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The Daily Beast, Alive and Well 1 Year Later

I'm still watching sites like The Daily Beast, Huffington Post, Serious Eats, Gawker, Techcrunch and a slew of others. They've really pioneered a modern publishing model that can provide a bunch of best practices for all of us interested in what comes next.

Tina Brown's 1 year wrap up of the Daily Beast is a nice write up. Well worth reading if you want to hear from the heart and brain of the new model.

Dachis' Social Business Design: Can We Simplify This Language?

Wow, there's a lot of good thinking in this overview of Dachis Group's overview of Social Business Design, but it's kind of hard to parse through it. There's plenty of jargon, neologisms, and vague terms ("interconnectedness") to make it hard to know exactly what they're doing. I get it, but it took some time to really make the connection. I wonder what Common Craft could do to make their approach immediately clear and simplified. Great, thought-provoking ideas...

via: www.dachisgroup.com

Update:Here's a presentation from Armano that makes it clearer...

An Insight Into the Future of Publishing from Adweek

Check out the interesting backstory from @bmorrissey at Adweek on their "Real-Time Cannes" program. Here's the key quote:

We thought of how so often in the past we’ve been forced to make material fit in containers of the past. A few interesting remarks at a seminar were either a 500-word news story or something that remained in our notebook. An hour and a half meeting would end up yielding a quote in the magazine story.

They built it fast, outside of their corporate boundaries, and with a "will it work?" mindset. Innovate or die tryin'.

Netflix: Kiosks Will Be No.1 Competitor, Future of Video is Social

Netflix: Kiosks Will Be No.1 Competitor, Future of Video is Social.

America's Newest Profession - WSJ.com

America's Newest Profession - WSJ.com.Useful for later. 40-90k when blogging for a company?

Gillmor: Only the Beginning

Only the Beginning.from Steve Gilmor. Whenever i read his stuff, i always get his passion, and get that what he's talking about it important (most of the time), but i'm never exactly sure *what* he's saying. I'll keep reading though.

The gist of the linked article:

• Friendfeed is redesigning; Gillmor got to see it first
• It's going to be a big change
• Real-time info is more important than we first thought
• Its going to be exciting.

Good design: The ten commandments of Dieter Rams

Good design: The ten commandments of Dieter Rams.

Twitter becomes the Web's Status Indicator

Twitter Fast Growing Beyond its Messaging Roots | Epicenter from Wired.com. It's becoming the generic status indicator for the web overall.

Quick Overview of Remix from Best Buy

Finance and Commerce. On Best Buy's Remix program. This is something anyone with a lot of content in a database should consider.

Being Peter Kim: The need for services in social technology

Being Peter Kim: The need for services in social technology. this is a very important post for those of you thinking about the social media business and your (agency) role in it. I'd want to be in the service business if i were starting today.

I'm still thinking about his point that a service focused business will, by necessity, have to be a high end business, pointed only at the largest companies. Yes, they have the largest budgets.

Key question: Assuming the best social media businesses will be a combination of software AND services, can a vendor bring in an efficient costing service by having the best technology?