October 2007
“Fifty years ago this month, Julius Blank, Victor Grinich, Jean Hoerni, Eugene...”
– FT.com / Companies / Media & internet - Silicon Valley’s founding fathers
“In the coming months, (Nissan) will begin rolling out a social networking site,...”
– Why Is Nissan Mimicking MySpace?
“Rock legend Bob Dylan is asking fans to send clips to YouTube to create a video...”
– Bob Dylan’s Youtube plea - Latest - Showbiz - Mirror.co.uk
“No one wins when the law looks like an ass. … The High Court order...”
– Comment: Royal blackmail case makes law look like an ass - Times Online
“In Redmond, you don’t see 7-year-olds begging on the street,” said Sean...”
– In India, Poverty Inspires Technology Workers to Altruism - New York Times
“Many advertisers — and content companies including news organizations...”
– Free Article - WSJ.com
“A social networking website styled as “The X Factor meets YouTube”...”
– Social networking site Clipstar launches offering $1m prize | Media | Guardian Unlimited
“I have to some degree underestimated the difference between shaking the hand of...”
– BBC NEWS | Technology | Uruguay buys first ‘$100 laptops’
“Uruguay has bought 100,000 of the $100 laptop machines for schoolchildren aged...”
– BBC NEWS | Technology | Uruguay buys first ‘$100 laptops’
“Our sales are up significantly since we started making videos. And our returns...”
– Cracking the YouTube Market Even If Your Product Is Boring - WSJ.com
“Think your business isn’t hip enough to pull off marketing on YouTube? It...”
– Cracking the YouTube Market Even If Your Product Is Boring - WSJ.com
“Mr. Agassi wants to deploy an infrastructure of battery-charging stations in the...”
– Reimagining the Automobile Industry by Selling the Electricity - New York Times
“Facebook’s Flyers Pro charges per click. Unlike Facebook’s old...”
– Facebook: Who needs Google? Facebook’s stealth ad system
“Four fresh-out-of-college girls share an apartment in Los Angeles and star in a...”
– Bikinis And Bums On Cue - Forbes.com
“With 49 million users consuming an amazing 50 Facebook pages a day on average,...”
– » Facebook: Committed to the sanctity of the social graph | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com
“with 25 percent of Russian adults now online, up from 8 percent in 2002,...”
– Kremlin Seeks To Extend Its Reach in Cyberspace - washingtonpost.com
“Allies of President Vladimir Putin are creating pro-government news and pop...”
– Kremlin Seeks To Extend Its Reach in Cyberspace - washingtonpost.com
“[Barack] Obama’s 1 Million Strong Group took more than 8 months to get about...”
– The Colbert Nation Quickly Colonizes Facebook - New York Times
“According to a recent survey of more than 60,000 Internet users in the United...”
– Travel Sales Still Growing, but Numbers of Customers Are Declining - New York Times
“In Australia nearly a tenth of the employed population are highly qualified...”
– Europe’s “blue card” plan | Not the ace in the pack | Economist.com
“Almost 60% of Europe’s internet users will shop online this year. Britain...”
– Internet will be Santa’s big helper | | Guardian Unlimited Business
“Mr Belcher, who works at Queen Victoria Hospital in East Grinstead, West Sussex,...”
– Surgeon puts handiwork on YouTube - Telegraph
“Hulu will offer some features not available on other online video sites. One...”
– Hulu Readies Online TV, Dodging Jabs - New York Times
“A television commercial for the new iPod Touch from Apple, scheduled to begin...”
– Student’s Ad Gets a Remake, and Makes the Big Time - New York Times
I love this. They treated Nicks YouTube version as being the prototype and then rather than doing a ripoff themselves, involved him in making a higher-def better edited version. Very cool.
“According to Delovaya Stolitsa, a Ukrainian weekly newspaper, the total...”
– АИН
“More than $1.5 million (£740,000) changes hands in Second Life every day,...”
– Government to police virtual worlds - Times Online
“According to the research firm Forrester, 7 per cent of young people aged 12 to...”
– Government to police virtual worlds - Times Online
“Google Earth images of Baghdad were being transferred from the internet to CDs...”
– Militants ‘use Google Earth to attack Israel’ - Telegraph
“A new report from Portio Research predicts that the global mobile penetration...”
– Global mobile penetration to reach 75% by 2011 | The Register
“In developed markets, much Internet use is about lifestyle conveniences, such as...”
– Google goes to India - Oct. 23, 2007
“(India’s) online advertising industry, though puny at $53 million last...”
– Google goes to India - Oct. 23, 2007
“Part of what helped drive innovation during the dot-com boom in the U.S. was...”
– Google goes to India - Oct. 23, 2007
“It’s interesting that people keep talking about (online) as much more...”
– How Many Site Hits? Depends Who’s Counting - New York Times
“* There are 15,000 web sites built on Google Maps API. Permalink”
– Tech Trader Daily - Barron’s Online : Google Analyst Day: Jonathan Rosenberg On Search, Apps; New Versions Of iGoogle, Gmail And More
“iGoogle indexes 200,000 feeds and 20,000 gadgets”
– Tech Trader Daily - Barron’s Online : Google Analyst Day: Jonathan Rosenberg On Search, Apps; New Versions Of iGoogle, Gmail And More
“Jack Menzel, project manager on universal search, a Brown University grade in...”
– Tech Trader Daily - Barron’s Online : Google Analyst Day: Jonathan Rosenberg On Search, Apps; New Versions Of iGoogle, Gmail And More
“YouTube has 8 hours of video uploaded every single minute”
– Tech Trader Daily - Barron’s Online : Google Analyst Day: Jonathan Rosenberg On Search, Apps; New Versions Of iGoogle, Gmail And More
“IF YOU want a motorcycle, go to Chongqing…. Led by the region’s...”
– Revving up | Economist.com
“People who seem to have had a new idea have often simply stopped having an old...”
– A dark art no more | Economist.com
“John Kao, author of “Jamming: The Art and Discipline of Business Creativity”,...”
– A dark art no more | Economist.com
“One senior executive maintains that innovation simply cannot be defined exactly,...”
– A dark art no more | Economist.com
“Nokia, a Finnish company, makes mobile-phone handsets which are used by nearly a...”
– The love-in | Economist.com
“CHINA will soon boast seven of the world’s ten biggest shopping malls. Yet...”
– Economics focus | A workers’ manifesto for China | Economist.com
“From 1980 to 2001, all of the net growth in American employment came from firms...”
– The fading lustre of clusters | Economist.com
“Last year, venture capitalists invested only about €6.4 billion ($9 billion) in...”
– The fading lustre of clusters | Economist.com
“The main thing holding back continental Europe is that it is a lousy place to...”
– The fading lustre of clusters | Economist.com
“the European Union (EU) is something of an also-ran when it comes to innovation....”
– The fading lustre of clusters | Economist.com
“bans on billboards exist in other parts of the world—even America. Vermont,...”
– Outdoor advertising | Visual pollution | Economist.com 