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Apr 16

News as an Algorithm

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With news in the palm of our hands, the way in which we consume and discover as well as the way in which the stories are told continue to change. Technology that embraces personalization, social networks, social graphs and high-quality content is providing opportunities for new models. The business for online news has not yet been fully stabilized, but it hasn’t stopped a growing number of startups from jumping on the digital bandwagon.

During this session, we’ll be talking to two startups that are changing the way we get our news as well as the news that we get.

Paul Quigley is co-founder of NewsWhip, the news site with a billion editors. The technology tracks all the news published by about 5,000 English-language sources–-about 60,000 news stories each day. So how can you find the best quality and the most compelling in 60,000 stories a day? Paul and his team thinks the answer lies with people. They think that people have an instinct for good stories, and that we know the news stories worth sharing with our friends. So NewsWhip built a technology that tracks all the news shared on Facebook and Twitter each day, to find the fastest spreading, most shared, highest quality stuff, and reveal it to the world. All in real time, in dozens of countries and niches. But for NewsWhip it is not just about the news as a story, this team is also working to monetize. NewsWhip’s revenues come from its popular professional tool, Spike, which gives newsrooms and content marketers detailed insights on what’s trending hour-by-hour in hundreds of cities, regions and countries—so that early trending stories can be uncovered quickly. Right now, Spike is giving useful insights to many digitally focused newsrooms including the BBC, NBCnews.com, The Huffington Post, Mashable Buzzfeed, and RTÉ. Social Amplifier, which displays a news company’s most trending stories in real time, gives readers and journalists a live view of what the site’s users are sharing, making sites more engaging and sticky. NewsWhip also recently released an API, widgets and mobile apps.

Joining Paul is David Cohn, who has written for Wired, Seed, Columbia Journalism Review and The New York Times among other publications. Most recently he is the founding editor of Circa. With more and more people relying on their phones as their primary source of news, Circa’s editors aim to gather top stories to break them down to their essential points — facts, quotes, photos, and more, formatted specifically for the phone. Circa is creating the first born-on-mobile news experience, delivering it in a format native to mobile devices, with an experience intuitive to mobile users. In the organization’s words, Circa is news, re-imagined.

How will these startups and others change the way the story gets told and what we see first?

To learn more, here are the bios for Paul Quigley and David Cohn.

Apr 16

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A Month to Go Before mesh13

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It’s hard to believe mesh13 is only a month away (May 15/16 to be exact).

We’ve got a really strong line-up of speakers, led by our keynotes: Ryan Carson (Treehouse), Joshua Benton (Nieman Journalism Lab), Kyle Monson (Knock Twice) and JP Rangaswami (Salesforce.com). If you haven’t been to mesh before, our keynotes our fireside conversations in which we encourage lots of questions from attendees.

Another key part of mesh is the wide variety of topics being explored, discussed and focused on. This year, we’re tackling books, money, social media, online advertising, censorship of the Web, email marketing, presentations, design, television, HR and video.

We also have a mini-startup stream on day two, as well as our Hosted Startup program in which 50 entrepreneurs will be invited to attend mesh for free.

If you’re looking for food for thought on how the Web is impacting how we live, work and play, you’ll find lots of insight at mesh.

If you want insight, information and inspiration about how to do your job better or differently, there are plenty of hands-on sessions.

Tickets are now on sale. Pre-registration tickets can be purchased for $579, while one-day tickets (which we created this year) are $399.

Apr 15

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mesh: Explore, Learn, Network

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One of the taglines we used for mesh is it’s the place to explore and discuss what’s coming over the digital horizon.

It is why we bring in speakers who are actively involved in new ideas, trends and businesses that are changing the digital landscape. These sessions are great food for thought because they’re designed to make you think, explore new angles and consider new and different concepts that are shaping how the Web is evolving.

This year, for example, our keynote speakers – Ryan Carson, JP Rangaswami, Josh Benton and Kyle Monson – will bring you into the fast-moving worlds of education, work, media and brand journalism.

And we’ve got panels focused on the future of money, books, education, politics and travel.

But the other side of mesh is where we deliver panels and workshops that deliver insight and information about how to do your jobs differently or better.

These are hands-on and interactive sessions with a focus on learning, training and education. They are led by people in the trenches who can provide real-world examples and case studies to give you tactical insights, tools and best practices.

For us, success comes when you walk away from of these sessions with inspiration and a list of to-dos when you get back to the office.

This year’s line-up of our get-stuff-done better sessions include Joe Pulizzi (content marketing), Ashley Wilson (email marketing), Scott Lake, Joel Yashinsky and Hessie Jones (social media), Chris Sukornyk, Ray Philipose and Roy Pereira (digital advertising) and Amanda Richardson (presentations).

The bottom line is mesh offers a great one-two punch of strategic thinking and tactical learning, which makes for a great two days.

Pre-registration tickets for mesh are $579. If two days is too much time out of the office, no problem: we have one-day tickets for $399.

Here’s where you can see the complete schedule for mesh, which happens May 15 & 16 at the Allstream Centre in downtown Toronto