Is the iPad the saviour of the newspaper? 2
After turning off my iPhone alarm this morning I clicked through on a push alert from Mashable entitled, “Is the iPad the saviour of the newspaper industry”. It’s a topic I find really interesting for the following reasons;
• The newspaper was one of the first truly mass medias that everyone enjoyed
• They haven’t translated their business model to online successfully, in fact at all
• Newspapers are losing advertising revenue and circulation all the time
• They are in terminal decline
Physical Social Bookmarking
I stumbled across http://itizen.com/ the other day whilst seeking inspiration for social gaming ideas. I love the Web 2.0 feel of the website and the basic idea of it. In a nutshell it boils down to the following concept; you tag an item, object or thing, and then you tell a story about it. Over time the story should evolve as the item is passed on encountered by new people.
It’s more quaint than business opportunity at the moment as it’s a real world extension of the basic Wikipedia concept; contributing to more freely accessible information for everyone who is interested, and for, well, in this case potentially pretty much everything. But it has a more social aspect to it. At the very least I can certainly see a social games emerging from these concepts- think treasure hunt with Foursquare (location based) and Twitter (real time) maybe?
Perhaps tags should include 3-D barcodes, NFC (like Oyster) tags and in the future DNA style tagging? Part of me wants to run away at the big brother potential of all this social technology and part of my revels in it. The Itzen concept is certainly very interesting but early days, so I’m looking forward to seeing if people adopt it.
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