Engadget

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Engadget
Engadget is the definitive guide to this connected life.
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languages English , Spanish , Chinese ( traditional and simplified ), Japanese
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editorial staff Michael Gorman
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On-line 2004 (currently active)
http://www.engadget.com/

Engadget is a multilingual blog network that reports on gadgets and consumer electronics on a daily basis . Engadget has several blogs, in English and also in international languages. Engadget has its own editorial team for the international editions, which act independently of one another. Engadget was named one of the best blogs of 2010 by TIME .

history

Engadget was founded in 2004 by the former editor and co-founder of Gizmodo , Peter Rojas . When it was founded, Peter Rojas also assumed the position of editor-in-chief. Engadget belonged to the blog network Weblogs, Inc. , which comprised 85 blogs and was taken over by AOL in 2005 . 2007 Peter Rojas handed over the role of editor-in-chief to Ryan Block , who announced his resignation on July 22, 2008 in order to found gdgt together with Rojas , which was taken over by AOL in 2013 and merged with Engadget. Joshua Topolsky succeeded Ryan Block as editor-in-chief. 2011 left Topolsky Engadget and handed over the role of the chief editor of Tim Stevens to The Verge to start. On July 15, 2013, Tim Stevens resigned as editor-in-chief and Marc Perton temporarily took over the management of the editorial department before Michael Gorman and Christopher Trout were appointed as new editors-in-chief of Engadget in April 2014.

Blogs

Engadget operates a variety of blogs in English, Chinese (traditional and simplified) and Japanese. The Spanish and German editions were discontinued on May 1, 2018. The English edition of Engadget alone operates several blogs which, like the international editions, are integrated into a website with a subdomain prefix. This includes the blogs Engadget Classic (the original Engadget blog), Engadget Mobile, Engadget HD and Engadget Alt, which merged in 2013 and became part of Engadget Classic. In March 2014, Engadget launched a UK edition to target the European technology market.

Since it started in 2004, Engadget has been updated several times a day with new articles about gadgets and consumer electronics . Engadget also contributes to rumors from the world of technology and produces the weekly Engadget podcast, which highlights the week's technology and gadget news.

Since it was founded, a large number of authors have blogged for Engadget. These include prominent bloggers, industry analysts and journalists such as Jason Calacanis, Paul Boutin, Phillip Torrone, Joshua Fruhlinger, Marc Perton and Susan Mernit. Darren Murph, who served as Duty Chief and Editor-at-Large at Engadget, had written over 17,212 posts as of October 5, 2010, which was recognized as the Guinness World Record for the most blog posts written. Also worth mentioning is industry analyst Ross Rubin, who wrote for Switched On, a weekly column on consumer electronics, from 2004 to 2014.

Engadget uses the Blogsmith CMS to publish its content.

Podcast

The Engadget podcast was launched in October 2004 and was originally hosted by Phillip Torrone and Len Pryor. Torrone hosted the first 22 episodes of the podcast and was then replaced by Eric Rice. Eric Rice has produced podcasts for Weblogs, Inc. and is best known for his own podcast, The Eric Rice Show. Rice hosted and produced 4 podcast episodes before Peter Rojas and Ryan Block took over. Until 2011, the podcast was moderated by editor-in-chief Joshua Topolsky together with editors Paul Miller and Nilay Patel before they left Engadget. Trent Wolbe produced the podcast under both Topolsky's and Tim Stevens' editorship until December 2012.

The content of the podcast is the events of the past week in the world of technology and the technologies associated with it. The podcast broadcast is typically an hour or more in length. Normally a new episode of the podcast appears every week, but this may change due to certain events. Events such as the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) and Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) are broadcast daily.

The podcast can be subscribed to in iTunes and as an RSS feed. Alternatively, there is the option of downloading the podcast directly from the website in MP3, Ogg , AAC or M4b format. The M4b version includes images related to the current discussion topic, which can be viewed in iTunes or a compatible media player.

