It started with a Royal Wedding and ended with a terrorist’s assassination – the UK’s long-awaited double-Bank Holiday, four-day weekend is over. Here are some of the most interesting stories and links you may have missed during the down time…
» Twitter will announce purchase of TweetDeck in ‘next few days’
» A new paywall doesn’t come for free
» How Twitter is bringing footballers back to the fans | Barney Ronay
» UK cinemas will fight studios’ plans to speed VOD delivery
» Pay TV player BSkyB is winning the war to dominate digital
» Freemium revisited: paying for content-based applications | Monday Note
» Twitter first with news of Osama bin Laden’s death via ex-Bush staffer
» Shazam’s free app has reintroduced unlimited free tagging thanks to an eBay sponsorship
» Haymarket May Buy Stake in India’s BBC Magazines, Sky Reports
» Can Online News Revenue Ever Equal Newspaper Revenue?
» Digital Shoreditch includes several interesting events this week
» The Telegraph used mobile app Color to collect readers’ Royal Wedding photos (» more here)
» How two Abbottabad locals tweeted Bin Laden’s killing
» Bin Laden’s Death Sparks Record 12.4 Million Tweets Per Hour
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