Archive for September, 2007

Facebook for Content Providers: A Look at the New York Times Application

The New York Times dips its toe into the Facebook waters today with the release of its New York Times News Quiz application.”Sigh, another Facebook application.” you say? Perhaps, but this one is particularly interesting to me for a few reasons:

It is one of only a very few from traditional print publishers
It is not [...]


Reader Poll - A Little Help Here?

ckwebb.com recently underwent a redesign, and I’m still tweaking it a bit.  Although most of you read ckwebb.com via the RSS feed, many do click through.  So some of questions for you, dear readers:

On the main page I currently have excerpts from the 10 most recent posts.  Do you prefer the full text on the [...]


Daily Link Digest for 09/11/07

Search Your Own Diggs by Brian Shaler
(tags: api digg gears)

The Book Marketing Potential of Social Networks
(tags: books marketing socialnetworks)

Here come e-books on the iPhone??
(tags: apple iphone ebooks)


Daily Link Digest for 09/10/07

How print on demand and e-books with social DRM could revolutionize the publishing industry
(tags: publishing ebooks books)

Web 2.0 Status for Google Books - With Possible Charges in Effect
(tags: google books ebooks)

Every Product Is A Platform
(tags: socialsoftware socialnetworks platform)

Call For Help: Help Rewrite Lifehacker the Book!
(tags: books lifehacker)


John Wiley & Sons 10-Q Released

My publisher, John Wiley & Sons, released its 10-Q today.
Revenue for the first quarter of fiscal year 2008 of $388.6 million increased 48% from $263.4 million in the prior year’s first quarter, or 46% excluding the favorable impact of foreign exchange. Blackwell Publishing Ltd. (”Blackwell”), which was acquired on February 2, 2007, [...]