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New mobile small payments service launches: ideal for selling content?

While the big boys of publishing are looking at methods of walling their content and then charging for it, smaller publishers such as bloggers will often look to making money from at least some of their content. With this in mind, GoPayforit has ...

From ANDY MERRETT, The Blog Herald,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: PayPal,  Marks & Spencer

Six Apart launches TypePad Micro and official AVATAR online community

The company behind TypePad today announced the launch of an official AVATAR online community, in collaboration with Twentieth Century Fox, a month ahead of the release of James Cameron’s film on 18 December. avatar.typepad.com offers fans a central ...

From ANDY MERRETT, The Blog Herald,  18 Nov 2009

Related Topics: TypePad,  Six Apart,  Twitter Inc,  James Cameron,  Flickr

Orange UK mobile customers get Twitter picture messaging

After the disappointment surrounding the withdrawal of many international Twitter SMS services due to exorbitant costs, it seems that UK mobile operators are helping them to bounce back. Both Vodafone and O2 have offered SMS-to-Twitter services to ...

From ANDY MERRETT, The Blog Herald,  17 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Twitter Inc

Interview: Tom Rusling, Text Link Ads

Let’s start with you. Who are you and what do you do at Text Link Ads? I am the Senior SEO Strategist. In that role, I offer resources to Text Link Ads clients that are looking to add a layer of strategy and/or on-page site optimization to their link ...

From ANDY MERRETT, The Blog Herald,  16 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Google Inc.

Fwix launches local news revenue-sharing service: AdWire

With the increasing number of publishers creating hyper-local sites, it’s no surprise that services such as AdWire are springing up to allow them to add a new stream of relevant advertising and earn revenue. AdWire, from Fwix, is a local news ...

From ANDY MERRETT, The Blog Herald,  13 Nov 2009

Get Facebook on your PS3

Facebook is near ubiquitous now. Gone are the days when you had to be sat at your desktop or notebook PC in order to access it. It’s now on mobile devices and gaming consoles too. Microsoft recently added the ability to tweet and Facebook from the Xbox ...

From ANDY MERRETT, The Blog Herald,  12 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Facebook Inc.,  Microsoft Corporation,  Sony

Posterous chooses Rackspace Cloud for blog hosting

When you’re an up-and-coming free blog service like Posterous, with some big name users on your books, then you need to ensure your web hosting is up to scratch. To that end, Posterous has chosen The Rackspace Cloud to handle its hosting ...

From ANDY MERRETT, The Blog Herald,  11 Nov 2009

Murdoch wants to remove News Corporation content from Google

It’s not the first time that a news organisation has called for Google’s index to be purged of its stories, but Rupert Murdoch, chairman and CEO of News Corporation, has a definite financial motive for his recently publicised stance. Calling Google a ...

From ANDY MERRETT, The Blog Herald,  10 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Google Inc.,  News Corporation Limited,  Rupert Murdoch,  BBC

Hostel company seeking 2010 Winter Olympics video blogger

We’ve seen a fair number of blogging competitions over the past couple of years, where one lucky entrant gets an all-expenses-paid trip somewhere to blog about an event or location. The latest one to catch my eye is being run by Hosteling International ...

From ANDY MERRETT, The Blog Herald,  9 Nov 2009

Royal British Legion calls for two-minute Twitter silence 11am 11/11

Observing a two-minute silence at 11am on Armistice Day, 11th November, is generally well accepted, at least in countries that were directly affected by the two World Wars, but now the Royal British Legion is calling for a similar observance on Twitter. ...

From ANDY MERRETT, The Blog Herald,  6 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Twitter Inc,  Facebook Inc.,  Ministry of Defence

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