Tag Archives: free services

Stuff I saved in my feed reader for the last seven days – 05/18/09

Technology

  • MSN Overhauls City Guides, Integrates With Live Search [search engine land]
  • The “Dangers” of Free [Slashdot]
  • Don’t Newspapers Owe Google Money For Helping Them Research Stories For Free? [Techdirt]
  • Do Web Entrepreneurs Still Need Venture Capitalists? [Bits/NY Times]
  • Finance

  • How to…launder money [FT Alphaville]
  • Newspapers Must Be Allowed To Fail [Silicon Alley Insider]
  • Where The Jobs Are: Accounting [Forbes]
  • V.C.’s Ignore Business Plans, Study Finds [DealBook/NY Times]
  • Fly Fishing

  • Personal Best: Fly fishing is life for O’Sullivan [San Francisco Examiner]
  • Adieu.

    Tumblr finding something besides ads

    Pro features on the way.

    Nice to see internet companies chasing ideas besides just advertising. People don’t mind paying for some things – for example, Flickr is good value in the pro mode and I’ll certainly re-up when the time comes as I really like the additional sets for organization (and don’t have time to abuse the bigger upload limits either).

    Also of note – I created a simple Tumblr page to extract inline posts and comments from this blog, and had a little trouble getting my feeds in. The Tumblr help desk was very quick to the punch. While the problem turned out to be a temporary Feedburner issue for me, it’s nice to see a “free service” actually give you service, and I applaud Tumblr’s timely support.