Monthly Archives: April 2009

links for 2009-04-29

Posted on April 29, 2009 by Ian Betteridge

BBC NEWS | Technology | Home Office 'colluded with Phorm' Oh dear. Oh dear oh dear. (tags: technology BBC law privacy advertising uk government legal phorm)

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links for 2009-04-28

Posted on April 28, 2009 by Ian Betteridge

The long view in building news businesses (tags: technology journalism news newspapers)

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Sly Bailey isn’t attacking Google, she’s attacking boring “me-too” news

Posted on April 18, 2009 by Ian Betteridge

Sly Bailey of Trinity Mirror is probably going to get some stick from the usual suspects for what looks, at face value, to be another “Google is evul” attack: “Or worse, they may visit an aggregator like Google News, browse … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized, Web/Tech | Tagged Business model, Google, Iran, Search, Search Engines, Sly Bailey, Trinity Mirror, Web 2.0 | 2 Comments

Is YouTube the biggest loss-making machine in history?

Posted on April 16, 2009 by Ian Betteridge

Image via CrunchBase Michael Hickens of Google Watch puts a positive spin on how YouTube is doing: “Google’s YouTube acquisition is looking less and less like a financial boondoggle every day. YouTube is now selling ads against 9% of its … Continue reading →

Posted in Web/Tech | Tagged advertising, Credit Suisse, Google, User-generated content, YouTube | 2 Comments

The new economic reality: business model first, build traffic second

Posted on April 16, 2009 by Ian Betteridge

Farhad Manjoo at Slate offers a timely reminder of one of the underlying realities of online business: “Everyone knows that print newspapers are our generation’s horse-and-buggy; in the most wired cities, they’ve been pummeled by competition from the Web. But … Continue reading →

Posted in Web/Tech | Tagged Business, farhadmanjoo, Media, Newspaper, Publishers, Publishing, Slate, YouTube | 1 Comment

The dumbest “Macs are better than PCs” post, ever

Posted on April 15, 2009 by Ian Betteridge

Cover of The Cult of Mac (Paperback edition) I’ve read some stupid reasons why platform X is better than platform Y in my time, but this one on Cult of Mac really takes the biscuit: “Apple never, ever expresses battery … Continue reading →

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How the Amazon debacle shows the dark side of social networks

Posted on April 15, 2009 by Ian Betteridge

There’s no point in recapping how the “Amazon de-lists GLBT books” meme developed, because other people have done a far better job than I. But what it illustrates ably, I think, is the dark side of social networks and how … Continue reading →

Posted in Web/Tech | Tagged Amazon, culture, history, Politics | 5 Comments

Windows 7, Mac OS X and Ubuntu: A Tale of Three Operating Systems

Posted on April 11, 2009 by Ian Betteridge

Joe Wilcox picks up on a comment that I made on his post about Windows 7 and its relationship to the Mac: “As you know, Joe, I’m a Mac to Linux switcher (with over 20 years Mac use under my … Continue reading →

Posted in Macs, Web/Tech | Tagged Apple, Microsoft, open source, Operating system, Windows, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP | 19 Comments

Apple owns the touchscreen phone conversation

Posted on April 5, 2009 by Ian Betteridge

Image by Getty Images via Daylife I went along to a blogger’s briefing on the new LG Arena a couple of evenings ago, and – of course – the iPhone came up as a topic of questions and conversation. What … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Apple, Handhelds, iPhone, LG Arena, LG Viewty, Smartphone, Touchscreen, Web browser | 4 Comments

Some quick thoughts about Google versus the newspapers