Articles By: James Johnson

Google News Platform Now More “Tablet Friendly” For iPad And Android Devices

Google News Platform Now More “Tablet Friendly” For iPad And Android Devices

Google on Wednesday implemented several changes to the Google News website, making it more “tablet-friendly” for iPad and Google Android tablet users. Among the sites new optimized look is a homepage and section pages that feature columns so users can […]

Demand Media Signs Three-Year Global Advertising Deal With Google

Demand Media Signs Three-Year Global Advertising Deal With Google

Despite Google Panda taking a huge chunk out of their traffic, Demand Media on Tuesday announced the renewal of their global advertising initiative with the search giant. Under terms of the three year agreement Google will monetize Demand Media’s properties […]

Guardian Investigative Journalist Nick Davies Joins Company’s U.S. Operation

Guardian Investigative Journalist Nick Davies Joins Company’s U.S. Operation

Nick Davies, the Guardian journalist who helped blow the lid on the UK phone hacking scandal has traveled to the US to join the news organizations fledgling US operation. Arriving two weeks ago Davies is hoping to blow the lid […]

Demand Media Responds To Google Panda Issue, Focuses On Socially-Drive Products

Demand Media Responds To Google Panda Issue, Focuses On Socially-Drive Products

The Google Panda algorithm which was launched to combat what the company calls “Content Farms” was successful in killing traffic for various big content providers including Hubpages, Suite101 and most notably properties owned by Demand Media (Ehow, Livestrong, Cracked, etc.) […]

Guardian News And Media Overhauls Data Collection Methodology For “Digital-First” Strategy

Guardian News And Media Overhauls Data Collection Methodology For “Digital-First” Strategy

Guardian News and Media, the company behind Guardian.co.uk and various other publications and online platforms has announced plans to consolidate user information into a single, more manageable database system. The company will gather information from their various apps, dating site, […]

Nomad Editions Names David Sleight As Chief Technology Officer

Nomad Editions Names David Sleight As Chief Technology Officer

Digital weekly magazine publisher Nomad Editions has announced that David Sleight has joined the company as their new Chief Technology Officer. Sleight comes from an online digital background having served as the deputy creative director of BusinessWeek.com and the founder […]

AOL Revenues Buoyed By Increased Advertising Revenues, Investors Not Impressed

AOL Revenues Buoyed By Increased Advertising Revenues, Investors Not Impressed

For the first time in three years AOL on Tuesday posted an increase in global advertising revenue during the company’s earnings call. The newly reorganized media publisher posted a net loss of $11.8 million for the quarter, compared to a […]

Premium Internet Publishers Attract Higher Conversion Rates For Advertisers [Study]

Premium Internet Publishers Attract Higher Conversion Rates For Advertisers [Study]

Premium Publishers who rank in the top 100 ComScore websites are more effective at attracting and converting users in performance-based campaigns than sites that rely on long-tail keywords according to a recent study conducted by retargeting firm Criteo. Criteo used […]

BitFlx Brings Hyperlocal Video Reporting To iPhone Users, Android Coming Soon

BitFlx Brings Hyperlocal Video Reporting To iPhone Users, Android Coming Soon

Hyperlocal sites such as Patch.com and Outside.In allow users to write news stories about their local communities, however we currently live in a video centric society and for that reason BitFlx was thought up and initiated. BitFlx is an iPhone […]

Newsweek Bought Their Traffic Ahead Of ‘The Daily Beast’ Merger

Newsweek Bought Their Traffic Ahead Of ‘The Daily Beast’ Merger

Last week it was reported that while The Daily Beast was seeing upticks in their own website traffic, recently acquired company Newsweek is down 24 percent in the past year and now it turns out that those numbers could have been […]

Digg Adds Customizable Real-Time Newswire To Voting System

Digg Adds Customizable Real-Time Newswire To Voting System

  Let’s be honest for a moment, Digg is a former shell of itself in many ways, however despite all of the site hate lately they did take a major step by attempting, albeit it as a massive failure, to […]

New York Times Tackles Online Space With Beta620 Testing Website

New York Times Tackles Online Space With Beta620 Testing Website

Remember when Google Labs existed (a short month ago) and the company would test all of their new products in a fun environment that encouraged only the best products to continue their path of development, well now the New York […]

Storify Teams Up With BreakingNews.com And @BreakingNews Twitter Account

Storify Teams Up With BreakingNews.com And @BreakingNews Twitter Account

New media narrative creation site Storify has announced a new partnership with Twitter account @BreakingNews and BreakingNews.com which are owned and operated by MSNBC. The Storify system allows users to create news narratives by combining information from Twitter, Facebook status […]

Rita Wilson Talks About Baby Boomer Website Huff/Post 50 [Video]

Rita Wilson Talks About Baby Boomer Website Huff/Post 50 [Video]

On September 14 the Huffington Post will launched a new website called Huff/Post 50 geared towards Baby Boomers and today HuffPost Editor-at-large Rita Wilson took some time to speak about the new site and what it will offer. For Baby […]