October 2008
“In the early 1800s, railroads appeared. Stephenson’s Rocket was the first...”
– On Seventh Mass Media vs Sixth, and role of iPhone :: Wireless-Watch Community
“Today more than 75% of new phones in Japan ship with 1-seg mobile digital TV...”
– eurotechnology.japan.blog: 75% of mobile phones in Japan ship with digital mobile TV
“During May 2008, 88% of searches for the top 2,000 search terms in the UK were...”
– Hitwise Intelligence - Robin Goad - UK: 9 in 10 UK searches are navigational / branded
“UK internet searches for second hand goods increased by 22% since October 2007...”
– News | UK web searches for second hand goods up 22% - NMA
“Almost one-third of Chinese web surfers, about 84.5 million people, log onto the...”
– One-third Of Chinese Web Surfers Log In Using Mobile Phones - AdAgeChina - Fast Facts
“Almost two thirds of respondents (64%) said that economic problems would cause...”
– Online Shopping and Credit Crunch Survey Report | Research | E-consultancy.com
“(As of Oct 13 2008), 169m separate programmes have been requested (to watch...”
– Interview, Erik Huggers: ‘The last bastion is the living room’ | Media | The Guardian
“28 percent of Europeans now regularly watch online video”
– JupiterResearch Finds European Online Video Usage Doubling - JupiterResearch
“Hulu had more than 10 million unique users watching 122 million videos in August...”
– Much-Humbled Joost Takes Its Pitch to Madison Avenue - Advertising Age - Digital
“Today, 13 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute”
– Official Google Blog: The future of online video
“Literary essayist George Steiner once put it this way: Had a buggy whip...”
– Ask an Expert: Don’t fall into the buggy-whip mentality - USATODAY.com
“Advertising is an attempt to overcome the scarcity of attention”
– Advertising in the Cyberspace Era
“A recent study from Bain & Company and the Interactive Advertising Bureau...”
– Advertising - Newspapers’ Web Revenue Is Stalling - NYTimes.com
“the culture of linking was creating a “new architecture of news.” “Link unto...”
– Mainstream News Outlets Start Linking to Other Sites - NYTimes.com
“Today OpenStreetMap.org boasts over 45,000 contributors and has over 442,194,531...”
– Vodafone | receiver » Blog Archive » Creating maps for everyone and network effects for the data driving them
PressThink: Okay, Ready? My Coordinates for a... →
“At many a conference I have attended on new media and journalism, some old pro...”
– Newspapers & the Net: Where’s the Business Model, People? | Britannica Blog
“Over the last thousand or so years we’ve seen spice trails generate massive...”
– Who Will Monetize Cloud Computing and Why? - Seeking Alpha
“The huge bull elephant had a long history of raiding villagers’ crops...”
– Kenya’s elephants send text messages - Africa - msnbc.com
“My visit to Google? Despite the whimsical furniture and other toys, I felt I was...”
– Edge: TURING’S CATHEDRAL by George Dyson
“Google’s reliable presence is woven so tightly into our daily experience...”
– Salon.com Books | Google’s Vulcan death grip
cityofsound: The street as platform →
Fabulous article about the current (or nearly so) state of our streets and how much data and digital-ness there is out there, almost invisible.
“ANY good tradesman will tell you the importance of the bits of a house that you...”
– Blockages in the money markets | Blocked pipes | The Economist
“by 2012, fully half of all purchases, whether online or offline, will have some...”
– Analyst: Half of ‘social media campaigns’ will flop | The Social - CNET News
“Fewer start-ups have gone public in 2008 than in any year since 1977”
– Venture Capitalists Are Hearing Footsteps - Mergers, Acquisitions, Venture Capital, Hedge Funds — DealBook - New York Times
“Even the patience of the Brothers was being tested by our slow internet”
– BBC NEWS | Wales | Broadband boost for island monks
PleoWorld - The Home of Pleo, the Robotic Baby... →
“My friend Anne was slightly freaked out when she got a note on Facebook to tell...”
– BBC NEWS | Technology | A link to eternity
“While most massively multiplayer online games (MMOs) are based on fantasy...”
– BBC NEWS | Technology | Games less virtual, more reality
“The British Red Cross has launched an internet game to raise awareness about...”
– BBC NEWS | World | Africa | Internet game for victims of war
“There are an estimated 45m PCs in Brazil, making it the world’s fifth...”
– BBC NEWS | Technology | Bridging Brazil’s digital divide
“75 percent of online patients with a chronic problem told the researchers that...”
– Many Seek Second Opinions From Health Sites and Online Communities - NYTimes.com
“even if video games don’t motivate more traditional reading, they have the...”
– The Future of Reading - Using Video Games as Bait to Hook Readers - Series - NYTimes.com
“You can’t just make a book anymore,” said Mr. Haarsma, a former advertising...”
– The Future of Reading - Using Video Games as Bait to Hook Readers - Series - NYTimes.com
“93 percent of social media users believe a company should have a presence in...”
– Cone Finds That Americans Expect Companies to Have a Presence in Social Media
“In the fourth quarter of 2007, American cellphone subscribers for the first time...”
– Drilling Down - Letting Our Fingers Do the Talking - NYTimes.com
“For every three dollars spent on notebooks at U.S. retail, one went to a Mac.”
– Microsoft Watch - Desktop & Mobile - The Great Windows-Mac Laptop War
“It used to be that innovation started with NASA, flowed to the military, then to...”
– Why The Flow Of Innovation Has Reversed | Union Square Ventures: A New York Venture Capital Fund Focused on Early Stage & Startup Investing
25 most influential people on the web
According to Business Week:
Steve Ballmer (Microsoft)
Mitchell Baker (Mozilla)
Jeff Bezos (Amazon)
Larry, Sergey, Eric (Google)
Jeff Clavier (French VC)
Paul Graham (another VC: ycombinator)
Ariana Huffington (Huffington Post)
Joi Ito (Creative Commons etc)
Steve Jobs (Apple)
Jonathan Kaplan (Pure Digital: makers of Flip)
Loic Le Meur (Seesmic)
Jack Ma (Alibaba)
Matt Mullenweg...
“What could possibly be bigger news than the supposed heart attack suffered by...”
– Steve Jobs Had No Heart Attack…And Citizen Journalism Just Failed - ReadWriteWeb
“a recent study by Global Insight noted that businesses (who have received VC...”
– Capitalism to the Rescue - Green Tech Rising - NYTimes.com
“A mobile phone based health application has helped to investigate and contain a...”
– BBC NEWS | Technology | Mobiles combat Kenyan polio outbreak
“50% of the mobile subscribers in Japan will have 3.5G within 2008. In such a...”
– Unveiling The Japanese Mobile Market | Tracking Asia Web - Best China Tech Blog
“An analysis of searches beginning with “why” shows that most queries...”
– We Are What We Google - Forbes.com
“Tancer also claims he can forecast bigger economic trends, as evidenced by...”
– We Are What We Google - Forbes.com 