A Paid Subscription Success Story
ConsumerReports.org has hit the 2 million subscriber mark. This article discusses how they achieved it.
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ConsumerReports.org has hit the 2 million subscriber mark. This article discusses how they achieved it.
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Google’s IM client (Google Talk) has gotten all the attention today, but it strikes me that the bigger announcement is the way they will start verifying Gmail accounts – through SMS messages to users’ cell phones. The rationale is that you can fake other ways of verifying a real person is creating an account, but…
LibrarianInBlack: Search Engine Update by Gary Price—CLA Annual Conference (tags: Search Aggregation) TimesSelect Passes 270,000 Subscribers In 52 Days; Half Are Online-Only Subs (tags: PaidContent Subscriptions)
I published a column reflecting on my memories of my grandfather. He passed away today at 100 years old. Read the full column here.
PayPal Joins Micropayment Parade Robin Good: “PayPal is extending its micro-payments service to support online commerce of low-cost digital content. The digital content to be covered by the new PayPal offering will include news articles, video games, online greeting cards, mobile phone content, and music.” White Paper on Micropayments PaidContent points to a white paper…
Paul Kedrosky points to the Financial Times’ list of six business books of the year. (Leave it to the Europeans to decide to end the year early.) I’ve read and enjoyed 3 of the 6 (The World is Flat, by Tom Friedman; The Search by John Battelle; and Freakonomics by Steve Levitt and Stephen Dubner). …
Have the people at ESPN.com have lost their minds or am I missing something here?!?!? Apparently Jason Calacanis and I both missed the story a while back that ESPN.com was refusing to stream video to customers of certain ISP’s that would not pay them (tags: onlinevideo) Social Information Overload in many respects, social network overload…