A platform is a technology or product upon which many other technologies or products are built. Some platforms are controlled by a single corporation: e.g. Windows, iOS, and Facebook. Some are controlled by standards committees or groups of companies: e.g. the web (html/http), RSS, and email (smtp).

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In 2010, LibreDigital became a preferred content aggregator for Apple’s iBookstore and has risen to become one of the largest providers of book content to Apple. The company also forged deals to provide high-res magazines and newspapers to color reading platforms including NOOKcolor, Sony and others.

via Robin Wauters, LibreDigital Raises $4 Million For Digital Reading Technologies, TechCrunch.

For companies that deal with compliance issues, the technology can be crucial.

“How do you document social media? How do you document advertising? Any client communications are supposed to be documented,” said Casey Smith, the president of Wiser Wealth Management, a small wealth management firm in Marietta, Ga. “How do you do that, if you have to keep post after post after post?” (more…)

Needlebase allows you to view web pages through a virtual browser, point and click to train it in understanding what fields on that page are of interest to you and how those fields relate to each other. Then the program goes and scrapes the data from all of those fields, publishes them into a table, list or map, and recommends merges of cells that appear to be mistakenly separate.

via Marshall Kirkpatrick, Awesome: DIY Data Tool Needlebase Now Available to Everyone, ReadWriteWeb.

2011 is the year we Connect. No longer will web video be trapped on desktops or laptops. CES in January will be the starting bell in a massive race to the flatscreen. Google TV will make the most noise, and consumers will find that more and more devices will come with GTV chips from intel already on board. But don’t think that means Google wins – (more…)

Lucky, a Condé Nast fashion magazine, is working with Talk Market, a company that helps retailers produce Web videos using a proprietary technology that automates the video editing process. The December issue represents the first major media partnership for Talk Market and the first time Lucky has had so many videos attached to an issue.

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When M.I.T.’s Technology Review approached Arment with this contention, he responded: “If ads do get removed by the text parser, it’s not as bad as some initially may assume: since each customer saw the complete page on the publisher’s site before clicking Instapaper’s Read Later bookmark, they already viewed the ads on the page,” according to Arment. (more…)

EIDR is a response to the growing complexity of managing content assets across rapidly multiplying digital channels. Partnerships between different sectors and companies currently tend to be thwarted by a Babel-like confusion of proprietary systems.

Each content asset will be assigned an ID not unlike a UPC code.

via Andrew Wallenstein, Global Entertainment Industry Consortium Launches Content Registry EIDR | paidContent.