A sample of the Foreword in this year’s report written by Horst Pirker, Group Chief Executive Officer of Styria Media Group AG, and first Vice President WAN-IFRA.
Get the full report here.
Nobody is perfect.
Nobody can do everything.
Best advice?
From McDonald’s founder, Ray Kroc:
“If you work just for money, you’ll never make it, but if you love what you’re doing and you always put the customer first, success will be yours.”
Google founders loved their search engine.
Today’s Google just loves money.
Google is dead.
Via Gaston Roitberg.
Chang Ma, vice president of marketing for LG in the WSJ announcing is Google Android OPTIMUS, the first tablet of his company:
The first LG tablet will set itself apart from Apple’s iPad by focusing on the ability to create content, rather than simply display it.
Mr. Ma said that the iPad is a great device, but he doesn’t do much work on it.
“Our tablet will be better than the iPad.”
The tablet, Mr. Ma said, will include content focused on creation such as writing documents, editing video and creating programs.
It will also have “high-end features and new benefits,” many of which will focus on productivity.
Interesting challenge.
Yes, the iPad is mainly a consumption device.
90% consumption.
10% creation.
More competition is always good.
Another reason not to miss the INMA/NIEMAN/INNOVATION Harvard Tablet Summit.
Cambridge, December 2-3, 2010.
A Worldwide Summit to learn, master and share new ideas.
Be there!
(Picture: a Google tablet mockup)
Tags: Chang Ma, Harvard Tablet Summit, INMA, LG, NIEMAN, Optimus, Tablets, iPad, productions versus creation
The suppliers are matching the high volume of iPad buyers, so two more research companies are increasing in a very dramatic way their expected sales numbers:
iSuppli had estimated that the iPad would shift 7 million units in 2010.
Now gives a figure of 12.9 million units.
And ABI Research has tripled its original estimate, now expecting 11 million units.
Remember that Apple sold three million iPad 80 days after its launch.
And this huge demand delayed the iPad launch outside USA.
My own estimation is that Apple is selling right now two million iPad a month.
And will end the year around the 15 million mark.
These are fantastic numbers.
One reason?
Schools and universities are becoming big markets.
What’s next?
Lower prices and more iPad models.
Another reason not to miss the INMA/NIEMAN/INNOVATION Harvard Tablet Summit.
Cambridge, December 2-3, 2010.
A Worldwide Summit to learn, master and share new ideas.
Be there!
Hearst magazines launchs an “Apps Think Tank”.
While the free iPhone app of Esquire got more than 100,000 free downloads and produced more than 1.000 subscriptions to the magazine, the$1.99 iPad app of Popular Mechanics got only 40,000 downloads.
So Hearst is trying to develop an in-house”App Lab” to improve all these numbers.
Hearst Magazines has created nine iPhone applications; all of its titles are available on the iPad via the Zinio application; and by the end of the year, the company expects to have at least 35 iPhone, iPad and Android applications for its brands.
As Kenneth A. Bronfin, president of Hearst Interactive Media says:
“There is no such thing as the ‘status quo’ in interactive play–or business. Our business reflects our ever-evolving communities of users–both on the Internet and throughout Hearst Corporation. We are innovators who change the landscape and challenge the status quo.”
All this shows that readers, advertisers, software companies, designers and media publishers are desperate looking for new and moire exciting ideas.
As one readers comments in the iTunes iPad store about Esquire magazine:
“Been a subscriber to the mag for years. Not going to pay for the same content I already pay to have delivered to my door.”
That’s the challenge.
And this will be the main objective of our next Harvard Tablet Summit (Cambridge, December 2-3, 2010)
The latest video commercial of Apple show how media companies must learn from what other industries are doing with the iPad.
Right now the iPad media applications are far behind the average on creativity, impact and uniqueness.
Another reason not to miss the INMA/NIEMAN/INNOVATION Harvard Tablet Summit.
Cambridge, December 2-3, 2010.
A Worldwide Summit to learn, master and share new ideas.
Some of The International Herald Tribunes top guns are here.
Showing the power of ideas, analysis and first class reporting.
Good journalism.
The real difference.
A World Class Newspaper.
Brilliant “show, don’t tell” front page!
Just checking.
And checking.
Like a city watchdog newspaper.
Today’s El Nacional of Caracas (Venezuela) self censorship in response to the new censorship measures of the Chavez government.
That’s to print WOW.
No news?
Bad news!
This remembers me my first years in journalism working for Gaceta Universitaria when we were filling the empty spaces left by the Franco’s censors with the “Caperucita Roja” tale.
(Via Midia Mundo)
INNOVATION