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• 11.09.07
  Mobile publishing: A glimpse of the future with Asahi Shimbun Conferences, Ireland, Mobile Web, Travel | Comments Off

  I always look forward to the presentations by our Japanese media colleagues about their mobile phone strategies. They are the undisputed world leaders in this field. When many places on the planet weren't even using cellphones for SMSing/texting, these guys had mastered delivering content on mobile phones and were making a solid business from it. Japan's Asahi Shimbun is one of the world leaders when it comes to mobile content. The newspaper has a massive circulation of around 16-million readers (8-mill for morning edition, 4-mill for the evening edition). In fact as these outrageously large figures were presented by Asahi's ...
• 11.08.07
  SecondLife, another graphic World Wide Web? Conferences, Ireland, web 2.0 | Comments Off

  At the beginning of this year I blogged about the amazing work that Adam Pasick was doing with Reuters in Second Life, the virtual 3D world. Now, here in Dublin at the IFRA conference, we were presented with another fascinating story of media doing business in SecondLife. Rowan Barnett, Editor-in-Chief of Avastar, a virtual newspaper in SecondLife, is one of the people behind this successful virtual newspaper which aims to "give the residents of Second Life a voice". If you think about it, virtual worlds like SecondLife are becoming graphic alternatives to the world wide web and here may lie the basis ...
• 11.06.07
  Blogging from Ireland about Beyond the Printed Word Conferences, Ireland, Presentations, online media business | (3)

  I'll be in Dublin for this week, where I am presenting at IFRA's online media conference Beyond the Printed Word on the "Integration of Web 2.0 services into news sites". You can check out the official conference blog. I'll also be furiously :-) blogging the conference on this here blog too. I'll be presenting on some of the new online products we have launched in the Web 2.0 sphere recently. I still wince every time I use the word Web 2.0, but regardless of its origins it is a useful term that captures a new spirit and culture of doing things ...