Saul Hansell

AOL's Content Strategy Is Still A Mess

Henry Blodget | Posted 05.25.2011

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Henry Blodget

AOL does appear to have an opportunity to create the Time, Inc. for the 21st Century. The tools, building blocks, and scale are there. But it's not going to happen without a very clear strategy. And right now, AOL's content strategy is a mess.

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Seed's Coming Out Party at SXSW

NY Convergence | NY Convergence | Posted 05.25.2011

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At this year's SXSW,  Aol has used  the event to officially test out Seed.com, its new content aggregator/journalism/freelancer Web s...

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SXSW - Austin: The Heart of the Content Revolution

Steve Rosenbaum | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Foursquare, Video, Aol, Seth Godin, Curation, Steve Rosenbaum, Saul Hansell, magnify.net, Sxsw, Aggregation, Technology News
Steve Rosenbaum

In the 'gig' economy you can write a free blog post, give away a few free chapters for your paid e-book, sit on a panel for free and do paid keynote speeches all at the same time.

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AOL's Big SXSW Bet On Seed and 'Bionic Journalism'

Steve Rosenbaum | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: AOL Seed, AOL News Platform, AOL News, Bionic Journalism, Sxsw, AOL SXSW, AOL News Gathering, Saul Hansell, Technology News
Steve Rosenbaum

AOL has built a three legged stool to create content: part professional, part freelance, and part aggregated. Is AOL trying to beat Google at the news gathering game?

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AOL Seeks 'Very Creative People' Who Love Mind-Numbing Labor

New York Observer | New York Observer | Posted 05.25.2011

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Seed chief Saul Hansell continues to give the hard sell on AOL. Back in December, he said in an interview that his new employer was "just as m...

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'NY Times'' Hansell Joins Aol.'s 'Seed.com'

NY Convergence | NY Convergence | Posted 05.25.2011

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New York Times reporter Saul Hansell has left the publication to join aol. as programming director of the company's new content management plat...

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Prepaid Wireless Service Could Spur Price War

Dygest.net | Dygest.net | Posted 05.25.2011

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Boost Mobile, the prepaid-cellphone arm of Sprint Nextel, helped stanch the flow of mobile subscribers who defected from the troubled third-place carr...

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The Debate Over Online News: It's the Consumer, Stupid

Arianna Huffington | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Associated Press Fair Use, Internet, Tom Curley, Timesselect, Ap, Newspaper Association of America, AP Fair Use, Eric Schmidt, Jeff Jarvis, Associated Press, New York Times, Ap Tom Curley, Online News, Online Newspapers, Saul Hansell, Media News
Arianna Huffington

For me, the key question is whether those of us working in the media embrace and adapt to the radical changes brought about by the Internet or pretend that we can somehow hop into a journalistic Way Back Machine and return to a past that no longer exists.

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Apple Confirms iPhone Shortage A Screw-Up

Silicon Alley Insider | Henry Blodget | Posted 05.25.2011

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Apple (AAPL) finally commented about the iPhone shortage, all but confirming that it is a problem, not a new product introduction. Saul Hansell of the...

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Google Builds "Secret" Oregon Compound...

The New York Times | John Markoff And Saul Hansell | Posted 05.25.2011

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On the banks of the windswept Columbia River, Google is working on a secret weapon in its quest to dominate the next generation of Internet computing....

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Niche Internet TV Gives Rise To "Slivercasting"...

New York Times | SAUL HANSELL | Posted 05.25.2011

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ANDY STEWARD, a successful London computer consultant and sailboat racer, became exasperated when trying to watch his favorite sport on television. Th...

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Internet Firms Regularly Handing Over User Data To Courts, Despite Promises...

New York Times | SAUL HANSELL | Posted 05.25.2011

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Who is sending threatening e-mail to a teenager? Who is saying disparaging things about a company on an Internet message board? Who is communicating o...

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Yahoo And AOL Charging "Postage" To Companies For Special Treatment Of Emails...

New York Times | SAUL HANSELL | Posted 05.25.2011

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Companies will soon have to buy the electronic equivalent of a postage stamp if they want to be certain that their e-mail will be delivered to many of...

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Google, Yahoo Getting Into TV....

The New York Times | SAUL HANSELL | Posted 05.25.2011

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Two ascending Internet giants, Google and Yahoo, are to make plain today that they intend to move aggressively beyond the Internet browser and onto th...

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Time Warner To Sell Portion Of AOL To Google…

New York Times | SAUL HANSELL | Posted 05.25.2011

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Rebuffing aggressive overtures from Microsoft, Time Warner has agreed to sell a 5 percent stake in America Online to Google for $1 billion as part of ...

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Google Earnmarks $265M For Charity, "Influencing Public Policy"...

The New York Times | SAUL HANSELL | Posted 05.25.2011

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Google gave the first details yesterday of how it would carry out its commitment to devote a share of its lucrative public stock offering to charity ...

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Google Moving Some Online Ads To Print Pages…

New York Times | Saul Hansell | Posted 05.25.2011

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Google, which built a lucrative business in online advertising, has found a new medium for its ad sales: print. The company is buying ad space in mag...

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Google Bans News Agency For Googling And Reporting Its CEO's "Private" Info…

New York Times | SAUL HANSELL | Posted 05.25.2011

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Google says its mission is "to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful." But it does not appear to take kindly ...

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"The Public Has Moved To The Internet"...

New York Times | SAUL HANSELL | Posted 05.25.2011

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CBS News is turning its eye on itself. As part of an ambitious attempt to revive CBSNews.com with a broad array of free video news produced just for ...

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