“Publishers’ push for online innovation”:http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=1&storycode=37067 – From the Press Gazette, an interesting article about how publishing companies are creating skunkworks-like environments(à la Yahoo!’s Brickhouse), agile development philosophies, and dedicated teams tasked specifically to bringing traditional publishing into the digital age, in innovative ways. [via "Times emit":http://aptstudio.com/timesemit/]
“Enterprise instant messaging on the rise”:http://www.crm2day.com/news/crm/122702.php – CRM Today reports on a Gartner prediction of enterprise IM becoming the “de facto tool for voice, video and text chat” by 2011, with “95 percent of workers in leading global organisations using it as their primary interface for real-time communications by 2013.” It’s interesting to note that even the Gartner prediction emphasizes that IM will be complementary to e-mail rather than a replacement for it.
More on IM when I get back to Boston later next week.
“Flickr is now the #2 photo site”:http://weblogs.hitwise.com/leeann-prescott/2007/07/flickr_traffic_up_38_in_past_f.html – Hitwise Intelligence shows that after the closing of Yahoo! Photos, and the resulting user immigrations, Flickr is the #2 photo sharing site after Photobucket. Flickr is still one of the most innovative photo sharing sites in the industry, and now that they have an even greater number of users, they’ll have a larger role in setting industry and user expectations for what features a photo sharing site and community should have.
