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Phil Gyford on why Murdoch’s iPad newspaper might not fail

November 25, 2010

Why the iPad newspaper might not be doomed: “Next, Tate says that News Corp. “sucks at the internet”. One thing I hear a lot is “the internet is different, you must get it to succeed, you old media folk don’t get it, ha ha, you’re doomed!”. Which is enormously comforting when you’re pointing and laughing [...]

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Paywall or not paywall? It’s not black and white

September 24, 2010

Roy Greenslade asks “where’s the proof of paywall success?“. “What we have yet to know is whether paywalls work. Even magazines that have erected them for a good while are either unsure about the results or, more usually, secretive about them. Similarly, News International isn’t revealing figures for its subscriptions take-up.” One might equally ask [...]

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Marketing Week Live goes all iPhone AR crazy

June 24, 2010

I’m pretty skeptical about augmented reality applications in general, but there are some occasions when I think they’re actually quite useful. Events, for example, are a particular case where AR makes sense. The location is relatively small, but there’s usually a large amount of information surrounding particular areas within the event – seminars, press releases, [...]

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And that’s why there will never be Flash on the iPhone

April 29, 2010

The Wall Street Journal story on Steve Jobs’ statement on Flash includes some telling quotes: Dave Wolf, vice president of strategy at Cynergy Systems Inc., a Washington, D.C., design firm, calls Apple’s no-Flash policy “a pain.” Mr. Wolf had planned to build mobile apps for clients using the new Adobe software; the apps cost upwards [...]

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Notes for a talk on designing for the iPad

April 20, 2010

Last week, I gave quick talk to some of the designers at Redwood about the challenges and opportunities that designing magazine-style content for the iPad presents. These are my notes. They’re rough, but they represent where my thinking is going.

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Has Gizmodo broken the law with its iPhone story?

April 20, 2010

I am not a lawyer. But I do play one on the weekends. More importantly, over the years I’ve become intimately familiar with the law as it affects journalists on both sides of the pond. I’ve covered cases like the “trade secrets” disputes between Apple and various news sources, and even had a couple of [...]

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This is what is killing newspapers

March 29, 2010

From the comments on The Times’ Q&A about it’s pay-model: “£2 a week is too rich for my blood even considering the quality reporting but this depends on what the annual rate will be.” If people genuinely believe that news isn’t worth £2 per week – less than the price of a latte at Starbucks [...]

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Guess again

March 5, 2010

Another YouTube Revenue Guess: $1 Billion in 2011: Since Google releases almost no information about YouTube’s financial performance, the best we can do is make educated guesses. Here’s another one: The word’s biggest video site will be generating more than $1.1 billion in revenue by 2011, and Google will keep about $700 million of that.That [...]

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Sometimes, “think like a startup” isn’t the best option

February 11, 2010

In an interesting piece on the problems at MySpace under Murdoch, Om Malik mentions this: Kevin also mentioned that Murdoch, and every large media company, need to think like startups. Good advice – but only to a point. The fact is that News Corp (like all major media companies) can currently make more money online [...]

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Guardian CEO says charging for specialist content an option

February 1, 2010

The Guardian may still be considering a paywall, at least for specialist content: [Chief Executive of Guardian Media Group Carolyn] McCall added that the Guardian, like the New York Times, had looked at six different pay models including a complete a complete “pay wall”. She said that introducing pay barriers would restrict the Guardian’s journalism. [...]

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