The New Twitter is an Attack on All Desktop Apps

Look closely. Does the pane style of the new Twitter.com look familiar to you? It should. It’s essentially a version of the sleek new Twitter iPad app but optimized for the web.

via mashable.com

This completely validates our thinking about next gen web design and UX starting to be driven by tablet design metaphors. Here the new version of Twitter is actually based on the previous redesign work done for the iPad!

Dorsal-Finned Rupert Murdoch Attacks Sad Arthur Sulzberger in Korean CGI Deathmatch

via Fast Company

A shark man! Cash cannons! Mexican stereotypes! A dance-off! The New York Times and Wall Street Journal could both learn a few … Read More >>

Patent Gives a Glimpse of Apple’s Plans for a Touchscreen Mac [Voices]

via All Things Digital

Since the iPad was announced, we’ve been waiting for the day when the tablet and its iPhone operating system could be melded … Read More >>

Inkling Raises Series A Funding Round Led by Sequoia Capital

Inkling has produced a groundbreaking platform for interactive content publishing in a market that’s primed for innovation,” said Mr. Schreier. “With its visionary product strategy and phenomenal team, Inkling is leading the way for digital content platforms, not just in education, but in digital publishing everywhere. We’re excited to be a part of it.

via businesswire.com

DIGIDAY:DAILY – LiveApps: New Models For Print Content

In the end it all comes down to the business model. Even in the face of the dispersion of the audience and the flagging numbers surrounding print, business models came front and center at DIGIDAY:Apps on Monday in New York City. Although apps will not save print content, panelists were almost unanimous in their belief that it provides new opportunities for growth and engagement.

via digidaydaily.com

Forcasts suggest that economies for digital magazine ads will match print advertising by 2014.

Content For iPad Makes New Strides

Content created specifically for the iPad benefited from a few major announcements this week. Zinio announced an innovative new package from its partnership with Rolling Stone magazine, and Sideways announced what could be the first actual readership study from an iPad specific content property.

via digidaydaily.com

The Truth About Paid Models, by Matt Mitchell, Founder & CEO of MediaPass

via Joe Wikert’s Publishing 2020 Blog

The following is a guest blog post written by Matt Mitchell, Founder & CEO of MediaPass. I love what he has to say about the … Read More >>

Consumer demand study finds Interactive Periodicals will generate $3 Billion by 2014

A new, comprehensive assessment of consumer demand for interactive periodicals projects the potential for $3 billion in revenue for the U.S. magazine and newspaper industry by 2014.

via itnewsonline.com

Interesting to note that Oliver Wyman’s “Future Marketplace Simulation”
platform was used to quantify expected demand across nearly 230 periodical titles, with a survey of 1,800 U.S. consumers, demonstrating the likely formats and features of emerging interactive periodicals and simulated actual purchase / consumption decisions that consumers will be making by the 2011 holiday season and beyond.

Who Are the Millennials? / Nice Flowtown Infographic (@flowtown)

via flowtown.com

A nice persona development starting point resource if “Millenials” are your potential customers…

Does this explain Google’s current journey against net neutrality?

via thisisindexed.com