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By Senior Editor – Kris Smith (@croncast)
Being cool has always had a price associated with it.
Whether it is money or time, something must be spent getting up to speed or adding something new to the wardrobe.
In our case, we’re concerned with the digital wardrobe and the…
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, Adobe Systems , Chris Anderson , magazine , Multimedia , Wired Advertising, Blogging, Business Models, Crowdsourcing, Featured, Freemium, Opinion, Subscriptions »
By Senior Editor – Kris Smith (@croncast)
If you don’t think that McClure is right on almost every point in his piece “Subscriptions are the New BLACK. (+ why Facebook, Google, & Apple will own your wallet by 2015)“, then you are wrong. It…
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, Dave McClure , Facebook , Google , iTunes , online merchants , payment gateways , paywall , subscription revenue Digital Culture, Featured, Freemium, Mobile, Smartphones, Software »
By Staff Writer – John Federico (@gadgetboy)
A few weeks ago I told you about the Ski Report iPhone app that brings crowdsourced trail and resort information to you via your iGadget, forcing resort reports to be more transparent and accurate about the
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Tags: Apple , augmented reality , Global Positioning System , gps , Handhelds , iPhone , iTunes , RealSki , RealSki for iPhone , Ski Resorts , Skiing , Snow , Snowboarding
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By Staff Writer – John Federico (@gadgetboy)
If you don’t need every feature that Adobe squeezes into Photoshop and have a decent broadband connection then free online photo editor Sumo Paint could be…
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, Adobe Integrated Runtime , Adobe Photoshop , Adobe Systems , editing , File format , graphics , Online Photo Editing Software , Photo Editing , Sumo Paint , Sumo Pro , Uploading and downloading Business Models, Design, Digital Media, Featured, Freemium, Usability »
By Staff Writer – John Federico (@gadgetboy)
It must be about a year ago that I discovered Prezi. It’s an online presentation application with a twist – literally. See, unlike the slide deck format that we’re all accustomed to, Prezi uses a single-
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Tags: Business , editing , freemium , Online and offline , Page layout , presentations , Prezi , Usability , YouTube
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By Senior Editor – Kris Smith (@croncast)
Today, TechCrunch let loose a road block ad that slowed all traffic on the great TechCrunch highway.
The response – users of the free site did the internet equivalent of honking their horns wildly by twittering…
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, paid content , paywall , Publishing and Printing , road block ads , Social Networking , TechCrunch , techcrunch road block Business Models, Digital Media, Featured, Freemium, Gadgets, Software »
By Staff Writer – John Federico (@gadgetboy)
Instapaper has been around for awhile now, allowing you to read longer form web content in a context or device that’s usually better suited for the task. Instapaper has a an iPhone app that will let…
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, Amazon.com , Digital Rights Management , Handhelds , Instapaper , iPhone , Kindle , magazines , new york times , Periodicals , Smartphones Advertising, Blogging, Business Models, Crowdsourcing, Featured, Freemium, Startup News, Subscriptions »
By Senior Editor – Kris Smith (@croncast)
Beyond being Hawaii based, Peer News, is set to kick off with the hiring of John Temple.
Temple was the former publisher and editor of the Rocky Mountain News. One of the many…
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, John Temple , Peer News , Peer News Hawaii , Peer News Online , Pierre Omidyar , Rocky Mountain News Business Models, Digital Media, Featured, Freemium, Product Review, Software »
By Staff Writer – John Federico (@gadgetboy)
Have you ever wondered why your Mac or Windows desktop doesn’t look and behave more like a real desktop? On your physical desk, you can stack things, put up sticky notes, move your current tasks in front of you and perhaps…
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, BumpTop , BumpTop for Mac , Mac OS X , Mac Software , Productivity Advertising, Business Models, Featured, Freemium, Opinion, Subscriptions »
By Senior Editor – Kris Smith (@croncast)
If the NY Times were an employee and they presented their wishy washy plan and timeline to create a paid model for content you would stop them and ask them to wait in the hall for you. Then you would…
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, new york times , News Corporation , Newspaper , paid content model , paywall , rupert murdoch Collaboration, Digital Culture, Enterprise, Featured, Freemium, News »
By Staff Writer – John Federico (@gadgetboy)
Did you know that there are more than 300 million users of Lotus Notes? Still?
