Posts Tagged ‘Internet’

Masshightech.com: Website revamped, coverage broadened

Wednesday, January 27th, 2010

mht_websiteVisit the Mass High Tech website and you may notice a few minor changes to the homepage — a second navigation bar, a highlighted topics coverage box and an abbreviated section highlighting our print edition.

MassHighTech.com has kept its bones but added a face lift to help visitors navigate the broad coverage we include on our website. The homepage redesign complements Mass High Tech’s shift from weekly to bi-weekly themed print issues — a change implemented last fall.

The second navigation bar running across the website’s width in blue allows visitors to see the topics we cover most often through daily web briefs and reported stories, such as People, Education and Training, Finance, Internet, Life Sciences, Software, Energy, Envirotech, Robotics, Defense and Hardware. See the full list of news categories.

Each day, we feature one or more articles, either as breaking news or in-depth reported news, in the top center spot of MassHighTech.com. It’s one more step in our ongoing work to keep readers up to date on the news that breaks every day in the New England innovation economy.

“Inside Masshightech.com”, the box below our featured daily article, highlights topics often covered in our print issue themes — Meetings & Conferences, Real Estate, Education and Training, Cleantech, Life Sciences, Law and Finance. Here, you’ll find some daily news that falls into these categories, but you’ll also be treated to the more indepth articles our reporters track on a biweekly basis, at least.

If you’re a print subscriber, or like to read our biweekly issues online, you still have that option. The “From the Print Edition” section displays the cover image of the issue and a taste of a few articles. A click on the image or “More stories from the print edition” will give you the full table of contents for the issue.

Other recent initiatives MassHighTech.com has taken on include a digital edition, designed to deliver the print edition every other week sans paper; an improved calendar of community events; and links to our Signature Programs — Women to Watch, High Tech All Stars, Tech Citizenship and Tech Forums.

The aim of our revamped homepage is to show you, and any newbies to the site, what type of news we cover. So, please, take a look around and let us know if we’ve done our job. We appreciate any feedback.

Happy 40th, Internet: Leo Beranek talks about the Series of Tubes in its infancy

Friday, October 30th, 2009

To mark the Internet’s 40th birthday yesterday, the Guardian traces the history of the Internet with a dense interactive timeline. Popular Science covers the same ground via text and photos.

Last week, Mass High Tech asked Leo Beranek, “the second B in BBN,” to sit down with MassTLC chair Steve O’Leary, in an exclusive dialogue about Beranek’s career in technology and entrepreneurship. The interview took place at the Harvard Club in Back Bay in anticipation of MassTLC giving Beranek its Commonwealth Award. In the clip above, Beranek talks about BBN’s role in developing the ARPANet, the forerunner of the Internet.

Keep an eye out for the more video of the interview and a complete transcript running on MHT soon.

VivaKi’s Kenny says digital advertisers are happy with Microsoft-Yahoo deal

Friday, July 31st, 2009
Kenny, seen here in Boston as chairman/CEO of Digitas, in 2007

Kenny, seen here in Boston as chairman/CEO of Digitas, in 2007

Local digital advertising executive David Kenny — the managing partner of VivaKi, which is the digital unit of Publicis Groupe (known better locally as Digitas) — is making the media rounds in the wake of the Microsoft-Yahoo search advertising deal announced earlier this week.

Kenny weighed in on the Microsoft-Yahoo deal in a New York Times blog and, according to a piece in the Wall Street Journal yesterday, Kenny was also among a number of digital ad executives whom Yahoo Chief Executive Carol Bartz met with back in June. The WSJ said they discussed how a possible Microsoft-Yahoo deal could add value to VivaKi’s clients. “I didn’t feel they were lobbying, but felt they were generally asking my opinion,” Kenny told the Journal.

In AdAge, Kenny was quoted as saying that the deal is “a net positive for marketers.”

“Anything that creates a credible platform and more innovation in search is going to be good for consumers and, therefore, good for advertisers,” he told AdAge.

Berkman Center studies the Arabic Internet

Tuesday, June 16th, 2009
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Berkman Center graphic

Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society has released a study of 35,000 arabic-language blogs, 6,000 of which it arranged visually into a colorful bubble map.

The center found the bloggers to be predominantly young and male, politically minded, and critical of both terrorism and the United States.

Earlier this year, MHT reported on the Cambridge-based Internet startup Yamli,which is tackling the challenge of building an Arabic search engine.

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