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New portfolio at ninemsn

Paul Keen — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 08:32:55 +0000

Another year and another restructure at ninemsn. I loose Sport from my portfolio but pick up Entertainment along with a whole new team (3 Developers).

Here are the list of the sites under my portfolio.

News and Current Affair

Entertainment

It’s a lot of work for a team of four but it’s going to be a fun challenge.

ninemsn Beijing Olympics

Paul Keen — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 05:55:57 +0000

Today we’ve launched our new Olympics section. Like all other non-rights media we’ll be covering the Olympics extensively showing latest news, results and medal tally’s along with videos of the important events during the games.

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/olympics

Not sure if we’ll win the ratings race but we hope you enjoy the experience.

ninemsn unveils iPhone-friendly site

Paul Keen — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 08:04:13 +0000

Back from hols and all the talk is the iPhone launch on the 11th July.

So with just two days to go before the most anticipated launch in ‘techy’ mobile history, ninemsn unveils its ninemsn homepage created especially for the iPhone.

ninemsn for iPhone offers a selection of its content optimised for mobile internet browsing.

ninemsn for iPhone is a one-stop hub where people can be informed, educated and entertained while accessing all the information, entertainment and lifestyle sites ninemsn has to offer.

From ninemsn home on the iPhone, people will be able to browse ninemsn’s made-for-mobile products such as National Nine News, Windows Live Hotmail, Windows Live Messenger, Live Search, RALPH, Cleo, CelebrityFIX , the great yourtime guides and more.

Go to ninemsn.com.au from an iPhone to find iPhone style icons, images, and touch screen navigation.

Under the weather?

Paul Keen — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 05:33:29 +0000

Another day, another news launch. Today we put live our new weather site…weather.ninemsn.com.au

The site is very comprehensive showing conditions, forecasts, weather maps, radar images (my personal obsession) along with surf and snow reports for the whole of Australia.

Check out the official line.

News Live

Paul Keen — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 09:48:29 +0000

Well we went quicker than we thought and the News site it live!

http://news.ninemsn.com.au

More details to come shortly, but it’s time to celebrate with a G & T

Silverlight on ninemsn home page?

Paul Keen — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 03:02:07 +0000

Well it’s not quite a reality yet, but check out Shane and Michael play with Silverlight using the ninemsn homepage.

http://blogs.msdn.com/shanemo/archive/2008/03/02/shanemo-and-delicategenius-do-artists-in-residence.aspx

ninemsn and Yahoo7

Paul Keen — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 05:52:55 +0000

As you can imagine I’m getting a lot of questions about Microsoft attempting to buy Yahoo and I’d love to give me full opinion about it, but for fear of loosing my job I’ll leave it for the professional commentary.

ZDNet have followed up on yesterday’s piece, with another good article on the potential takeover.

I don’t necessarily agree that it will be all doom and gloom for either joint venture for the simple reason that cross-media selling has been so popular with media buyers. The media seems to forget about display advertising (video or images) rather than simple textural results which only work in one medium (search results).

Advertisers are still slow on moving to the online world with their large audience figures (compared to traditional mediums such as radio) and as they do over the next year it wouldn’t make any sense to break up either ventures. Keep them separate and draw in the dollars.

…opps I’m giving my opinion…