"The Wall Street Journal Online, a bastion of subscription-only news on the Web, has begun giving away some content. In recent months, the business news outfit has been sending nightly e-mail to bloggers, or online diarists, to offer up several daily stories free so that they can point to or link to them from their […]
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"The ideal for many content people would be that they just put their content on the Internet and then they have a direct relationship with the viewer," Gates said. "That model for low-volume content is the future." On Reuter.
John Connors, Microsoft’s chief financial officer, said in the conference call. “We’re going to have a heck of a great race in search between Google, Microsoft and Yahoo. It’s going to be really fun to follow.”
On cnet.
The Internet And the Death Of 80/20
Published October 24th, 2004 in Business and Internet. 0 CommentsMust read post on how the internet has killed the 80/20 rule of thumb. “Scarcity of attention and space were the cause of the 80/20 rule; the Internet is changing that” Apparently there’s at least as much money in unpopular, non-bestselling works then there is in blockbusters, and that’s in addressing the tail of the […]
This is the quarterly revenue of both eBay and Google (that’s right the same number for both). Net income: $182.3m for eBay vs $52.0m for Google though.
via signal vs noise
Blake Ross is lounging at his parents’ Florida Keys condo, thinking ahead to his first day back at Stanford. His goal for his sophomore year: nothing less than to “take back the Web” from Microsoft (MSFT). You might think the shy 19-year-old is outmatched. Think again. Ross, a software prodigy who interned at Netscape at […]
Lawrence Solum has posted a link to another study showing how ISPs can remove legal Internet content simply based on a false claim in an email that it infringes copyright.
The Bits of Freedom group, a non-profit Dutch digital rights advocacy organization, recently completed a study
to show how easy it is to compel ISPs to […]
Have a look at this. Very funny. Especially the external links on the history page.
Froogle is live in the UK.
It is not the illegal copy (well at least not only) …
Published October 12th, 2004 in Music and Internet. 0 CommentsVery interesting post from Edward on the Freedom to Tinker blog about media usage - leveraging stats from US Census Bureau. "Average number of hours spent listening to music by US residents age 12
and older has declined steadily since 1998 […]. Meanwhile, home video, video games, and
consumer Internet have seen dramatic gains." Since ‘98, there […]
While Firefox is pushing on the PC side (4.3mn downloads so far), Opera claims it’s leading on the mobile platforms ( "We’re beating Microsoft by a 10 to 1 margin in [cell] phones", says Jon von Tetzchner, CEO of the Norwegian browser maker in BusinessWeek). Add to this the rumours of Google’s own browser… : […]
