A few weeks ago, Hearst Corp’s Esquire announced that they’d debut a snazzy new “augmented reality” issue and be the first publication to take the relatively new technology into its pages. AR, the hot new trend in iPhone apps, layers data, images and video Read More
Google Books has just launched a digitized magazine stand. In their never-ending quest to archive all media, from Web sites to books, Google is taking on the publishing world and scanning entire issues of magazines, ads and all. Most issues are two or three years old–or even a few decades old. It’s kind of Read More
Tired of clicking around YouTube and iTunes for online videos of substance? Search no more! The Observer has your weekly handy guide to what’s worth watching on the Web.
The New York City Marathon in video form – Brooklyn photographer Mehmet Dokumcu created this beautiful time lapse Read More
Tired of clicking around YouTube and iTunes for online videos of substance? Search no more! The Observer has your weekly handy guide to what’s worth watching on the Web.
GQ‘s how-tos – With GQ‘s individual Web site finally breaking free of men.style.com, deputy editor Michael Hainey Read More
Just a week after announcing their new GQ iPhone app, which will cost $2.99 per issue and is expected to be in the iTunes store by Nov. 18, Condé Nast announced another new application for readers on the go. But this one is free and available now! It comes from Concierge.com, the online home for Condé Read More
Looks like Condé Nast isn’t the only magazine company looking to bolster its digital ad sales department. The Atlantic has recruited a former IAC saleswoman and Microsoft ad executive to lead sales for TheAtlantic.com. Breda O’Reilly, who lives in Manhattan, will be their new digital ad manager, according to an announcement released today by The Atlantic.
“The Atlantic’s incredible Read More
If the NYTimes.com most-emailed list was curated by Aunt Mabel, Digg.com’s ‘top news in all content’ list is probably generated by her 20- (or 30-) something nephew: a Twittering, iPhone wielding, card-carrying member of Generation Wii. Here’s what this dude (we’ll call him Kevin) and the rest of Read More
Seems like Condé Nast may finally be focused on making money from its digital properties. Just days after the company announced that it will start offering GQ issues for $2.99 a piece on the iPhone, Conde is unleashing a new “sales structure.” Digital now has a new publisher in charge of all revenue for Read More
Tired of clicking around YouTube and iTunes for online videos of substance? Search no more! The Observer has your weekly handy guide to what’s worth watching on the Web.
Balloon Boy’s dad’s Web show — Richard Heene, the father of the now infamous Balloon Boy, has a history of Read More
Six weeks ago, John McGrath had a dream job. Since March 2008, the 39-year-old software engineer had been working at The New York Times on the interactive news technologies team, what he called a “special forces unit,” under editor Aron Pilhofer. He was coding Web projects like document viewing programs and features for election season on Read More
