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• A Brief History of Paywalls

  
  Jon Radoff's Entrepreneur 2.0 Blog — Authority: 113
  A paywall is a digital mechanism to separate content that one has to pay for from the rest of the content on the net.  Think of it like the Internet the Berlin Wall: a few unknown items, stifled by their overlords, exists on the inside–yearning to join the free world beyond. Boingboing revealed some of the ...
  21 hours ago

• Not even Japanese consumers are willing to pay for tweets

  
  ShortFormBlog — Authority: 524
  The other day, word came out that Twitter’s Japanese counterpart might start charging for some tweets. Well, not so much. SOURCE
  2 days ago

• How Steve Brill has adjusted his pay-for-news pitch

  
  Nieman Journalism Lab — Authority: 671
  Because it’s my job, I’ve followed pretty much everything Steve Brill has said in public about Journalism Online , the pay-for-news firm he launched in April with Gordon Crovitz and Leo Hindrey. From the start, they’ve been offering infrastructure and consulting for news organizations that want to charge for ...
  1 week ago

• Times editor James Harding outlines plans for online charging

  
  Fading to Black — Authority: 436
  Micro-payments dismissed in favour of charging for 24-hour access to days edition of the paper.}}} full story {{{.
  1 week ago

• Linden Lab Takes a Gamble On Payments

  
  Dusan Writer's Metaverse — Authority: 508
  Linden Lab’s announcement of a partnership with Dragonfish for the provision of payment services had me thinking about this kid across the hall from my offices.He used to get in the elevator with me now and then, and in our building you have to wait 20 minutes for the elevator to come, which gave [...]
  1 week ago

• Media Guardian: Times editor James Harding outlines plans for online charging

  
  Martin Stabe — Authority: 433
  "Pledging to rewrite the economics of newspapers, [Times editor James Harding] said the Times would charge for 24-hour access to that days edition of the paper alongside a subscription model, but dismissed the idea of micro-payments for individual articles."
  1 week ago

• Eliminate Pro Becomes First Free App in the Top Grossing List

  
  TheAppleBlog — Authority: 671
  I’m not sure how many of you are playing Eliminate Pro on your iPhones, but I’m guessing it has to be a fairly high number, considering the app’s success since its recent launch. ngmoco’s ambitious first-person shooter for Apple’s mobile platform is third overall in the App Store’s Top Free list, but ...
  2 weeks ago

• Just 5% of readers will pay for online content

  
  Thoughts of Nigel — Authority: 511
  Yet more research on why consumers dont like paying for news. New Media age reports that just 5% of consumers would be willing to pay for a monthly or yearly subscription to a newspaper or magazine to access online content. The research carried out by Continental showed that of 500 regular newspaper and ...
  2 weeks ago

• Newsday’s pay wall: From bad to worse

  
  SteveOuting.com — Authority: 511
  What’s wrong with this webpage I encountered the other day? Besides the lack of wisdom of a general-interest newspaper (Newsday) putting a pay wall on its website for non-unique content (my opinion, shared by many other media experts), the worse part is that Newsday.com is leaving money behind. Double-dumb. ...
  3 weeks ago

• RIM to help app developers use ads, micropayments (Reuters)

  
  Technology Blog — Authority: 171
  Reuters - Research In Motion is making it easier for software developers make money from the applications they develop for its popular BlackBerry smartphone as the company falters in the face of stiff competition from rivals like Apple Inc.Here is the original post: RIM to help app developers use ads, micropayments ...
  3 weeks ago

• PayPal Releases PayPal X and Launches $50,000 Developer Challenge

  
  ProgrammableWeb — Authority: 560
  PayPal has officially released PayPal X , its next generation platform that includes a variety of APIs and other resources for developers. Primarily aimed at allowing developers to embed payment processing in a wider array of applications and environments (including mobile devices), this is a major expansion of ...
  3 weeks ago

• Google CEO Eric Schmidt envisions the news consumer of the future

  
  Nieman Journalism Lab — Authority: 671
  For all the bluster about Google as an enemy of the news industry, you might be surprised to learn that Eric Schmidt , the company’s CEO, is kind of a triumphalist for mainstream media, big newspapers, and print. He took questions from reporters this afternoon at Google’s offices in Cambridge, and I asked ...
  3 weeks ago

• Star Wars Power of the Force Han Solo in Hoth Gear Red Card Action Figure with Blaster Pistol and Assault Rifle

  
  Most-Gifted-Toys.com — Authority: 156
  Star Wars Power of the Force Han Solo in Hoth Gear Red Card Action Figure with Blaster Pistol and Assault Rifle Star Wars Power of the Force Han Solo in Hoth Gear Red Card Action Figure with Blaster Pistol and Assault RifleThe 47th annual All-Veterans Day service will be held in Praha on Sunday. [...]
  3 weeks ago

• “Pay-what-you-want” Drives 57,000 Game Sales in a Week

  
  ReveNews — Authority: 482
  In a win for micropayments, World of Goo, a top 10 PC game for January this year and popular seller on WiiWare, the Wii game store, was sold in an experiment to see what people would pay for their popular game by giving them the option to choose what to pay for the game. The “Pay-What-You-Want” sale marked the 1 ...
  4 weeks ago

• “Pay-what-you-want” Drives 57,000 Game Sales in a Week

  
  Affiliate Marketing | Affiliate Networks — Authority: 144
  In a win for micropayments, World of Goo, a top 10 PC game for January this year and popular seller on WiiWare, the Wii game store, was sold in an experiment to see what people would pay for their popular game by giving them the option to choose what to pay for the game.The “Pay-What-You-Want” [...]
  4 weeks ago

• Two Heavyweights Duke It Out over Micropay for Content

  
  E-Reads — Authority: 593
  PBS.orgs MediaShift recently hosted a two-part debate by two men with big credentials and even bigger opinions. The issue was whether newspapers should charge for online content. Moderator Mark Glaser did his best to keep the dispute civil. Taking the pro-micropay position was David Carr, who writes the "Media ...
  4 weeks ago

• Mobile phones and banks, banking transactions future trends

  
  chocobaby.luv.ph — Authority: 164
  and telecom companies will become banks. Mobile payment systems, micropayments, mobile phone credit card transactions and loans. Economic impact of remittances from foreign workers using SMS credit to avoid foreign exchange transaction costs. How biometrics fingerprint technology will allow large mobile phone ...
  4 weeks ago

• CNN Money Finally Talking Up Russian E-currency

  
  DGC Blog — Authority: 118
  CNN Money is carrying an article on the Russian e-money system and the coming changes. This is a very good article. Crashing Russia’s all-cash culture Electronic money purveyors make it easy for Russian consumers to make micropayments. Now they’re seeking legitimacy. By Julia Ioffe, contributor “In ...
  4 weeks ago

• Paper View Monday, Special Free Lunch Eating Freeloader Edition: The Pueblo Chieftain

  
  William M. Hartnett — Authority: 116
  The bad news, Paper View Monday fans, is that the free ride is over . Buffeted by the same buffety winds that have buffeted so many enterprises across the buffeted media landscape, Paper View Monday will be a strictly fee-based feature from this week forward. The good news is that we have devised a micropayment ...
  5 weeks ago

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