A couple of months ago, Tanya Cordrey, the director of digital development for the Guardian, made a statement that raised some eyebrows. “It’s only a matter of time until social overtakes search for the Guardian,” she told attendees at the Guardian Changing Media Submit. The impetus for that comment was the Guardian’s Facebook app, which...Read More

It’s hard to predict a lasting and sustaining innovation. How do we determine what will become a platform and what we will build our lives around? Companies are all facing this issue right now. How can brands build a social customer strategy with the continual creation of new technology and new social platforms? At today’s...Read More

Recently, TED put out a new beta that allows educators to customize lessons from the TED-Ed video library.  Taking a combination of an educator’s written lesson and getting a professional animator to bring it to life, TED has started building a great library of educational videos teaching a diverse group of topics.  Each animated video...Read More

Software is a multi-billion dollar industry but that doesn’t mean it hasn’t changed dramatically in the past several years. From the rise of the app store to software-as-a-service, how software is bought and sold has been evolving rapidly. That creates both opportunity and challenges for software’s biggest players. Case in point: Adobe, which yesterday unveiled...Read More

Everyday on the CitizenTube channel (and @CitizenTube on Twitter), along with our curation partners @storyful, we look at how the top news stories are covered on YouTube. Each week we post a weekly recap of the top news stories of the week, as seen through the lens of both citizen-reported footage and professional news coverage....Read More