Babbel and The Wall Street Journal both turned away from the Freemium model this week. The outcome will be drastically different for each.
Babbel, a language-learning site, came out of beta today with a surprise: It will be charge ...READ»
The Associated Press has just rolled out a service to make it simpler for news publishing companies to make apps for practically every smartphone out here. And guess what? In typical "we own the news" AP style, the finished apps can ...READ»
It's nice that CEO Eric Schmidt feels Google has a "moral responsibility" to help reinvent the newspaper industry. But how?
Hyper-personalization might be the way, according to the Neiman Journalism Lab at Harvard, which pressed ...READ»
Comixology's iPhone app just got an exciting boost: 71 titles from Marvel. Reading comics on such a small screen is okay, but it sure would be nicer if they were on a bigger screen. Enter iTablet. Is this their future?
The Marvel ...READ»
Companies looking to improve their marketing strategies on the internet should take care when selecting which keywords to optimise their website for. READ»
Online marketers looking to improve their digital advertising strategies should ensure that they have high quality landing pages for their pay-per-click (PPC) advertisements. READ»
With bargain-basement subscription prices and free Web articles, magazines have spent the last decade acting like startups who care for nothing but eyes. But unlike Twitter, publishing companies need revenue--and not just from ads. ...READ»
An expert has asserted that the online ad spend is likely to continue to grow in proportion to the amount of time consumers spend on the internet. READ»
Web-streaming TV is a tech on the upswing, and old hands like Netflix and Blockbuster are grabbing on quick. Now Samsung's joining in too, cutting out the set-top box middleman and bringing streaming content directly to your ...READ»
Rupert Murdoch is so concerned about the future of traditional (i.e. his) news publishing at the hands of Google, he's launched paid Web newspapers via an online club. But if Google's so evil, why doesn't he block its ...READ»
Ecommerce firms looking to target women and specifically mothers through online advertising might wish to consider upping their social media campaigns, recent research has indicated.READ»
Will the cast of 30 Rock soon be making fun of a new corporate overlord? M&A bankers for General Electric may have reached a deal Tuesday to sell NBC-Universal to Comcast, reports TheWrap. Both companies have denied any ...READ»
It's not how you think. A Boston research group called the Web Ecology Project has analyzed 12 of the service's most popular users over the course of a 10-day period, in order to understand how influence works on Twitter. The result ...READ»
Video is responsible for the recent explosion in broadband Internet traffic. Whether it is an online news report, sports highlights, last night’s TV episodes, user-generated content or simply posting from friends and families, video ...READ»
Amazon has announced that bloggers of all stripes will be able to publish their feeds in Kindle-friendly format, and then sell that content to users via Amazon. Wait...what?
The Kindle has a built in browser--it's somewhat ...READ»
It's called Gabble, and it's a free host for all your personal videos. Sound familiar? That's the same concept that made YouTube a massive success--and plenty of other companies have tried to compete in the space. The advantage of ...READ»
Google is set to lose $470 million on YouTube in 2009, according to estimates by Credit Suisse. Even for Google, whose market cap hovers around $115 billion at its current share price, that's a hell of a write-off for one ...READ»
As we reported yesterday, the new Amazon [AMZN] Kindle can read to you. Apparently, this is a problem.
The Authors' Guild says that the Kindle's text-to-speech feature could infringe upon book copyrights. Its probably afraid that a ...READ»
Netflix [NFLX] is considering a feature that would stream cable TV to its users. Wait a minute: wasn't Hulu supposed to be the Web's cable-killer?
The new feature gained exposure by way of a survey distributed to current Netflix ...READ»
Your customers are tempted to include your business in their cost-cutting efforts. Act now to offer extra value, adopting a method that won’t cost you more. In fact, it often reduces overhead. Two rival businesses are using ...READ»
I released a free white paper today which answers the following questions:
What exactly is Web 2.0?
How should your writing style change?
How has online interaction changed and what will this mean for the future of ...READ»
