If a blog without comments is a website, is an event without tweets a non-event?
I have struggled to ‘get’ Twitter for a while, it seemed somewhat distracting and insubstantial — but looking at Election 2008 I think I finally understand it. If this type of application gets widespread support events, conferences and presentations will never be the same again. It has to be a pollster’s delight (well assuming you’re not skewing the tweets).
Loads of applications for this type of approach out there that can have serious business impacts and challenge traditional and evolutionary newsgathering techniques. Put it together with in quotes and we have something new and exciting converging here.
CDN’s opening up
So, Amazon has announced its intention to offer a transparently priced content delivery network for clients. A number of commercial services are already being offered though Amazon’s simple storage service, but this will offer a potential for Amazon own brand services, and further monetization of a lot of new services that are putting infrastructure on the s3 model . Looks like a good move that brings competition to the market. A facility for live streaming would also help but there no mention of it in the release.
European professional publishers should outperform the wider media sector
Lehman Brothers said that if the economic outlook continues to deteriorate European professional publishers should outperform the wider media sector — principally because of their lack of exposure to the consumer marketplace and the cost-benefits enjoyed by professional publishers in off-shoring.
This seems borne out by good results posted recently by Wiley for its STM division where profits were up by 15%. The report raised some concerns about the ability of the education market to support the same revenue growth and margin potential seen elsewhere in the professional publishing sector.
Overall the European Media sector received a neutral rating.
Chrome don’t need no polish!
Lots of activity on the Google Chrome front this morning. It looks like a big play for the desktop and perhaps more tellingly the mobile market. One thing that may be confusing is that I think Firefox had a component called Chrome?