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Financial Data Golden Goose

I really like the idea of Data Marketplace, a startup setting up a marketplace for structured data. Financial data is a golden goose yet to be disrupted by the internet forces …

Other interesting ventures in the “structured” data, more or less inspired by the Wikipedia model, are www.freebase.com and www.factual.com

Techcrunch coverage: YC-Funded Data Marketplace Is An Amazon For Structured Information.

Newsday Online Hits A (Pay)Wall

A Long Island newspaper invested €4 million to redesign its online website with content behind a paywall. They got 35 subscribers in 3 months.

The web site redesign and relaunch cost the Dolans $4 million, according to Mr. Jimenez. With those 35 people, they’ve grossed about $9,000.

Second tier newspapers’ only chance to get some subscription revenue from paying online customers could be taking a share of offers bundling together access to several sources of premium content. The role of aggregator may be taken on by Apple iTunes or Amazon Kindle.

New York Times Goes Self-Service

New York Times launched a self-service adversing platform à la Google Adsense at Self-Service Online Advertising - New York Times.

Something is moving in old media land.