New Media Timeline (2010)

By: David Shedden

January 9, 2010

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SERVICES, TECH & SOCIAL “Google Unleashes its Nexus One Smartphone.” By Jamie Lendino, PC Magazine, Jan. 5, 2010. (Other stories about the Nexus One: New York Times; Wall Street Journal; Engadget; TechCrunch; O’Reilly Radar.) “What became obsolete in the past decade?” By Marshall Brain, The Columbus Dispatch, Jan. 5, 2010. “Apple vs. Google: How the Battle Between Silicon Valley’s Superstars Will Shape the Future of Mobile Computing.” By Peter Burrows, BusinessWeek, Jan. 14, 2010. “The Inside Track on Apple’s Tablet: a History of Tablet Computing.” By Prince McLean, AppleInsider, Jan. 15, 2010. “One Third of U.S. Internet Users Now Post Status Updates Once per Week.” By Federic Lardinois, ReadWriteWeb, Jan. 19, 2010. “Bill Gates on the iPad: Hey, Apple, You’re Doing It Wrong.” John Paczkowski, All Things Digital, Feb. 10, 2010. The White House begins using Twitter. “W.H. messaging in 140 characters.” By Michael Calderone, Politico, Feb. 15, 2010. “Google facts and figures (massive infographic).” Royal Pingdom, Feb. 24, 2010. (Related: Google Milestones) Video: “JESS3 / The State of The Internet.” Jesse Thomas, Vimeo, Feb. 2010. (Related: “Remarkable Stats on the State of the Internet.” By Jennifer Van Grove, Mashable, Feb. 27, 2010. “The Origins Of Facebook And Its Founder and CEO, Mark Zuckerberg.” By Nicholas Carlson, Business Insider, Mar. 5, 2010. “Did the iPad’s Oscar performance dazzle or disappoint?” David Weinfeld, Lost Remote, Mar. 8, 2010. (Related: During the 1984 Super Bowl, Apple introduced its new Macintosh computer with what has become one of the most famous television commercials of all time.) “Dot-com Marks 25th Anniversary.” Ed Payne, CNN, Mar. 15, 2010. (Related stories from the San Francisco Chronicle, Wired, BBC, Fortune, a Facebook page, and the site celebrating the 25th anniversary of .com.) “How Google, Apple, And Other Household Brands Came Up With Their Names.” By Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry, Business Insider, Mar. 24, 2010. “Smartphone Usage Spikes: Up 193 Percent Year-Over-Year.” By John Paczkowski, All Things Digital, Mar. 25, 2010. “U.S. Court Curbs F.C.C. Authority on Web Traffic.” By Edward Wyatt, New York Times, Apr. 6, 2010. “Chart of the Day: Facebook Is Absolutely Crushing The Competition.” By Nicholas Carlson and Kamelia Angelova. Business Insider, Apr. 8, 2010. “New Study Shows the Mobile Web Will Rule by 2015 [STATS].” By Jolie O’Dell, Mashable, Apr. 13, 2010. “Chart of the Day: Email’s Reign Is Over, Social Networking Is The New King.” By Nicholas Carlson and Kamelia Angelova, Business Insider, Apr. 14, 2010. “Library of Congress Will Save Tweets.” Steve Lohr, New York Times, Apr. 14, 2010. (Related stories from Twitter, Library of Congress, ReadWriteWeb, The American Prospect and Search Engine Land.) “YouTube: Five Years On.” Patrick Barkham, The Guardian, Apr. 23, 2010. “Videos: Who’s Winning The TV Pitch For E-Readers? Barnes & Noble, Amazon, Sony — Or Apple.” Staci D. Kramer, paidContent, Apr. 22, 2010. “Sony to stop manufacturing Floppy discs after 30 years.” By Serkan Toto, CrunchGear, Apr. 26, 2010. Floppy disks were cutting edge technology back in the 1970s. When Steve Jobs introduced the Apple II personal computer back in 1977, it