Monthly Archives: April 2009

Time to think seriously about the iPhone

April 26, 2009 – 12:55 pm

Tweet4:00am. I find myself reading an interesting story covering Portfolio’s web site – on my iPhone. As sleep comes back, I reflexively reach for the “save” (for later reading) button that is on every iPhone news application. But I am reading from the magazine’s site, as opposed to running an app on my smartphone; web [...]

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The Apple Tax

April 26, 2009 – 12:55 pm

TweetToday, let’s have a little fun with Microsoft’s latest attempt at countering Apple’s “Get a Mac” campaign. Their premise is simple: for the same amount of computing power you pay more for a Mac, you pay an Apple Tax. As Steve Ballmer, Microsoft’s CEO, puts it: You pay $500 to slap an Apple logo on [...]

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Advertising (2): fixing an antique model

April 11, 2009 – 12:10 am

TweetLast week, we addressed the demise of the ad-only model. Solutions won’t emerge overnight, all the more of a reason to start searching. Here are a few leads. (This is the second of two parts, the first one is here) The AdTech conference took place last week, in Paris; the mood there wasn’t exactly a [...]

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Revenue Model Breakthrough?

April 11, 2009 – 12:09 am

TweetMicro-payments are an old idea, some say a bad fantasy. Chief, we’re rich: I found a way to get a millicent per page view… So far, not much has happened. Unless you look at a tidy, not tiny, little billion-dollar business called iTunes. Three years ago, in February 2006, 1 billion songs served, sold, cashed [...]

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Advertising: real change must happen

April 5, 2009 – 9:52 am

TweetThe brutal recession reveals how flawed the current Internet business model is. As advertising-only business models are falling apart, even the Google ecosphere is under stress. The search giant’s preservation of its margins at the expense of its media partners’ revenue stream could be shortsighted.  –First of two parts. Sorry to be blunt, but Internet [...]

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Pixels: Size vs. Number

April 5, 2009 – 9:52 am

TweetOMG, says the blogger, the next iPhone’s camera will have 3.2 million pixels instead of today’s measly 2 million! The blog entry gave me the final push for an occasional, meaning at irregular intervals, series of columns on digital photography. The idea is to find insights into what’s really going on in this very dynamic [...]

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