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Much like the early days of the Web, multiple legacy media constituencies are battling over who commands local mobile mindshare when it comes to news and services. Most local newspapers have their own mobile sites and app, and many local affiliate news stations were among the first major media companies to see the potential for mobile long before smartphones emerged. Read more: http://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/175473/abc-local-apps-stick-to-basics-news-weather-tra.html?edition=47269#ixzz1voJJYy9z

AT&T doing long form web series, "Daybreak." It's supposed to expose some of AT&T's sexiest tech and engage fans with apps and embedded links to other AT&T offerings.

"New York-The Wall Street Journal has introduced WSJ WorldStream, a news platform for short-form videos shot with smartphones by journalists from the Journal and Dow Jones & Co. WSJ WorldStream, which is debuting in conjunction with the Republican National Convention in Tampa this week-builds on WSJ Live, the Journal's online-video initiative. The videos from WSJ WorldStream will be embedded in stories on WSJ.com and integrated into the Journal's daily live video programming. WSJ WorldStream is also available as a free Web app."

Participants were shown the main web search results pane of both Bing and Google for 10 search queries of their choice. Bing and Google search results were shown side-by-side on one page for easy comparison - with all branding removed from both search engines. at the end of 5 searches it will tell you which search engine you prefer

"Thirty years after it introduced a new type of colorful, graphical storytelling to the newspaper world, USA Today will unveil a redesigned print publication on Friday that pushes further in that direction, and a complete overhaul of its website that it hopes will produce a more fluid, app-like experience that some would say resembles the Flipboard mobile app. The changes to its website, which will launch in beta on Saturday, feel the most drastic. USA Today sites registered 38.7 million visitors in August, up 48% from 26.1 million a year ago. And USA Today Sports Media Group, a subset of that overall number, grew 133% from 11.6 million to 27 million over that same period thanks in large part to the January acquisition of the Big Lead Sports network of blogs."

Int'l music web series gets funding

infographic on what people are doing online in terms of social, finances, news, personal business, shopping, web surfing/research

Minecraft and Climate data mashup; web of things

Web of things

Web of things

Always on Web; 4G LTE

Siri hacks; web of things

Web of things

web of things from japan for remote sensing

Internet Corp. for Assigned Names and Numbers on Jan. 12 will begin accepting applications from businesses and other groups to create and operate pieces of internet infrastructure known as generic top-level domains