Engadget also has live podcasts, usually broadcast Thursday or Friday afternoons, hosted by Ben Gilbert and Terrence O'Brien. The recorded podcast is usually available the day after. Engadget also offers the weekly podcasts Mobile , moderated by Brad Molen, and HD , moderated by Ben Drawbaugh and Richard Lawler.

On June 27, 2014, Engadget announced on Twitter that all Engadget podcasts will be paused for an indefinite period and no new podcasts will appear during this time.

App

On December 30, 2009, Engadget released its first mobile app for iPhone and iPod Touch . On January 1, 2010, Engadget also released an app for the Palm Pre and Palm Pixi smartphones ; According to Engadget, it is the thousandth app in the webOS catalog. A week later, on January 8, 2010, an Engadget app for the BlackBerry platform was added. The Engadget app for Android devices was released on March 25, 2010, the app for Windows Phone on July 1, 2011. The Engadget app was therefore represented on the most widely used smartphone operating systems. For tablets, the Engadget app for the iPad was released on December 15, 2010, while an updated Android app was released on July 28, 2011, which supports Android Honeycomb and thus tablets with Android as the operating system. The functions of the app include sharing articles via Twitter, Facebook or email, viewing breaking news, creating bookmarks and reading articles offline.

Engadget Expand

On December 11th 2012, Engadget unveiled Expand , a live event and exhibition for gadget lovers. It was Engadget's first major foray into the world of assemblies, after only a few assemblies had taken place at smaller venues in New York City and San Francisco in previous years. The first Expand took place on March 16-17, 2013 at the Fort Mason Center in San Francisco and featured a series of panel discussions. One of the panel discussions was Insert Coin , a competition in which hardware startups present their products and compete for prize money. Among the exhibitors and podium guests were renowned companies such as Google, Microsoft, Toyota, Kickstarter, Indiegogo, Lenovo, Oculus, Razer, Boston Dynamics, Samsung, Esko Bionics, ZBoard and OUYA as well as DJ Spooky and NASA. Ticket prices were up to $ 60. The first Expand attracted almost 2000 visitors.

Following the event, editor-in-chief Tim Stevens announced a second Expand in Yew York City for the last quarter of 2013. For Expand New York 2013, Engadget invited well-known names such as LeVar Burton , Benjamin Heckendorn , Reggie Watts , Spike Lee , Ben Huh and speakers from companies like Google , Sony , Facebook and Pebble .

Building on the first two expands, Engadget tried to organize an expand twice a year. The attempt failed and Expand was to take place annually instead; the visit should also be free from now on. The first Expand, free of charge for visitors, took place in November 2014.

Engadget also organizes smaller gatherings, which have been given the name Engadget Live . In 2014 there were live events in Austin , Seattle , Boston and Los Angeles .

The Engadget Show

On September 9, 2009, Joshua Topolsky announced a monthly show called The Engadget Show . The content of the show is a mixture of one-on-one conversations, round table discussions, short video segments and live music. The show will be recorded on video and made available for viewing and downloading at a later date. Initially, the show took place in the Tishman Auditorium of Parsons The New School for Design , but after the fifth show it was relocated to The Times Center, part of the New York Times Tower. In 2014 Engadget decided to end The Engadget Show .

Controversy

Trademark Infringement

In early 2006, Engadget reported on a deal in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia that had the same name as the blog network and also announced that it would not take legal action. Since then, the Malaysian business has had a different name. In July 2007, another store opened in Malaysia with a logo similar to Engadget's.

William Shatner & Twitter verification

On June 21, 2014, actor William Shatner drew attention to himself when he questioned the "verified" status of Engadget's editorial staff on Twitter . The argument began when John Colucci, editor in charge of the social media website, tweeted Engadget's one million follower mark on Twitter, which prompted Shatner to ask why Colucci's account was verified be. Shatner referred to Colucci and other Engadget employees as "nobodies" and claimed in an interview with Mashable that he was bullied by Colucci and his team. About a month after the interview, Shatner reopened the subject of verification on his Tumblr page, whereupon Engadget responded with an article of its own, defending its team and discussing the controversies surrounding social media verification.

