http://www.minonline.com MinOnline en-us 2012 Sun, 12 Feb 2012 12:12:59 EST The 90-year-old buttoned down and serious-minded Foreign Affairs journal has sported that signature powder blue cover for decades. But the brand has leveraged a fresh look online to drive cross-platform success. The brand’s vibrant digital feeds of timely news and opinion is helping the print magazine... http://www.minonline.com/mindigital/19903.html Thu, 9 Feb 2012 17:15:36 EST Mobile media and industry events appear to be made for each other, but most b2b publishers have only been experimenting with apps and mobile sites that help guide their conference attendees. UBM TechWeb is aiming to make mobile apps a standard part of their event experience in a new deal with... http://www.minonline.com/mindigital/19905.html Fri, 10 Feb 2012 6:28:05 EST Venerable print brand and legendary museum Smithsonian meets the shiny new object. Smithsonian magazine yearns to become something closer to a living museum as it finally brings its monthly title to the iPad in a fully enhanced edition. Selling for $3.99 an issue or by subscription for $19.99/yr or... http://www.minonline.com/mindigital/19900.html Wed, 8 Feb 2012 17:08:21 EST This isn’t a typo. I am not referring to the 99% movement that began to sweep the country last year. But, an important data point was released by GFK/MRI late last year that is worth noting: the 89%! What am I talking about? Back in November, GFK/MRI released its first wave of data that measured both... http://www.minonline.com/mindigital/19893.html Tue, 7 Feb 2012 19:46:42 EST After designing all of that eye candy, tap functionality and whirling dervish interfaces, publishers may be disappointed to hear that many users would just as soon their tablet magazines calm down. According to the latest survey of GfK MRI’s iPanel of tablet owners who read magazines on their devices... http://www.minonline.com/mindigital/19894.html Tue, 7 Feb 2012 20:27:45 EST Among the many casualties of the Great Recession in both the U.S. economy and the magazine industry in the last few years, Domino magazine has been among the most missed. In fact in our own May 2010 poll at minonline, Domino was declared the “most missed” of defunct books, right in front of Spy... http://www.minonline.com/mindigital/19896.html Wed, 8 Feb 2012 7:02:24 EST Marking the 150th anniversary of the American Civil War, one of the few American magazines that was there to witness the original event issued a digital version of its commemorative issue this week. The Atlantic was but four years old when hostilities broke about between North and South. In this volume it... http://www.minonline.com/mindigital/19884.html Mon, 6 Feb 2012 15:42:47 EST As Facebook filed last week for a initial public offering (IPO) that could value the company at up to $100 billion, it is easy to presume that the social media competition has been won. Nothing could be further from the truth. Remember Friendster? Remember MySpace? They once had the social network thing all... http://www.minonline.com/mindigital/19855.html Fri, 3 Feb 2012 18:01:42 EST Foodie magazines and sites have known for years that people love images of luscious dishes. Call it cooking porn, but recipe hunters and food aficionados will rifle through casserole slideshows looking for just the right one. And so it was inevitable that a social network grounded mainly in image sharing... http://www.minonline.com/mindigital/19875.html Sun, 5 Feb 2012 8:51:13 EST As yesterday’s (Feb. 5) Super Bowl and its astronomical ad rates continue to attest, brands love video. And while the formats and modes of access are quite different online from TV, marketers find the video spot understandable, reliable, and impactful of brand messaging. And so the video format on the... http://www.minonline.com/mindigital/19878.html Sun, 5 Feb 2012 9:39:15 EST