Chikodi Chima
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Brazilian Busk sorts your daily news digest by keyword
Google’s announcement of a sophisticated micropayment plan for newspapers comes as a welcome development for publishers, but the race to make reading news and blogs online a seamless experience is still far from over. Accordingly, the entry of Busk into the reader market is an exciting development, providing a new way to extract exactly what you’re looking for from real-time news content.
São Paulo, Brazil-based Busk is a news discovery engine that helps you browse, filter… Continue Reading
Brazil: Social advertising’s next frontier
Trendwatchers take note: Brazil offers a fascinating glimpse at how rapidly social media has changed internet usage patterns. Brazilian consumers spend an average of 19.3 hours online for personal use versus 9.8 hours watching TV, according to a study released by Deloitte. Sixty-seven million Brazilians now have internet access, which is approximately 34 percent of the population, reports Internet World Stats.
While Google’s Orkut social network is virtually unknown to Americans, its dominance in the Brazilian… Continue Reading
PaperG: The right local ad solution for struggling newspapers?
Wily entrepreneurs know that a crisis is just an opportunity in disguise. While the downturn has forced many local businesses to move their advertising dollars online, no one has come up with an efficient way to display ads from small advertisers with limited budgets across multiple platforms. While many players have ventured into the local advertising market, few have dared to change the game.
PaperG plans to fill that void with its flagship Flyerboard product, a… Continue Reading
Behance’s Scott Belsky on productivity tools for the creative community
Action is the substance of excellence. Far too often our ideas distract us from what we need to do because we focus on what we could do.
The tech industry is fueled by novel ideas. But its preoccupation with measurable results often means that the only difference between a good idea and a great idea is that one gets put into action. In this occasionally cutthroat environment, the Behance Network has emerged to bring organization to… Continue Reading
Huffington Post’s Lerer teaches journalism students to think like VCs
[Editor's note: As newspapers watch their business models crumble, journalism schools are moving fast to restructure their curricula to emphasize technology and new media. Below, Columbia journalism graduate student Chikodi Chima reviews a new seminar with an entrepreneurial bent.]
Cub reporter Kenneth Lerer was sure his days as a journalist were numbered when then-Saturday Night Live star Chevy Chase stopped him in the middle of an interview to ask why he wasn’t taking any notes. Few… Continue Reading