Publisher related news bits

With the Holiday season approaching, you’ll soon be swamped with a massive to-do list. We thought we’d give you a selection of publisher-related news and bits for you, so you can have more time for those seemingly never ending holiday tasks.

Does the Internet care about you making money?
Publishing 2.0 has an interesting analysis of how the market and your business model may not actually be actually seeing eye-to-eye.  The post uses the example of the newspaper industry and how it approached the online industry with a sense of entitlement, which may have caused it some obstacles. The post says, “Ask not what the market can do for you, but what you can do for the market.” Read more here.

A new twist for Twittering?
Marketing Vox reported that Twitter may consider charging companies to use its microblogging feed for consumer purposes. Last week Twitter announced that it had surpassed the one billion published tweets mark.  For folks who don’t know, Twitter allows users to publish “microblogs” of up to 140 characters. Read more here. 

Open source video
Do you publish or blog with video? The Creative Commons blog recently posted a story on Kaltura, an open-source platform for video creation. As the blog reports, “Kaltura is a robust platform uncommon among web-apps that includes the ability to annotate, remix, edit, and share video collaboratively over the web.” If you need video but not a big editing package, it might be worthwhile to check it out. 

— Roger Park, Manager, Marketing Communications