What if blogs and journals offered a full feed for $1 per month with no ads, mobile access, etc. Would you subscribe for a buck? What I am proposing is the following forms of monetization: standard Web site with ads, partial feed with no ads, and a full feed with no ads for $1/month.
CenterNetworks on Paid RSS
26 January 2008
Of course, the nonprofit has no profit motive to spur it to deliver on its promises. The invisible hand has a way of providing visible results.
Valleywag on One Laptop Per Child
The OS-engineering world is pretty small. A surprising number of Windows employees have worked at Apple in the past. And vice versa. Are these guys stealing?
Shipping Seven on OS Stealing
Some observers are noting that much of what we are seeing now also took place in 1929. As we know, that meltdown was not followed by a happy ending, but rather by a decade of poverty, shantytowns and sporadic famine.
MarketWatch on Recession
25 January 2008
Besides a new favicon and a confirmation dialog displayed when you mark all the posts as read, Google Reader now shows the published date of a post in a tooltip.
Google on GReader
The patent holding firm who has the rights to this [smartphone] patent wasted no time at all. At 12:01am Tuesday morning, it filed three separate lawsuits against just about everyone you can think of, including Apple, Nokia, RIM, Sprint, ATT, HP, Motorola, Helio, HTC, Sony Ericsson, UTStarcomm, Samsung and a bunch of others.
Slashdot on Smartphone Patent
Barack Obama made one campaign promise that all Apple fanboys and iPod owners can get behind: “I won’t let Apple release the new and improved iPod the day after you bought the previous model.”
Gizmodo on Barack Obama
Researchers from Duke University think it may be possible to develop a composite material that would make objects acoustically “invisible.”
Boing Boing on Sound Invisibility
24 January 2008
The Wall Street Journal’s Web site, WSJ.com, will keep a significant portion of its content behind its paid-subscription wall, News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch said Thursday.
Murdoch on WSJ
I see many consumer Internet pitches these days where the basic marketing strategy is to (1) get covered by Techcrunch, (2) get tens of thousands of users from the “Techcrunch Bump”, and then (3) “grow virally”.
Redeye VC on TechCrunch