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Ink Blogging With Smartpen by Livescribe

James Kendrick — Wed, 13 May 2009 21:56:16 +0000

Blogging in ink is a cool thing to behold. The Tablet PC has long held the reins on ink blogging but the Smartpen by Livescribe we recently covered is looking to change that. The Smartpen records notes written in ink on the special paper and it also records audio at the same time. It’s designed to allow the recording of meetings so that the audio is in sync with the ink notes taken with the pen. It works like OneNote on the Tablet PC; you can tap on a spot on the notepage later and hear the audio that was recorded at the time the ink was written. Pretty cool in its own right, but imagine being able to embed that ink on your blog. You can with the Smartpen’s pencasts.

Livescribe allows Smartpen owners to upload their ink notes from the pen to an online account on their server. These accounts give you 250 MB of free storage for said notes, which can be kept private or shared with others. Pencasts are flash video that’s created from the ink notes and recorded audio, if it exists, can be embedded on a blog quite simply. That raises ink blogging to the next level, with the ability to speak to the blog audience alongside of the posts in ink. That is just darn cool any way you look at it. Check out the available pencasts on the Livescribe site and you’ll see what I mean. There are even those who are using the pencasts as podcasts with audio and ink, which is just awesome.

(via Gizmag)

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Salon to Syndicate GigaOM Network Content

Om Malik — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 23:51:37 +0000

And now for some good news: Starting today, Salon Media, the San Francisco, Calif.-based publisher of Salon.com, will syndicate content from our growing network of blogs. The content will be featured on Salon’s technology section, with The GigaOM Network offered as a specifically curated channel. Joey Wan, director of business development, helped spearhead the partnership and the design of this special channel. Great work, Joey!

This is, of course, just our latest syndication partnership, in addition to those with BusinessWeek.com, CNN Money and the New York Times, all of which were announced in 2008.

With these four agreements, our content is being read by an increasingly vast and diverse group of people. These partnerships are testament to the hard work and efforts of our editorial team. Thanks guys, for working so hard. To all of our Salon readers — welcome. We hope you will enjoy our stories.

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GigaOM Network Content to be Featured on CNNMoney.com

Om Malik — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 15:10:09 +0000

Earlier this summer, when we announced our content partnership with BusinessWeek.com, I hinted that there would be more to come. Today it gives me great pleasure to announce that we have formed a content-sharing agreement with Time Warner’s CNNMoney.com, the online home of Fortune magazine, Money magazine and several other top-notch publications.

With more than 10 million unique visitors a month, CNNMoney is one of the biggest business-related destinations on the web. As part of the partnership, starting soon, content from our growing network of sites is going to appear on the technology channels of CNNMoney.com and Fortune.com. The technology industries and topics covered will include broadband, VoIP, Internet infrastructure, mobile devices, wireless innovation, digital media and venture capital, among others.

We will be looking for ways to further enhance this relationship as well. And it’s great to be working with my former employer again. Thanks to Chris Peacock, editor and VP of CNNMoney.com, and Jonathan Shar, SVP and general manager, for helping to put this partnership together.

Regular readers of this blog know that ever since the day we opened for business, I have been striving to turn this company into more than the efforts of just one person. That has meant developing and nurturing talent within the organization, bringing in professionals and putting in place the best practices needed to become a true, next-generation online media entity.

This partnership is also a testament to how hard my team works — never complaining, always ready with a smile, and committed to turning my ideas into reality. Thanks you guys, and onwards!

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