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Well looks like the guys at Microsoft have been busy working on a challenger to Street View, its called Street Slide.

Not unlike Street View apart from some pretty impressive enhancements like additional navigational and informational aids like click able business logos and building numbers don’t take my word for it check out the video above.

This is yet another brillaint TED talk this time it is the turn of Johanna Blakley Deputy Director of the Norman Lear Center as she explains how the lack of Copyright Law breads innovation, creativity and sales in the fashion industry which should act as a key learning point with regard to Copyright law’s grip on film, music and software industry.

Sit back and listen as she talks about what all creative industries can learn from fashion’s free culture.

Following on from the post earlier this year and Murdochs paywall plans, the Times and Sunday Times newspapers have revealed their new-look websites as they prepare to charge readers, before the charging starts people who register will be able to register will be able to access the websites for free until late June after that it will be £1 per day or £2 for a weeks subscription to the Times.

I do like what  they have done with the design nice and clean and very functional and I do like how they have managed to retain the look of the traditional print item which should lend it to becoming quite popular with the iPad / Tablet fraternity although they may have on navigation for touch devices but sure there will be an app for it .

One last thing I like which is not really an online newspaper first but it does change their offering  away from reporting yesterdays news and gives them the opportunity to post live reports.

With newspaper sales in decline and advertising increasingly moving online, print owners have been searching for a business model that will make profits from their websites, whether or not it proves popular enough for people to pay remains another story that only time will tell.