The Verge

In early 2011, at least eight prominent people from the editorial and technology departments left AOL to create a new gadget website.

The departure of the group of employees, in addition to the former editor-in-chief Joshua Topolsky, also the editors Nilay Patel , Paul Miller, Joanna Stern, Ross Miller, Chris Ziegler, Chad Mumm, Justin Glow, Dan Chilton, Thomas Ricker and Vladislav Savov, received an internal message ahead, which in 58 pages described AOL's plan to expand the company into a media kingdom. This communication sparked an internal dispute. Some employees claimed that AOL wanted to sacrifice journalism for page views and that it was difficult to find a uniform business model for reporting. The group that left the company set up a placeholder website, This Is My Next , and developed a new technology news website in collaboration with Vox Media . The new website was called The Verge and was launched on November 1, 2011.

T-Mobile "Magenta"

On March 31, 2008, Engadget received a letter from Deutsche Telekom AG in Bonn to Engadget and its parent company Weblogs Inc. with the request that the “Engadget Mobile” blog site no longer use the color magenta in order to avoid confusion with the group and its T-Mobile brand . On April 1, 2008, Engadget reacted by coloring all pages magenta for one day and receiving a modified logo, the "Engadget-mobile" was shown in magenta from the "t" - so optically like "t-mobile". After that, Engadget reverted to its normal format and also removed the magenta.

Apple

During the period that Topolsky was editor-in-chief, Engadget was regularly accused of favoring Apple and the company's products. It appeared that the disadvantages of Apple products were being neglected and Apple products were receiving better ratings than products from competing companies.

Awards

Engadget has been nominated for several awards, including 2004 Bloggies for Best Technology Weblog and 2005 Bloggies for Best Computers or Technology Weblog and Best Group Weblog. Engadget won the Weblog Awards in the Best Tech Blog category in 2004 and 2005 .

