Rupert Murdoch’s daughter actually understands her fathers business better than he does…
by
Mike
Posted February 4th, 2010 at 5:37 am
What have countless sources on the internet including myself and TechDirt said before? Paywalls, no matter how great of an idea on paper, simply don't materialize into what investors and executives want. In the age of the internet, information is available extremely cheap, extremely fast, and most importantly, without any restrictions. That's the very core of why the internet was invented in the first place.
Rupert Murdoch and many other news sites fail to see this. They seem to think s...
Geeky-Gadgets iPhone app finally approved. Long waits, multiple rejections, and stupid reasoning aplomb.
by
Mike
Posted December 30th, 2009 at 1:53 pm
Travel back in time inside your mind to November 25th when we touched on fellow tech blogger Geeky-Gadgets' less than stellar interaction with the App Store and the mindless idiots who run it.
November 4th: App Submitted / November 25th app rejected
If you remember, the original Geeky-Gadgets app that was submitted on November 4th was rejected because of the contest category and some BS rule in the iPhone SDK that prohibits including or linking to such things. "Fair enough" said Ronald, e...
Android 2.1 Google News/Weather widget available for download.
by
Mike
Posted December 20th, 2009 at 7:52 pm
Android 2.1 (Flan) may or may not be available (depends on your level of Android hackery) yet but that doesn't mean you can't at least have one of the shiny new features 2.1 brings. For 2.1 Google has thrown in a new weather/news widget. It isn't anything groundbreaking but nonetheless is a nice addition to the stock allotment of widgets.
The weather widget is rather simple and shows the city, current conditions, and temperature while the news widget is a bit deeper allowing customization...
BBC Online to go on diet plan?
by
Mike
Posted November 25th, 2009 at 6:49 am
Here in the states, media moguls are actively looking for ways to set up paywalls, decrease ease of use, and overall stifle innovation and the flow of information via the declining greatness called "the internet". BBC is a European media giant and one of the best shining examples of how free news works. Well, it isn't exactly "free" in the sense that it's state funded. Still, end users don't actively pay up to read as no unsightly paywall is blocking access. However, that could all change so...
Rupert Murdoch completely misses the entire point of the internet — pulling site from search indexes
by
Mike
Posted November 9th, 2009 at 9:39 am
Getting your content onto the internet is quite the challenge in todays online world. For one, there is millions of websites all vying for your attention, each with their helping of information waiting to be devoured by your hungry eyes and minds. With so many sites to weed through, search engines are easily one of, if not the most important tool for crawling through the internet. So why would you want to purposely block yourself from being found? Perhaps that's a good question for Rupert Mu...
Cablevision/Newsday trying to become irrelevant.
by
Mike
Posted October 23rd, 2009 at 5:48 am
When trying to grow your business, especially one in this digital age with competitors cropping up by the hundreds if not thousands, shooting yourself in the foot with poor business decisions doesn't seem like a very good way to continue rolling in the dough. For Newsday (which is owned by Cablevision) a paywall isn't necessarily the best idea as many customers expect a free web portal, the way they are going about it is all wrong. The likely scenario would seem to be as such:
Customers who a...
iPhone finally getting bonafide Digg app
by
Mike
Posted October 4th, 2009 at 8:02 pm
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Digg users. iPhone users. We can all finally get our reading done in peace! Thomas Moen and Arnteriksen (from http://arnteriksen.com/) were over in London for FOWA and managed to get a quick interview in with Kevin Rose. Even better, they got a sneak peak of the upcoming iPhone Digg app which Kevin unfortunately didn't show the rest of us. Though he did let on that it was coming soon and that we normal folk weren't supposed to k...
Nearly perfect CNN iPhone app falls short…
by
Mike
Posted September 29th, 2009 at 11:37 am
As is common these days, exclusive deals, greed, and some form of "content protection" is ruining yet another service. This time it is the CNN iPhone app. While I won't argue that to date, it is the best stand alone news app available in the Apple App Store, the fact that we still can't get a live stream of a reputable news station is a pain in the ass. The hurdle? It isn't Apple. Heck, it isn't even AT&T in this example. It is cable providers. They make money off of selling certain chann...
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