This is pretty interesting - Murdoch just dropped the bomb that he’s intending on dropping the paywall in front of the Wall Street Journal online. With paywalls dropping like flies it seems like everyone’s going hard after that sweet advertising money. More eyeballs, more traffic, more ad impressions and more click thru’s. I’m sure all [...]

Categories: business · open content · web1.0

by sean9
They’re all over the news these days, the latest community networking site to make a lot of waves, Facebook. If you’re watching from the outside, you might see another in the long string of community networking sites, from Friendster to Tribe, MySpace and all the rest. So why is facebook pulling any surprises?

Categories: business · community · microsoft · open content · social networks · web2.0

As someone who works with magazines quite a bit, I was interested to read that Wikia has launched three open magazine sites. Inspired by the success of Wikipedia, these sites are designed to be a forum for people to write more editorial/opinion pieces on the subjects (the broad subjects being politics, entertainment and local community) [...]

Categories: magazines · open content · wiki