After a gruelling few months our team at News International have helped to successfully launch the successor to the Culture Plus site. The new site, Times+ is a subscription based service which allows its members exclusive access to travel and culture news, events and offers. The project was delivered on time and budget. Within the first 3 days the site is already looking like it will break 10,000 paid subscribers. Take a look for yourself at
http://www.timesplus.co.uk/
This project does not simply deliver a web site. It is in fact the first milestone in Rupert Murdoch and News Corporations strategy to drive the industry to a paid for model for content. This is the first site to be built on its custom IAM (Identity and Access Management) platform. This platform will eventually be rolled out across all products in the portfolio and deliver the digital strategy.
Let's see if this really is the 1st step in a new reality for the web!
(I kinda hope it isn't, but don't tell Rupert!!)
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