came with 4K of memory and was one of the first PCs to use color graphics and floppy disks. “New Report Details the State of Twitter [STATS].” Jennifer Van Grove, Mashable, Apr. 29, 2010. “The Short and Illustrious History of Twitter #Hashtags.” By Liz Gannes, GigaOM, Apr. 30, 2010. “New numbers: Online video makes big gains.” By Regina McCombs, E-Media Tidbits, Poynter, May 11, 2010. “Video: YouTube- FiveYear’s Channel.” (The official channel for YouTube’s 5th birthday.) May 2010. “A View of Wireless Competition in Charts and Graphs.” By Stacey Higginbotham, GigaOM, May 20, 2010. “How Facebook Is Redefining Privacy.” By Dan Fletcher, Time Magazine, May 20, 2010. “At 25, AOL switches tracks: Creating content, not just connecting users.” By Michael S. Rosenwald, Washington Post, May 24, 2010. “Videos: Retro/Oldschool Computer Tech Commercials.” Sherweb blog, May 25, 2010. “Steve Jobs at All Things Digital Conference.” Jun. 1, 2010. (D8 Conference) “Age, Gender, Location: The Demographics of the Blogosphere.” Frederic Lardinois, ReadWriteWeb, Jun. 4, 2010. “Summary of Findings: Mobile Access 2010.” Pew Internet and American Life Project, Jul. 7, 2010. (Full Report) “Infographic: Google’s Long History of Social Media Attempts.” By Zachary Sniderman, Mashable, Jul. 10, 2010. “Saving Our Digital Heritage“, By Dan Gillmor, Salon, Jul. 19, 2010. “Videos: 10 Vintage Apple Ads That Time Forgot.” By Amy-Mae Elliott, Mashable, Jul. 18, 2010. “E-Books Top Hardcovers at Amazon.” By Claire Cain Miller, New York Times, Jul. 19, 2010. “By the Numbers: How the Digital Revolution Changed Our World.” Newsweek, Jul. 2010. “The Web Means the End of Forgetting.” By Jeffrey Rosen, New York Times, Jul. 19, 2010. “Americans Only Kind of Trust the Internet. And other findings from an Annenberg study.” By Lauren Kirchner, CJR, Jul. 28, 2010. “Social media now firmly entrenched in our lives.” By JD Lasica, Socialmedia.biz, Aug. 2, 2010. “A Look Back at the Last 5 Years in Social Media.” By Adam Ostrow, Jul. 21, 2010. “A Look Back at the Last 5 Years in Mobile.” By Christina Warren, Jul. 27, 2010. “A Look Back at the Last 5 Years in Blogging.” By Josh Catone, Mashable, Aug. 3, 2010. “Hypertext history.” By Jeremy Keith, Adactio, Aug. 6, 2010. “A Brief History of 9 Popular Blogging Platforms.” By Stephanie Marcus, Aug. 8, 2010. “Chart of the Day: Here’s Why People Who Don’t Use The Internet Don’t Use The Internet.” By Dan Frommer and Kamelia Angelova, Business Insider, Aug. 13, 2010. “The Web Is Dead. Long Live the Internet.” By Chris Anderson and Michael Wolff, Wired, Aug. 17, 2010. “The Death Of The RSS Reader.” By Joseph Tartakoff, paidContent, Sep. 10, 2010. “Charts of the Week: Facebook Passes Google In Time Spent On Site For First Time Ever.” By Jay Yarow, Business Insider, Sep. 12, 2010. “Search Takes a Social Turn.” By Jenna Wortham, New York Times, Sep. 13, 2010. “John Sculley On Steve Jobs, The Full Interview Transcript.” By Leander Kahney, Cult of Mac, Oct. 14, 2010. Pew Reports Trend Data“Social Media and Young Adults.” Feb. 3, 2010. “Millennials, Media and Information.” Feb. 24, 2010. “Understanding the Participatory News Consumer.” Mar. 1, 2010. “The Impact of the Internet on Institutions in the Future.” Mar. 31, 2010. “News Leaders and the Future.” Apr. 12, 2010. “United We Stand…on Techhnology.” May 5, 2010. “New Media, Old