I woke up yesterday morning and read an interesting update in the Boston Globe on the pulse of the Boston market as compared to the investment environment throughout the United States. Over the last several years, Boston has been compared to other VC markets, including San Francisco and New York, and has come up short.
But something different is happening now. For the first time in nearly seven years, Boston VC firms kept the majority of their investment local, with homegrown startups. Flybridge Venture Capital, Battery Ventures, General Catalyst, Bain Capital Ventures (and the list goes on) are seeing great ideas turn into solid revenue-generating businesses within the 30-mile radius of Beantown.
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Boston public relations,
Innovation,
Marketing,
Boston PR,
Innovation District,
Boston,
Mobile,
Venture Capitalist
With such a glut of media and content options today – onlines, dailies, blogs, chats, you name it – you would think those outlets would be clamoring to get an edge over the competition. You would think they would extend themselves to uncover stories that truly inform readers. You’d be wrong, says Marty Baron, editor of The Boston Globe.
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Geek. Nerd. Dork. Tech-obsessed – that’s what my brother’s MIT friends called me when I showed up late to watch Monday night’s Patriots game. Yes, you can re-read that sentence. A group of MIT students was standing there calling me a geek. They couldn’t believe I missed most of opening game to go to a MobileMonday event. I didn’t want to miss the game (though I did make it back to see Wes Welker run a 99.5-yard touchdown so I could win my PAN Fantasy match-up.) I tried to tell them how cool it was to hear about HTML 5, some innovative new apps, and best practices and challenges for mobile game development. They looked at me blankly. So I’m hoping I’ll have a different reaction here on prSPEAK, and maybe some fellow “geeks” will think the Mobile Games event, presented by Mobile Monday Boston, was as cool as I did. If so, drop a line in the comments and let me know I’m not alone. There's a little too much for one blog post, so check back later this week for the second half of my MobileMonday recap.
The new BostonGlobe.com
Whether you’re upset that the Boston Globe is asking readers to pay for online content or not, you have to be impressed with the new mobile design on the BostonGlobe.com. My only complaint is that I really do love native apps. I have the Boston.com app and I love it, and it sits in a group of apps with all my other favorite news sites and blogs. However, I think I’ll find myself giving BostonGlobe.com a shot on my iPhone. Here are the highlights, as I learned from Jeff Moriarty from the Boston Globe at Mobile Monday:
- Responsive design - Content is sized to any device
- Touch feature - touch, pinch and scroll your news
- Bookmark stories you want to read later
- Device driven formats – Whether you’re reading on a Kindle, BlackBerry, iPad and so on, the content will be optimized to your screen.
- Same storage space as native apps
- Gaming component for crossword puzzles – I like to call this old school meets new school. Crossword puzzles – really?
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Mobile,
mobile gaming
Ask anyone where you will find the greatest confluence of hospitals, academic medical centers, bio-technology companies and health IT companies, arguably in the world, and you’ll most likely here the response, “Boston, of course.” In a media panel program held Thursday night and hosted by The Publicity Club of New England, key influencers in the Boston healthcare media space agreed – Boston is the place to cover the many changes taking place across a broad spectrum of the healthcare industry. The panel included a number of well-known local healthcare editors and reporters such as: Julie Donnelly of the Boston Business Journal, Gideon Gil of the Boston Globe, Brian Johnson of MassDevice, Christine McConville of the Boston Herald, as well as Adam Feurestein of TheStreet.
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Gideon Gil,
MassDevice,
Adam Feurestein,
healthcare,
HITECH,
Boston Business Journal,
Julie Donnelly,
iPad,
TheStreet,
Pub Club
Surely we’ve all seen the news by now: Starting in the U.S. March 28th, The New York Times will start charging for the website and for use of its smartphone and tablet apps. Prices begin at $15 for four weeks of full access to the website and the smart phone app.
In a nutshell, readers who subscribe to the print edition keep free access to the website and apps. Makes sense. Everyone else will be able to view 20 articles a month for free on the website and see the "Top News" section in the apps. Interestingly, readers who are led to Times articles through links from search, blogs and social media including Facebook and Twitter will still have access to those articles, even if they’ve reached their monthly reading limit. An unofficial FAQ from paidContent really gets down to the nitty-gritty if you want more.
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PAN Communications,
Boston Globe,
NYtimes.com,
New York Times