Speculation has begun as to whether or not MeetUp.com is on its last legs. The odd messaging they chose they chose for their announcement suggests a lack of confidence in their decision:
"We have some news to share that we don’t think you’re going to like. There’s no point in dancing around it so here it is. Starting May 1st, every Meetup Group will have to pay a monthly fee."
Not exactly the best way to begin to monetize your investment.
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The first ever dead tree version of Media Bullseye, the multimedia magazine I founded last December, is now available. I’m a big believer that there’s still a role for print publications to play. Not everyone takes time to read articles online and this enables us to get in front of interesting people who prefer to…
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Speaking of paying for content, USC’s Annenberg school has an interesting piece about a paid content success stroy: Cook’s Illustrated: Stirring up synergy to sell online food content. [via Online News Squared]
One of the things I plan to do with InterAdvocacy is to show different techniques being employed by groups in their online advocacy efforts. Needless to say, I won’t agree with all of the groups or even techniques I feature, but these are ideas that seem worth sharing. Today, MoveOn.org‘s contribution page drew my attention. …
TechCrunch profiles a new music matching service called Pandora. Basically, it is a recommendation engine built on the components of a song, rather than what other users decided to listen to or purchase. They apparently have human listeners who tag each song with a wealth of information about the sounds and style. Then when a…