Tungle knew. The calendar sharing and collaboration service just launched support for the original “Groupware” application bringing support for all…
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, IBM , Lotus Notes , TimeBridge , Tungle , Tungle.me Advertising, Business Models, Crowdsourcing, Digital Media, Featured, Freemium, Subscriptions »
By Senior Editor – Kris Smith (@croncast)
The time has come for you to make money online doing what you love. Getting paid to provide a service, entertainment or news isn’t shameful. No matter what people have been saying for years, free is not a way to…
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, make money online , make money online podcasting , mass media , New York City , paid rss subscription , Podcast , Podcasting , Streaming Media Freemium, Mobile, News, Smartphones, Software »
By Staff Writer – John Federico (@gadgetboy)
Skype has been making some big moves after it’s exit from eBay. During CES, the company announced HD videoconferencing with Skype partners announcing hardware to support it.
This week Skype released the latest version of their
Tags: iPhone Apps , Skype 1.3 for iPhone , Skype for iPhone , Skype iPhone App , VOIP , VOIP Over 3G , Wireless Broadband
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By Staff Writer – John Federico (@gadgetboy)
We’ve all suspected that the majority of revenues in the iPhone/iPod touch ecosystem were in the applications. Now we know, thanks to GigaOm.
What this infographic doesn’t address though is the high Read the full story »
Tags: applications , Data , iPhone , iPhone App Developers , iPhone Ecosystem , iPod Touch , iTunes App Store , Software , Software Developers , Statistics , Switching Costs
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By Staff Writer – John Federico (@gadgetboy)
Oprah’s favorite video conferencing company today announced 720p HD video conferencing. Skype will now stream 720p videoconference calls to and from your PC using…
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, ces 2010 , CES2010 , Freetalk , HD Webcam , In Store Solutions , LG , LG HDTV , Panasonic , Panasonic HDTV , Skype , Skype HD , Small Business , SMB , Videoconferencing Freemium, Opinion, Product Review, Software, Startup Tips »
By Senior Editor – Kris Smith (@croncast)
Some of you may already be doing this and it surely isn’t breaking news, but for one on one software demos nothing beats Skype.
The visual and the voice are integrated, clear and screen size is optional. It doesn’t get much better…
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, free voice software , screen sharing bootstrap , screen sharing software , skype screen sharing Advertising, Business Models, Freemium, Opinion, Subscriptions »
By Senior Editor – Kris Smith (@croncast)
History will lay in front of us the aftermath of the media transformation that is being caused by the internet.
Anyone that thinks they can predict what the pages of that history will be is crazy – and tell them I said…
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, free business model , free content , mind your business , paywalls Freemium, Headline, News, Opinion, Product Review »
By Senior Editor – Kris Smith (@croncast)
You need a pile-o-data fast and you got nowhere to get it other than surf, bookmark and beg for interns to copy and paste for you. Where do you turn? Your IT department? Your hackery skills and your shared GoDaddy hosting account…
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, 80legs spider , 80Legs web crawler , free web crawler , free web spider , unstructured data , value proposition , VentureBeat Advertising, Business Models, Digital Media, Ecommerce, Freemium, Microblogging, News, Social Media »
By Staff Writer – John Federico (@gadgetboy)
OneForty, the Twitter App Directory has raised $1.6 million according to an FCC filing. Founded by Laura Fitton (@pistachio), the Company’s CEO and author of Twitter for Dummies,…
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, Laura Fitton , OneForty , Twitter For Dummies , venture capital Blogging, Freemium, Microblogging, News, Opinion »
By Senior Editor – Kris Smith (@croncast)
WordPress 2.9 is now street legal and straight outta beta for the masses.
You’ve probably read about the full release already and that is a good thing. You might have even readRead the full story »
Tags: contextual menu , contextual navigation , open source , WordPress , wordpress 2.9 , wordpress 3.0
