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“TimesReader”: Microsofts digital newspaper proposition?
The hype On Friday afternoon at the closing session of the American Society of Newspaper Editors (ASNE) conference Bill Gates unveiled a “new” piece of software intruducing the software by saying: Today we have two worlds that are limiting in their own way, … They are print and the Web. The Web surprisingly is not […]
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Grand Challenges – The Changing Landscape of Online Delivery
I finally took the time to read through the short article from BBC Research (approx. 10 pages in large print). It is not only interesting from its technical content and conclusions but even more by the underlying economical assumptioms and observations. They show, that at least some media companies are looking for a cooperation with […]
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Microsoft “Codename Max” News
News agencies and newspapers often bear a grudge against news aggregators like Google News, looking at them as vampires that suck the blood out of a content providers RSS feeds and websites. One could tke a different point of view and argue that instead aggregators are sites that are traffic generators that increase the views […]