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XMPie Twitter Campaign Takes One Extra Step…Too Far? (Updated)

Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009

I have to admit that I merely scanned a recent announcement by XMPie about a Twitter promotion they are running to highlight their presence at MediaPro 09. It wasn't until I received an email from a reader this morning that I took a closer look. Details on how the campaign ...

Making Print Pubs a Vital Part of Web 2.0

Monday, June 30th, 2008

Dan Pacheco, senior manager of digital products at The Bakersfield Californian wrote a blog post over at PBS' MediaShift Idea Lab blog about the newspaper's success in building profitable print media products around its Web products. Despite all of my futuristic ramblings about the virtues of social networks, our niche print ...

Warren Werbitt is a Print Fanatic!

Tuesday, January 15th, 2008

I got an email today from Warren. He's the President & CEO of Pazazz Printing. He wanted me to check out a couple of videos they had posted on YouTube. Ordinarily this would be a quick check it out and move on to other things. But ...

HP Cuts Deal For Web Printing With Facebook App, Flickr, Others

Wednesday, October 17th, 2007

HP is hoping to expand its "Print 2.0" strategy by partnering with popular Web sites: Seeking to gain traction in its "Print 2.0" strategy for web-based printing solutions, Hewlett-Packard Wednesday said it had cut deals to deliver its technology to several social networking and entertainment web sites. You might remember the Print ...

HP Launches Cloudprint, A Mobile Printing Platform

Tuesday, August 21st, 2007

HP Labs, the research and development arm of Hewlett-Packard has released a new service to assist mobile users share and print documents. The new service called Cloudprint "allows you to share, store and print documents easily using your mobile telephone." The service works by spooling documents into a Web-based file ...

Net Neutrality: Which Side Are You On?

Sunday, June 17th, 2007

Printing's complicated relationship with the Internet makes it easy to forget that as a medium, the Internet faces issues of its own. One of the thorniest has to do with the principle of network neutrality: the belief that Internet users, not Internet service providers, should be in control of content, ...

“Web 2.0…The Machine is Us/ing Us”

Wednesday, May 30th, 2007

At its Imaging and Printing Conference in New York City this week, HP is detailing "Print 2.0": a broad business strategy based in part on the assumption that the Web will generate sharply increasing amounts of printed output. Some of the inspiration for Print 2.0 comes from an enormously popular ...