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ARCHIVE December, 2009
Dear Murdoch, people wont pay for news online (apparently)
In a recent survey by Harris Interactive commissioned by PaidContent UK studying what the outcome would be if the newspaper industry started charging for online content. You can see from results below that only 5% of participants would continue to read the news. The sort of numbers this would achieve aren’t unimpressive though! In June, [...]
An open, sung letter to Lily Allen
In recent news Lily Allen has joined an anti-piracy lobby in a war against illegal downloading, with claims that it is helping to bankrupt the music industry. (Even though it seems here, she has been pointed out to be clueless about the rules surrounding copyright.) This is a great tune and way of delivering the [...]
Uranium Ore, anyone?
I recently read a post by Seth Godin pointing out after a meeting at Wal-Mart headquarters he read on a banner “You Can’t Out-Amazon, Amazon”. This really does seem to be the case, after discovering Amazon sells Uranium Ore. You defintley can’t find Uranium Ore on Wal-mart’s website. Just to add to the fun, here [...]
Inspiring: Enzo Ferrari baught the bank!
I can remember in the first ever interview I did with Bobbie Johnson at the Guardian I spoke about “Being a young entrepreneur, everybody is ready to help you out, BUT conversations with my bank manager have been very different than they might have been if I was older – after all, I can’t ask for a business loan because I haven’t even got a credit rating.”….
UK Government to introduce a BroadBand tax
Reported by the BBC – Stephen Timms the minister for Digital Britain believes this very controversial tax will be in effect before the next election. This £175m a year fund will be raised to fund high speed networks. Timms said the tax will be presented to parliament as part of the Finance Bill. How can [...]
Facebook breaks even and pushes revenue even harder
Facebook recently announced that is now has over 300 million monthly active users and it has become “free cash flow positive”. It’s 300 million users is a mountain over Twitter’s soon to be 18 million users…
Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes
Great photo by ‘Design to forget‘ on Flickr
Interesting Sites
I thought I’d share with you a few sites that I often visit, for a moment of inspiration, education or laughter…
Leading a team from the front
Running a business at any point in anyone’s life can prove a challenge. There’s the race to breaking even, not breaking your team, smashing your competition and ensuring throughout the whole process you stay enthusiastic, optimistic and honest! Personally I’ve had no formal education in running a team (nor running a business) but I sure [...]
From Twitter to Quitter
As social media quickly replaces our photo albums, telephone books/directories and even our landlines – what happens in today’s social media rich world when we or our friends & family logout from our real world?…
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