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An Article of Faith for Marketers: Place No Faith in Articles

This is an article about articles. They’re going AWOL.

Rupert Murdoch Introduces the Daily, His iPad Newspaper

News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch, along with Apple’s Eddy Cue, rented out the Guggenheim Museum to show off their newest creation: A newspaper built for the iPad.

"Final Jeopardy" Question: Would You Buy an E-Book Without an Ending?

Stephen Baker has a great tale to tell you. But if you buy his new e-book–about an IBM computer facing off against “Jeopardy”’s smartest players–you won’t get the whole story. Yet.

News Byte

Marlo Thomas, Meet Heidi Klum! She's Your New AOL Co-Worker.

Last year, Tim Armstrong got Marlo Thomas to pitch in on his AOL turnaround effort. Now he’s tapping a woman whose TV credentials are more recent: “Project Runway”‘s Heidi Klum. The “multi-hyphenate superstar,” along with Full Picture Entertainment, which makes “Project Runway” for the Lifetime cable network, are supposed to make “engaging video content, inspiring articles, addictive blogs [and] instructional photo galleries.”

Don't Want to Sign In to Yahoo? That's Okay, Use Your Facebook or Google ID.

Yahoo this week will begin allowing users to participate on its properties without signing in to a Yahoo account. It’s a significant move for the company, which had for a long time incessantly popped up login screens whenever visitors tried to do seemingly anything on the site.

Happy 10th Birthday, Wikipedia! What's Next? (Video)

Wikipedia now seems like an enduring institution on the Web, but the site was only founded 10 years ago, tomorrow. In this video interview, Wikipedia Executive Director Sue Gardner tells us how far the site has come, and what’s next.

Topsy Hands Out Real-Time Search Widgets

Real-time search engine Topsy today is launching customizable widgets for publishers to display topical tweets.

Condé Nast Takes Another Crack at the iPad, With a Single-Serving App

Okay. So iPad magazine apps aren’t going to magically solve the publishing industry’s problems, after all. But that doesn’t mean publishers can’t find ways to take advantage of tablets. Maybe one-off issues, like Condé Nast Traveler’s “Best of Italy,” will work.

Flipboard Partners With Web Publishers for Full Content (and Full Disclosure: Including ATD)

Yesterday, I wrote about Pulse, a news-reading app with innovative design, going social by integrating Facebook. Now Flipboard, a social news-reading app based around Twitter and Facebook, is adding publisher feeds. (Full disclosure: Including from All Things Digital.) One thing’s clear: There’s a lot of excitement and energy going into how the iPad can re-create content consumption.

Saving Web Articles

Walt answers readers’ questions on saving Web articles, virus concerns and Wi-Fi-free Internet connections.