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Video: Sports Illustrated Shows Off a Google-Ready Digital Magazine
Sports Illustrated hasn’t come to Apple’s iPad yet, but the magazine is already showing off a new version of its future: A digital version designed with Google in mind. This one, which Editor Terry...
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People's iPad App Free to Print Subscribers
Looks like People magazine’s rumored iPad standoff with the photo agencies that supply it with paparazzi shots is over. The publication’s app for Apple’s (AAPL) iPad (iTunes link) debuted early this...
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Red Bull Alert for Facebook Engineers: Mark Zuckerberg Promises Many More...
During his introduction of Facebook’s Places geo-location offering yesterday afternoon, like any good geek on launch day, CEO Mark Zuckerberg was hopping excitedly onstage about the rollout and...
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Site Builder Wetpaint Makes One for Itself Using the Demand Media Playbook
Do we really need another pop-culture site? Sure, says Wetpaint CEO Ben Elowitz. His pitch: We’ll build a better mousetrap–one that covers every flickering detail about the likes of “Glee” and “The...
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Liveblogging the Bing-Facebook Bromance: "Underdog" Search With a Little Help...
BoomTown motored on down to the Microsoft campus in Silicon Valley on a fabulously sunny day to liveblog the latest Bing event. The software giant is updating its search service, announcing deep...
View ArticleOne-Third of the World's Population Online by the End of 2010
This whole Internet thing is really catching on. The number of people online has doubled in the last five years to two billion, and will reach one-third of the world’s population by the end of 2010,...
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Viral Video: "Wrecked"
Okay, this is a freaky Friday video–a trailer for the upcoming movie “Wrecked,” starring Adrien Brody. He wakes up after a car accident at the bottom of a ravine in the deep forest and has no idea how...
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Time Inc. Can't Wait for Google's Tablets
It’s become standard issue for media executives to praise the iPad during public events. Today Time Warner’s Jeff Bewkes added a twist, by taking time to talk up tablets made by people other than...
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Time Inc.'s InStyle Sets Up Shop at StyleFind
Remember when magazines were excited about launching Web sites, not iPad apps? Here’s a reminder of what that was like: Meet StyleFind.com, which is supposed to be live Tuesday morning. It’s a new...
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Apple, Publishers Still Miles Apart on iTunes Subscriptions
Magazine publishers used to salivate over the iPad. Now they’re a lot more reserved. They make hopeful noises about Google’s Android tablets instead. That’s because Apple and the publishing industry...
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Survey: Who Are the 10 Most Interesting People in Tech in 2010?
Last week, Barbara Walters did her annual television show “The 10 Most Fascinating People” of the past year. Among the riveting folks that the veteran ABC interviewer sat down with were the inevitable...
View ArticleTime Inc. Gets the Tablet Magazine Subscriptions It Wants–With HP
Time Inc., which has been unable to come to terms with Apple over subscriptions for digitized magazines, has found a company it can work with: Hewlett-Packard. HP has agreed to let Time Warner’s...
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Microsoft to Add Multitasking, Internet Explorer 9 to Windows Phone Later...
Microsoft announced on Monday plans to fill in some of the key gaps from the initial Windows Phone 7 release with two updates due out this year. The more interesting of the updates is the second one–a...
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Apple Brings Conde Nast Aboard the Subscription Bandwagon, Starting With the...
Apple is winning over the big publishers. Last week, Hearst Corp. said it planned to start selling its magazines using Apple’s new iTunes subscription service. Now rival Conde Nast is actually doing...
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AOL's HuffPost Enters Crowded Online Arena With HuffPost Celebrity Site
The Huffington Post Media Group, AOL’s fast-moving content unit, is launching a celebrity site called HuffPost Celebrity today, as well as another called HuffPost Culture. HuffPost Celebrity, which...
View ArticleTime Inc. Hires Digital Chief
Time Inc. hired former Nokia Corp. executive George Linardos as the new head of digital marketing at the magazine-publishing unit, the company said Tuesday, a move that is likely to affirm the magazine...
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There Are Seven Billion People on Planet Earth Right Now (Try to Keep Up,...
It’s official: Seven billion people are alive in the world at this moment, a high population point of all time. Births are obviously outstripping deaths by a little more than two to one. Here is a...
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Apple, Time Inc. Solve Their Subscription Squabble
Apple and Time Inc. have settled their differences: The giant publisher is now selling subscriptions to its iPad magazines directly from the apps themselves. If that seems like non-news, consider that...
View ArticleYahoo Exec Reses Joins Alibaba Board
Alibaba Group said that top Yahoo exec Jackie Reses had joined its board of directors, taking over a slot most recently held by the company’s former CFO Tim Morse and also previously held by Yahoo...
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People Tries to Boost Subscriptions by Selling a New iPhone App
What’s that? You say you’d like to keep track of famous people on Twitter, but don’t want to use a Twitter app to do that? And you say you’d also like to read lots of articles from People.com on your...
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YESS: Yahoo HR Exec Loses Mayer's Survey Contest, Gangnam Style
The culture-celebrating hijinks continue at Yahoo, it seems. After free food and smartphones and even dressing up as a Yahoo purple banger, CEO Marissa Mayer now has her high-ranking exec dancing for...
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Time Warner Put the "For Sale" Sign on Time Inc. Last Fall
Jeff Bewkes People have been wondering for a long time when Time Warner would sell off Time Inc. And for a long time, whenever anyone asked CEO Jeff Bewkes or senior management about the publishing...
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Toward a More Public Social Network: Facebook Rolls Out Embedded Posts
The world’s premier social network is beginning to learn the value of publicness. Facebook announced on Wednesday that it will roll out embedded posts, giving users the ability to stick their status...
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Facebook Takes on Twitter by Courting Celebrities, Building Twittery Tools
When Channing Tatum wanted to publish the first picture of his new baby in June, he didn’t go to People or Us Magazine. Instead, he posted on his Facebook page. And when Andy Murray won a surprise...
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Time Inc. Limps Toward a Spring Spinout
Sometime next spring, Time Warner will no longer own Time Inc., the world’s largest magazine publisher. The media conglomerate is jettisoning its namesake unit, and will become a company that only...
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