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Video: Matt Mullenweg tells former rival Anil Dash what’s ahead for WordPress
Not that long ago, Matt Mullenweg, a founding developer of WordPress, and Anil Dash, once chief evangelist of Six Apart and Movable Type, were publicly feuding over open source and the relative merits...
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The next generation business: Data is the new platform
When thinking about the value of the data a company collects vs. the traditional value of the product it may produce, collecting and analyzing broad categories of customer + product data is becoming...
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In the platform wars, open is ultimately more valuable than closed, says...
When it comes to the future of the web, there are a few incubator-style seed investors that are worth paying attention to, and New York-based Betaworks is likely at or near the top of that list —...
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Financial Times joins Flipboard, says it’s a better deal than Apple
The Financial Times is now making its content available through Flipboard, the popular reading platform that lets users draw on their social networks to assemble content from a variety of publications...
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Nate Silver and the NYT: Media platforms still have power — just not as much...
The New York Times got hit by a bombshell late last week, when the news broke that star blogger Nate Silver is leaving to join ESPN, and taking his popular FiveThirtyEight empire with him. According to...
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BuzzFeed puts in new policies for “community” posts: an uneasy attempt at...
BuzzFeed is riding high. The viral news site, which cuts its teeth on silly cat videos, is now part of the media big leagues where it breaks serious stories, like US journalists taking money from...
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The DRM dilemma facing the open web
Most of us are pretty used to certain freedoms granted by the open web. Just as you can send a link for any webpage or service to a friend, you can also save an image from a page, examine its code or...
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Nintendo’s latest update unifies Wii U and 3DS accounts
Nintendo gamers who own both the Wii U and the 3DS have been struggling with a major disconnect in the Japanese company’s online platform. While users would be able to download games, both modern and...
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Social journalism and open platforms are the new normal — now we have to make...
What happens when everyone has the ability to publish? One thing that happens is the traditional media industry loses much of its power, over both the content that people read and the advertising that...
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WordPress parent Automattic closes huge funding round that values the company...
There have been rumors for some time now that Automattic, the company behind the WordPress blogging platform and open-source community, was looking to close a large round of funding that might value...
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How Much is Facebook’s Market Power Worth?
Putting a value on Facebook is beyond many of us, but the social network is the most important player in social media. To better compete against, partner with or invest in Facebook, it's worth...
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How to undo a lot of Lion’s little changes using Terminal
Mac OS X Lion has been out long enough for a lot of us to realize that there might be a couple of essential tweaks we’d really like to make. Here's how to make some changes that require more than just...
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Apps vs. the web: Are they enemies or allies?
Forrester CEO George Colony reignited a minor firestorm recently by saying "the web is dead" and the app ecosystem is replacing it. Others, however, argue that the open web has benefits that apps do...
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Should Twitter and YouTube remove images of James Foley’s beheading, or do we...
After the beheading of journalist James Foley by the terrorist group ISIS, social-media platforms like Twitter and YouTube are cracking down on the sharing of images and video of his death. But should...
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Don’t like Facebook owning and controlling your content? Use tools that...
One way to resist the kind of proprietary lock-in that networks and platforms like Facebook seem to want is to use and support open-web tools like the kind blogging pioneer Dave Winer and the...
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Value in the media industry is moving to the edges, and publishers are in the...
The internet has disrupted media in much the same way it has manufacturing of smartphones or the IT business, says Ben Thompson -- value has moved to the edges, to specialized creators and to discovery...
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Technology set journalism free, now new platforms are in control
As Emily Bell of Columbia pointed out in a recent speech about the disruption of journalism by technology, publishing has never been easier -- but now it is controlled in a disturbing way by...
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Beyond Christensen: new models of industry disruption
Clayton Christensen's model of disruption still holds true, but we’re also seeing new types emerge. Here we examine four different kinds, and ask you, readers, to weigh in with your thoughts. Beyond...
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How the truly smart home could finally become a reality
For the smart home to ignite the IoT, home automation software platform vendors must provide open APIs. SmartThings and future open-API platforms could be the disruptive players that encourage a tidal...
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The problem with Uber’s European job promises
The newly humble Uber has made its pitch to city officials around Europe by promising the creation of “50,000 jobs” during 2015 – if mayors and their transport departments play nice and change their...
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The platform-publisher race is heating up and LinkedIn is gaining
Social platforms like Facebook and Snapchat are trying hard to become publishers or to host content from media companies, but one of the platforms that has been quietly doing this for years now -- and...
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A planning framwork for disruption
The Decision Model Canvas for disruption presents a visual representation of how to manage the planning and execution of disruptive strategies companies can use in a systematic way to reshape markets....
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