Friday Digital Flames
The ‘Making Moolah Edition’
Whilethe physical world sees the rather subdued entry of Windows 7 for thosebrave early installers, the digi-world seems to still be vexed by theold question of making money. We have advice for Rupert M and hisattempts to monetise his ‘expensive-to-produce-but-easy-to-find-online’content and the extra-ordinary offer of $500,000 for Twitter to place asingle 24 hour banner ad on it’s site – now that’s making moolah!
Googlewill soon launch a music service, we’ve heard from multiple sources,and the company has spent the last several weeks securing content forthe launch of the service from the major music labels. One source hasreferred to the new service as Google Audio.
The”give away free content so advertisers can reach an audience” model hasbeen around for decades, starting with free broadsheets, then radio, TVand, most recently, the internet.
Afteryears of too much hype, it’s safe to say that the mobile internet ishere. Sure, a lot of the activity is taking place in closed gardens(App Store, cough). But thanks to the wide availability ofinternet-enabled handsets, the rise of smartphones and 3G networks,more and more people are accessing websites through their mobiles.
If you’ve been wanting to contribute photos to Google Earth and Google Maps and you own an iPhone, read on…
Marketersare discovering more and more ways they might potentially leverageTwitter to make money, even as the microblogging site appears to bedoing its best to ignore – and in some cases, outright discourage them.
Twitterusers want news and Facebook users are more interested in trendytopics. That’s the broad brush, take-away from an analysis releasedtoday by Chitika, a search-based online advertising network.