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Betaworks and The Times Plan a Social News Service

By JENNA WORTHAM

Something is stirring deep within the technology incubator Betaworks: A personalized news service called News.me that is being developed in collaboration with The New York Times.

On Thursday, a cryptic placeholder for the service went live.

“We’re building something wonderful and amazing in the social news space,” said John Borthwick, chief executive office at Betaworks.

Mr. Borthwick’s company has helped nurture TweetDeck, a popular desktop client for Twitter, and Web tools like Bit.ly, a URL shortener, and Chartbeat, a real-time Web analytics service.

The News.me product has been in the works for the last six months and is expected to be  out sometime later this year, Mr. Borthwick said. It will initially debut as an iPad application, although a Web version may be introduced at some point.

Mr. Borthwick would not say exactly how the service would work, but he hinted that its name should give some indication.

Michael Zimbalist, vice president of research and development at The Times Company, also declined to describe the application in detail, saying only that the company had been studying and monitoring trends on the Web and in social media.

“We’re abstracting from that a vision of how social sharing and the real-time Web are going to influence the news consumption experience,” he said. “We decided to develop a prototype that we thought was illustrative of where the world was heading.”

Mr. Zimbalist said that The Times Company, which participated in Betaworks’ most recent round of financing, struck an arrangement where Betaworks would buy a prototype of the app that was created by members of The Times Company’s development labs, and that same team would work with Betaworks developers to finish it.

“From the Times’s perspective, we think this is a really interesting way for a company like ours to foster an entrepreneurial culture through a start-up,” he said.

IPad applications that sort out the chaotic tumble of links and likes from the social Web have been a hot commodity lately. Flipboard, which transforms social media feeds into an attractive, easy-to-read layout, has been overwhelmed at times with the number of people eager to use its service.

SRI, the research institute that recently sold a virtual personal assistant called Siri to Apple, is busy building its own version, called Chattertrap.

The service, which is currently available in a test version, is a Web-based newsfeed that uses artificial intelligence to monitor what people are reading and learn what they like, and then serves up articles and links that suit their interests.

But Betaworks may have a leg up on the competition.

Bit.ly is a popular link-shortening service that tracks which links are shared most widely around the Web — how many times a particular link was clicked and the geographic location of the clicker.

So far this year, Bit.ly has unshortened more than 30 billion clicked links from around the Web and from thousands of content providers, who have deals with the company to get their own custom URL shorteners, giving them a unique glimpse into what articles, topics and links are popular.

It’s also worth noting that Betaworks has experimented with a service called Bitly.TV that aggregates the most popular YouTube videos people have shared using the bit.ly service. It’s not hard to imagine how a similar service could be created that ranks popular news articles. 

Users spend 23% of online time on social networks

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MARK RABY | Mon 2nd Aug 2010, 07:51 am

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People are spending less time checking their e-mail, reading news and going to traditional online portals, but are spending a heck of a lot more time on Facebook and Twitter.

According to the latest numbers from Nielsen Internet research, in June, online users are now spending 23% of their Internet time on social networking sites. That's an increase of seven percentage points over this time last year.

It was the single biggest jump for any of Nielsen's online categories, which include time checking e-mail, using Web portals, and playing games.

The latter, online gaming, saw the second most noteworthy jump, as it now accounts for 10% of users' online time and also links to social networking thanks to the rise of games like Farmville. At 10%, online gaming is now the second most popular thing to do online, a designation previously held by e-mail.

On that note, e-mail is now taking up less time for people online than ever before, only accounting for 8.3% of the average Internet user's online activity.

"Portals," such as landing pages on Yahoo.com and MSN.com now account for just 4.4% of Web users' time.

Most of the other categories, like shopping online and random searching, remained relatively unchanged, though watching online videos went from 3.5% to 3.9% from June 2009 to June 2010.

The numbers make it clear that people are spending more time on Facebook than any other website, even Google. Even though users may visit Google more times in a given day, the amount of time they spend there is minimal compared to the dozens of minutes, or even hours, spent on one social networking session.

The race continues between social and traditional Web use, and there's no slowing down that the former is becoming the new trend.

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The future of social relations

Pesquisa do Pew Internet Research mostra que os benefícios sociais do uso da internet irão superar os negativos durante a próxima década. 


Segundo especialistas do instituto, e-mail, redes sociais e outras ferramentas on-line oferecem oportunidades para criar ou melhorar laços sociais que fazem diferença na vida das pessoas. 


A internet reduz as limitações tradicionais de comunicação, custo, geografia e tempo. Isso contribui ainda mais para unir pessoas. Outro fator é o compartilhamento de informações de fontes abertas.


