Posts Tagged ‘failure’

Wave Goodbye to Google Wave

5, Aug 2010

The majority of FirstFound Blog readers won’t remember this, but back in May 2009, Google launched a service which would change the very world we live in. Rather than relying on email, instant messaging and Skype, we’d instead need only one single all-encompassing communications tool. Google Wave. Now, less than two years later, Wave is [...]

Paying For Content? No Thanks!

28, Jul 2010

It’s official. British internet users don’t want to pay for extra content. Hot on the heels of The Times’ paywall failure comes research from KPMG. And it doesn’t make for good reading by anyone that wants to charge for content: 81% of UK internet users would stop visiting a site if it asked them to [...]

Is The Times’ Paywall Failing Spectacularly? Or Just Badly?

20, Jul 2010

About a month ago, The FirstFound Blog brought you news of The Times website relaunching as a paid-for subscriber service.  We ended that article with a question: Will you be willing to pay for online news? If you currently read The Times online, will you stump up or move on? Now, it looks like we’ve [...]


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