WHAT'S NEXT: INNOVATIONS IN NEWSPAPERS

Again, Twitter gives you the second by second breaking-news, pictures and videos about the tsunami in the Pacific.

People on site reporting while the traditional media tries to catch the news without reliable sources.

Updating this post all the time, these are the latest twitter news from the area (right now around 400 tweets every 20 seconds):

• US Navy sends 8 ships out from Pearl Harbor in advance of Tsunami. Safer at sea. Evacuation sirens sounding.

• Tsunami waves are expected to arrive: Big Island at 11:05AM, Maui at 11:26AM, Oahu 11:37AM and Kauai 11:42AM, according to the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center.

• Hawaiians wake to sirens as Tsunami approaches. Scramble for supplies. Due to arrive about 4PM

• Here some Hawaii surfing cameras will show you the tsunami live.

• California under tsunami advisory.

• Here tsunami live TV coverage.

• Hawaii tsunami forecasts: Hilo 11:05 a.m. local, 6.9 to 8.2 feet; Honolulu 11:37a.m., 1.6 to 2.3 feet; Kahului 11:26 a.m., 3.6 to 10 feet.

• Cabo San Lucas reported a 1.2FT tsunami, or 36 cms. Nothing big.

• People in Hawaii please take this tsunami thing seriously. 7 1/2 foot wave projections is no joke. Get to high ground.

• The current estimate for Hilo first tsunami surges is 7 feet – these are not regular waves. VERY powerful & fast going deep inland.

• Tsunami alert for New Zealand after massive Chile quake.

• Tsunamis are not breaking waves. 75% of tsunamis do not break. If you see a tsunami on the beach, it’s too late to run”.

• Here live Hawaii tsunami, facing kaimu black sand beach.

• Hawaii is 20 minutes away from a Tsunami Wave hitting them.

• “Hawaii w/estimated tsunami arrival time at 11:05 local time today. It is a Warning, not an Advisory”

• A tsunami is not a storm so there’s no “calm” in terms of weather, but the white sound of traffic is gone. Weird.

• Little more than 10 minutes for forecast arrival of tsunami to Hilo.

• Tsunami Waves HIt Huatulco Mexico.

•  We are within five minutes of the predicted arrival of the tsunami in Hawaii.

• Watch here the Hawaii tsunami from a private camera.

• Hawaiian Newscaster: “a tsunami can travel as fast as a commercial jet plane.”
less than 20 seconds ago from web.

(BBC map)

The quake struck at 0634 GMT about 91km (56 miles) north-east of the city of Concepcion and 317km south-west of the capital, Santiago.

La Tercera is online.

El Mercurio not at this time.

But Twitter is in full speed.

Here in English (QUAKECHILE)

Here in Spanish (TERREMOTOCHILE).

One of the first pictures from Santiago on Twitpic.

TV Chile is live here.

A possible Tsunami travel times map.

Here the last tsunami warning.

The breakingnews on CNN.

The social networking trend is clear.

That’s also good news for compelling and relevant content providers.

Without this kind of content chatting becomes sharing gossip.

And bad  news from one-direction media.

As Jeff Jarvis said: “We can no longer expect our consumers/readers/users to come to us and wait for us; we must anticipate their needs by listening to their signals and go to them.”

Your audience was part of your business, now is part of the message.

(Thanks to Tom Corbett)

At 14:42, London time.

Graham Greene’s Hotel Trianon in The Comedians is, in real life, the Hotel Oloffson.

This used to be an iconic hotel in Haiti, now is a very creepy one.

The readers of Tripadvisor rank its popularity as the 25 of 27 hotels in Port-au-Prince an recent reviews include comments like these ones: “Filthy, rickety, overpriced hotel, surly, unhelpful management, extortionate restaurant and bar: Avoid at all cost! This Hotel is a trash pit. The owner, The staff will accept payments of cash for bar and food purchases and then charge your room again, which leads to serious discrepancies at check-out time, But, voodoo motiffs and old world architecture do not make up for an infestation of bees, leaky roofs, TVs that do not work, cold water, and toiletes that need constant attention,”

But this filthy hotel has survived the recent earthquake and many journalists are there reporting like mad.

Richard Morse is the manager of the Oloffson and from his desk has been an unique witnes of the tragedy.

