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vizeumcph says...

via ft.com

(Daria R. Rasmussen)

Newspapers are desperately looking for the business models that could save them and help them earn money.
R. Murdoch made a deal with Microsoft in an attempt to "stop Google from stealing the stories" and earn money on those stories. This is an interesting move to de-index sites from Google when Google drives value to newspapers sites - readers.
Others talk about charging readers for news as the solution and the business model.
Then there is e-paper and plenty of opportunities that lie behind it.

"Ten years from now, electronic paper will be indistinguishable from the magazine you are holding. And not only will it be as flexible and lightweight as the printed page, with the same colours and clarity, it will also be dynamic, updating itself via a wireless internet connection and perhaps even showing video."

We live in times where the news are commodity and it is hard to charge for something that is so ubiquitous and hard to differentiate, unless you turn the news into scarcity product.
Relevance and context of news are what really matters to readers. The future is not just e-paper but the utility it brings along. The competitive advantage newspapers can create is in delivering relevant content that matters, content that adds value.
It's not business models that will save newspapers but relevant products that fits into consumers lives.

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E-Team says...

A competition site for designing logos... is there one like this in london?
I'm sure there must be. Will hunt :)

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Dundi says...

Nell'era dei social network e nello specifico di youtube, non è possibile farsi mancare un software gratuito per il taglio delle scene dai DVD della vostra collezione.

Come dicevo il software è gratuito e con semplici passi puoi archiviare le scene preferite dei tuoi dvd, basta selezionare il momento di partenza e quello della fine di una scena e salvare il file formato .VOB.

Sistema operativo: Winzoz :-)

Web site Download: DVDKnife

fonte: bloginmano.com

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Seth says...

This looks pretty promising.

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Jay says...

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kOoLiNuS says...

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changeist says...

Trying to answer a number of loosely related questions lately, an important idea has become increasingly clear: we are rapidly entering the age of the BOPNet. 

The past decade of ICT has been defined by a combination of Moore's law and the need to drive more and more data across expensively built networks, fueling behavior that wants faster processors, faster networks and richer communications and media experiences, culminating in iconic objects like iPhone, big screen laptops and an armada of bandwidth hungry applications and services. 

Meanwhile, while we obsessed over bigger, faster, more in the developed world, networks were lit in the global south, mobile subscriptions in emerging markets spiked, and better services have crept (slowly, but surely) into the previously dark corners of these markets. Most importantly, thousands of ambitious developers and entrepreneurs have been developing appropriate services, mainly in small islands, tuned to the unique needs, as well as the resource restrictions, of local environments. 

Now, as Niti pointed out recently, we are starting to see not only platforms that span multiple BOP environments grow and solidify, and metaplatforms emerge. We are experiencing the coalescing of the BOPNet. It's emergence can be defined by what you can and can't do with it. You can't reasonably apply most usage and business models from the developed markets—metrics are different, usage patterns are different, and Mbps moved and minutes used don't totally equate to value delivered. Massive infrastructure investments can't just be passed down—cents on the dollar matter. You can manage resources more carefully at the technology level. You can deliver high value utility while not demanding more bytes and bandwidth. You can mine a rich seam of opportunities, because there is now scale.

Thinking about this BOPNet, several implications come to mind:

1. The BOPNet is a separate sphere, but will be integrated with its developed world cousin. As commerce and communication flows between these two spheres increase, opportunities will exist in translating at the border.

2. Its unique characteristics will start to shape macro-level infrastructure. In much the same way developd world ICT models shape and bend physical infrastructure, from transportation to energy to commerce, the unique characteristics of the BOPNet will shape these same markets' design and function in the next few decades.

3. Innovation from the BOPNet will continue to flow uphill. The developed world is fast approaching a point where it cannot devote infinite resources to ICT. We are already learning to take innovations created to better serve the BOPNet and use them to do more with less in the developed world. This will accelerate. 

4. Technologically, over time the pyramid may begin to invert. The simple math will drive momentum in innovation to the point where the BOPNet reaches a kind of utility-parity with the top of the pyramid, particularly if the top of the pyramid continues shifting its media consumption to these networks at the cost of developing more actual utility and value. China is doing this with energy, innovating based on the need to sustain 1.4 billion inhabitants (an innovation inversion we will hereafter call "Friedman's Nightmare"). India may do this with communication networks in the same way, as may (hopefully) parts of Africa eventually. This will also mean not measuring innovation simply on the basis of dollars earnd, shareholder value created, or ads served, but more along the metrics of life improvement. Right now, I'd take FrontlineSMS, and Ushahidi over Foursquare and Spotify in that category.

More to come for sure. Stay tuned.

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Jay says...

It's 2am already and I can barely open my eyes, so I'll just point you to the download page of Dropresize.

    Dropresize is a system tray application that resizes jpeg images into smaller, more web-friendly sizes.  Just configure the settings, specify the folder you want watched, and drag copies of your photos in the folder.  Dropbox will immediately resize the images in the folder.  You can point your photos folder in Dropbox and instantly create a web-friendly gallery without even opening other tools.  Or you can use it for some other purpose.

 

Download Dropresize here

 

    If you haven't heard about Dropbox, visit here (yes, it is a referral link which gives extra 250mb to you and me on top of Dropbox's free 2gb space.  the additional 250mb space only applies to the first 7 readers who click this link so it's on a first-come, first-served basis).

    Send me a mail if you want to help in alpha testing this program.  Thanks!

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jumperitalia says...

Una simpatica  utility  gratuita per regolare con grande precisione la luminosità del vostro Mac. Si scarica da qui, provate e fateci sapere se la trovate davvero "utile". State solo attenti che potrebbe interferire con la resa del colore, quindi... fate delle prove prima di affidarvi ciecamente a quello che vedete!
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