The NewsCloud Blogtag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-2799332009-07-09T15:28:05-07:00NewsCloud.com is an aggregator of social media and provider of open source software solutionsTypePadFacebook News Applications Featured in Online Journalism Blogtag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451b2ee69e2011570f2fbe6970c2009-07-09T15:28:05-07:002009-07-09T15:28:23-07:00In "The End of News Websites" at the Online Journalism Blog, Vadim Lavrousik, former editor of the MnDaily (we worked with him publishing the Facebook-version of the MnDaily earlier in the year) writes about the value he sees in our...Jeffhttp://blog.newscloud.com/2009/07/facebook-news-applications-featured-in-online-journalism-blog.htmlAmazon Kindle 2 Price Cut to $299tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451b2ee69e2011571dd8891970b2009-07-08T15:27:25-07:002009-07-08T15:27:25-07:00Amazon Kindle 2 is now only $299 after recent price cuts. The e-reader launched at $399, then dropped to $359, and now is only $299. As I wrote earlier, the Kindle 2 is a pretty decent way to read The...Jeffhttp://blog.newscloud.com/2009/07/amazon-kindle-2-price-cut-to-299.htmlScheduled maintenance underwaytag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451b2ee69e20115718cfd77970b2009-06-29T20:24:44-07:002009-06-29T20:24:44-07:00NewsCloud is undergoing regularly scheduled maintenance overnight. We'll let you know when the site is up again. Thanks for your support.Jeffhttp://blog.newscloud.com/2009/06/scheduled-maintenance-underway.html10 Ways Journalism Schools Are Teaching Social Mediatag:typepad.com,2003:post-684524932009-06-24T10:32:31-07:002009-06-24T10:45:50-07:00Our journalism partner from our MnDaily work, Vadim Lavrusik wrote this great piece for Mashable: 10 Ways Journalism Schools Are Teaching Social Media but don't forget the University of Washington's course publishing an entrepreneurial Facebook publication called In:SiteJeffhttp://blog.newscloud.com/2009/06/10-ways-journalism-schools-are-teaching-social-media.htmlWordles - Representation of Hot Dish Stories and Commentstag:typepad.com,2003:post-682413752009-06-18T07:38:17-07:002009-06-18T07:38:17-07:00At the Knight Foundation's Future of News and Civic Media Conference at MIT this week, Martin Wattenberg just presented Wordle - a few minutes later... 1) Representation of all titles and abstracts of stories posted publicly to Hot Dish by...Jeffhttp://blog.newscloud.com/2009/06/wordles-representation-of-hot-dish-stories-and-comments.htmlFacebook, MySpace still better than Twitter for connecting people to your sitetag:typepad.com,2003:post-679163232009-06-09T16:28:23-07:002009-06-09T16:28:23-07:00Major television events are continuing to see good results when they integrate social media, especially using services that let people take their social networking identities with them around the web. The latest example is media conglomerate Turner Networks, which recently...Jeffhttp://blog.newscloud.com/2009/06/facebook-myspace-still-better-than-twitter-for-connecting-people-to-your-site.htmlPoynter: Experimental Facebook Use Rewards News Readerstag:typepad.com,2003:post-673783112009-05-28T11:39:47-07:002009-05-28T11:39:47-07:00Nice article by Tara George at Poynter on our Facebook application news community at the MnDaily: Experimental Facebook Use Rewards News Readers. Universities interested in using the Facebook application technology to publish their own news sites in Facebook can either...Jeffhttp://blog.newscloud.com/2009/05/poynter-experimental-facebook-use-rewards-news-readers.htmlRun your own Facebook Application Community News sitetag:typepad.com,2003:post-673477992009-05-27T16:06:36-07:002009-05-27T16:06:36-07:00We've set up an informational page about our Facebook Application Community News service. If you're interested in learning more about hiring NewsCloud to run a Facebook application community for your organization, please take a look there first.Jeffhttp://blog.newscloud.com/2009/05/facebook-applications-and-news-communities.htmlSocial Media Toolkit Release May '09 Previewtag:typepad.com,2003:post-666591272009-05-11T14:55:52-07:002009-05-11T14:55:52-07:00We've released the source code that serves as a base for Hot Dish and MnDaily applications - you can find it at http://github.com/newscloud/open-social-media-toolkit in the may09preview branch. We encourage you to sign up for our developer forum at Google Groups....Jeffhttp://blog.newscloud.com/2009/05/social-media-toolkit-release-may-09-preview.htmlHot Dish Action Team winners announced! Drumroll, please.........tag:typepad.com,2003:post-665128512009-05-07T13:40:56-07:002009-05-07T15:27:41-07:00Hey Hot Dishers! We've reached the end of the Hot Dish Action Team contest! Now, the moment you've all been waiting for.... Allison C. of Arizona is the lucky and hardworking Grand Prize winner of a trip to the Arctic,...Jeffhttp://blog.newscloud.com/2009/05/hey-hot-dishersweve-reached-the-end-of-the-hot-dish-action-team-contest-now-the-moment-youve-all-been-waiting-forallis.html