Media +Technology Intelligence
Got a business plan for a digital media application and looking for funding? Better take out that part about, “and they we sell ads against it” and come up with Plan B. According to a panel of venture capitalists at the Digital Media Conference in Washington, DC, Thursday, ad-supported is not a viable online business Read More …
Last week saw two interesting developments in the ongoing debate over effects of file-sharing and what to do about it. On Thursday, a federal jury in Minneapolis ordered Jammie Thomas-Rasset to pay $1.92 million to Universal Music Group and other record labels after finding she had downloaded 24 songs illegally. That works out to a staggering Read More …
Hoist the Jolly Roger maties, the Pirate Party has claimed at least one of Sweden’s 20 seats in the European Parliament (and possibly two) as a result of thisweekend’s voting across the 27-nation bloc. The party, which ran on a platform of legalizing file-sharing and rolling back government surveillance powers, garnered 7.1% of the vote, Read More …
Zachary Seward has a very smart post up today at Harvard’s Nieman Journalism Lab blog about yesterday’s meeting of top newspaper capi in Chicago to discuss “Models to Monetize Content.” Seward lists four important but often-overlooked points in the debate around newspapers charging for content online. Two in particular are worth underscoring: 2. Pay walls aren’t necessarily Read More …
Where are the Assoicated Press or New York Times development tools? Where are the API’s that developers could use to better aggregate AP content? Read More …