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BlackBerry CEO John Chen wants net neutrality to extend to content and applications, so that developers of apps for Android and iOS will be mandated to develop on the BlackBerry platform as well. Not all content and app providers have embraced openness and neutrality, Chen wrote in a blog post that the company said was…
AOL Inc. (AOL:US), the owner of the Huffington Post, TechCrunch and Engadget, is considering closing some websites as part of a restructuring at the company, according to a person with knowledge of the matter. The Web portal is looking to close underperforming sites and switch resources to other AOL-owned properties that are performing better, the…
We’re not living in an algorithmic culture so much as a computational theocracy. Algorithms are everywhere, supposedly. We are living in an “algorithmic culture,” to use the author and communication scholar Ted Striphas’s name for it. Google’s search algorithms determine how we access information. Facebook’s News Feed algorithms determine how we socialize. Netflix’s and Amazon’s…
Dots or people—what do you want your readers to think? (Ryan Norton via Flickr.) Jake Harris on data visualization, empathy, and representing people with dots One of my favorite movies is the classic 1949 thriller “The Third Man.” The story is about a writer who arrives in gloomy post-war Vienna on the promise of a job…
WIRED Ones: I need a few minutes of your attention to talk about how we treat the workspace we’ll fully occupy on Jan. 5. #newwiredoffice A photo posted by Scott Dadich (@sdadich) on Jan 5, 2015 at 9:56am PST We made a big investment in the construction and design of the new floor — more…
As the ongoing Podcast Renaissance invigorates audio storytelling—you may have heard about a little program called Serial—social news site Reddit is grabbing a piece of the action to better share its most popular stories with a mobile audience. Reddit cofounder Alexis Ohanian recently announced a new endeavor: Upvoted, the official Reddit podcast that digs deeper…
Why 2014 Was Our Favorite Year Yet 13:52:52, 1/13/2015 Why 2014 Was Our Favorite Year Yet.
by Julia Homer (About the author: Julia Homer was the editor of CFO Magazine for its 1985 launch and served at CFO Publishing until January 2012 when she left as executive vice president. While CFO was part of The Economist Group from 1989 to 2009, Homer helped launch CFO Europe, CFO Asia and CFO China,…
Credit: Image by Thinkstock The desire to build a community and reader engagement around articles is a growing focus for publishers and organisations on the web. Community, social media or user-generated content teams have become a mainstay of digital news organisations, and further possibilities for engagement are explored regularly. Now business site CFO has thrown…