Daylife: A New Architecture for the Creation and Distribution of News [Print This Page]
- Time: 10:00-10:20 a.m.
- Date: Friday, Sept. 12
- Place: Neff Auditorium, 204 Neff Hall
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Daylife is a new architecture for news, providing publishers a scalable solution to automatically generate content on any subject. By gathering, analyzing and organizing the world's news from thousands of mainstream services and blogs, Daylife enables anyone to produce a landscape of related stories, quotes and images of every story and perspective. In this presentation you will see how news services across the world have integrated Daylife to provide their readers new ways to discover the news and explore the world.
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Presenter: Tom Tercek
Co-Founder, Vice President of Business Development
Daylife
Prior to starting Daylife, Tom Tercek was a partner in the ventures unit of Denuo, a division of Publicis Groupe, where he focused on evolutionary digital platforms and technology solutions for the media business. Tercek is a former cable television producer and programmer with more than 20 years of experience. He worked with MTV Networks for nine years and later co-founded Global Media Holdings, where he created and launched two crime/suspense networks in Japan. He also founded SF, a science fiction channel, and SheTV, the first channel created for women in Japan, with extensive cross-platform programming to incorporate viewer interaction and participation. Tercek also oversaw network strategy, programming and marketing of AtomTelevision, a new channel devoted exclusively to the emerging world of short films, currently with video-on-demand programming available on major domestic cable systems throughout the United States.
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About the Technology Summit
The Technology Summit is an action-packed exhibition of the ideas, trends, tools, technologies and companies that are leading the way into 21st-century journalism. Leading technology experts and industry pioneers will preside over interactive presentations divided into three tracks: Digital Storytelling, Disruptive Technologies and Web 3.0 Economics. Guests will have the chance to see new technologies at work and visit with those who are shaping tomorrow's media.
Technology Summit Advisers
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Kim Garretson
General Partner
Realist Ventures & Advisory Services
Blog: Realist
Kim Garretson, BJ '73, is a general partner in Realist Ventures & Advisory Services. He advises venture capital firms, early-stage consumer digital media companies, retailers and media companies on disruptive innovation. Previously, Garretson was the liaison to the venture capital industry for Best Buy's Corporate Strategy & Innovation division. Prior to that, Garretson co-founded NOVO Media Group, which was the fourth-largest digital agency at its sale to Leo Burnett in 2001. Garretson also has been a partner in the upper Midwest's largest marketing and public relations agency. He began his career as a senior editor and technology columnist for Better Homes and Gardens.
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Mike McKean
Director of the Futures Lab
Reynolds Journalism Institute
Mike McKean is the Futures Lab director at the Reynolds Journalism Institute and a professor at the Missouri School of Journalism, where he has taught for 22 years. McKean created the School's convergence journalism program and chaired the convergence journalism faculty from 2005-2008. He is a leader in teaching with technology at the local, national and international levels. Winner of the MU's Innovator Award, McKean is chairing the campus Information Technology Committee; coordinating partnerships with Apple, Inc., AT&T and Adobe Systems; and helping establish convergence curricula at Moscow State University in Russia and Shantou University in China. McKean also has chaired the radio-TV news faculty at Missouri, served as Web director at KOMU-TV and news director of KBIA-FM. Before joining the School of Journalism, he was managing editor of KTRH NewsRadio in Houston and assistant news director at the Missourinet in Jefferson City.
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