19 posts and columns on articles

Voices

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

in Commerce on September 13, 2011 at 12:00 am PT

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

Rupert Murdoch Introduces the Daily, His iPad Newspaper

in Media on February 2, 2011 at 7:40 am PT

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?

in Media on January 27, 2011 at 4:24 am PT

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.

in Media on January 26, 2011 at 6:15 am PT

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.

in Social on January 18, 2011 at 11:12 am PT

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)

in Social on January 14, 2011 at 10:04 am PT

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

in Social on January 13, 2011 at 8:00 am PT

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

in Media on January 10, 2011 at 3:31 pm PT

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)

in Social on December 2, 2010 at 9:22 am PT

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

in Mossberg’s Mailbox on November 3, 2010 at 4:09 pm PT

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

Starbucks Now Serving Special Blend of Digital Content

Honey, I Shrunk the E-Book: Amazon Slicing "Singles" for Kindle [UPDATED]

in Media, October 12, 2010 at 6:50 am PT

Creating a Magazine Over a Weekend

in News, May 10, 2010 at 9:30 am PT

Rise of the Machines: Why Demand Media Is Worth More Than the New York Times

in Media, October 20, 2009 at 3:00 am PT

SB Nation Launches Real-Time Updates

in News, September 10, 2009 at 7:08 am PT

Google Launches Service Experiments

in News, April 21, 2009 at 5:01 am PT

Shortcovers, Iceberg Put Latest e-Books On Your Cellphone

in Personal Technology, January 14, 2009 at 6:04 pm PT