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2010, 02

Kaiser Kuo features on CCTVs Up Close and Personal!

Kaiser Kuo – one of the world’s most followed commentators on digital media and music in China, and an International Mentor at Sounds Digital – was featured on CCTV’s leading interview programme “Up Close and Personal” on 21st February 2010. A genuine ‘rock star’ in China, Kaiser is an internationally acclaimed commentator  on all things digital in China, and is an International Consultant...

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Video Interview with Marc Frons (NY Times) with Stephen Hutcheon Now Online (Media 2010)

Check out Marc Frons (CTO, Digital, New York Times) interview with Fairfax Digital's Stephen Hutcheon about Print to Digital here'

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Moeed Ahmad - Head of New Media, Al Jazeera, Creative Commons Seminar Now Online (Media 2010)

If you missed Moeed Ahmads, Head of New Media, Al Jazeera, seminar - News to the People: Al Jazeera's Creative Commons Repository - you can watch it now online! Thanks to PANPA for sharing! PART ONE    PART TWO '

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Video Interview with Adrian Holovaty - Founder of Everyblock and Co-Founder of Django (Media 2010)

Adrian Holovaty shares his insights with XMediaLab partners Fairfax Digital for Media 2010 You can check out his interview with Stephen Hutcheon about hyperlocal sites here

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Video Interview with Marc Frons (NY Times), Nic Fulton (Reuters) and Oliver Reichenstein (iA) Now On

PANPA (Pacific Asia Newspaper Publishers Association) have published interviews with Marc Frons (CTO, Digital, New York Times), Nic Fulton (Chief Scientist, Thomson Reuters) and Oliver Reichenstein (CEO/Founder, interactive Architects) from READ MORE

Media 2010 - Read the Blogs!

Respected tech journalist Brad Howarth live-blogged Media 2010. Brad blogs at Lagrangepoint and www.afasterfuture.com – a companion website to his and Janelle Ledgwidge’s forthcoming book A Faster Future. His super sharp insights and summaries of each of the presentations can be found below! READ MORE

What is Hulu?...and if it is so great why isnt it in Australia? - Simon Gallagher (media 2010)

What is HULU? Consumers respond to seamless aggregation What’s special about HULU: Quality, Ease of Use. Why does it exist? JV between CNBC, FOX and Universal to help their parent companies deal with changes in the media landscape. Currently using 200+ partners. All professionally produced content. How does it work? Current shows are available after the last US broadcasts for the next Balances needs of users and advertisers Ad Format innovation: 1) Choose to watch an ad from the start 2)...

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Wheres the Value Now? - Richard Titus, CEO, Associated Northcliffe Digital (London) (Media 2010)

Richard Titus starts today’s talks without talking about content, instead focusing on delivery mechanisms. Today’s media is about delivering info and services which give value that delight customers and not just delivering content. Looking at “3 screens” is not the right approach. We need to find a new way of looking at Media. So what’s common/different between Mobile and Fixed content delivery mechanisms.. There’s a huge device diaspora. Another trend:...

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The Future of Display Advertising - How do Premium Publishers and Ad Networks Co-exist and Thrive? -

The key idea here: 1) Audiences trust niche sites as much as large sites. 2) Use these niche sites and build specific relationships with them. 3) Try not to use ad networks who don’t maximize value

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Three Big Media Ideas - Adrian Holovaty (Media 2010)

This is admittedly (by Adrian himself) a very big title, for news companies. These are ideas that news companies aren’t looking at yet. Adrian agrees with Marc Frons and Jack Matthews in the sense, that its all about journalism. His ideas all seem to stem from his background in news: taking raw data and unsorted information and making it into something people understand and read (useful info). Adrian starts by mentioning the inspiration for his own company: Everyblock....

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Keep Spreading the News - Marc Frons, CTO, Digital, New York Times (New York) (Media 2010)

Will focus on NYTimes.com in this talk. This was basically a story about the New York Times’ own journey into finding a revenue model. It isn’t clear how this will work out in future and today we have a quick snapshot into the thinking at the NYTimes and how they wish to address their revenue model confusion. Gave a summary of the history of NYTimes.com, talks about how the nytimes is the most cited and...

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Media 2010: Welcome by Jack Matthews - CEO, Fairfax Digital (Media 2010)

Jack Matthews talks about Media 2010 in context, that media has gone through a difficult time and needed to ‘find its way out of the crevice’ in 2009. However, the risk today is to think that “everything is going back to normal” “We are facing the biggest change since guttenberg made the printing press” Media is facing a “singularity” : We cannot see the future, and everything is about to change. He talks about The...

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And Now for the News - Nic Fulton, Chief Innovator and Scientist, Thomson Reuters (New York, Sydney)

Nic Fulton is a self-confessed nerd who loves gadgets and this is a talk about the past and the future. (He doesn’t quite seem to live in the present) Nic began with a recap of how the growth and origins of communication technology, mentioning the guttenberg press for the second time today, but placing it in the context of a continuum of media inventions. Next he talks about the tinkering (read experiments) he does with Thompson Reuters and...

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Designing News: Theory and Practice - Oliver Reichenstein, CEO, information Architects (Tokyo) (Medi

Oliver Reichenstein designs the news.  He wants to be in touch and bridge a perspective between academics and social media His claim to fame: “he likes to push buttons” From his blog and his publications and really really good design work and understanding of design. informationarchitects.jp/the-interface-of-a-cheeseburger/ http://informationarchitects.jp/100e2r/ (The 100% Easy-2-Read Standard) Web Train Map Success in IA’s website redesign depends on...

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Stifling the Sacred Cows of Marketing - Tim Harris and Saneel Radia Denuo(Media 2010)

Sacred Cows to be debunked. A confession of sorts. (Deuno is a small creative shop in Chicago) “The future doesn’t fit the boxes of the present. 1) Idea Buffets rarely maximize creativity Neither does the Omakase approach (Chef’s choice) Its about the idea process: Ad agencies are good at divergent ideation. But not good enough alone, convergent ideation is required. 2) Ad campaigns Ad campaigns are only one way of doing it. Its a finite campaign. Its...

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