What We Should Learn from the Collapse of Borders
The collapse of Borders should be a wake-up call to publishers that assume that the core infrastructure of their legacy businesses will always be there to provide essential services.
The collapse of Borders should be a wake-up call to publishers that assume that the core infrastructure of their legacy businesses will always be there to provide essential services.
The Google Era isn’t over by a long shot, but initiatives from Apple and Amazon reveal that the search giant is open to disintermediation by some clever and large-scale commercial tactics.
Information tailored to the user requires identity services that are useful and trusted. Will Google+ create a new baseline standard? Whither ORCID? Why can one succeed while one might be doomed? And what might the world look like for scientists when these opportunities are captured?
Following users across the Web is an increasingly common way to expand ad inventory. But can scholarly publishers expect users to accept it?
Social media continue to evolve, with Google Plus being the most recent conspicuous entry. Scholarly publishers may find these new platforms can be useful in evolving new forms of communications.
Google and Apple have different cultures. One is thriving while one has chosen a different path. That choice may prove significant.
The downside of silent filters becomes crystal clear in this important talk.
The Drudge Report provides a useful service and drives a disproportionate amount of news traffic. Could academics be disciplined enough to emulate it?
Google and Facebook are battling, but looking more and more alike.
The Google Books Settlement actually hit its second roadblock this week. Here’s why, and where matter might go from here.
The Google Books Settlement hits a barrier. The implications of this will need to be sorted out over the coming days and weeks.
While it seems that availability drives down the quality of information goods, some exceptions make it clear this is not an unavoidable fate. Can scientific publishing beat the trend?
A study of social media adoption hides some sensible lessons within a jumble of other signals.
Apple’s apparent abuse of its platform dominance may signal a basic incompatibility between providers and platforms.
The outer ring of citation remains a point of vulnerability for quality proxies, as does reducing complex things to simple lists or numbers. When will we learn?