Our friends at the Communication Initiative Network are helping the global fight against polio with Daylife Content Apps, specifically the slideshow gallery. They aren’t using it just for photos though – they’ve embedded an entire presentation in the app, rich with data and images.
Lewis DVorkin at Forbes posted a great piece this morning on the nature – and future – of the page view as the key metric in digital publishing. His insights on what he calls (and I agree) the “tyranny” of the page view are worth reading, as are his thoughts on how we’ll all be able to move past it to more organic, accurate measurements.
By Upendra Shardanand
Here are a few predictions for the digital publishing and media industries for 2012:
The Internet Will Become Hyper Personalized
The massive maze of information known as the Internet will one day have its own apocalypse and be reborn as a new source of customized information similar to what we know as Apps today–essentially, your own highly personal internet. 2012 will be a decisive year in the move toward the personal Internet. This personalized Internet will allow users to create their own seamlessly integrated collection of education, information, entertainment, social environments and commerce experiences within a diverse range of hardware to be consumed however they choose, wherever they choose, whenever they choose. Guiding these experiences will Siri-like assistants and semantic algorithms that ensure only the right sorts of content is reaching any given user as it’s needed.