November 2007
“We’re forecasting that the number of spam messages that annually reach the...”
– Spammers Giving Up? Google Thinks So
“Today, Apple commands about 70% of music downloads”
– All Eyes On Apple - Steve Jobs - iPhone - iPod
“There’s an intuitive humanity to (Apple’s) machines, and that has...”
– All Eyes On Apple - Steve Jobs - iPhone - iPod
“The idea is that if I or someone else has a picture that includes my son, alone...”
– Yossi Vardi Invests in Media Timeline Startup AllofMe (I love this concept provided of course it’s optin… a first step to lifeblogging)
“(Re: digital native/immigrant divide): I think it has not to do with the...”
– [print version] Tech design with thought | CNET News.com
“26 per cent of business and marketing leaders say they are less familiar with...”
– globeandmail.com: Molson pulls plug on Facebook photo contest
“In the real world, we don’t articulate our social networks. Imagine how...”
– How Your Creepy Ex-Co-Workers Will Kill Facebook — Facebook — InformationWeek
“Facebook has all the social graces of a nose-picking, hyperactive six-year-old,...”
– How Your Creepy Ex-Co-Workers Will Kill Facebook — Facebook — InformationWeek
“Emails from Facebook aren’t helpful messages, they’re eyeball bait”
– How Your Creepy Ex-Co-Workers Will Kill Facebook — Facebook — InformationWeek
“Awareness and use of widgets among online users, which was less than 5% in early...”
– Widgets make a big splash on the Net - USATODAY.com
“This year, 22 percent of all music sold in the US will move through iTunes”
– Universal’s CEO Once Called iPod Users Thieves. Now He’s Giving Songs Away.
“If you had Coca-Cola coming through the faucet in your kitchen, how much would...”
– Universal’s CEO Once Called iPod Users Thieves. Now He’s Giving Songs Away.
“Starting today, Google Maps supports collaborative map-making, so multiple...”
– Google LatLong: My Our Maps (I want to experiment with this for Amherst)
“What millions of Internet users take for granted every day—using the Web...”
– Future of the Web coming fast and furious | Tech news blog - CNET News.com
“between 49 and 83 percent of all Internet traffic is P2P related, with peaks of...”
– P2P Traffic Is Booming, BitTorrent The Dominant Protocol | TorrentFreak
“So-called “Black Friday,” the day after the Thanksgiving holiday in...”
– Online Holiday Shopping Season Charges Out of the Gate
“unlike traditional TV, where the advertisers gets the extra exposure for free if...”
– Web Ad Action Surprises Nets - TVWeek - News
“Apple retail stores exert a gravitational pull on shoppers … analyst Gene...”
– AppleInsider | Apple stores having ‘gravitational pull’ on mall shoppers - report
“Xbox Live has always been about the social experience of online play, the newest...”
– Xbox 360 Fall Update includes social networking features
“the wide scope of Google’s interest and activity is a natural and...”
– Rough Type: Nicholas Carr’s Blog: Understanding Google
“true copyright infringement, as defined by current outmoded laws and...”
– Is Infringement Avoidable?
“TorrentFreak saw fit to point out the hypocrisy of Dutch anti-piracy outfit...”
– Is Infringement Avoidable?
“A blogger named Paul Francis went to the trouble of gathering Facebook user data...”
– Facebook Is Almost 2/3 Women (and other stats)
“Since 2001, small, independent bands appearing in iPod commercials have sold...”
– Forget MTV - Apple’s iPod ads are the new music-star makers
“Many marketers are excited about a brand-free market. They walk in wads of cash...”
– Seth’s Blog: What brand is your mattress?
“US businesses without a payroll (ie: small one-person businesses) now make up...”
– Businesses with no paid employees increase to 19.5 million - Jul. 27, 2006
“Flixster, the social media movie rating application, has just crossed over one...”
– Flixster Tops 1 Billion Movie Ratings
“90% of jobs will be created by less than a quarter of new firms. Nearly half of...”
– Entrepreneurship | Economist.com
“The proportion of very poor Africans fell from 47% in 1990 to 41% in 2004. On...”
– Poverty in Africa | Economist.com
“Two-thirds of Americans who were children in 1968 and are now in their 30s or...”
– Lexington | The greasy ladder | Economist.com
“The Net links computers, the Web links documents. Now, people are making another...”
– Giant Global Graph | Decentralized Information Group (DIG) Breadcrumbs
“Office, bundling the Word word-processing, Excel spreadsheet and PowerPoint...”
– The Word is out: Microsoft will face online fight on core software - Times Online
“upwards of 500 million tons of electronic trash is generated worldwide every...”
– Innovation? How About Just Taking Out the Trash?
the Idea Shower » » Block Facebook Beacon →
After Charlene’s experience (http://blogs.forrester.com/charleneli/2007/11/close-encounter.html ) I’m not going to take any chances… Time to install…
“(Seth Godin’s) blog is read by more people than 95% of all the magazines...”
– Seth’s Blog: Thanks
“the top 1% of searchers performs a full 13% of all searches in a given month. If...”
– John Battelle’s Searchblog: The Power of Power Searchers
“The history of online advertising has been marked by three major eras. The first...”
– John Battelle’s Searchblog: On The Link Between Search and Branding
“OpenAd.net is a Slovenian media business with global ambition. It’s a...”
– advertising practitioner: open ad, ad widget, inevitable death of something or other
“Facebook is the easy-to-use, non-threatening, comfortably-middle-class version...”
– advertising practitioner: how facebook might save advertising
“Facebook might be the one thing that saves advertising agencies from an...”
– advertising practitioner: how facebook might save advertising
“You can imagine the world headquarters of both Dove and Lynx, the kind of people...”
– advertising practitioner: dove, lynx, inconsistency, no chance of me working for unilever ever again
“Professor Stefano Mancuso knows it isn’t easy being green: He runs the...”
– Smarty Plants: Inside the World’s Only Plant-Intelligence Lab
“I have spent many afternoons in the Internet cafés of Beijing’s Haidian...”
– The Great Firewall: China’s Misguided — and Futile — Attempt to Control What Happens Online
“Pre-teens in Mattels’ free Barbie Girls virtual world can chat with their...”
– Barbie Becomes an Authentication Device for Pre-Teen Friendship | Threat Level from Wired.com
“The time won’t be too far off, said Arone, when you’ll be able to...”
– MC Hammer Hops Onto Dance Craze With DanceJam
“We’ve hit the point where a scene out of a video game — and from a...”
– What Beowulf Means For The Convergence Of Movies And Games | Game | Life from Wired.com
“rapid prototyping printers are bringing an entirely very new mentality to...”
– 3-D Printers Redefine Industrial Design 