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iOS 9 - adbockers selling fast Members Public

Uh-oh [http://thenextweb.com/apple/2015/09/17/ios-9s-main-attraction-adblocking/]: > Less than 24 hours after the release of iOS 9, it’s interesting to see that adblockers are shooting to the top of the charts in the App Store worldwide. Content blockers, which allow users to block advertising, trackers and third-party

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
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Was Gigaom's revenue model really broken? Members Public

Should we be taking a harder look at the potential ad revenue of the (defunct) Gigaom [http://rickwaghorn.co.uk/2015/03/15/what-are-the-lessons-to-be-learned-from-the-fall-of-gigaom-what-does-it-tell-us-if-a-passionate-niche-audience-of-6-5m-cant-earn-people-a-web-living/] ? Rick Waghorn thinks so: > Maybe, just maybe, the fall of the Gigaom empire is the first tremor of a bigger earthquake; evidence that something is seriously

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Adam Tinworth
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Buying your way out of ad blocking Members Public

Robert Cookson, for the Financial Times, reports that companies are paying their way out of ad-blocking [http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/80a8ce54-a61d-11e4-9bd3-00144feab7de.html]: > Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Taboola have quietly paid the German start-up behind Adblock Plus, the world’s most popular software for blocking online advertising, to

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
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The Embers of One Man's Day Members Public

What do we have here? A video promoting a piece of software called Ember [http://realmacsoftware.com/blog/ember-user-stories-adam-tinworth], starring me (and completely scene-stolen by my daughter): This all came about at the last TEDxBrighton. Thibault [http://realmacsoftware.com/blog/author:thibault] – whom I’d first met when he was

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Adam Tinworth
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