Today, November 10th, I was honored to be in a panel of the NUV, "National Publishers Day' with the distinguished mr Madhav Chinnappa, EMEA director of partnerships of Google News. Mr Chinnappa presented the guests of the World Forum Exhibition center with a short and clarifying presentation that the monopoly of news is no longer restricted to publishers, who adhere to classic rules of gathering, assessment, production and distribution. His second message was one of hope. Consumers will choose to pay. And Googles' one pass is the solution to this. Please open up, and experiment. I respect mr Chinnappa's views, and we as a society- consumers et al, owe a lot to Google. Their products are awesome and no-one is able to compete with them in hardly any field. Read More...

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