Suddenly, your local paper’s $10 a month access fee doesn’t look all that unreasonable, does it? If you’re a fashion student or style maven, the idea of viewing content from every single issue of Vogue dating back to 1892 sounds pretty […]
Facebook is clearly the dominating force in social media to connect with everyone who you know or knew at some point in your life, and it works exceedingly well at what it does to allow people to interface with lots […]
As the paywall experiment at the New York Times continues, another major regional newspaper has adopted the selfsame model used by the Gray Lady and a growing number of area news outlets to allow limited free access before charging for content. […]
I think it’s not entirely alarmist to say “everybody panic” right about now. If you write for blogs, and have done for any reasonable amount of time, you’ve probably been sneered at with the oft-misspelled comment “what do you think […]
Get ready for a million more fake vintage pics of shoes, pets and sodas in your Facebook feed, people. Popular lomography-style iPhone image app Instagram is coming to Android. The app has, up until now, been exclusive to the iPhone […]
It seems that after a blogosphere storm of publicity (all negative) and mass reader outcry, the Regretsy Secret Santa debacle starring PayPal has reached a conclusion that is satisfactory for all parties involved- and cost the payment processing service about […]
Yahoo! may be on the verge of a sale, hostile takeover or the release of their Asian assets but that hasn’t stopped the company from moving forward with plans for new offerings in South Africa. The company announced on Wednesday […]
Long Island-centric newspaper and website Newsday– which became one of the first sites of its type to instate a paywall back in 2010- may actually be reaping benefits from its paying customers only web strategy after all. When the site […]
One of the basic known ‘things’ about PayPal is that once they’ve frozen your cash, it’s kind of under a tundra of suck where you won’t see it for at least six months, if at all. Which is why everyone […]
Yahoo is in the process of building a 5,000 square feet in a midtown Manhattan office space, a move that has some shareholders and analysts wondering if a takeover is still in the cards for the internet search and content […]
Glam Media on Tuesday announced that they have completed the acquisition of social media network Ning, a move that provides Glam Media with an overall userbase of 250 million monthly unique visitors, making the company the second largest social network […]
If you follow the @majornelson Twitter account and are an XBox Live user, you probably know an update to the service was scheduled today. You also probably have had at least some issues if you’ve tried to access it. Users […]
Think Alec Baldwin couldn’t get any hotter? I thought so too, until it was revealed that the man who plays Jack Donaghy on NBC’s 30 Rock also takes his Words With Friends games very, very seriously. Today, his silver foxiness was […]
Android is popular, of that there is no doubt; but then being “free” and thereby making the enprice to the consumer a little more palatable doesn’t hurt it either. Nowhere more apparent is this popularity that the Android Market and the […]