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In case you missed it… links

By Julie Starr | Published: December 7, 2011

Australia’s Financial Review slashes paywall prices The new regime at Fairfax Media’s Financial Review Group will cut online subscriptions prices by 40% from next Monday for The Australian Financial Review, allow print subscribers full access to online content for free and launch an iPad app early in the new year as part of a major overhaul of [...]

Posted in Journalism, Social Media | Also tagged Australia, Facebook apps, google, Igloo pay-TV, mobile apps, New Zealand TV, paywalls, search terms | Leave a comment

Link wrap: Hari’s apology, Hearst turns to html 5, Boston Globe’s new paywall site

By Julie Starr | Published: September 18, 2011

A few links from the past week or so. The Guardian Launches a New US Homepage The Guardian revealed a new url for the US – guardiannews.com – marking the start of its digital operation in New York. The new venture – headed up by Janine Gibson, formerly editor of guardian.co.uk – will create a [...]

Posted in Business Models, Journalism, Social Media | Also tagged Android, flipbord, google, guardian, Hearst, HTML5, tablets | Leave a comment

In Indonesia & the Philippines it’s more about sharing content, in UK & Canada it’s more about sending messages

By Julie Starr | Published: June 24, 2011

Via Mashable, a graphic showing how people use social networks in various parts of the globe: In some countries, many of them Asian, most people were focused on content sharing. Others, like the UK and Canada, had more people who put a greater emphasis on sending messages. New Zealand appears to have fallen of the [...]

Posted in Communities, Social Media | Also tagged globalwebindex, infographics, maps, Mashable, social media, social networks, Twitter | Leave a comment

Link wrap: Sharing traffic, crowdsourced constitution, Facebook growth slows

By Julie Starr | Published: June 15, 2011

A few links from recent reading. ShareThis Study: Facebook Accounts For 38 Percent Of Sharing Traffic On The Web TECHCRUNCH – Overall, sharing now produces an estimated 10 percent of all Internet traffic and 31 percent of referral traffic to sites from search and social. Search is still about twice as big. When it comes to [...]

Posted in Crowdsourcing, government, Journalism, Newspapers | Also tagged Fairfax Media, Google author markup, Iceland, TradeMe | 7 Comments

Link wrap: Paywall for The Australian, Pulitzer prizes, new editor for NY Times, FT favours web apps

By Julie Starr | Published: June 8, 2011

A handful of news links from the past few days. Murdoch to hide The Australian behind paywall NZ HERALD | AP Rupert Murdoch’s News Ltd said it would start charging for online access to national broadsheet The Australian from October, although some content will remain free. The newspaper’s paywall will be modelled on the media [...]