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Welcome to the new eMedia Vitals

When we launched eMedia Vitals in July 2009, we aimed to create an online community to help magazine and newspaper professionals reposition and revitalize their businesses. We quickly learned that nobody wanted another "online community" where activity is minimal and consists mostly of marketing posts from vendors. Full Story
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Facebook Places: What it means for media brands

Facebook has launched its much-anticipated location-based service, "Facebook Places," which allows users to "check in" to certain locations such as restaurants, bars, music festivals, etc. Find out how journalists and app-builders both can use the service. Full Story
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michaeltsmith

There's no question in my mind that Prescott's "Five ways" are great ideas for many people to monetize their sites and applications without having to charge the users directly, I think that, unfortunately, they may not work for Reddit, and to a great...

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Prescott Shibles

You hit the nail on the head.

We'll be launching a "Yahoo Answers" type of product for digital media next week! 

Love the lightweight approach to projects. Think big but act small (or maybe "act incrementally"). Then when features don't pan out as you hoped, it's not a big deal - you didn't blow all your development resources for six months. If your project...

An approach like this is a direct way to stimulate creativity on the developer, publisher, AND client side. With such frequent updates you'll be getting a constant flow of new ideas for products. Of course, not everything that's launched will s...