Saturday, July 31st, 2010
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Kevin: Google has opened up its Places API (which differs from its Latitude API). Some of the first developers to get access to these services will be developers creating check-in services ala Foursquare and Gowalla. As TechCrunch points out, this doesn't mean that Foursquare and Gowalla will have new competition (they are beating up on each other quite well). However, the pure check-in space is going to get quite a bit noisier. This also supports my view that location is much more of a platform than a specific service. Foursquare
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Friday, July 30th, 2010
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Kevin: Some really smart analysis and links to more really smart analysis about the Wikileaks Afghan War Logs release by CW Anderson: "To understand the world of Wikileaks, and what it means for journalism, you have to understand the world of geeks, of hackers, and of techno-dissidents. Understanding reporting and reporters isn’t enough." I couldn't agree more, and it shows why understanding this world is important to a broader range of stories. This culture is becoming much more widespread and mainstream,
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Friday, July 30th, 2010
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Normally, I’d just add this link to Delicious, but the data is worth highlighting. KPMG has found that 81% of UK “would go elsewhere for content if a previously free site we use frequently began charging”. Only 19% would be willing to pay in the UK, while globally (the same research looked at consumer behaviour in a range of countries) 43% of consumers are willing to pay for digital content.
However, there are possibilities for publishers to pay for content that “almost three quarters of UK consumers are willing to receive online ads in exchange lower content costs”. They are
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Thursday, July 29th, 2010
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Kevin: Adam Tinworth pushes back at the idea that you can't buy subscriptions for content on the iPad, contrary to a piece in the Wall Street Journal's All Things D saying that Time Inc was struggling because it could not come to an agreement with Apple on how to handle subs. Adam says that there are routes for selling subs, but he also says that Apple could be clearer on what those routes are.
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Thursday, July 29th, 2010
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Matthew Buckland has a great guest post on Silicon Valley Watcher looking at Google’s Newspass payment system for publishers. (It’s cross-posted from memeburn.com) Buckland compares the value proposition for users with Google’s system and the system that Rupert Murdoch has instituted at The Times. He likens Newspass to a cable television subscription in which a consumer makes a one off, predictable payment to receive a package of content each month. He says:
Take the analogy of satellite TV. You pay once and you get a bouquet of hundreds of channels. The transaction is simple and easy. You know you’re getting
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Wednesday, July 28th, 2010
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Apple’s attitude towards app approval for iTunes has been strange, to say the least. Stories abound of ?seemingly innocent applications being rejected for obscure reasons or, indeed, no real reason at all.
The latest example of their arbitrariness is the rejection of Time’s subscription-based magazine app for Sports Illustrated, “where consumers would download the magazines via Apple’s iTunes, but would pay Time Inc. directly”. As All Things Digital says, this could turn out to be a big problem for publishers, who not only want the predictability of subscribers, but also want the data.
Just a few days ago, the US Copyright Office
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Wednesday, July 28th, 2010
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Wednesday, July 28th, 2010
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Tuesday, July 27th, 2010
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When I was at the BBC, a very smart producer, Gill Parker, approached me about pulling together a massive amount of data and information she was collecting with Frank Gardner trying to unravel the events that lead to the 11 September 2001 attacks in the US. Not only had Gill worked on the BBC’s flagship current affairs programme Newsnight and on ABC’s Nightline in the US, she also had worked in the technology industry. They were interviewing law enforcement and security sources all around the world and collecting masses of information which they all had in Microsoft Word files. She
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Tuesday, July 27th, 2010
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Kevin: Chris Pearson of DIY Themes has crossed swords with Matt Mullenweg, founding developer of the leading blog platform WordPress, over licencing issues. Mullenweg believes that premium theme makers should licence their work under the open-source GPL licence. Chris Pearson disagrees.
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Kevin: The BBC Trust gave the greenlight for British public service broadcaster to develop smartphone apps based on research it commissioned that says that the "paid apps goldrush will be extinguished by
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