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rede social + colaboração = notícia

Peter Horrocks: backing Facebook and Twitter. Photograph: Martin Godwin (reprodução The Guardian)

Jornalistas da BBC usam as redes sociais como fonte de informação primária, diz Peter Horrocks, novo diretor da BBC Global News. "This isn't just a kind of fad from someone who's an enthusiast of technology. I'm afraid you're not doing your job if you can't do those things. It's not discretionary."

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The Next Step: User- and Location-Focused

Do ReadWriteWeb:


"At present, the secondary applications that are being developed fall into two main categories: user-focused and location-focused. A good example of a user-focused app is wheredoyougo. This service provides a heat map visual of all of a user's check-ins. Another, foursqpic allows users to upload pictures as part of the Foursquare Venue Tips section, supplementing simple text tips with visuals as well. These are great apps and certainly add to the fun and extend the functionality of the service. However, the real gains are coming in the location-focused apps.


So far, the most developed of these is placewidget, which allows owners of a location to promote, via a website widget, the "Mayor" of their location on their website. Until now, any real marketing revolving around Foursquare was offline, and had to be location-specific. By bringing the ability to market both their involvement in the Foursquare community and promote a loyal customer, this widget gives a lot more power to businesses looking to leverage this type of social networking."

Ferramentas para mídia social

Esse é um dos 31 exemplos bacanas de ferramentas para visualização de dados em redes sociais postados no pulse2dotcom: YouTube Streams is an official project that allows you to chat with people watching the same videos as you.  Users can create streams for specific categories.  In this case, I decided to join the Michael Jackson Sexy Fans channel and see what people were talking about.

smw_saopaulo on livestream.com. Broadcast Live Free

Blogs perdem espaço entre jovens

Duas pesquisas do Pew Internet Project mostram que diminuiu o acesso a blogs entre adolescentes e cresceu entre adultos com 30 anos ou mais. A novidade é que aumentou o uso de redes sociais entre a moçada com idade entre 12 e 17 anos. Veja os highlights do estudo:


Among the findings for teens ages 12-17:

• 14% of online teens ages 12-17 now say they blog, down from 28% of teen internet users in 2006.
• 73% of online teens now use social networking websites, a significant increase from previous surveys. Just over half of online teens (55%) used social networking sites in November 2006 and 65% did so in February 2008.
• 8% of internet users ages 12-17 use Twitter. This makes Twitter far less common than sending or receiving text messages as 66% of teens do, or going online for news and political information, done by 62% of online teens.
• In the past five years, cell phone ownership has become mainstream among even the youngest teens. Fully 58% of 12-year olds now own a cell phone, up from just 18% of such teens as recently as 2004.

For adults 18 and older:

• Facebook is currently the most commonly-used online social network among adults. Among adult profile owners, 73% have a profile on Facebook, 48% have a profile on MySpace and 14% have a LinkedIn profile. 47% of online adults use social networking sites, up from 37% in November 2008.
• 81% of adults between the ages of 18 and 29 are wireless internet users. By comparison, 63% of 30-49 year olds and 34% of those ages 50 and up access the internet wirelessly.
• Young adults lead the way when it comes to using Twitter or status updating. One-third of online 18-29 year olds post or read status updates.

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Your YouTube homepage: now with Facebook feeds

Cada vez mais a ordem do dia é compartilhar informação e as redes sociais dão o exemplo: plataformas integradas que permitem postar conteúdo para diversos públicos, como o anúncio do You Tube (permitir acesso ao Facebook). 


Com isso, o que está em jogo agora é como desenvolver sistemas de publicação em redes sociais que não resultem em redundância de conteúdo. O Facebook, por exemplo, permite subir ou gravar vídeos.


De qualquer forma, a associação You Tube/Facebook mostra que o importante é perceber para onde os conceitos estão indo: de portais/sites (final dos 1990) para a noção de fazer rede (final dos anos 2000), de fazer associações, de criar formas de recomendação e engajamento...


meu comentário: E tem gente que ainda está no esquema portal/site/hot site.


A pensar,

NY Times + Twitter = Social Network

   

Na frente, mais uma vez, está o NY Times. Sob o comando de Andrew DeVigal, o jornalão americano tem investido para unificar suas plataformas em torno da lógica transmídia. Depois de anunciar o TimesPeople, uma rede de leitores que permite recomendar, trocar e compartilhar conteúdo, chegou a vez de integrá-la ao Twitter. 

meu comentário:  as experiências do NY Times digital têm se voltado discretamente à noção de fazer rede em vez de pensar o conteúdo postado em um espaço único, dividido por links. Agora, começa a valer a idéia deleuziana de revezamento, de agenciamento (linkagens estratégicas) em espaços lisos (redes sociais) e estriados (portais). 

A migração da cultura de portal para a de redes sociais é irreversível (MOHERDAUI: 2009) assim como a migração da cultura de página para a de dados (BERNERS LEE : 2009).

A pensar