www.beet.tv LONDON – The Financial Times, which serves and an increasingly mobile audience, is finalizing efforts around a non-Flash solution to deliver video to Apple and other mobile devices based on H.264, according Stephen Pinches, Lead Product Development Manager for the FT.com. We caught up with Pinches last month at the Beet.TV Online Video Roundtable where he was a participant. In this interview, he speaks about the production and monetization strategy around video on the FT.com. In an e-mail, Pinches told Beet.TV that an HTML5 solution is in development, but that H.264 would be the first implementation in getting videos on the iPhone and iPad. Andy Plesser, Executive Producer
WpSplitTester – The Ultimate WordPress Blog Monetization Plugin
June 2nd, 2010bit.ly – One of the hardest parts of running a successful blog or niche site is figuring out how to effectively monetize it. Relatively speaking, keyword research and content creation are the easy bits. Working out how you’re going to turn your visitors into cold, hard cash is much more difficult. Indeed, if you’re a member of one of the various internet marketing forums around you’re no doubt well aware of how many questions of this nature there are each week. So what’s the solution? Well the bad news is that there is no “one size fits all” answer to the question. Differences such as your page layout, the niche you are in, the affiliate programs available to you and the number of visitors you get can all impact the best monetization strategy for you. Typically the process is a long and boring one involving constantly changing the affiliate programs you’re promoting, where the adverts are on your website, and the types of adverts you’re showing to see which combination of a seemingly endless number of options will make you the most money. Profitable, but not fun. However I’m excited to say that there *is* now a solution that makes monetizing your site an absolute breeze. For anyone who runs a website or blog on the WordPress platform, this new plugin promises to help anyone boost their profits – without having to write loads more content or get any more visitors.
Interview with Disqus – Part 1
June 1st, 2010Disqus provides an online service for managing comments and enhancing the discussion on blogs, websites, and applications. The system provides bloggers and publishers with a threaded conversation and a more defined discussion community, and also provides moderation and spam filtering tools. On the flip side, readers and commenters can track, manage, and verify their comments across all sites that use Disqus, and can create a profile which includes a “comment blog” with all comments they’ve contributed. Bloggers and readers can comment and reply on-the-go via email or phone, and since Disqus is hosted separately, comments are unaffected if a website experiences downtime. In this interview, I had the opportunity to sit down with Daniel Ha, Co-Founder & CEO, who shares details on the company’s product, back-end, monetization strategy, and scalability, as well as their techniques for establishing a large user base, which now includes 38000 websites and 600000 user profiles.
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