visitors monthly) and the Post (more than 10 million monthly unique visitors)
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Section 3 shows 10 percent of the existing 210,000Baltimore Sun readers, for example, who pay a subscription rate less than half the price of home delivery, or roughly $10, would represent about $2.5 million a year. Absent the cost of trucks, gas, paper, and presses, money like that represents the beginnings of a solid revenue stream.
Section 4
Section 4 shows there is a risk going behind the paywall without local readers getting free national, international, and cultural reporting from the national papers, and having seen that the paid-content formula can work, most metro dailies will follow suit. As they do, they re-emphasize that which makes them unique: local coverage, local culture, local voices—coupled with wire-service offerings from the national papers otherwise available only through paid sites.
1) Disagree
I will never pay for “news” again. Most news is not truly news - it is sensationalism, hype and deception. Most news is not balanced - every editor is biased. And it is not just that - I truly can not afford to pay for news. Academics, especially with tenure, got it made in the shade and may be able to afford to follow the “news” as they are funded and it does not come out of their pockets. The question comes down to this - do we want an informed public or not. The answer, at least right now, is no. If the public were truly properly informed the American people would not allow Wall Street to gut Main Street, would not believe the lies of “the terrorists are going to destroy our way of life” and would understand that it really makes no difference - except in perception - of who holds the title of chief cheerleader - oops I mean Commander in Chief, President, which should be renamed CEO of America Incorporated.
#9 Posted by Lawrence Turner on Fri 17 Jul 2009 at 11:55 AM
2) Agree
Fascinating. What about the big gateway sites, like Yahoo and MSN? I bet a lot of people mostly read their news on Yahoo's home page. Yahoo pays the AP,right? Is there some kind of wholesale deal possible there?
Because people DO pay for the internet. They pay their DSL or their broadband provider, they pay their cell phone bill, they pay for hardware.
I agree that no one in mass media was ready for the fact that the internet broke the advertising business model. I agree that content is valuable, but if its cost was hidden in the advertising revenue stream for so long, is there another place in the online environment that can shoulder that cost, in addition to subscriptions?
#12 Posted by Rob on Fri 17 Jul 2009 at 03:19 PM
3) Agree
If news were not free, there would be enough people willing to pay for it to cover the cost of producing it. But suppose the New York Times suddenly started charging for online access; althought it is a great newspaper, I probably wouldn't pay for it. There are just too many free alternatives that are almost as good. Even if (for example) no other online news source were as good as the Times, the remaining news sources will collectively fill the gap.
The economic parlance, you have goods which are near perfect substitutes. If I can't read Paul Krugman's column, I can go read some other noble prize winning economist's latest available(and accessible) column. Likewise, if I can't read Thomas Freidman, I can get the same kind of hype from a used car lot advertisement.
So I think, maybe, a number of major papers would have to work in concert to significantly degrade the free online news world. In other words - again in economic parlance - they might have to collude.
The news industry needs something like OPEC.
#13 Posted by Raskalnikov on Fri 17 Jul 2009 at 10:22 PM
Finally, what is your own opinion? Do you agree that newspapers need to put online content behind a paywall in order for the journalism industry to survive? Would you be willing to pay for news online? Critical autonomy is the key skill in A2 Media - you need to be able form opinions on these issues. My opinion is that i wont be willing to pay for the news online because people still read the newspapers and newspapers that are regional get sold by millions each day which show that the industry is making some money out of it however people who use the the internet already want there news to be free on it due to the main fact that they already pay for the internet already and paying for the news online will cause even more problems therefore some people may even stop buying newspapers cause of that.
Do you agree with its view that it is ‘a cause for concern, but not for panic’?
From the article I have read I believe that I
partly disagree with this view of the 'newspapers have been murdered' however I
agree that it is a cause of concern rather than a panic. This is because
newspapers have not yet started to shut down the large numbers yet that it’s
going to make people panic however it would be a cause of concern because
people that read the newspapers will be wondering where they get there news
from. Therefore it leads to a cause of concern because if it does shut down
jobs will start disappearing as in the article it has already stated
that 'jobs are already disappearing. This is because if recession
hits people will not be buying newspapers therefore lead the organisation in
not making money and this will cause people losing their jobs. In this case I do believe it would be panic because people won’t have a job to earn money
which will create panic. As panic occurs when a condition occurs; Of all the “old” media, newspapers have the most to lose from
the internet. Circulation has been falling in America, Western Europe, Latin
America, Australia and New Zealand for decades (elsewhere, sales are rising).
But in the past few years the web has hastened the decline. In his book “The
Vanishing Newspaper” This saying will be a cause of concern as the people who
do get there news from the media will lose their main source of getting there
news as most people who do read the newspapers appear to be there daily thing
which they read in then morning. Also I believe newspapers are at least doing something inn order to cut costs as they are already spending less on journalism. Many are also trying to attract younger readers by shifting the mix of their stories towards entertainment, lifestyle and subjects. This could be a cause of concern to other readers as most the newspapers will be aiming at younger readers. However in addition i do believe that if newspapers were vanishing it will not be a big cause of concern as there are still many other resources people get there news from such as the e-media such as twitter or the news channels which have online websites and people have access to them for free which shows that there wont be to much concern of the news papers 'vanishing'
Tuesday, 21 January 2014
Phone hacking: Wall Street Journal wins ruling on reporting restrictions
US-based newspaper will be able to report fully report on the trial of Rebekah Brooks and others without signing written agreement
Phone-hacking trial: the Wall Street Journal has won a ruling on reporting restrictions in the case of Rebekah Brooks and others. Photograph: Leon Neal/AFP/Getty Images
The Wall Street Journal has won a ruling allowing it to fully report on the Rebekah Brooks phone-hacking trial, without having to sign an undertaking that it will abide by reporting restrictions imposed by the judge.
This ruling raises the prospect of the New York-based financial newspaper, owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp, reporting differently in the US and Asia in its print editions to its European edition, available in the UK, and the subsequent risk of this being picked up by the internet
Google has never revealed how much money YouTube makes since buying the online video service for $1.65bn in 2006. That doesn't stop analysts and research firms taking guesses. The latest is eMarketer, which has published its first estimates for YouTube's advertising revenues today. The company predicts that YouTube's gross ad revenues will rise 51.4% to $5.6bn in 2013, accounting for 11.1% of Google's total. Once YouTube has paid ad partners and video creators their share, its net ad revenues are still expected to reach $1.96bn this year, up 65.5% compared to 2012's $1.18bn.
Google has never revealed how much money YouTube makes since buying the online video service for $1.65bn in 2006. That doesn't stop analysts and research firms taking guesses. The latest is eMarketer, which has published its first estimates for YouTube's advertising revenues today. The company predicts that YouTube's gross ad revenues will rise 51.4% to $5.6bn in 2013, accounting for 11.1% of Google's total. Once YouTube has paid ad partners and video creators their share, its net ad revenues are still expected to reach $1.96bn this year, up 65.5% compared to 2012's $1.18bn.
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