Robert Andrews
Oct 3, 2008 8:00 AM
At this week’s Association of Online Publishers conference in London, celebrated US interactive thinker Clay Shirky, who teaches new media at New York University and has written Here Comes Everybody, had words of wisdom for any media execs hoping to launch collaborative spaces…
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Robert Andrews
Oct 1, 2008 2:24 PM
Troubled ITV (LSE: ITV) will launch a new mobile site for its Friends Reunited network in the next few months - and plans to use football to popularise the medium. ITV mobile head Melissa Goodwin told a mobile content session at the Association of Online Publishers conference in London on…
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Robert Andrews
Oct 1, 2008 10:22 AM
Wired’s resurrection in the UK and Italy will also come with more new sites offered in several new languages. International president Stefano Maruzzi said the new operation, which was announced in June and will debut early next year, will also add Chinese, French and more, each produced in London. “We’re…
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Robert Andrews
Oct 1, 2008 6:24 AM
With the economy turning down and digital media investments supposedly drying up, one question occupying publishing execs’ minds has perhaps rarely been more pertinent - build or buy? In a panel on M&A strategies at today’s Association of Online Publishers conference in London, moderator and Index Ventures partner Saul Klein…
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Robert Andrews
Oct 1, 2008 4:26 AM
It’s not as if no-one anticipated what might occupy Sly Bailey’s keynote to the Association of Online Publishers conference in London this morning - the Trinity Mirror (LSE: TNI) CEO has been a vocal opponent of BBC Local’s online video plans and has tried valiantly to find the positives when…
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Robert Andrews
Sep 17, 2008 3:44 AM
—AOP: Association of Online Publishers director Ruth Brownlee will leave to concentrate on caring for her children, just nine months after starting the job in January, Guardian.co.uk reports. Brownlee played commercial roles at Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO), C4 and Handbag.com but said the part-time AOP job needs to be full-time -…
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