I wrote last week that I don’t have a problem with The Times paywall just its implementation. One of its biggest failing appeared to be shutting its once popular blogs behind the paywall.

I’ve suspected it is doing them no good and a couple of news tidbits have I have seen over the last day or so add weight to this idea. One of those morsels came last night from a Times member of staff speaking at an event. Read More »

So for those of you eagerly awaiting Twitter’s free analytics service, good news – it should be here by the end of the year, and some details have been revealed.

Details have been made public by Twitter’s business development executive Ross Hoffman at a sports marketing summit, so he was focusing on how sports teams, players and leagues will have access to the dashboard, which is going to offer real-time analytics. Read More »

A few weeks back I wrote a blog post that detailed a few tips surrounding building and maintaining pages for brand and companies within Facebook, a post motivated by a blog post I saw on AppStorm. In the meantime the guys from eConsultancy have also written a detailed blog post surrounding some brilliant examples of Facebook pages that have been created by brands. But its not just these two though, there are hundreds of blog posts that cover the same topic – but there’s a problem - all of them predominantly cover either pages that have been created for US or Global markets. Read More »

According to the 2010 Forbes 400 list of the Wealthiest Americans, five years after founding Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg is now worth more than Apple’s CEO Steve Jobs. He is worth $6.9bn having added $4.9bn to his fortune in the last year.

That’s incredible for a 26-year old if not mind boggling. Forbes says the leap in wealth has taken him to number 35 on the Forbes 400. Read More »

The average app user in the US has 18 apps with teens and twenty nothings adding the most. No surprise that games are top for downloads, followed by news and map based apps.  Those categories outstrip social networking.

Interesting to see the split between men and women is not that great and it is apparently closing as more women get smartphones. What’s also noteworthy here is that Twitter not Facebook has the highest daily use about 18-24 yearolds – 75% compared to 57% fpr Facebook, but that then reverses in the nex group 25- 34 where Facebook leaders Twitter.  Read More »

United Business Media has put the premium content of its Building Design website behind a paywall, asking £69 from a year for access, and sparked a largely (and maybe not surprising) negative reaction from readers.

In a pessimistic blog post from editor Amanda Baillieu she explains that while breaking news, blogs and video content will remain free, comment, analysis and building studies and technical studies will go behind the paywall and admits readers might go elsewhere. Read More »