The tenth anniversary of September 11 is approaching and to pay tribute to pay tribute to those affected by the tragedy around the world, the New York Times and YouTube have launched a September 11 YouTube channel featuring special content from the New York Times, archived broadcasts from September 2001, and personal stories and tributes, and they want you to share your 9/11 story.
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Shortly after the iPad became available last year Flipboard introduced a remarkable and free app (also named Flipboard) for the iPad that took links from your own Twitter and Facebook accounts feeds and turned them into a newspaper-like reading experience. Who you chose to follow on Twitter and friend on Facebook determined the topics and kind of information you saw in the app. In efffect, you were, to use a popular buzzword of the last few years, your own curator of news.
The well-funded The Daily too a more traditional newspaper/magazine approach to news curation: They decided on the content. However, they to did something interesting. Its subscription fee choices are a very reasonable 99 cents per week or $39.99 for a year.
So, what if you took an approach somewhere in between Flipboard and They Daily? I think we just found out reading the description of the New York Times’ soon-to-debut iPad app News.me.
News.Me, Social News Service, Debuts for iPad (New York Times – Bits)
News.me looks through Twitter for news too. The twist is that the NYTimes partnered with the creators of the URL shortener and tracker bit.ly to find links that are being widely circulated. News.me is also licensing content from popular free blogs and news sources like AP, Fast Company, Forbes, GigaOm, and Mashable to provide rich content for their app. Of course, you could subscribe to the RSS feeds of most if not all of their sources and use Flipboard or one of the other RSS re-display apps to create a personalized newspaper.
Like The Daily, News.me’s weekly subscription fee will be 99 cents. However, its annual subscription price will be slightly lower at $34.99. If you are curious about the service but do not have an iPad or do not want to pay for a subscription, News.me has what appears to be a free email service that creates a daily digest of news from links of the people you follow on Twitter. You can learn more about this option at:
With the advent of Internet advertising options like Groupon, Foursquare, LivingSocial.com and even Craigslist, the traditional revenue system no longer works. Since newspapers are experiencing the competitive crunch, decisions like getting involved with social shopping seems natural.
The NY Times has brought the newspaper business to yet another new low. And this one is ugly.
Ongo, a new subscription based news service backed by the Washington Post, Gannett, and the New York Times, is betting that users will pay $6.99 a month for ad free online news.
Founder Alex Kazim, an eBay alum, received $12 million in funding from the three publishing giants back in September.
Ongo, which promises a “fundamentally new way” of reading news, aggregates news from multiple sources, and includes full content from the Washington Post, and Gannett’s USA Today, as well as selected content from the New York Times and the Financial Times.
News aggregation online has been around for a while, but Ongo also maintains an editorial staff to cherrypick and promote important or interesting stories.
“Our smart tools ensure that readers get the news they need while our editorial team spotlights the interesting, informative and entertaining stories that shouldn’t be missed,” said Kazim in a statement.
News from other papers such as the Charlotte Observer, Detroit Free Press, and Kansas City Star must be added a la carte style, starting at 99 cents.
With newspaper subscription revenue on the decline, and a slew of news content available for free online, publishers have been scrambling to come up with a new way to make money. The Financial Times currently restricts online news stories behind a pay wall, and the New York Times is expected to follow suit.
Whether users will subscribe to what amounts to a paid version of Google News remains to be seen, but Ongo is hoping that built-in article sharing incentives, free “day passes,” and free one month trial subscriptions will bring them in the door.
Newspapers are dying. Ironically, it’s all over the news — but that doesn’t mean that you can’t get a healthy dose of journalism anymore. Blogging and other forms of social media have replaced the hard copy newspapers we all used to pay for, but in many cases, these new media sources teach us more about what makes for quality content. Tweets aren’t just replacing newspapers, they’re making us better at reading the news. Read more
Back in June I wrote about the New York Times launching their TimesPeople service in beta. The purpose is to add a social layer across their website and let users track what their friends are reading on the New York Times website. As I wrote the first time around, the one lacking feature is that the only news you are aware of using the feature, is articles that are already on the New York Times website.
One interesting thing that came with today’s news is that Venturebeat, GigaOm and Read/Write/Web will all have syndication deals with the New York Times. This emphasizes how blogs are playing an increasing role in traditional media. It sounds like the New York Times will continue rolling out new features to the TimesPeople feature depending on the popularity of it.
The company continues to be at the forefront of emerging online media strategy. I’m slightly critical of this new feature since it only works within the New York Times but at least this is one step forward. It will be interesting to see what type of response they get from their users.
The New York Times is rolling out a new site feature called TimesPeople. NYT aims to make TimesPeople as a social network for Times readers. But before you think that TimesPeople will soon battle it out with top social network sites such as Facebook or MySpace, actually TimesPeople will not. Read more
