Davos on Paper.li

The World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting is underway in Davos, Switzerland, and we are excited that the WEF has chosen Paper.li as one of their communication channels for the event. 

Over the past years the presence of thought leaders and visionaries in technology and digital innovation have increased at Davos. So has the use of Social media.

This year the WEF is using numerous social media platforms to provide transparency, engage audiences and keep the global community informed. Paper.li is pleased to be a part of it!

You can stay in the know around all the news and happenings in Davos by following:

Tech Pioneers Davos Daily: covers start-ups from around the world that hold the promise of significantly impacting the way business and society operate.

The Davos Daily: a round-up of news covering speakers, forums and WEF news in general.

The Schwab Foundation Daily: shared content around social entrepreneurship and the people and organizations dedicating themselves to making our world a better place.

You don't need to be in Davos to keep up with all of the great conversations and meetings. Good reading!

Paper.li Topical Browser (Alpha)

Explore the Web by topic...

Today we are excited to introduce our Topical Browser, a new content discovery experience, powered by the collective curation efforts of the Paper.li community.

Each day, around the world, more than 13 million articles spanning more than 400,000 online newspapers are featured and contextually organized by our passionate Paper.li publishing community, to the benefit of millions.

With each new daily and weekly Edition published, Paper.li publishers help their readers to navigate the massive digital content world in which we live, while transforming the way information is organized and accessed for the future.

Now, for the first time, we are combining our publisher’s editorial skills with Paper.li's unique content analysis engine to provide a new transparency to content discovery: a curated, filtered, noiseless experience that we call the Paper.li Topical Browser.

Leveraging the collective intelligence of a nation of curators

The Paper.li Topical Browser opens the door for anyone to discover and explore content spanning more than 20,000 curated topics. Ranging from mainstream to niche, only community vetted content with a high correlation of topical relevance surfaces, making even long-tail content easy to  discover -- think “poisonous dart frogs”, “knot theory” and “visual music”.

Most importantly though, it provides a great way for you to discover more of the outstanding Paper.li publishers who are truly passionate about these topics, and of whom we are so proud to have as a part of our community!

Alpha Launch

We are really pleased to roll out this initial phase of the topical browser today. For the time being, the service is in "alpha" and available only for the English language.  From time to time you might stumble upon some imperfections or unexpected results. We are working to iron these out.

We look forward to hearing about your topical browsing experience and what kind of great content treasures the Paper.li community helps you discover.

So, get started and explore the topical Web today!

The Paper.li Nomad is Now Available!

Beta testing for the Paper.li Nomad has officially ended and now the Nomad is available for all Paper.lis on the newsstand.

We would like to thank our community of beta testers who lent a hand in perfecting the Nomad, and blog and site owners for their enthusiasm and creativity. 

A Nomad that recently caught our attention is the "The Competitive Intelligence Daily" on  Competia.com. Competia presents their favorite news in a streamlined lightbox overlay. Take a peek, we think you'll like it too.

The Nomad code is available via the Embed icon located on the front page of your favorite Paper.li and can be customized in size, and color, to make a perfect fit on your site or blog.

Drop us a line with your feedback and share an embed URL. We look forward to hearing how the Nomad is working for you and seeing it in action!

Redesigned Media Galleries on Paper.li

Looks what's new! We have redesigned the media and image sections on Paper.li to provide a better overview of your favorite media. Here's what's in it for you!

Viewers of Paper.li will enjoy an improved layout:

• more media at a glance and up to 50 images or videos displayed per gallery
• lightbox overlay to simplify viewing and increase content discovery
• improved loading time 

Publishers benefit too! 

• gallery overview in each section for quick video and photo editing 
• control over the inclusion of Media and Photo sections in your paper
• a hip, sleek and functional gallery design for your viewers to enjoy

How do you and your readers like the changes? Let us know - we always enjoy hearing from you. 

Thank You Paper.li Community!

The past six weeks have been the most memorable six weeks for the team here at Paper.li, and all of the credit goes to you - our community! 

Last month you succeeded in nominating Paper.li for the 2011 Mashable Awards. That was not only an honor for us, but something that we never expected.  As you know, we didn't end up winning the award, but what we did win was the extraordinary chance for our team to experience first hand the power of our own community, and it was truly amazing. 

Every day, and at every social corner we turned, we experienced you in action tweeting and re-tweeting, posting and reposting, all with one aim: voting Paper.li to the top. You have inspired us, and energized us far past an award in our hands. It has been a wonderful experience for the entire team. 

We congratulate CrowdTap on winning Up-and-Coming Social Media Service at the 2011 Mashable Awards. It was a challenging competition and an honor to compete against other start-up greats like Banjo, Empire Avenue, Trakt, Chime.in and Summify. 

Paper.li community, we thank you from the bottom of our hearts to the top of the Alps for making this competition so much fun and so memorable for us.  We are lucky to have a community as engaged and motivating as you, and we look forward to a lot more exciting times together in 2012!

The Paper.li Nomad in Action!

Nomad update!

