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06.19.08

NY Times goes social, slighly endorses Firefox over IE Web2.0, new media | (0)
The New York Times has added a social feature to its site called TimesPeople (beta). While not a full-fledged social network, the new feature allows people to create a profile, add friends and share articles. Its most clever ability is its interaction with social-networking behemoth Facebook. Users can connect it with an NYT Facebook application and when articles are tagged, they show up in their FB newsfeed. As the engineer in the video puts it, "this let's people who normally wouldn't be reading the New York Times see and read articles that they might find interesting." Again the NYT does it right. ...

Tagged: new media, social networking, Web2.0
06.16.08

Twittering your way into a new job Web2.0, journalism, twitter, video | (0)
From the LA Times, this guy Twitter'ed his layoff from Yahoo! and it ended up landing him a new job. Sweet! The embed code on the video wouldn't work properly so I had to just do it as a link. Still, it's an interesting story.

Tagged: twitter, video, Web2.0
05.01.08

Today is RSS awareness day Web2.0, new media, technology | (0)
You know the geek demographic is taking over when they are starting to make holidays out of Web technologies. I for one welcome our new geeky overlords and look forward to toiling away in their underground server rooms. But I digress. According to Daniel Scocco over at Daily Blog Tips today is indeed RSS Awareness Day. So if you or your newsroom are totally clueless about this RSS thing, what better day than today to hold a quick boot camp or primer on one of the most useful and simple Web technologies available. Don't feel like explaining it all, just send this ...

Tagged: new media, online journalism, Web2.0