June 2007
“Like paper, the Internet is a medium. People express a lot of crap through both...”
– apophenia: knowledge access as a public good
“The Internet is a funny thing, especially now that those online are not just the...”
– apophenia: knowledge access as a public good
“More than 1,000 new customers are effectively signing up for mobile phones every...”
– Global mobile phone use to hit record 3.25 billion | Technology | Reuters
“Mobile phone subscriptions will pass the 3 bln mark in July 2007 and exceed 3.25...”
– » 3 bln mobile subscriptions by July 2007 | IT Facts | ZDNet.com
“There are a total of 1,131 apps. Of the last 500 to be approved, only 5 have...”
– Hypebusting: Facebook has ‘thrown the entire startup world for a loop’ - Valleywag
“Just as software developers rushed to write applications for Windows after it...”
– FT.com / Technology - Facebook spreads its web wider
Zentation: Online Video And Powerpoint Get Married →
“My favorite stat about HotorNot: Up to ten marriages per day can be tracked to...”
– HotorNot Founder James Hong Talks About Past, Future
“72% of online adults in the US are using their home computers to listen to audio...”
– » 72% of online Americans listen to music on their PCs | IT Facts | ZDNet.com
“M:Metrics published a list of top mobile Web sites visited by smartphone owners....”
– » Top mobile Web sites in US and UK | IT Facts | ZDNet.com
Shifd.com - Hack Day London 2007 Winner →
This is pretty cool, when they get a version that doesn’t need RFID I’ll definitely check it out. I especially like the little Time slider.
“one of the most hyped consumer products ever comes pretty close to justifying...”
– First Look: Test Driving the iPhone - Newsweek Technology - MSNBC.com
“40% percent of MySpace users keep profiles on other social networking sites such...”
– » 40% of MySpace users use other social networks | IT Facts | ZDNet.com
“The Foxmarks search engine is based entirely on user bookmarks and the...”
– Mitch Kapor’s Foxmarks To Leap Into Search World
“librarians need to adapt their techniques to digital natives. A digital native...”
– Jobs, News and Views for All of Higher Education - Inside Higher Ed :: When ‘Digital Natives’ Go to the Library
“One of the most elegant, most influential and most groaned-about pieces of...”
– Portals - WSJ.com
Meet Charlie - what is Enterprise2.0? » SlideShare →
The BBC’s Fifteen Web Principles (Tomski.com - Tom... →
“In Gartner’s most recent survey among Western European consumers, 10% of those...”
– » Mobile games to generate $9.6 bln by 2011 | IT Facts | ZDNet.com
“80% of the UK online population (age 15+ who have accessed the Internet from...”
– » 76% of Americans have streamed video online | IT Facts | ZDNet.com
“There were 2.7 mln IPTV subscribers in Asia in 2006, and this number is expected...”
– » 2.7 mln IPTV subscribers in Asia in 2006 | IT Facts | ZDNet.com
“More than half of consumers claim they have “taken action” as a...”
– Advertising Age - Digital - Online Video Study Upends Conventional Knowledge
“One in five online video users watch a TV show or segment once week and, perhaps...”
– Advertising Age - Digital - Online Video Study Upends Conventional Knowledge
“It’s part perception but unfortunately [perception] ends up being...”
– Advertising Age - Digital - Yahoo Has Traffic; Can Yang Give It an Identity?
“The study asked about traditional media habits and found social networking is...”
– Advertising Age - Digital - Social Networking Reaches Near Full Penetration Among Teens and ‘Tweens
“whopping 96% of online tweens and teens connect to a social network at least...”
– Advertising Age - Digital - Social Networking Reaches Near Full Penetration Among Teens and ‘Tweens
“At the end of almost any working day or night in a Chinese gaming workshop,...”
– Video Games - China - Money - Online Games - New York Times
“It isn’t that WoW players don’t frequently kill other players for fun and kill...”
– Video Games - China - Money - Online Games - New York Times
“In the eyes of many gamers, in fact, real-money trading is essentially a scam —...”
– Video Games - China - Money - Online Games - New York Times
“Castronova’s estimate of EverQuest’s G.D.P. showed that online games — even when...”
– Video Games - China - Money - Online Games - New York Times
“Asked earlier this month by the Wall Street Journal - which he is looking to buy...”
– Facebook challenges MySpace as place for the cool set to hang out | Technology | Guardian Unlimited Technology
“Yell, producer of the Yellow Pages, has tapped into this virtual world to run a...”
– Online and off the wall | Technology | Guardian Unlimited Technology
“300 million people worldwide are now accessing the internet using fast broadband...”
– China catches up on US for fast internet as Africa gets left behind | Technology | Guardian Unlimited Technology
“Memorial websites for the dead are emerging as a new way of making social...”
– Death networking: the latest e-trend - Independent Online Edition > This Britain (!!!!!! couldn’t resist sharing this, typical Independent exaggeration; only they could say a site with 55k visits a day was rivalling myspace & facebook)
“Think of technological innovators and you think of Japan, Korea, the United...”
– How modern life is made in Israel | Connected | Telegraph
“Cannes is a tire fire made of ego, and it will burn or at least smolder...”
– Gone in 30 Seconds - washingtonpost.com
“Advertisers now ask themselves: What is advertising anymore? The answer may not...”
– Gone in 30 Seconds - washingtonpost.com
SpaceTime™ →
I must play with this…. it’s a 3D browser, I wonder what it’ll feel like.
“It wasn’t that long ago that 100,000 users was considered huge for a Web 2.0...”
– The Long Tail Is Getting Fatter
“That “clean” or “modern” look of Facebook is akin to...”
– Viewing American class divisions through Facebook and MySpace
“The goodie two shoes, jocks, athletes, or other “good” kids are now...”
– Viewing American class divisions through Facebook and MySpace
“Immersive is something we’re certainly looking at,” says Jason...”
– Getting Google’s Street Views
“ComScore Media Metrix figures that 80% of the British online population 15 and...”
– Google Takes YouTube Global 