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NowPublic is seeking editors based in the following countries to establish and develop news coverage of their respective geographic regions:
USA (based in the Eastern Region), Australia, China, South Africa.

We are recruiting talent and energy to develop interesting and innovative story ideas for each country and region. You will engage existing and potential contributors to NowPublic in the following ways:

Key responsibilities:
- Identify and develop regionally-focused news stories for NowPublic.com
- Build a network of citizen and mobile journalists in the region who will provide first-rate coverage of breaking and continuing news stories
- Source multimedia footage for use on NowPublic.com
- Identify future events and design news campaigns around them
- Liaise with external partners and act as a regional ambassador for NowPublic

The ideal candidate should have:
- In-depth knowledge of the country and wider region, and newsworthy issues
- A strong network of local and regional contacts
- A firm understanding of new media, online communities and Web 2.0 technologies
- Two years’ journalistic or writing experience
- High-level of written and spoken English
- Good inter-personal and communication skills
- A pro-active and flexible approach
- Computer and high-speed internet connection

Compensation: Based upon experience and location. Please respond with salary expectations, understanding that these are full-time contract positions. Telecommuting will be necessary.

Applications: subject title ‘Regional Editor’, including your resume and samples of your work. Please send by e-mail to: jobs@nowpublic.com

We look forward to hearing from you!

NowPublic is seeking an editor to run its Sports news channel.

We are recruiting talent and energy to develop interesting and innovative story ideas for international Sports news coverage. You will engage existing and potential contributors to NowPublic in the following ways:

Key responsibilities:
- Identify and develop Sports news stories for NowPublic.com
- Build a network of citizen and mobile journalists on the web and around the world who will provide first-rate Sports news coverage
- Source multimedia footage for use on NowPublic stories
- Identify future sporting events and design news campaigns around them
- Liaise with external partners and act as an ambassador for NowPublic

The ideal candidate should have:
- In-depth knowledge of a wide range of sports
- A strong network of contacts in the sporting arena
- Two years’ journalistic or writing experience
- A firm understanding of new media, online communities and Web 2.0 technologies
- Excellent inter-personal and communication skills
- A pro-active and flexible approach

Compensation: Based upon experience and location. Please respond with salary expectations, understanding that this is a full-time position.

Location: The successful candidate will ideally be based in NowPublic’s Vancouver, Canada offices, but this is open to negotiation.

Applications: subject title ‘Sports Editor’, including your resume and samples of your work. Please send by e-mail to: jobs@nowpublic.com

We look forward to hearing from you!

NowPublic is seeking a community relations and content specialist to join its Vancouver team.

We are recruiting a talented individual to engage with existing and potential contributors to NowPublic.com. You will also develop interesting and innovative news story ideas for the site.

Key responsibilities:
- Identify and recruit citizen and mobile journalists on the web for NowPublic.com
- Build a network of contributors to provide first-rate news coverage
- Source multimedia footage for use on NowPublic.com
- Develop breaking and continuing news stories
- Identify future events and design news campaigns around them

The ideal candidate will have:
- A flair for writing
- An eye for engaging news stories
- A firm understanding of new media, online communities and Web 2.0 technologies
- Excellent inter-personal and communication skills
- A pro-active and flexible approach

Compensation: This is a full-time position; salary will be competitive and commensurate with experience. Please forward your salary expectations with your resume.

Location: The successful candidate will be based in NowPublic’s Vancouver, British Columbia offices.

Applications: Please send by e-mail to nbillard@nowpublic.com with subject title ‘Community and Content’, including your resume and samples of your work.

We look forward to hearing from you!

A user on HowardForums was able to capture some pictures of Verizon’s HTC Touch variant and leaked them out onto the net. Just posted yesterday are some pictures of the unannounced White HTC Touch for Verizon Wireless. As stated by an HTC representative, it is due out in March under the Verizon Wireless Brand as the XV6900. Details are sparse if any but we can guess that it’s not going to be that much different from Sprint’s HTC Touch variant.

For more pictures click on link below.