Last week we released the beta code for the Nomad, embedded Paper.li, and activated the first accounts. Since then, we've been seeing the Nomad show up on sites and blogs across the globe. The response has been really positive and, as expected, the community has given great feedback.

Curious to see the Nomad in action? Here are a few sites the Nomad already calls home:

• Sociedad Aeronautica.org
• IBM Smarter Computing Blog
• The Dutch Road Runners Club
• Sketchee.com's design blog
• Superfood Girl's blog

We will highlight sites and blogs that have embedded the Nomad over the next weeks, so drop us a line and let us know where you've spotted the Nomad.

Exclusive - Philippe Aigrain debating on a world beyond the ‘piracy’ of headlines and courtroom wrangles

 

This interview is part of an exclusive series Paper.li is doing with the CulturaDigital.Br festival in Rio. 
Paper.li is CulturaDigital.Br’s media partner and is bringing our community a taste of the keynote speakers’ talks ahead of the event.

Philippe Aigrain is a passionate advocate of the right to share digital works and a promoter of new policies for the internet age. He is also CEO of Sopinspace, Society for Public Information Spaces, which develops free software and provides services for democratic processes and collaborative work over the Internet.

He talks to Paper.li about a world beyond the ‘piracy’ of headlines and courtroom wrangles, ahead of a talk he will give at CulturaDigital.Br on Sunday.

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What if we consider that sharing a digitally published work in one’s possession with other individuals is a fundamental right?

What if we break away from the idea of compensating the entertainment right holders for supposed harms resulting from sharing?

What is a reasonable reward and financing model for sustaining a many-to-all cultural society?

" 

 (From the website of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, introducing a talk by Philippe.) 

Philippe Aigrain is interviewed by Liz Wilson on our Community Site !

>> GO READ IT >>

Paper.li Partners with CulturaDigital.br International Festival

Paper.li is an official media partner for the upcoming CulturaDigital.br International Festival taking place Dec 2 - 4 in Rio de Janeiro.

The CulturaDigital festival is a meeting of stakeholders in digital culture; art directors, producers, musicians, activists and organizations whose work all intersect at the juncture of culture, politics and technology.

Last year over 3,500 producers, activists and innovators attended the event. This year's attendance is expected to far exceed those numbers. The festival packs a powerful and culturally diverse line up of institutions and individuals participating: keynotes from Yochai Benkler, Kenneth Goldsmith, and Michel Bauwens, and labs and workshops highlighting the agents of change in digital culture.

Paper.li will provide the CulturaDigital.br audience fresh news daily embedded on their website, and in celebration of the curator's behind the festival, Paper.li will hold interviews with keynote speakers and festival curators who have skillfully selected this years projects. You can read these interviews on the Paper.li community blog beginning December 2nd.

Want to participate in the festival but can't make it to Rio? Join the open call to collaborate and create a poster for the festival. 10 will be picked to print and post around the city of Rio during the event.

Follow all the festival news on the CulturaDigital.br Daily or on Twitter at #culturadigitalbr tag.

Beta Test the New Paper.li "Nomad"

Become a Beta-Tester !
Soon blog and site owners will be able to treat readers to favorite Paper.li news embedded directly on their site with the Paper.li "Nomad"!

We are getting close to releasing this feature and we are looking for beta testers to help test it.

To see an example of the Paper.li Nomad, click here.

If you would like to be considered for beta testing click on the invite link below. If you are selected for testing we will send you an email with the embed code and you can get started!

The Nomad can be customized to fit any page size and provides an optimal on-site viewing experience for your viewers.  Readers can easily browse headlines and topic sections for articles of interest, with dedicated pages for image and video viewing, and we have made sharing favorite content ultra easy via Twitter, Facebook or email directly from the widget.  It is a product that could easily be customized and we are currently considering this as a base for a premium product.

Be the first on your block to try it out!
Each week until the end of the year, we will offer the Nomad embedded Paper.li to a limited number of beta testers to try it out free of charge. All we ask in return is your good feedback.

Beta places are limited in number so get your name on the list today!

 - INVITE ME - 

(you must be signed-in to Paper.li, obviously...)

Paper.li is Nominated as Finalist at the Mashable Awards 2011

We are thrilled to announce that Paper.li has been nominated as a Mashable Award's finalist in the category "Up and Coming Social Media Service" for the 2011 Mashable Awards!

This is a huge honor and we could not have been nominated without you, our community. Thank you!

Final voting is open now and will close December 16th. Winners will be announced December 19th and honored on January 11 at the MashBash CES in Las Vegas. With your help we can seal the deal and walk away with the award. But we need your vote (again!)

Let's win this together! Cast your vote now, it's easy:

1. Click on this link.
2. In the "For" drop down, select "Up-and-Coming Social Media Service"
3. In the "I vote for" drop down menu, select Paper.li!

You can vote once a day until December 16th and we'd appreciate it if you'd do so!  If we are nominated the "Up and Coming Social Media Service" for 2011 we guarantee that there will be a lot of celebrating, with YOU, in Las Vegas!

 VOTE NOW !