Online Newspaper Paywalls: Paid News Subscriptions Rising

See on Scoop.it – Online Business Models Robin Good: Interesting news from two of the large traditional newspapers with online editions who have been using a paywall strategy.   Things are going well. This is in essence what the numbers say, at least according to this short report by Dashiel Bennet on the Atlantic Wire. [...]

The New York Times Launches Deep Dive: Experimental Context Engine And Story Explorer

Via Scoop.it – Social Media Content Curation Thinking about the sheer volume of information — stories, images, videos, data — available from The New York Times can evoke a simultaneous glee and terror. It is simply impossible for readers to see them all.   The task for beta620, the Times experimental projects group, launched Deep [...]

Apple to launch cloud-based movie service. Netflix, watch out?

Via Scoop.it – internetbillboards It’s been an eventful couple of weeks for utopian megacorporation Apple, to say the least, but the recent passing of founder/patron saint Steve Jobs isn’t slowing down the company’s longterm plot to absorb the entire media universe. According to the Los Angeles Times, Apple has been finalizing deals with major studios [...]