Category: Media
Pre-roll ads no problem for 70% of YouTube visitors
YouTube's new TrueView advertising proposition, allowing users to skip an advert once 5 seconds of it has been viewed, has been a great success according to figures revealed at the Media360 event in Manchester. 70% of YouTube viewers so far…
VIDEO: Introducing 'Technode', our new iPad mag!
Introducing Technode; the new, free quarterly digital technology magazine from the editorial team behind Tech Digest and Shiny Shiny! Available on all iOS devices as an app, as a web edition and PDF version for other operating systems via…
Superinjunctions: Why Twitter needs to stand strong against internet censorship
Oh how embarrassing to be a certain footballer right now. He's been busted, the game's over, and we're all just waiting for him to lower his head and do the apology dance. But lo and behold, this isn't at…
50% of iPad mag subscribers happy to share info with publishers
It seems that publishers' initial fears that iPad magazine subscribers would not be willing to share their personal info when buying digital reading content were ill-founded, as Apple have now confirmed 50% of all digi-mag subscribers happily offer their…
Superinjunctions lose power as Wikipedia names and shames
The identity of the gentleman with which Big Brother star Imogen Thomas has had an affair is hidden away behind a superinjunction, meaning no UK media outlet is allowed to breathe a word of it. But if you google…
AOL-owned Huffington Post gets Twitter power: Biz Stone joins
Following the high-profile $315m takeover by AOL, the popular liberal news site Huffington Post will be joined by Twitter co-founder Biz Stone. "Strategic adviser for social impact" is Stone's title at AOL, where he will among other things work…
WikiLeaks dissidents to launch alternative whistleblowing forum OpenLeaks
Competition is about to hit the whistleblowing market, as former WikiLeaks staff is breaking away to form OpenLeaks. With a launch expected this summer, OpenLeaks will be lead by the former deputy head of Wikileaks. Daniel Domscheit-Berg left WikiLeaks…
Hackers! – The newspaper for mischevious tech-heads
Fancy yourself as a bit of a computer whizz? Is breaking into a restricted Area 51 server for you a piece of cake? Then you may soon find yourself fbeatured in Hackers!, a brand new newspaper "about doing things you're…
Branson's Project iPad magazine on the App Store Now
Richard Branson and Virgin's first roll of the iPad-publishing dice has touched down on the App Store. Issue 1 of the iPad only magazine Project is now available to download. Housed within a reader app, Project can then be bought…
Branson to rival News Corp's Murdoch with iPad-only magazine
Richard Branson's Virgin are expected to unveil an iPad-only magazine in the next few days, according to the Financial Times. The digital magazine, rumoured to be called Project, will be in direct competition with The Daily, the newly announced iPad…