We’re planning to offer Facebook usernames to make it easier for people to find and connect with you. When your friends, family members or co-workers visit your profile or Pages on Facebook, they will be able to enter your username as part of the URL in their browser. This way people will have an easy-to-remember way to find you. We expect to offer even more ways to use your Facebook username in the future.
Implications: It’s likely that if you choose a vanity URL for your name or brand that your facebook page will appear in a very high if not the top organic search position based on a search.
Another implication is the statement on their blog, “We expect to offer even more ways to use your Facebook username in the future.”
If you use your facebook account as a brand asset, I’d keep the coffee hot for Friday night.
Design is why the graphic communication in a magazine creates a brand. Web design is another channel and an equally important one.
We have continued the innovation in our own digital magazine solutions and will continue to help publishers use the digital edition as a tool.
Our writer Frederic Lardinois raised a very good question when PC Magazine went digital: why is PC Magazine putting time and effort into producing a digital edition of its magazine, instead of just focusing on improving its website? The answer probably comes down to one word: design. The best thing about magazines, to many of us, is their design. Probably the most successful tech magazine of this era is Wired, which is renowned for its design.
The emerging e-reader devices will indeed create a new readership pull on this new and popular medium.
There are some strong opinions on this issue, especially those that enjoy holding their print magazines. There is a time and a place for that experience. There is a time and a place for digital. And, there is value in both.
It took some calendar coordination to find the kid coverage. In the end, the date night with my wife to see this movie was well worth all logistical challenges.
Just playing with color. Not the effect or filter I was going for on this shot but the curves adjustment produced an interesting new image and the chrome feel grew on me.
Some interesting points by MG Siegler. I’m currently “in the market” to switch from Verizon over to the iPhone based on my satisfaction with the iPod Touch. I’ts sad that I’ll leave Verizon. They have been the only company that’s ever really provided my “Great” mobile service. And not to mention the FIOS Internet and TV service.
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But here’s why it’s really a very questionable upgrade: Because Apple is at some point going to move the iPhone beyond the AT&T network. That move could happen as soon as next year. If you buy this iPhone 3G S now, you’ll be locked in for two more years (or have to pay the large cancellation fee). Now, AT&T is trying to negotiate with Apple to extend its exclusive deal through 2011, in which case the move to the iPhone 3G S would make some sense. But that has not happened yet, and AT&T is playing in risky waters. If I learned tomorrow that AT&T and Apple were ending their exclusive deal in 2010, there is no way I would upgrade. I’d suck it up and wait for a year. via Why The iPhone 3G S May Be A Sucker’s Bet Right Now.
I arrived at the AT&T store today to find they had no plans to form a waiting list on June 19th. Another customer said to me “Looks like you’ll have to camp out dude.” I said that if waiting in lines or camping are required, I’ll just wait.
They told me about a direct order program but really didn’t know what the plan was and a few employees chimed in to say, “you’ll just need to wait in line.”
So I called another store to see if they were also in the dark. While waiting to transfer to a representative, I heard, “also on the web at att.com/wireless. Just funny to me since I’m old enough to know that the concept of ‘wire less’ was very cool. I remember when there were remote controls to TV’s that were teathered. Would anyone in this generation understand that wireless really means “no wires needed.” That’s not very high tech to me -just funny.
So after learning that their computers can’t take direct orders yet because they don’t have the contractual specials in place I was advised to keep checking back. Again, my concept of service is such that if I am the buyer, you call me when you have an answer.
I like a comment posted on the above TechCrunch article by “Dave”
I’ll be first in line. Ready to preserve my 4GB 1st gen iphone for future generations to marvel at… IMO all cell phone companies are a rip off, just deal with it. – Dave
I guess I’ll just deal with it and try to avoid service points when possible. Perhaps I’ll find a way to order online.
Kindle Flickr photo by AGeekMom (Kindle is one type of e-ink reader related to this news)
I would expect to see continued innovation in the E Ink market. In my opinion, the ultimate presentation of graphic content will require more dynamic color and presentation.
Taiwanese display maker Prime View International will buy E Ink, the company that developed the ‘electronic paper’ used in digital book readers from Amazon.com and Sony.
Prime View said on Monday it would pay about $215m for E Ink, whose flexible digital displays are used in Amazon’s Kindle and the Sony Reader. Privately held E Ink emerged from a Massachusetts Institute of Technology laboratory about a decade ago. source: http://kn.theiet.org/news/jun09/pvi-eink.cfm
Perhaps I’m just getting old. This looks more like a space port than a bus station to me. Don’t get me wrong. I love it! Modernization affects more than just the publishing industry.
Print newspapers have learned many lessons in the new digital information age. Some print news industry leaders have also come to understand how the “Wisdom of Crowds” and social media networks will be critical to their future. Individuals, groups, and social platforms now facilitate story advancement and exposure. So we must understand how crowds will drive our published stories. But it will be how we design that determines or success in the last published mile to the readers.
The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economies, Societies and Nations, published in 2004 Wikipedia – The Wisdom of Crowds
But to reach a mass audience, we still depend on a mass media channel. Magazine publishers own this niche. The periodic cycle afforded to magazines allows for the organization and graphic presentation of a proven popular or developing story.
Publishers must be more focused on the graphic presentation of the news than creating the news. The news will be created and promoted without you in the future. Have you ever seen the EPIC 2014 and update EPIC 2015 video by Making IT Happen UK? This 1990′s video is a ficticious prediction that provides insight about several corporate and technological events (Googlezon excluded) that have paralled reality.
In the year 2014 the New York times has gone offline. The Fourth Estate’s fortunes have waned …What happened to the news? …and what is EPIC: Launch Video EPIC 2015
Understand as a publisher that your job is to design and present interesting information. Provide visual communication that makes any other news source or medium (including newspapers) pale in comparison to your presentation.
Magazine publishers must learn what newspapers have done right and wrong. Publishers must adapt their digital and web brands to functions as the online newspaper equivalent for their niche even if they focus their main revenue and media deliverable in print format.
We continue to watch and learn. We must adapt more quickly than those publishing mediums that don’t act quickly enough. We must understand both our readers and advertisers needs.
Newspapers are dying for a few reasons. Readers don’t want to pay for yesterday’s news, and advertisers follow them. Your iPhone, your laptop, Is much more handy than New York Times on Sunday. And we should save trees in the end. So it’s enough to bury any industry. So, should we rather ask, “Can anything save newspapers?”
Jacek Utko is an extraordinary Polish newspaper designer whose redesigns for papers in Eastern Europe not only win awards, but increase circulation by up to 100%. Can good design save the newspaper? It just might.
We must not be so proud of our content that we decide it’s only available to the elderly, affulient, and elite -EPIC reference. We must be taught the value of web traffic and how long term dividends from SEO can greatly exceed the short term paid content wall.
We must learn that if we are designing truly great graphical information communications, the more people that we can expose to our creative work will always outproduce micro-payments results for individual access or short term subscription.
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