The UK’s Press Gazette magazine, a title for journalists, has relaunched its web site in a three column design. From the more colourful home page, drop-down menus lead the user into the various magazine and site sections. It seems clear that the main site is running on a fairly old-fashioned content management system still, while the blogs have shot ahead, with tag clouds, pictures, comments and blog rolls.
The Guardian is planning to launch a food blog, following on from its blogs for the media business, news, technology, arts, games, travel and many others. “Word of Mouth” is being billed in conjunction with the Observer Food Monthly supplement.The test first post is by Guardian blogs developer Peter Corlett.
Pluck, which re-packages social media content for publishers, broadcasters and major brands, is expanding beyond the US and is now on the hunt for a UK MD, according to a highly placed source. Last year the Austin, Texas-based RSS and publisher services company, raised $7 million from Reuters, Austin Ventures and Mayfield and re-focused away from consumer-facing RSS services towards B2B products. Their SiteLife Social Media suite generates user content
The English Premier League will sue YouTube in the US for alleged copyright infringement and claims the site "knowingly misappropriated" its intellectual property by encouraging videos of matches to be viewed on its site. YouTube already faces a $1bn (£501m) lawsuit from Viacom over similar issues. US music publisher Bourne joins the League in the legal action launched in New York. Doe the League "get it"? It sounds like they
James Cridland, head of new media at Virgin Radio, is leaving after six years to work for the BBC, as Head of Future Media & Technology, Audio & Music. "It’s a massive change for me, and a thrill to work with such a great team," he wrote on his blog today. Cridland has spearheaded Virgin's new media strategy and in many respects has enabled the radio station to use new
Steve Bowbrick and Loic le Meur explain how social media will build good brands and kill off the bad ones. Recorded at Internet World London 2007. (And here's what it looked like from the other side).
The Guardian has won its third Webby, for the best newspaper on the web, beating off competition from the New York Times and the Wall St Journal, among others. It was the only UK newspaper publisher to be nominated for any Webby, and it was also nominated outside the newspaper category for best political blog (Comment is free) and best podcasts.
Joost, the online television service from Skype and Kazaa founders Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom, launches today. Current beta testers will now get an unlimited number of invites, after being limited to five till now. A number of leading advertisers including Coca-Cola, Nike, General Motors and Visa will start ad campaigns this month. The latest version is available for download from existing users and those invited to join. While most
Whatever happened to Angel Gambino, she of "MTV 2.0"? Well she's been hired by Bebo to a new position of VP-music. Bebo is interested in rivaling MySpace in the music stakes. Until January this year she was VP commercial, strategy and digital media for Viacom in the UK, where she worked across 11 channels, and was previously controller of business development and emerging platforms at the BBC. Gambino announced the
Over half of Second Life users are watching less TV since becoming memebers of the virtual world, according to a new report. But clearly TV advertisers had better get moving into this new world, because the report from market intelligence house GMI found that just over half (56%) of users think Second Life is a good promotional vehicle. Only 16 percent say they would not be more likely to buy