Digital magazines: a history October 15, 2008
Posted by Jonathan Hewett in : delicious links , add a commentNostalgia alert! An overview for those who didn't know or don't remember, by Tony Quinn at Magforum.com, starting with…
"Showing the way to go (early 1980s)
* electronic mail;
* Teletext 'magazines'
* Prestel-based bulletin boards
* Micronet"
…through to:
"Online-only digital magazines (mid-2000s)
* Dennis launches Monkey
* News-stands on the web for digital magazines
* Customer publishers adopt digital format"
Web 2.0: Chronicle of a death foretold | Media Money October 12, 2008
Posted by Jonathan Hewett in : delicious links , add a commentCrunch time is coming for Web2.0 companies, says Peter Kirwan:
"The business models underpinning social media and user-generated content are in big, big trouble.
Funding is drying up. The space available for experimentation in media planning is closing down rapidly. The cult of free looks decidedly vulnerable. […]
Suddenly, and rather miraculously, ad-funded web sites are becoming unfashionable. Paid content? It’s the new black. As one VC puts it: “Free is over; I am only interested in investing in services that customers pay for.”[…]
Welcome to the future. The breaking of web 2.0 will look a bit like the dot com crash of 2000 — only this time, everyone will be scared."