The high-tech business model is ideal for news: expensive at first, cheaper and free later. Information, after all wants to be both free and expensive. The high tech business model lets you have both.
Raise your hand if you like free, ad-supported content. Good, just about everyone. Now raise your hand if you would like Kelloggs and Procter and Gamble to control all your media and entertainment choices. Oh, not so much?
Every time I read another post about the inexorable march toward 100% ad-supported content, etc., I remember the [...]
Popular / prominent webcomic artists are discovering Assetbar Fanflows for premium content on their blogs and websites.
Despite the fact he should use a better tool than an email list, is Calacanis becoming blogging’s first star?
Money is the new message. Twitter-style services can solve the profit equation by helping others make money.
Twitter’s down again. Oh, duh.
This time when twitter went down, Dare and Om were kind enough to link to an earlier post I had made where I guessed about Twitter’s messaging trouble and floated an idea for a twitter proxy. Thanks for mentioning us guys.
But, what about this proxy idea? it’s so easy [...]
As they say, March is a funny old month, isn’t it? Everything is changing, renewing and starting afresh. Before we embarked on the Great Simplification Makeover in our feature-laden reader, we decided to take a quick detour and see what we could learn in the name of science, exploration and discovery.
Like bumping around the [...]
Some of you aren’t getting fresh posts in your feeds as we update servers, add more machines and generally re-jigger our back end from old style to new style. Thanks for your patience.
Simplify.
No special Valentines Day image here folks–we need to simplify.
Duh, I know it’s best to start with feature A, and forget B, C, and D. But I’m a feature junkie and I suck at staying simple. I always blurt out “If we can do A and B, then why not add C and D [...]
You know you like the Google Reader’s river view and J-Key. So yeah, we got that now for Safari and FF. Pour another bowl of cereal and keep reading.
Like the great engineers over at Google Reader, we’ve decided to pre-fetch some assets off screen, and mark them read only when they become [...]
