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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 Business Models, Featured, Opinion, Startup Tips, Subscriptions »
By Senior Editor – Kris Smith (@croncast)
I’m using the home page at GigaOm as of this moment for inspiration of this post. I’ve always admired the consistent high quality they’ve been able to produce over the years.
There are two posts…
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, Dave McClure , GigaOm , Ira Glass , NPR , Om Malik , paywall , Subscription business model , subscription model , This American Life , wbez Advertising, Blogging, Digital Culture, Featured, Freemium, Opinion, Subscriptions »
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 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 Culture, Digital Media, Featured, File sharing, Subscriptions »
By Staff Writer – John Federico (@gadgetboy)
It seems that our own Kris Smith isn’t the only thinking about monetizing his content.
Avner Ronen, CEO of my favorite IPTV company, Boxee, wrote on their blog today about the forthcoming…
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, Boxee , Boxee Box , Boxee Payments , broadband , IPTV , One-Click Payments , Premium Content , Video on Demand , Video Over Broaband , Video Over The Net , Video Podcasts 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 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 Digital Media, Featured, Mobile, News, Smartphones, Subscriptions »
By Staff Writer – John Federico (@gadgetboy)
New York-based Thumbplay, the leading provider of mobile entertainment content (think ringtones and wallpaper), has launched a streaming music service.
First available on BlackBerry devices, the cloud-based music service will also be available on Mac and PC…
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, BlackBerry , CES , CES2010 , Cloud-Based Music Services , IODA , Mobile , Music , Music Subscription Services , Smartphones , Sony Music Entertainment , Subscriptions , Thumbplay , Thumbplay Music , Universal Music Group , Warner Music Group , wireless Business Models, Ecommerce, Freemium, Software, Subscriptions »
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 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 Business Models, Digital Culture, Digital Media, Subscriptions »
By Senior Editor – Kris Smith (@croncast)
As budgets shrink and media makers find themselves looking for sources of revenue there is often one common thread – it is time charge for the product.
For many it is a decision reached after trying to find…
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, internet pricing model , pricing paywalls , sustainable pricing , the next web Advertising, Business Models, Digital Media, Gadgets, Mobile, News, Smartphones, Software, Subscriptions »
By Staff Writer – John Federico (@gadgetboy)
Who ever thought that analytics for mobile applications would become such an important market?
This is all thanks to the iTunes App Store and the flurry (pun intented) of ad-supported applications.
Two of the fastest growing startups…
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, Flurry , iPhone , iPhone OS , iPod Touch , iTunes App Store , Mergers and Acquisitions , Mobile Application Analytics , New York Startups , Pinch Media , San Francisco Startups Digital Media, Headline, News, Subscriptions »
By Senior Editor – Kris Smith (@croncast)
According to the Wall Street Journal, Apple is in late stage negotiations with CBS and Disney to add their shows to a pay subscription service for Apple TV and all…
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, Apple TV hacks , Apple TV Subscriptions , itunes subscription for tv , itunes television , Steve Jobs , Wall Street Journal Freemium, Product Development, Product Review, Subscriptions »
By Senior Editor – Kris Smith (@croncast)
The open source mind mapping software XMind is now offering a Pro version of its free software. The Pro version has workgroup and other features to entice the free user to drop…
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, free mind mapping software , mind mapping software , open source mind mapping , project managment , Ubuntu , XMind Freemium, Social Media, Subscriptions, Usability »
By Senior Editor – Kris Smith (@croncast)
It’s a vague title but accurate considering LinkedIn is like a billion internet years old.
LinkedIn improving something is like grandpa getting a new battery for his hearing aid. Sure he still smells like cherry pipe tobacco…
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, linkedin faceted search , linkedin for business , linkedin new search , linkedin redesign , salvation army , Social Networks Advertising, Business Models, Digital Culture, Digital Media, Ecommerce, Gadgets, Hardware, Mobile, News, Opinion, Smartphones, Subscriptions »
By Staff Writer – John Federico (@gadgetboy)
The news may have broken over the weekend but nonetheless, it continues to spread like wildfire: Google is going to launch an Android-based smartphone some time in January – without the support…
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, Android OS , Apple iPhone , ATT , Carrier Subsidies , Contextual Advertising , Google Nexus One , GSM , HSDPA , HSPA , iPhone , Mobile Advertising , Nexus One , Nexus One Smartphone , Quad-Band Smartphone , T-Mobile Digital Culture, Digital Media, Subscriptions »
By Senior Editor – Kris Smith (@croncast)
Apple scooped up music startup LaLa this week and now The Wall Street Journal is reporting iTunes could be coming to the web.
Downloading…
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, apple itunes , digital audio library , iTunes , itunes on the web , itunes online , itunes software , music startup , streaming itunes , the wall street journal itunes Business Models, Collaboration, Digital Media, File sharing, Freemium, Opinion, Photography, Social Media, Startup Ideas, Subscriptions »
By Staff Writer – John Federico (@gadgetboy)
While it’s nice for a bride and groom to have portraits and perhaps professionally shot candids from their wedding, some of the best photos come from the guests.
After all, your professional photographer can’t be everywhere during the festivities and…
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, flickr , Olapic , photo sharing , Photography , Picasa , Wedding Guests , Wedding Photography , Weddings Business Models, Digital Media, Freemium, Subscriptions »
By Senior Editor – Kris Smith (@croncast)
My stance on pay walls, patronage and getting paid to create the media isn’t all that popular. My friends won’t even bring it up with me any longer.
It is the culmination of over five years of producing content for free…
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, internet business models , news corp , paid subscription , pay wall , rupert murdoch , WSJ pay wall 
