Matt McAlisterinKaleidaAnnouncement: Kaleida awarded Google DNI funding to develop voice-native models for newsWe received some great news this week. Google is supporting our project to develop new models for news on voice assistants — Amazon Alexa…Mar 22, 2019Mar 22, 2019
Matt McAlisterData pattern-hunting makes everything boringWe’re going to lose the really good stuff in the world if we keep normalizing everything all the timeFeb 7, 2019Feb 7, 2019
Matt McAlisterinKaleidaPerpetual adaption: A glimpse inside our CTO’s headGraham Tackley shared what he learned last year and I wrote it down. This interview is full of great quotes and insights for all news…Jan 17, 2019Jan 17, 2019
Matt McAlisterinKaleidaWhere does News go from here?The ‘stack’ or rather the ‘circuit’ of GraphQL, Elasticsearch, React Native and Firebase offers news ways of working for news orgs…Dec 5, 2018Dec 5, 2018
Matt McAlisterThe beginning of the end of Facebook’s grip on News2018 will be remembered as the year the news industry changed its tune about platformsNov 29, 2018Nov 29, 2018
Matt McAlisterPeople are in denial about newsThe way people think about news is very different from how they behave. I think it’s because they don’t feel connected to news anymore.Nov 14, 2018Nov 14, 2018
Matt McAlisterinKaleidaNews With Friends 2.0The upgrade includes a friend news ticker, suggestions, a new look and feel, and an Android version. Here’s some background on how we…Sep 21, 2018Sep 21, 2018
Matt McAlisterinKaleidaIntroducing News With FriendsNews is the #2 reason people use social networks, according to GlobalWebIndex. So, it’s hard to understand why news isn’t a core…Jul 17, 20181Jul 17, 20181
Matt McAlisterinKaleidaNews consumers trade in Facebook for private messaging appsPeople are gravitating toward WhatsApp and other private messaging services for many of their daily news habits.Jun 18, 2018Jun 18, 2018
Matt McAlisterinKaleidaBaby Boomers love newsIn our survey of news consumers for Kaleida’s News Ecosystem Report the 55+ age group showed that platforms are underserving this high…May 25, 2018May 25, 2018