Remember CueCat? Somewhere, I’m sure I still have one of those little proprietary bar code scanners that got mailed out to millions of people in the hope that we would all use them to follow bar-coded links in printed products to online resources and offers. I loved CueCat, partly because it was a bold, even [...]
The trend toward Web 3.0-style integration is real enough, and that stands to fundamentally change the relationship our readers and viewers have with our sites.
I love getting news on my iPhone, and when I get to play on a friend’s iPad it’s even better. I have no doubt that mobile platforms, from smartphones to tablets, will emerge as significant avenues for online news readership. But I’m skeptical about the short-term revenue potential in mobile for newspapers, and I’m not terribly sanguine about mobile advertising doing much to support journalism in the long-term, either.