Tag: advertising

Android Isn’t About Building a Mobile Platform

If I understand what Kyle Baxter is saying, Google is the Internet equivalent of radio and television.  The services (or content) is free because the advertisers pay for it.

Google builds services like Google Maps, Gmail and Docs and gives them away for free not because they have a philosophical belief that web applications should be free, but rather because giving them away for free gives them a competitive advantage. Free services, running Google ads, are obviously advantageous because free means more people will use them than if they charged and thus they can realize greater advertising revenues.

Cell survey: Verizon best, AT&T worst in Houston

http://blogs.chron.com/techblog/archives/2009/11/cell_survey_verizon_best_att...

Consumer Reports takes no advertising for any of their publications.  Paying subscribers supports their efforts.  Perhaps if they had an army of volunteers willing to purchase products, test equipment, etc. they could offer all their content for free.

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Too bad Consumer Reports is still one of the few print sources with a pay wall. It would be interesting to see the results for other cities.

Twitter's New Terms of Service in easy to understand language

http://blog.twitter.com/2009/09/twitters-new-terms-of-service.html

Advertising—In the Terms, we leave the door open for advertising. We’d like to keep our options open as we’ve said before.

Ownership—Twitter is allowed to “use, copy, reproduce, process, adapt, modify, publish, transmit, display and distribute” your tweets because that’s what we do. However, they are your tweets and they belong to you.

APIs—The apps that have grown around the Twitter platform are flourishing and adding value to the ecosystem. You authorize us to make content available via our APIs. We’re also working on guidelines for use of the API.

SPAM—Abusive behavior and spam is also outlined in these terms according to the rules we’ve been operating under for some time.