By Jonathan Fildes
Technology reporter, BBC News
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8368750.stm
Newspapers should become "radically open" if they want to make money in
the online world, the co-founder of social networking site Twitter has
said.
Biz Stone said that he would "love to see what happens" if newspaper mogul
Rupert Murdoch went ahead with plans to block Google from his websites.
"The future is in openness not [being] closed," he told the BBC.
Mr Murdoch recently said that search engines could not legally use
material such as headlines in search results.
Earlier this year, he said his News Corp business would start charging
customers for access to its websites.
News Corp owns the Times and Sun newspapers in the UK and the New York
Post and Wall Street Journal in the US.
Mr Stone said he should be allowed to "fail fast" with the proposal.
"They should be looking at this as an opportunity to try something
radically different and find out a way to make a ton of money from being
radically open rather than some money from being ridiculously closed," he
told an event organised by the National Endowment for Science, Technology
and the Arts (Nesta) in London.
