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April 2009

links for 2009-04-29

April 29, 2009

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

April 28, 2009

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

April 18, 2009

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 a digital deli of expensive-to-produce news from around the world, and then click on an [...]

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Is YouTube the biggest loss-making machine in history?

April 16, 2009

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 content, versus 6% a year ago (and remember, this is a market in serious recession).” [...]

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

April 16, 2009

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 it might surprise you to learn that one of the largest and most-celebrated new-media ventures [...]

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

April 15, 2009

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 life based on the number of cells that make it up. The ThinkPad I have [...]

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How the Amazon debacle shows the dark side of social networks

April 15, 2009

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 they spread news. There’s a meme which appeared a while ago about a statement a [...]

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

April 11, 2009

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 belt). But I’m also a tinkerer who’s curious about OS’s, so I’ve been running Windows [...]

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Apple owns the touchscreen phone conversation

April 5, 2009

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 struck me was the way that Apple has managed to come in and completely dominate [...]

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Some quick thoughts about Google versus the newspapers

April 5, 2009

Image via CrunchBase Rupert Murdoch has really put the cat amongst the pigeons with his comments about Google: “Rupert Murdoch threw down the gauntlet to Google Thursday, accusing the search giant of poaching content it doesn’t own and urging media outlets to fight back. “Should we be allowing Google to steal all our copyrights?” asked [...]

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