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Google Acquires Teracent: Wants to Offer Smarter Display Ads on 2009-11-23
- this is basically "multi-variate testing for your banner ads."
David Sedaris’s Latest Audiobook to Be Released on Vinyl - NYTimes.com on 2009-11-23
Google to Caption YouTube Videos - NYTimes.com on 2009-11-20
- Google also introduced a related service to give anyone who uploads a video to YouTube the option of uploading as well a text file of the words spoken in the video. Google will turn the text file into captions, automatically matching the spoken words with the files.
- the captions will make it easier for anyone to search text inside videos and find specific snippets within a video
Choosing the Small Screen of a Smartphone for E-Reading - NYTimes.com on 2009-11-18
- Does the future of book reading lie in dedicated devices like the Kindle, or in more versatile gadgets like mobile phones?
- People once scoffed at the idea of reading a book on a 3.5-inch mobile screen. For many readers, though, sheer convenience trumps everything else.
Best Publisher Feeds - Twitter @GalleyCat on 2009-11-13
How to Tweet Like Tim Ferriss | Triple Pundit: People, Planet, Profit on 2009-11-12
When It Comes To In-App Purchases On The iPhone, Games, Social Networking, And Books Rule on 2009-11-10
The Immortal Book Tour: Rebecca Skloot on 2009-11-09
- The people at Crown, my publishing house, said, “We don’t really do book tours anymore,” and “They’re just not the best investment of publicity funds.” My agent agreed. They explained cost-benefit ratios and said their money was better spent on banner ads, buzz campaigns, and bookstore placement. Instead of talking about a tour bus covered with cells, they talked of blogs and satellite radio tours, of Twittering and Facebooking to interact with readers.
- I don’t believe all tours are dead, just the old-fashioned kind, where publishers organize events and writers simply show up hoping for a room full of people. I agree that social networking and online campaigns are the most important tools in book publicity. But I don’t see book tours and the online world as separate entities. Rather than replacing tours, I believe the new virtual world of book publicity can help keep them alive.
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- - I’m not suggesting that posting a request for help on Facebook will miraculously result in a successful book tour. Far from it. A plan like this requires an established social network, something writers should start developing years before publishing a book. It also helps to have a book that fits well with the general public and academia, which mine does: there’s science, ethics, race, history. But more than anything, it requires an active network, online and off, and a willingness to do anything necessary to promote your book.
A peek at the future of interactive storytelling? | EverydayUX: Everyday User Experience by alex rainert on 2009-11-09
- I was completely blown away by this video the first time through. Such a simple, low-tech, solution produces such an amazingly rich, engaging experience that’s just bursting with possibility for further creativity.
- While it’s just a concept at this point, you can see how it can make a new kind of storytelling available to the masses in a way that wouldn’t have seemed possible not that long ago.
Twitter lists and real-time journalism - CNN.com on 2009-11-06
- The Twitter community is abuzz this week about the site's new "Lists" feature, which allows users to create collections of interesting people to follow on the micro-messaging service.
- Twitter has provided its members with the tools required to splice a torrent of updates into a series of relevant, topic-based streams.
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- - the social networking startup may have hit upon the long-overdue cure to information overload and birthed a new breed of editor: the real-time Web curator
  - Next up: collate dozens of these experts into a topic-based list, and -- voila! -- your hand-picked editorial team extracts the signal from a wall of noise.