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Chris Anderson: "In a battered economy, free goods and services online are more attractive than ever. So how can the suppliers make a business model out of nothing?"
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"Designing and building data driven dynamic web applications the one web, domain driven, RESTful, open, linked data way. For the past few months I've been touting a presentation around the BBC entitled 'How we make websites'. It's a compendium of everything our team has learned from long years developing /programmes, the recent work on /music and the currently in development /events."
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"Gannett-owned Newsquest Media Group today announces the launch of 148 mobile sites with news, sport and travel updates to compliment its local and regional newspaper websites."
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"I have a pet theory, one that is not widely shared amongst my colleagues. I think that what we now know as news sites will come to resemble what we now know as blogs… On the whole, the people I work with treat this as a pile of old tosh, and cheerfully ignore me. But the new mobile version of FT.com, which I've been checking out today on my iPhone, brings my idea to mind:"
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"The new FT.com mobile site will provide customised content for users and more detailed mobile analytics for the title, according to its lead product manager, Stephen Pinches."
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All the best to Jo in her new job.
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"We're excited to announce a collaboration with The New York Times and a new section on EveryBlock New York City: political news items."
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US: "Online shopping and social networking jumped while TV news was flat."
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"I'm still reeling from having to read the word porridge of the interim report on Digital Britain, handed down yesterday by (Lord) Stephen Carter. What a mish-mash of quangos, incomplete thinking, and bars set so low you can walk over them. 2 megabit per second connections for all by 2012? When people in South Korean cities today think things are bad if their speed drops to 30Mbps?"
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"The thud made by the 80-page interim report on Digital Britain as it fell on our desks today was matched only by our hearts sinking as we took stock of its content. We are bitterly disappointed that the report makes only passing reference to newspapers – the word is used just four times – and the crushing lack of understanding of the urgency required for changes to merger regulations in the local and regional media sector."
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"The focus of Carter’s hotly anticipated interim Digital Britain report guarantees broadband in every home by 2012. But the guaranteed speed, a lowly “up to 2Mbps”, is a joke."
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"Every household in Britain should be guaranteed access to broadband by 2012, probably at a speed of 2Mb per second, the government said today in its Digital Britain report."
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Stephen Carter's interim Digital Britain report, January 2009.
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"Today’s the UK government’s ‘Digital Britain’ interim report provided quite a lot to digest, so here’s a ten point link round-up of the most important parts:"
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US: "The Hitwise data featured is based on US market share of visits as defined by the IAB, which is the percentage of online traffic to the domain or category, from the Hitwise sample of 10 million US internet users."
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US: "The top 10 newspapers in the US collectively saw a 16% year-over-year increase in unique visitors to their websites in 2008, as well as a 27% increase in the total number of overall visits, according to data from Nielsen Online."
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"Today, I've spend an hour or so to compile data from multiple sources to form this wonderful list of the 'Top 30 News Websites Using Twitter Based On Number Of Followers'."
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"Now the Tasks app is going mobile, and is available on Android mobile phones and iPhones through the browser on those devices. Both of those browsers are based on Webkit). Simply point your mobile browser to gmail.com/tasks."