The Engadget Show won both the People's Voice Webby Award in Consumer Electronics and the official Webby Award in Consumer Electronics in 2011 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Best Blogs of 2010 . In: Time , June 28, 2010. Retrieved May 24, 2015. 
  2. ↑ Nicholas Graham: America Online Acquires Weblogs, Inc. . October 6, 2005. Retrieved May 24, 2015.
  3. ^ Ryan Block: Some news from the editor's desk . June 22, 2008. Retrieved May 24, 2015.
  4. ^ Joshua Topolsky: Peter Rojas and Ryan Block launch gdgt - the Swiss Army knife of tech sites . July 1, 2009. Retrieved May 24, 2015.
  5. ↑ Engadget Staff: Aol acquires gdgt: get those engdgt puns out of your system today . February 13, 2013. Retrieved May 24, 2015.
  6. ^ Joshua Topolsky: Hello, I must be going . March 12, 2011. Accessed May 24, 2015.
  7. ^ Tim Stevens: Welcome to Engadget . In: Engadget . April 4, 2011. Retrieved May 24, 2015.
  8. ↑ Joshua Topolsky: Welcome to The Verge . November 1, 2011. Accessed May 24, 2015.
  9. ↑ Tim Stevens: All Good Things . Retrieved May 24, 2015.
  10. ↑ Press Release: Engadget Names New Executive Editor, Editor in Chief . April 29, 2014. Retrieved May 24, 2015.
  11. ↑ Joshua Topolsky: Engadget's Darren Murph nabs Guinness World Record for most blog posts ever written! . In: Engadget . October 5, 2010. Retrieved May 24, 2015.
  12. ↑ Podcast Archive . In: Engadget . Archived from the original on November 30, 2012. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.engadget.com
  13. ↑ Live Podcast Archive . In: Engadget . Archived from the original on March 29, 2015. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved May 24, 2015. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.engadget.com
  14. ↑ Mobile Podcast Archive . In: Engadget . Archived from the original on March 10, 2015. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved May 24, 2015. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.engadget.com
  15. ↑ HD Podcast Archive . In: Engadget . Archived from the original on March 30, 2015. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved May 24, 2015. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.engadget.com
  16. ↑ Engadgets Twitter . Retrieved May 24, 2015.
  17. ↑ Megan Lavey-Heaton: Engadget releases iPhone app . The Unofficial Apple Weblog. December 30, 2009. Retrieved May 24, 2015.
  18. ↑ Engadget app for the iPhone and iPod touch . In: Engadget . Archived from the original on August 1, 2015. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved May 24, 2015. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.engadget.com
  19. ↑ Joshua Topolsky: now available for Pre and Pixi: the first webOS app of 2010 (and 1000th in the Catalog)! . In: Engadget . January 1, 2010. Accessed May 24, 2015.
  20. ↑ Joshua Topolsky: The Engadget app for Android is finally, really here! . In: Engadget . March 25, 2010. Retrieved May 24, 2015.
  21. ↑ Tim Stevens: The Engadget app for Windows Phone is here . In: Engadget . July 1, 2011. Accessed May 24, 2015.
  22. ↑ Joshua Topolsky: for iPad now available! . In: Engadget . December 15, 2010. Retrieved May 24, 2015.
  23. ↑ Tim Stevens: Android app updated, now with Honeycomb support! . In: Engadget . July 28, 2011. Retrieved May 24, 2015.
  24. ^ Brian Heater: Expand SF 2013 wrap-up . In: Engadget . March 18, 2013. Retrieved May 24, 2015.
  25. ^ Mat Smith: The After Math: Engadget Expand SF 2013 special . In: Engadget . March 22, 2013. Accessed May 24, 2015.
  26. ↑ John Colucci: RJD2 will join us at our free Engadget Expand event in NYC! . In: Engadget . August 6, 2014.
  27. ↑ Here's what happened at Engadget Live Seattle , Engadget. July 23, 2014. Accessed May 24, 2015. 
  28. ↑ Joshua Topolsky: The Engadget Show tapes Sunday, September 13th . September 9, 2009. Retrieved May 24, 2015.
  29. ↑ Peter Rojas: A visit to the store ... Engadget . In: Engadget . July 10, 2006. Retrieved June 4, 2015.
  30. ↑ Ryan Block: The (fake) Engadget store returns in a new location! . In: Engadget . July 1, 2007. Accessed June 4, 2015.
  31. ^ Alan White: William Shatner Went On A Massive Rant About How He's Sick Of "Nobodies" Getting Verified On Twitter . In: BuzzFeed . June 23, 2014. Accessed June 4, 2015.
  32. ↑ Lance Ulanoff: William Shatner: My Problem With Twitter's Verified Accounts . In: Engadget . June 24, 2014. Retrieved June 4, 2015.
  33. ↑ William Shatner: Abusing Verification - segueing with Shatner . July 29, 2014. Retrieved June 4, 2015.
  34. ↑ Nicole Lee: The perks of being 'somebody' online . In: Engadget . July 31, 2014. Retrieved June 4, 2015.
  35. ↑ David Carr: No Longer Shackled by AOL . April 3, 2011. Retrieved June 4, 2015.
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  37. ^ Ryan Block: Painting the town magenta. In: Engadget. April 1, 2008, accessed May 19, 2017 .
  38. ↑ Engadget Pimps Apple site maintenance as an actual news story . applebiased. October 31, 2007. Retrieved June 2, 2015.
  39. ^ Paul Boutin: Engadget editor: Why I turned off comments . venturebeat.com. February 2, 2010. Retrieved June 2, 2015.
  40. ↑ Nilay Patel: wins the People's Voice Webby in Consumer Electronics, and you can win a Droid Incredible! . In: Engadget . May 4, 2010. Retrieved May 24, 2015.
  41. ↑ Tim Stevens: We won some Webby Awards, and now you can win a BlackBerry PlayBook! . In: Engadget . May 4, 2011. Retrieved May 24, 2015.