Bye bye Blogger

I'm trying to bundle some of my various web overtures together in a single place. So I've exported the text from this blog onto my site at http://keyloom.com/

New posts will appear there only. This blog is now solely fit for archeology.

Bye

Apple have focused on shared use of tablet, reckons WSJ

The Wall Street Journal says Apple spent a lot of time considering how a tablet device might be used communally in homes and classrooms: being handed around, or used by a group as a portable TV/video device.

One person familiar with the matter said Apple has put significant resources into designing and programming the device so that it is intuitive to share. This person said Apple has experimented with the ability to leave virtual sticky notes on the device and for the gadget to automatically recognize individuals via a built-in camera. It's unclear whether these features will be included at launch.

Notable too are the third parties the WSJ identifies as having been in discussion with Apple about content for the device (and their industries): the New York Times (newspapers), Condé Nast (mags), HarperCollins (books), CBS & Walt Disney (TV), and Electronic Arts (games).

The WSJ posits that Apple's ambitions echo what they did so successfully with iPod/iTunes - i.e. establishing a new market for what are basically existing goods. "Mr Jobs has a longstanding strategy of devising new ways to access and pay for quality content, instead of reinventing the content." Key to this is finding a space in punters' lives for the device to inhabit.

The article also alludes to Apple's plans to turn iTunes into a website:

A central part of the new strategy is to populate as many Web sites as possible with 'buy' buttons, integrating iTunes transactions into activities like listening to Internet radio and surfing review Web sites.

Enterprise content management is dead

In heralding CMS Watch's recategorisation of their research streams, Alan Pelz-Sharpe argues that businesses want process-specific solutions, not "a single system to manage all their enterprise content, no matter how wonderful or magical such a system may sound".

(From CMS Watch)

Content revenues to pip print advertising income for FT this year

... although it's not immediately clear if the drop in ad revenue is as much a factor as increase in paid subscriptions etc.

(From Paid Content)