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Friday, March 31, 2006
Fred Wilson, of A VC blog, wrote about his favorite online business model recently and asked readers to help name it. The winning name was Freemium. It’s a model that works great with service-based Web offerings — 37signals has all but perfected the Freemium model — and now it has a groovy name as well. I doubt the name will catch on like web2.0 and Ajax has, but it’s nice when you can attach a name to an idea.
Thursday, March 30, 2006
Since writing about FeedRinse earlier this week I’ve had a few people point me towards ZapTXT! as a possible alternate or competitor. On the surface the two appear to more or less do the same thing, both advertise that they can help “filter your RSS”. ZapTXT! watches your feeds and alerts you via SMS, IM or email whenever something you’re looking for appears in the feeds you add to the service. FeedRinse on the other hand imports your entire OPML file and then allows you to filter out what you don’t want to see. In both cases you still view your feed in whatever reader you are using.
It isn’t anything new to suggest that most people really need just one application on their computer and they’d be fine. But it’s only been the past year or so when the single-purpose Web app started proliferating that it became reality instead of something tech pundits (and geeks) talked about. In the past year alone enough applications have finally reached a point of usability via the browser that I’m finding I use my desktop applications less and less.
Traditional media are beginning to discover the potential of blogs to supplement coverage, generate online traffic and create dialogue with consumers.
Newspapers are especially active on this front. So far, most efforts fall under a couple of different models.
According to the China Daily, the Chinese government is trying to move swift and hard against intellectual property right (IPR) infringements. The government is planning on imposing stricter, quicker penalties on violators, or shutting down illegal operations completely. The immediate plan is to focus on DVDs and the software industry.
Over the last year, the government has destroyed over 106 million pirated discs and books. Based on the story, they have also shut down 223 illegal disc production lines since 1996—including six so far this year. The government is increasing incentives by offering rewards of up to 300,000 Yuan (US$37,000) to anyone providing information that leads to the detection of an underground production line.
I can readily observe the effects of the crackdown on the streets of the city.
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