The updated Linked in iPhone app
For obvious reasons Google has long-trumpeted the notion that brands should create a mobile optimised site first before developing a costly iPhone app.
While Google now offers a free way of doing so with its recently launched Mobilize tool, brands are looking to create more sophisticated mobile sites as they start to realise that the only way isn’t necessarily Apple. Read More
The FT reports that the Telegraph is to be the next major UK publisher to begin charging for its website or at least some of its content.
The plans to charge could be in place as earlier as next year following in the footsteps of rival News International that has The Times, The Sunday Times and The News of the World behind a paywall. Read More
With so much being said in the last few weeks about the value of social media to news groups, by the likes of The Guardian and The New York Times its very interesting to read the News Corporation’s Australian titles will not follow the anti-social media paywall approach adopted by The Times and The New of the world in London, which locks away all content and allows nothing to be shared.
It is further confirmation if ever you needed it that News International in London got it wrong and that its paywall is an anomaly not to be repeated in the US or Australia where different, more open, paywalls will or will soon operate. Read More
If you want to know why the New York Times plans to continue to give away some of its content when its paywall goes up early in 2011 its simple, according to Martin Nisenholtz, senior VP digital, who says social media turbo charges its news.
And why would anyone throw away a turbo charger? Read More
A revealing disclosure from assistant editor for online at The Times, Tom Whitwell, that the Times paywall is not interested in young people. They’re apparently not the target audience. Where exactly does The Times think it is going to get its next generation of online readers from?
More than that The Times does not seem concerned by its lack of connection with this group of readers. Isn’t that odd?
The New York Times Company is planning to erect a paywall around The Boston Globe’s content or at least some of it in the second half of 2011 after the paywall at its flagship newspaper goes live in January.
The plan will see the Boston Globe spread its content across two websites. The existing Boston.com site will remain free and it will be joined by the launch of a second subscription based pay site called BostonGlobe.com in a two site strategy that adds a fresh take on publisher’s efforts to make newspaper paywalls work. Read More
I’m a fan of the Financial Times and the Wall Street Journal websites. I use them a lot in my day to day job.
On average, give or take, I probably look at a couple of stories a day from each and maybe as many as 40 or 50 stories a month. Both websites have paywalls, the original paywalls as it were, but I don’t subscribe. Read More
The Vanity Fair app for the Apple iPad is out and we have the video for you to take a look at as well as the Financial Times on the must/must not have latest Apple device — opinion appears pretty divided. Read More
More than 184,396 tweets were sent last night during the UK’s first televised leader debates as tens of thousands more logged onto Facebook’s groaning servers, blogs and ITV’s website.
The number of tweets sent blew the 11,000 who tweeted during the #AsktheChancellors earlier debate away, but although the chatter was fast and furious with the average frequency of tweets standing at 29.06 per second in all the total numbers of tweeters was 36,483. Read More
It is the end of paper publishing; we have reached the point of no return. There I said it – and I am not alone. It is now the global common, spoken or unspoken consensus that the publishing industry’s paper products have reached the end of their lifecycle.
More and more great titles from glossy monthlies to super size dailies are closing down the print issue and are focusing on the online product and many are consolidating several titles to offer a wider choice to its readers and maybe, maybe keep a few more staff on its roster. Even Arthur Sulzberger Jr of the New York Times said just the other day that it is a matter of time before The New York Times will no longer publish an actual paper. The question is, where is the revenue going to come from, the heavily underpriced online advertisement or paid content? Read More
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