• Dennis licenses trio of e-zines for Scandinavian launch – Brand Republic News – Brand Republic

  Interesting to see Dennis Publishing licencing something available online for other countries – particularly as Scandinavia has a pretty high level of fluent English speakers and decent broadband speeds are the norm.

  tags: TWOTW, magazines, epublishing

• Presstime, a Magazine Devoted to Print, Is Moving to the Web – NYTimes.com

  The headline says it all….

  tags: TWOTW

• Users switch to online classifieds, leave papers in the dust – Ars Technica

  From $20 billiona year to $10 billion in just eight years – that’s classifieds in print in the U.S.

  tags: TWOTW

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• The New New Economy: More Startups, Fewer Giants, Infinite Opportunity

  Nice article by Chris (Long Tail) Anderson – someone who I have a lot of time for, (And who took the time to answer some Long Tail questions for me in the past by email, despite not knowing me from Adam).
  For the record, I think he and Umair Haque are definitely tying up the various bits of evidence pointing towards a different business world for the future…

  tags: TWOTW, startups

• Faster Future: Publishing possibilities now and beyond: It’s not social media if it doesn’t change your business

  Nice post from former colleague Dave which underlines that the networked world and social media can’t be seen as just another broadcast channel

  tags: TWOTW

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• European Parliament Now Within Grasp of the Pirate Party

  What happens when you have a passionate self-formed network which is responding to an external threat.

  tags: TWOTW

• Facebook Applications: The New Magazines? | Michael Leis

  Great post from Michael, showing one of the traditional strengths of magazines and the insights that magazine choice can reveal about people – and that fact it’s being replaced by things like Facebook Apps.
  ‘highly personal content that shapes how people are entering into social discourse with their peers’

  tags: TWOTW, facebook, magazines

• TuneCore, Amazon Set to Unveil On-Demand CD Sales | Epicenter | Wired.com

  This is probably one of the last lifelines left for physical music retailers, and it’s now surprise that instead of capitalising on it, it’s Amazon who end up trying the new idea, and making it easier for musicians and bands.
  Price gets it totally right – it’s about fans decided which format they’d like for their music – which could vary between streaming songs you quite like, downloading something you couldn’t live without, and buying the CD of a band you want to support and use as an artifact.

  tags: TWOTW

• SGN aims for cross-platform social gaming domination » VentureBeat

  I remember reading a lot of mocking comments when a Microsoft exec said, around the time of the Xbox 360 launch, that he could see a time when people played a full game like Halo on a console, but could contribute to their character or their team via their mobile phone and minigames to provide supplies or ammo for example.
  It seemed feasible to me then, and it’s seeming ever more likely now!

  tags: TWOTW, gaming

• OffiSync Brings Google Docs Goodies to MS Office

  Being able to sync Microsoft Office and Google Docs could be incredibly useful for widespread adoption/collaboration

  tags: twotw

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• eSocialWeb Wants You to Share Sites and Services With Friends – louisgray.com

  Social rating and review site concetrating purely on web applications and web sites could be a good idea – certainly application reviews are useful, but are websites implicitly covered in just about every review site? Where else do Digg, Reddit, Yahoo Buzz etc send traffic?

  tags: twotw

• MySpace Is In Real Trouble If These Page View Declines Don’t Reverse

  I’d put a lot of the problems down to long periods with inoovation, and particularly usability improvements. When you’re at the top, you need to keep going, not sit back, especially in such a emerging market and technology

  tags: twotw, socialnetworks, research

• Conservative Party buys Google search terms around MP expenses scandal – Brand Republic News – Brand Republic

  Not sure if this is a bad thing, in that it’s distorting public information – or at least people will find something they might be interested in. To be honest, I’d rather they focus on solving the problems, rather than marketing at the moment

  tags: twotw

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