HowardForums Original Post

Source: phonenews.com via mtippett

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A lot of us like to speculate on the state of Venture Capital in Canada; we all have a vested interest in the existence of a healthy and competitive market. For BrightSpark, the truth has been much more obvious.

BrightSpark, with over $100 million under management, raised its first fund in 1999 and its second fund in 2004. Co-Founded by Tony Davis and Mark Skapinker, the fund positioned itself as a “seed and early-stage software venture fund” for the Canadian market with offices in Montreal and Toronto. They have been active even recently with great deals like NowPublic, b5Media and MobiVox, 9 recent investments, and a few more to make in their second fund.

The BrightSpark team, a bunch of experienced entrepreneurs, was (and is) perfectly suited for the job we have been asking VCs to take on here in Canada: early stage financing with heavy duty support capabilities. It should have been a perfect combination, and one would hope that they could have done quite well in the last few years with the resurgent tech bubble.

Source: startupnorth.ca via mtippett

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Tags: Canada | Montreal | Toronto | Brightspark | early-stage | ENTREPRENEURS | FINANCING | fund | INVESTMENTS | Management | Mark Skapinker | MobiVox | Money & Stuff | NowPublic | resurgent | software | tech bubble | Tony Davis | venture

We’re always looking for smart people so feel free to send us your resume.

The guy who persuaded Fox to pay 500 million for myspace back when everyone thought it was crazy has now put his money behind Broadband Enterprises.  The company is said to be, “the largest seller of video advertising online outside of the big portals.”

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Since former AOL CEO Jonathan Miller and former Fox Interactive Media chief Ross Levinsohn banded together as partners in Velocity Investment Group, internet watchers have been curious to see where they’d place their bets. Online video — its distribution, content creation and monetization — is an area in which they are particularly bullish.

The group’s first investment is a $10 million stake in Broadband Enterprises. The deal also marks the first round of funding Broadband Enterprises has raised, despite its having been around for two years and having grown its online traffic into something that rivals top media companies and portals.

Mr. Miller, who will join the board of Broadband Enterprises, said Velocity is interested in investing in “online platforms that scale, the content you put through those and [those with] the ability to make money in the space.”

Source: adage.com via mtippett

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Tags: Media | New York | bets | Broadband Enterprises | companies | content creation | distribution | Funding | internet | Investing | jonathan miller | monetization | Money & Stuff | online Video | Partners | rivals | Ross Levinsohn | Traffic | VELOCITY

A big win for the beeb here:

The BBC is reporting that their iPlayer is overflowing with win (as da yoot would say), with over 1m users streaming or downloading around 3.5m BBC programmes since the Christmas Day launch.

The on-demand Internet TV service notched up over a million users between Tuesday 25th December and Monday 7th January, downloading or streaming 250,000 programmes each day on average during this period.

Source: digital-lifestyles.info via mtippett

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Tags: Average | BBC | Christmas launch | December | download | internet | iPlayer | january | Monday | on-demand | Scores | SERVICE | Technology | yoot

This could get big:

CNN, citing a report by Xinhua, reports that Wei Wenhua (I think the Chinese name is 魏文华, but I’m not completely sure) was beaten to death by China city inspectors after trying to make photos of (or perhaps film) a protest with his mobile phone last Monday. The citizens he was trying to record protested “over the dumping of waste near their homes.” Wenhua was the manager of a construction company and, according to the reports, also a blogger.

Source: blogoscoped.com

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Tags: China | Xinhua | according | BEATEN | Blogger | Chinese | Citizens | construction | Crime | dumping | INSPECTORS | manager | MOBILE PHONE | photos | protest | waste

I recently revisited the Alexa data on companies and sites
that I used to watch when I first started NP.
It’s interesting to see how the original ‘citizen journalist’ sites like
Slashdot have actually suffered a decline in the wake of the 2.0 revolution.

Of course this decline is more than offset by the successes of newer entrants like Newsvine, Digg, Flickr, Youtube and (I’m relieved to say) NowPublic. But what is interesting is that in spite of having real first-mover advantage none of these innovators have grown over the last 2 years.

NOTE: Alexa is notoriously unreliable as a metric but as they say, in the land of the blind the one eyed man is king.

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