A Puerto Rican-born Haitian-American musician and hotel manager, he was one of the first twitters from Haiti telling live the story.

These short messages are like bits from Hell.

Here you can read some of them with no chronological order:

• Tremor!!!

• I’m just tweeting.. trying to be of help.

• A priest came to see me..I asked him why so many churches collapsed..he left without an answer..God works in mysterious ways.

• Batteries keep us tweeting!!

• When my batteries die I will no longer be able to communicate..

• I know of someone buying gas today for 150 Haitian dollars which is about $18-$21 a gallon. Most people in Haiti don’t have cars…

• Another aftershock..a little longer..much screaming downtown..this is going to be a long night

• Port au Prince is dark except for a few fires

• All my guests slept in the driveway last night..people came up from the streets thinking they were bodies.. neighbors helping neighbors

• Keep praying.

• No interviews..Twitter!!

* Another aftershock!!!

• Bodies. Bodies. Bodies. Bodies. Bodies. Bodies. I don’t know how else to say it.

• Daniel Morel, professional photographer says he cannot believe what he saw today.

• Tremor!!

• The streets are now Haiti’s living room and bedroom.

• There are people who charge your phone with a car battery.

• You don’t have to drive to see the damage, where ever you walk there is something out of the ordinary..often the suffering is silent

• Need canned foods & 1st aid kits.

• People are praying in groups..others are looking for relatives..no phone service..no electricity

• Another aftershock..people are screaming and freaking out down towards the stadium..much singing and praying in large numbers

• People don’t talk about the bodies,they talk about the decomposing bodies.

• Bring it on guys,bring doctors AND morgues and medical help.

• 5:49AM the singing and praying has begun.we won’t begin to understand all that is going on around us for some time to come

• Thanks for the support..every little bit helps

• No interviews.. tweets only

• There are still aftershocks…

• Dear Russia..I’m just tweeting

• Singing..praying..clapping hands..the sun is stting..another night of darkness..death is all around

• I heard some roosters and some birds in the trees this afternoon..first time since yesterday

• If your home is destroyed and your workplace is destroyed and your neighborhood is destroyed..then what?

• The sight and smell of decay are unpleasant, but they do not create a public health hazard. Don’t touch. Cover.

• Where do you put bodies when the morgues are full?

• The singing and praying is getting more intense..you have to believe!!

• Sorry..no interview

• Dear Australia,no interviews, just tweets.

How Sky News got the scoop.

A great story to be told.

When the CEO of Google says that very soon they will make more money with Mobile than with Internet, imagine a Mobile Tablet and you will understand why the Apple coming tablet could be a dramatic innovation.

Business are moving to Mobile.

Realtor, like Zillow and Sawbuck, are taking their listings to the iPhone.

If you use Realtor, you will be able to access to about 4 million listings across the United States that they say are updated every 15 minutes.

Realtor say the new app will allow home shoppers to search for open houses within a 20-mile radius, sorted by location or date. Users can take camera-phone photos of listings as they tour them, assign them star ratings, jot notes on the phone, and quickly post listings to their Twitter or Facebook pages–or e-mail them to friends, family and their buyer’s agent.

Many newspapers still think that the only strategy to save their classifieds is to move them to Internet.

Well, too late.

Move tham to Mobile.

That’s the future.

Tags: Apple Tablet, Classifieds, Facebook, Google, Real State. Moble, Sawbuck, The Realtor, Twitter, Zillow, iPhone, internet

Tracking new  tweets for Apple Tablet: six new ones each minute.

For Apple iSlate: one new one each minute.

For Apple: 20 new ones each minute.

UPDATE:

Hitwise reports about US traffic about Apple Tablet.

His wife Twittered the news on July 10th.

Hey friends. @suzywelch here. Jack still in hospital w/ wicked spinal infection. He misses you + will return as soon as he can. Thx for luv.

And now he is Tweeting from the hospital.

Amazing!

Ten minutes ago, Tony Hsieh, founder of Zappos, announced on his Twitter (one million followers!) that Amazon bought his company.

Here is the letter sent to all of his employees.

Watch here the 8 minute video clip made by Jeff Bezzos, the founder of Amazon, for this occasion.

He sumarizes the secrets of Amazon in these three basic rules:

Be obsessed with clients.

Invent on their behalf.

And think long-term.

What a difference between these innovative cultures and our media companies!