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Sometimes, less is more in a world of information overload
From time to time I’ll Gchat with News.me general manager Jake Levine about future-of-news things. Today I quizzed him about what he learned from Last Great Thing, a 20-day experiment in which...
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The future of the feature: Breaking out of templates to build customized...
When it comes to reading long form, the web can be an ugly, distracting place. It’s the reason why services like Instapaper and Pocket (née Read It Later) exist: to strip content of its context — noisy...
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Pocket readies for a paywalled world with new site subscription feature
If you’re a fan of reading on the Internet, it’s hard not to notice there are more walls going up around the stuff you want to look at. Publishers are putting up paywalls and registration gates, which...
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Pocket aims to get on publishers’ good sides with a new read-it-later stats...
Pocket, one of the three biggest players in the read-it-later space (with Instapaper and Readability), just announced Pocket for Publishers, a suite of tools to track how your content is flowing...
View ArticleDon’t sleep on email
Digg publishes the results of a user survey and finds that email remains a more popular link-sharing tool than Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, or carrier pigeon. (Those Google+ numbers are surprisingly...
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Pocket shows the power of data in picking stories
One of my hobby horses (I’ve got a few) is that news organizations aren’t doing enough to personalize the stories they present to users. The largest news companies produce a ton of content every day;...
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From Instapaper to newspaper: PaperLater wants to put your saved articles...
There’s a kind of unspoken promise that comes along with any delayed reading service: At some point, you’ll have time to read this really great thing. But as anyone who has stared into the void of an...
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iOS 9: How news organizations are updating their apps for Apple’s new...
Apple opened up iOS 9 to everyone for download on Wednesday. Most of the attention is going to ad blocking (and, yep, the No. 1 paid app in the App Store today is an ad blocker), but publishers are...
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Can’t finish a New Yorker story online? The magazine will now send you an...
For as long as The New Yorker has existed, its readers have lamented not being able to get through everything in the magazine. Everyone from The Onion to Thought Catalog has addressed the scourge of an...
View ArticleHere are the important announcements for publishers at Facebook’s F8 keynote
Facebook’s annual developer conference F8 is up there with Apple’s and Google’s keynotes for important news for publishers. Today’s keynote speech by CEO Mark Zuckerberg (video here) was evidence of a...
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Saved you a tap: Gmail’s Inbox now lets you email links to stories to read...
You’ve heard the stat that of the many apps on their phones, most people use only five or fewer. At F8 last week, the platform di tutti platforms announced a “Save to Facebook” button for the web,...
View ArticleHow do we build a better recommendation experience for mobile news readers?
For subway commuters, it’s a common enough situation: you get on the train, pull out of the station and…ugh, you’re offline. On your phone: yesterday’s tweets, maybe a news app loaded up with old...
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SmartNews has shown it can drive traffic. Can it drive subscriptions too?
In recent months, publishers may have been noticing an influx of traffic from a not-usual suspect: SmartNews, the news app that was founded in Japan in 2012 and has been operating in the U.S. since...
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