February 2008
“Lulu has produced more than half a million titles, and there are more than 100...”
– The Googles of tomorrow - Features, Gadgets & Tech - Independent.co.uk
“Google will help build a $300 million undersea cable system with five other...”
– Google to invest in undersea cable to Asia - International Herald Tribune
“A survey by the Oxford Internet Institute (OII) found that between 2005 and...”
– Victor Keegan: Personalised search is still the holy grail | Technology | The Guardian
“The (UK police) force monitors YouTube and other such websites for evidence of...”
– BBC NEWS | Magazine | Judge YouTube
“The Bank of Japan, which issues nationwide money supply figures each month, does...”
– Virtual payments catching on in Japan - International Herald Tribune
“You won’t have spotted KateModern in the TV schedules, because it is an...”
– Kate Modern: Making a drama with a minimum of fuss - Media, News - Independent.co.uk
“One of the Vatican s most senior cardinals has become an internet sensation...”
– Cardinal becomes star of YouTube - Telegraph
“Joost uses a proprietary peer-to-peer (P2P) protocol that pipes data to viewers...”
– Overdoing it? | Economist.com
“If it isn t economies of scale, lock-in, or network effects, what is it that...”
– Official Google Blog: Our secret sauce
“The Buzz service borrows heavily from other so-called social news aggregators,...”
– Yahoo Plans to Let Users Help Mold New Feature - New York Times
“BBC shows have been streamed or downloaded more than 17m times via its iPlayer...”
– BBC shows watched more than 17m times on iPlayer since Christmas Day | Media | guardian.co.uk
“Service on Google Inc.’s YouTube Web site was disrupted around the world...”
– How a System Error in Pakistan Shut YouTube - WSJ.com
“Google on Wednesday said it has seen 50 times more search requests coming from...”
– AppleInsider | Google iPhone usage shocks search giant
“In the World Bank’s (admittedly incomplete) database, there are 28...”
– Technology in emerging economies | Of internet cafés and power cuts | Economist.com
“three-quarters of low-income countries have fewer than 15 PCs per 1,000...”
– Technology in emerging economies | Of internet cafés and power cuts | Economist.com
“according to India’s telecoms regulator, half of all urban dwellers have...”
– Technology in emerging economies | Of internet cafés and power cuts | Economist.com
“Technology can amplify and aggregate voices that used to be faint and muffled”
– The road to e-democracy | Economist.com
“heavy clickers represent just 6% of the online population yet account for 50% of...”
– New Study Shows that Heavy Clickers Distort Reality of Display Advertising Click-Through Metrics
“The hard lesson for governments is that citizens will adopt technology when it...”
– Identity parade | Economist.com
The electronic bureaucrat | Economist.com →
Economist has done a report about e-government
“As the email spills onto my screen, as my mind races with thoughts of what...”
– Linda Stone: Just Breathe: Building the case for Email Apnea - Living on The Huffington Post
“A teenager hacked into the outfit charged with protecting companies like Sony,...”
– Media Defenders Profile - National Business News - Portfolio.com (indepth article, great story, perhaps one day they’ll make a movie about it ;-)
“A new independent movie called Jerome Bixby’s The Man From Earth showed up...”
– Media Defenders Profile - National Business News - Portfolio.com
“Just look at this. I have my own cinema. When I watch a movie, I’d rather...”
– Media Defenders Profile - National Business News - Portfolio.com
“University of London researchers Birgitte Andersen and Marion Frenz reported...”
– Media Defenders Profile - National Business News - Portfolio.com
“Within a few years of its creation, BitTorrent activity accounted for nearly 20...”
– Media Defenders Profile - National Business News - Portfolio.com
“Shop.org reported that more than 70% of online searchers make offline purchases....”
– MediaPost Publications - Why Marketers Are Not Investing Online - 02/13/2008
“A recent study published by IBM showed that people spend almost as much time...”
– MediaPost Publications - Why Marketers Are Not Investing Online - 02/13/2008
“people come up with good ideas when they have the motivation and intelligence to...”
– An Outsider’s Flawed View Of Silicon Valley
“wave after wave of students left the parking lot to drive a 10-mile stretch of...”
– Nokia turns people into traffic sensors | Tech news blog - CNET News.com
“When companies host all of your data and have the ability to delete you and it...”
– apophenia: a google horror story: what happens when you are disappeared
“How do you get to read articles on the WSJ site for free? … Copy the text...”
– Read The Wall Street Journal For Free
“Robert Burdock, a student at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland, carries...”
– Pushing Paper Out the Door - New York Times
“After rising steadily in the 1980s and ’90s, worldwide paper consumption per...”
– Pushing Paper Out the Door - New York Times
“Paper is no longer the master copy; the digital version is,”
– Pushing Paper Out the Door - New York Times
“Popfly was picked by PC World magazine as one of the most innovative computing...”
– Mashups Are Breaking the Mold at Microsoft - New York Times
“young journalists hired by the networks to follow the candidates across the...”
– Putting Candidates Under the Videoscope - New York Times
“Mr. Coelho said: “I believe that generosity pays off.” On his own blog, he gives...”
– HarperCollins Will Post Free Books on the Web - New York Times
“HarperCollins Publishers will begin offering free electronic editions of some of...”
– HarperCollins Will Post Free Books on the Web - New York Times
“Some of the most compelling footage from last April’s shootings on the Virginia...”
– CNN Launches iReport.com
“Since CNN embraced the citizen journalist movement back in August 2006 with the...”
– CNN Launches iReport.com
“the amount of time the average person spends on a social-networking site has...”
– Business Technology : Bill Gates Quits Facebook
“When I want to know something, I go to Google. But when I want to buy something,...”
– Amazon is the Google of buying stuff (Skrentablog)
“GoCompare received only 2.31% of all search term traffic from the term ‘car...”
– Hitwise Intelligence - Robin Goad - UK: What happens if your site gets ‘blacklisted’ by Google?
“Facebook says that the Spanish site was completed in less than four weeks and is...”
– Facebook Turns 1,500 Users Into Spanish Translation Slaves 