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Uh la la!

Tavi — Tue, 27 May 2008 14:40:19 +0000

Sunt in Paris de 24 de ore din care 8 ore petrecute la o super conferinta. Am reusit pana acum doar sa ma dau cu liftul pana in varful turnului Eiffel. Se vede cam asa :)

Revin dupa ce ma dezmeticesc. Daca ma mai dezmeticesc.
Cheers.

The photo which won IFRA gold award in News category

hellotj — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 10:13:58 +0000

According to darwin every species will actually think of its survival .. so no doubt the small girl will be burning with jealousy :)

I think women by nature are emotional and can thin of such a brave thing .. Hey men .. would you do something similar ?? I cannot even think any act which men can do ?? Ny ideas??

eNews perspectives

Ananthakrishnan G. — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 07:04:23 +0000

Ifra, the professional body of the news publishing industry with which I am connected, has held its eNews 2010 meeting in Eindhoven in the Netherlands between February 5 and 7.

Although most of the discussions are covered by confidentiality requirements, some perspectives on available technologies are even now in the public domain. This includes the e-reading concept promoted by Amazon, with its own device, the Kindle (click thumbnail for bigger image).

I had the opportunity to see the device and the performance of the e-ink, a new display technology that is under active development by a host of companies. More on that later.

Here I am signing off with a picture of the Kindle that I took at a demo in Eindhoven. From all accounts, the device has had a major transformative appeal in the US, and it sold out in five hours.

Ifra en Viena

uklanor — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 09:15:44 +0000

La semana antes del MAX tuve una experiencia agriduclce en Viena. Digo agridulce porqué por un lado visitar Viena siempre es algo estupendo pero por otro lado la feria de la IFRA, que fue el motivo por el que me desplacé, me decepcionó. Me explico, la IFRA es una feria donde se reunen las últimas tecnologías referentes al diseño y creación editorial. Diarios revistas y publicaciones de prensa en general son el público objetivo. Hasta ahí nada que objetar, la feria cumplía su cometido en medio de un ambiente sobrio y decididamente profesional. Ahora bien, se supone que mi papel en dicho evento era impartir sendas conferencias acerca de las enormes posibilidades del vídeo en general y de Flash vídeo en particular dentro del ámbito de las publicaciones online que cada día van adquiriendo mayor importancia como complemento a sus homólogas en papel y que son una importántisima oportunidad de negocio para muchas editoriales. Me consta que esto es algo que la mayoría de los grupos editoriales no han pasado por alto y que muchos de ellos ya tienen a un montón de especialistas estudiando y trabajando en las posibilidades del medio. Lo que es seguro es que dichos especialistas no estaban allí, me esperaba tener una audiencia másiva debido a lo novedoso del tema (tal y como había ocurrido apenas un par de semanas antes en otro evento similar en el Vendrell, Tarragona), sin embargo el número total de asistentes los podría haber contado con los dedos de la mano y aún me habría sobrado alguno para metérmelo en la nariz. Estaba claro que el público de esta Ifra estaba por otras cosas, ver nuevos sistemas editoriales, afianzar los existentes, pero siempre pensando en papel, lo de los nuevos medios por lo visto no era algo que tuvieran en sus agendas. Enfín siempre queda el consuelo de Conocer Viena que es una ciudad fantástica. He aquí algunas fotos.

stand de Adobe en la IFRA

edificio del Messe Wien donde se celebró el evento

Catedralde San Esteban, paseando por el centro de Viena por la noche

Una de las avenidas centrales de Viena

La famosa noria del Wien Prater

Dublin IFRA Beyond the Printed Word

ianadavies — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 13:27:23 +0000

Two and a half days in Dublin and one and a half lifetimes stuck on the M50!.

Great to see so many people who seem to have at least part of the plot on the trajectory newspapers need to take in a growing digital world. Some great speakers, all with a story to tell.

Similar conferences in the past have tended towards the fantastic with limited visibility on business applications. Whilst there is still evidence of 'build it and the money will come' there seems to be greater clarity on the strategic framework. We cant leave all of the experimentation to Google but we do need to put some boundaries down if we are not to waste away the profits from our heritage activities. It looks as if those parameters are starting to be identified.

Of course there are still massive unknowns. Arguments for convergence and equally strong arguments for keeping things apart. Maybe they are both correct. Arguments for working with google, arguments against. The only thread which seems to be clear is that more collaboration and 'open source' is likely to emerge from those who 'get it' amd those who are likely to still be around in the future.

Ifra India 2007

upsl — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 13:47:31 +0000

Ifra is the world's leading association for newspaper and media publishing. Universal Print Systems Ltd will be partcipating in the event to be held at Chennai on 4th-6th Sep 07. UPSL representing their principals M/s Dainippon Screen , Japan will be showcasing their latest CTP for the Newpaper Industry.

Ifra world 's leading association for newspaper and media publishing is working closely in revolutionsing and groundbreaking research into new business models for the newspaper industry.One of Ifra’s most important activities is application-related research in all areas of newspaper and magazine production as well as organisation and strategy. The industry is looking at various media to upgrade themselves and also how to keep their publications on the top. Various other options like multimedia and web2.0 are also on the think lists !