Have you ever wondered how video content created exclusively for the web stacks up against broadcast TV content online? In an interview with Beet.TV, Stokes Young, Executive Producer of MSNBC.com, provides some interesting insight.
Launch a social media campaign that will build your brand and deliver results in our online Social Media Marketing Boot Camp starting June 7. Speakers include Abigail Cusick (Bravo Digital), Gregory Galant (Sawhorse Media), Alex Leo (Thomson Reuters Digital), Jim Tobin (Ignite Social Media), and many more. Read the reviews. 
CNN iReport, CNN’s global participatory news community, announced earlier this week that they have surpassed one million registered contributors.
The Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism issued the results of a study on how people use tablets. It focuses on the main activities performed daily on tablets. Some of the findings are slighlty but not entirely surprising. Hint: Social is not number one or two.
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AOL and the recently acquired 5min Media have launched a brand new service called the Editors Room, geared towards helping online news editors find the perfect video to fit with their breaking stories. It’s often hard to find good, relevant and timely video content to spruce up a news story and the AOL Editors Room aims to solve this problem.
Android users in the United Kingdom will be happy to learn that The Guardian has released the Android version of their smartphone app after the iOS version was released earlier. The app provides access to all of the news from guardian.co.uk and provides users the ability to customize the app’s home screen as well as download content for offline reading.
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What is the future of news? The Shorenstein Center at Harvard University wants to see how aspiring journalists, filmmakers and avid media consumers answer this question and so they’ve launched a video contest to find out.
Originally created for the iPad and iPhone, SkyGrid became available for Android phones back in May. Today a version of SkyGrid was released specifically for Android “Honeycomb” tablets. If you have a tablet that runs Android 3.x, and like to keep up with the news, you might want to consider this free app.
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According to the Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, China has become the first country to reach a mark of 900 million cell phone users. In April alone, the country added about 11 million mobile phone users, bringing the country’s mobile phone user base to 900.3 million.
China has shown steady growth in the mobile phone adoption over the past couple of years. In April 2009, China had around 679 million mobile phone users which increased to 787 million in April 2010.
If you are not fan of the official BBC News Android App, you might want to check out Jim Blacker’s version that focuses on retrieving the latest news content and providing it very efficiently, rather than including a lot of graphical elements that slow down the process of reading the news. The app retrieves content from the BBC’s web site and presents it in a format readable on smartphones. Users also have the ability to share links to the news articles with their friends via social networking sites.
Over the last few years, the lexicon of social media has implanted itself in everyday life, invading dictionaries of the Oxford-English caliber, popping up in politics, and making serious people sound simply silly. From tweets and pokes to widgets and wikis, the social media landscape that has developed terms and phrases like photobombing and crowdsourcing has created yet another gem: planking. Read more
