Category Archives: Free

Swag Alert: 100 Free Business Cards, Courtesy of Ziki

If you’re the type who likes free swag, then here’s a heads up.
Ziki is a people-search engine (a la spock), which allows you to not only search for other people, but secure your own profile for others to see.  I haven’t used it a great deal, but its premise is kind of interesting in that [...]

TV Networks Giving Away Shows For Free? Very Shrewd, Actually.

Well, not *completely* free, but word comes from the LA Times that Fox is following the footsteps of other major US TV networks in a move to make their primetime shows more accessible — and more important, freely *available* — via a variety of online schemes.
Fox is planning to use iTunes, to showcase the premiere [...]

New York Times is Free — And Validates Google’s Imminent Domination!

You may have heard that the New York Times is eliminating its paid service, NYTimes Select, and is making all of its news, including its archives, available to the public.
Good news for tirekickers, Scrooge McDucks’, and penny-pinchers all around — but, there was actually one kernel of information in this whole bit of news that [...]

WSJ Free Of Fee? Rupert Murdoch Might Not Actually Care

Rupert Murdoch paid a hefty premium (a 65% premium, in fact) to secure the Wall Street Journal.  As someone who has always been traditionally viewed as an outsider (although, probably not for some time now), this must be one tasty win, best relished with a cold beverage (I don’t really know what kind of cold [...]

Free vs. Fee: Only The Numbers Can Tell The Real Story

You may have heard that the New York Times may, in the near future, remove its paywall to some select content.  While I can’t comment on the “select content” myself (since I am not of the approximately 220,000 paying $7.95/mo), there seems to be a great hubaloo around how great this will be.
I love free [...]