Media.” May 23, 2010 “The State of Online Video.” Jun. 3, 2010. “Neighbors Online.” Jun. 9, 2010. “The Future of Social Relations.” Jul. 2, 2010. “Mobile Access 2010.” Jul. 7, 2010. “Technology Concerns Dominate Twitter.” Aug. 5, 2010. “The Fading Glory of the Television and Telephone.” Aug. 19, 2010. “Older Adults and Social Media.” Aug. 27, 2010. “Cell phones and American adults.” Sep. 2, 2010. “Americans Spending More Time Following the News.” Sep. 12, 2010. “The Rise of Apps Culture.” Sep. 14, 2010 “Video Calling and Video Chat.” Oct. 13, 2010 “8% of online Americans use Twitter.” Dec. 9, 2010		THE MEDIA “The state of online news heading into 2010 may best be described as a moving target. Digital delivery is now well established as a part of most Americans daily news consumption. Six in ten Americans get some news online in a typical day — and most of these also get news from other media platforms as well.” (Source: “The State of the News Media: Online Section.” Project for Excellence in Journalism, 2010.) “Apple’s New Tablet? Been There, Done That.” Bryan Monroe, Huffington Post, Jan. 8, 2010. (See also: 1994 Video: “The Tablet Newspaper.” Knight-Ridder, Posted on Google.) “New Media Crucial in Aftermath of Haitian Earthquake.” By Curtis Brainard, CJR, Jan. 13, 2010. “Five Mobile Trends for 2010.” Dan Neumann and Allison Mooney, Advertising Age, Jan. 21, 2010. “Apple Sees New Money in Old Media: Steve Jobs’s Tablet Device Looks to Repackage TV, Magazines, Just as iPod Changed Music Sales.” By Yukari Iwatani Kane and Ethan Smith, Wall Street Journal, Jan. 22, 2010. “Apple iPad creates opportunities, not solutions, for publishers.” By Damon Kiesow, Poynter, Jan. 28, 2010. “We Have Seen The Amazing Future Of Apple’s iPad And This Is It.” By Henry Blodget, Business Insider, Jan. 29, 2010. “A Quick Guide to the Maxims of New Media.” By Mark Coddington, Jan. 30, 2010. “Is Facebook Becoming a Portal? Now 4th Largest Source of Traffic to News Sites.” By Leeann Prescott, VentureBeat/New York Times, Feb. 3, 2010. “The Information Divide Between Traditional And New Media.” By Brian Solis, paidContent, Feb. 10, 2010. “Anonymous Filmmakers Of Neda Video Win Top Journalism Award.” By Gillian Reagan, Business Insider, Feb. 16, 2010. “Journalists’ Use of Social Media Is Surging, According to 2nd Annual Middleberg/SNCR Survey of Media in the Wired World.” Society for New Communications Research, Feb. 19, 2010. “Video: Clay Shirky on the Value of Information and Journalism.” YouTube, Breaking the New News documentary feature, Mar. 2010. “2010 E-Reader Symposium: iPad, Kindle, Nook, Que: the New Printing Presses?” Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute, University of Missouri, Mar. 7-9, 2010. “Online separation? Newspapers have been there and done that.” By Steve Yelvington, Yelvington.com, Mar. 13, 2010. “Will iPad Journalism be ‘Good Enough’ or Better?” By Steve Myers, Poynter, Mar. 26, 2010. “For the Media Biz, iPad 2010 = CDROM 1994.” By Scott Rosenberg, Wordyard, Mar. 26, 2010. “First iPad reviews are mostly positive.” By Damon Kiesow, Poynter, Apr. 1, 2010. (Related: Media orgs launch new sites, apps for iPad launch.) “The Future of News.” (Various Articles) Daedalus, American Academy of Arts & Sciences, Spring 2010. “WikiLeaks posts video of ‘US military killings’ in Iraq.” BBC, Apr. 6, 2010. On April 12, 2010 the Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting is awarded to Sheri Fink of the online site, ProPublica, in collaboration with The New York Times Magazine. “How Journalists are Using Social Media for Real Results.” By Brenna Ehrlich, Mashable, Apr. 12, 2010. International Symposium on Online Journalism at the University of Texas at Austin, Apr. 23-24, 2010. “Newspaper Fas-Fax: E-Edition Circulation Up 40 Percent.” By Staci D. Kramer, paidContent, Apr. 26, 2010. “New York Times Paywall Goes Up January 2011.” By Christina Warren, Mashable, May 14, 2010. “The programmer majored in English: A fascinating study of the NYT’s Interactive News unit.” By Megan Garber, Nieman Journalism Lab, May 21, 2010. “U.S. Newspaper Online-Advertising Sales Increase First Time Since 2008.” By Greg Bensinger, Bloomberg, May 27, 2010. “iPhone 4 could be powerful multimedia production tool.” By Mark Briggs, Lost Remote, Jun. 7, 2010. Nieman Reports Issue on Journalism’s New Digital Landscape. Summer 2010. “Judge Sides With YouTube In Copyright Suit.” Laura Sydell, NPR, Jun. 23, 2010. “How Media Consumption Has Changed Since 2000.” Lee Rainie, Pew Internet & American Life Project, Jun. 24, 2010. “Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Talks to Diane Sawyer as Website Gets 500-Millionth Member.” By Ki Mae Heussner, Jul. 21, 2010. “How the Internet is Affecting Traditional Journalism (Survey).” By Jolie O’Dell, Mashable, Jul. 23, 2010. “How WikiLeaks is Changing the News Power Structure.” By Steve Myers, Poynter, Jul. 28, 2010. “In-depth News for Smartphones.” By Steve Outing and Digital Media Test Kitchen, Aug. 2010. “Media Companies Try Getting Social With Tumblr.” By Jenna Wortham, Aug. 1, 2010. “Four Key Questions that TBD Could Answer about Online News.” By Steve Myers, Aug. 9, 2010. (Related: “Letter from the editor: TBD is a little less TBD.” By Erik Wemple, TBD, Aug. 9, 2010.) “Twitter breaks story on Discovery Channel gunman James Lee.” By Paul Farhi, Washington Post, Sep. 2, 2010. “The Top 20 Most Influential News Media Twitter Feeds.” By Joe Pompeo, Business Insider, Sep. 3, 2010. “The Journalists Formerly Known as the Media: My Advice to the Next Generation.” By Jay Rosen, Public Notebook, Sep. 6, 2010. “A New Phase in Our Digital Lives.” By Tom Rosenstiel, Journalism.Org, Sep. 12, 2010. “The Future of Social Media in Journalism.” By Vadim Lavrusik, Mashable, Sep. 13, 2010. “Five important mobile app findings for news orgs.” By Laura McGann, Neiman Journalism Labs, Sep. 14, 2010. “A tablet revolution: It’s like it’s the ’70s all over again.” By Steve Yelvington, Yelvington.com, Sep. 22, 2010. “The top 7 technologies that changed modern journalism forever.” By Mark Luckie, 10,000 Words, Sep. 28, 2010. “Twitter Takes the Newsroom.” By Howard Kurtz, The Daily Beast, Nov. 11, 2010. “Rupert Murdoch creates ‘iNewspaper’ – with the help of Steve Jobs.” Guardian.co.uk, Nov. 21, 2010. “Executive Editor Bill Keller on The New York Times and WikiLeaks.” On the Media, Dec. 3, 2010. “Pulitzer Prize Board announces changes for 2011 journalism competition.” Pulitzer.org, Dec. 8, 2010. Awards 2010 Editor & Publisher EPpy awards (Award finalists) (List of winners) 2010 Webby Awards (List of winners) 2010 Online News Association’s Online Journalism Awards (List of finalists)

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