Barack Obama: Taking the Cyberattack Threat Seriously

See on Scoop.it – Technology In Media In The Wall Street Journal, President Barack Obama writes that in a future conflict, an adversary unable to match our military supremacy on the battlefield might seek to exploit our computer vulnerabilities here at home. See on online.wsj.com

‘Next Big Thing’: The Top 50 Start-Ups

Venture capitalists are still investing in flashy Internet start-ups, but the “Next Big Thing” is more likely to be a maker of humdrum Internet plumbing for businesses. The Wall Street Journal’s third annual ranking of the top 50 venture-capital-backed companies shows a crop of contenders that overall are focused less on online consumers than in [...]

YouTube Premium Channel SourceFed Racks Up 50,000 Subscribers

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See on Scoop.it – internetbillboards SourceFed, a.k.a. the “bacon of the news” on YouTube, emerged as the first successful channels among Google’s premium content offering yesterday, when the show hit 500,000 subscribers with 158 million views to date. See on www.readwriteweb.com Related articles Thousands of YouTube partners now make six figures a year [NewTeeVee Station] [...]

:: 4 Strategic Areas Where Facebook Must Invest Post-IPO ::

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REVEALED: Foursquare’s Big Money-Making Plans

See on Scoop.it – internetbillboards foursquare is getting ready to allow businesses to start making coupons. In a Q&A with the Wall Street Journal’s Spencer Ante, Foursquare CEO Dennis Crowley says the idea is that merchants will use their Foursquare “dashboard” to figure which kinds of customers they need to incent to come back to [...]

The Dark Knight Rises will contain over an hour of IMAX footage

See on Scoop.it – internetbillboards The Dark Knight Rises looks set to become the first must-see-in-the-IMAX movie, with The Wall Street Journal reporting that the film will contain “more than one hour’s worth” of specially filmed footage. Warner Bros had initially suggested that the film would contain around 40 minutes of IMAX footage, before producer [...]

Paywall or Open Distribution? Can Media Companies Fight Aggregation and Curation?

Robin Good: Matthew Ingram has just published a great article on GigaOM about the news media industry and the increasing realization that the content it produces is more often than not found, discovered, shared and read somewhere else from that content originated.   He writes: “…one other thing that becomes clear from the Pew report [...]

How to Be Creative

The image of the ‘creative type’ is a myth. Jonah Lehrer on why anyone can innovate—and why a hot shower, a cold beer or a trip to your colleague’s desk might be the key to your next big idea. From Imagine: How Creativity Works. The good news is that the human mind has a surprising [...]

Curate, create and conquer: Journalism 2.0 startups to watch

Via Scoop.it – internetbillboards In many ways, the Internet has leveled the playing field in the digital media space. Where a few prominent outlets like the New York Times and Wall Street Journal once towered over all else, a complex ecosystem of online news sites, blogs and other upstarts now challenges their superiority. American University [...]

Google Mulls Bid for Yahoo

Via Scoop.it – internetbillboards Google Inc. has talked to at least two private equity firms about potentially helping them finance a deal to buy Yahoo Inc.’s core business, according to a person familiar with the matter.   Microsoft Firming Up Plan to Bankroll Possible Yahoo Deal   Google and prospective partners have held early-stage discussions [...]

Kim Kardashian Wants to Open a Hotel for Gorgeous People

Via Scoop.it – internetbillboards Brace yourselves, the day’s hotel news just got a lot more depressing. WSJ is reporting on a statement made by Kim Kardashian about opening her own branded hotel in the United Arab Emirates. In her words: “everything I think will be successful here.” Hmm, a self-obsessed reality TV star with delusions [...]

With WSJ Social, the Wall Street Journal wants every user to be an editor

Via Scoop.it – Web Content & Digital Curation The paper explores a new way to distribute its content — through the crowds of users on Facebook. ”With WSJ Social, the Journal is purposely “navigating the content within the app around people,” Baratz told Megan Garber who wrote this article, and making “every user an editor”.  “We really [...]