The Curation Company: Open playing field vs. walled garden
The Curation Company, through it's news site the Tech Design Forum will provide the guides, news and articles (maybe video, too) and put them all together... and only for the IC design community. B2B media, after a decade of trying to hold back the tide of change, is finally moving with the times, redefining what journalism will look like for the next 50 years. Both the good news and bad news is we still don't know what works...although we are getting closer. UBM , Hearst and Advantage Media have all rolled out new formats and features on their various sites this year; personnel have been added, dropped and reassigned. For UBM alone, it seems their online strategy is paying off About a year ago, CEO Paul Miller told me that their online revenue had finally reached parity with print, partly because print revenue continued to decline and partly because online revenue was still rising. The annual report in February showed that while print was down 22...