February 2009
“Ryanair has suggested the discount airline may start charging passengers for...”
– Ryanair considers charging passengers to pee - CNN.com
“he Economist asked Cameron Marlow, the “in-house sociologist” at Facebook, to...”
– The size of social networks | Primates on Facebook | The Economist
“Of the 282.7 million European Internet users age 15 and older who went online...”
– Social Networking Has Banner Year in France, Growing 45 Percent
“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I...”
– Self-Discovery Quotes, Sayings about Finding Yourself
“What’s the most important and quickly growing form of search on the web...”
– Battelle: Twitter Is The You Tube Of Real-Time Search - Yahoo! Finance
“Two Minnesota newspapers will receive a share of state grants normally given to...”
– Minn. newspapers get retraining funds for Internet - Yahoo! Finance
“When BMW rolled out Wi-Fi service at its dealerships last year, the move was...”
– Customer Service in a Shrinking Economy - BusinessWeek
“starting in 2009, Zappos will no longer offer overnight upgrades to first-time...”
– Customer Service in a Shrinking Economy - BusinessWeek
“USAA, the insurance and financial services giant that caters to military...”
– Customer Service in a Shrinking Economy - BusinessWeek
“When people who are very close are talking, they ‘twitter away’: ‘It’s a bit...”
– A load of Twitter - Times Online
“Within minutes of the Gmail downtime unfolding, I was sent a very pertinent...”
– Gmail fails: Tech world grinds to a halt | Media | guardian.co.uk
“As more and more people move their daily online activities to the cloud,...”
– Where were you during the great Gmail outage of February 2009? » VentureBeat
“Panic not, readers! It’s not you, it’s Gmail. It’s broken, and...”
– Shiny Shiny: Gmail is down
“Gmail is down, as you can see by a) trying it out yourself or b) listening to...”
– Gmail Down, Panic Mode On
“ComScore research, which studied 139 online ad campaigns by marrying data from...”
– Why the Click Is the Wrong Metric for Online Ads - Advertising Age - Digital
“One day last summer, Google’s search engine trundled quietly past a milestone....”
– New Search Technologies Mine the Web More Deeply - NYTimes.com
“The great paradox of the web is that it’s an interactive medium and...”
– Why the Click Is the Wrong Metric for Online Ads - Advertising Age - Digital
“only 20 percent of free application users and 30 percent of paid application...”
– Most iPhone users never use an app after the first download - Ars Technica
“Getting on the Top 100 iPhone apps list can more than double an...”
– Most iPhone users never use an app after the first download - Ars Technica
“word is going around that the RIAA asked social music service Last.fm for data...”
– Did Last.fm Just Hand Over User Listening Data To the RIAA?
“He said the great thing with Google Ad Words is you put up an ad and people...”
– Andreessen on Charlie Rose: “I Am Creating A Fund.” (Full Video)
“People don’t want to search; it’s a digression,” he said. “They want to complete...”
– Digital Domain - Everyone Loves Google, Until It’s Too Big - NYTimes.com
“Turn off your phone’s ringer and you won’t interrupt today’s...”
– Inside the GPS Revolution: 10 Applications That Make the Most of Location
“There’s nothing like the click-clack of train tracks to lull you to sleep....”
– Inside the GPS Revolution: 10 Applications That Make the Most of Location
“most of the time - if I broadcast my location to trusted parties such as my...”
– Exporting the past into the future, or, “The Possibility Jelly lives on the hypersurface of the present” « Magical Nihilism
“If the commercial Internet didn’t get going until 1995, then we’re...”
– Not all information wants to be free. - By Jack Shafer - Slate Magazine
“Several business owners likened Yelp to the Mafia, and one said she feared its...”
– East Bay Express : Print This Story
“Hi, this is Mike from Yelp,” the voice would say. “You’ve had...”
– East Bay Express : Print This Story
“globally over fifteen hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute”
– Official Google Blog: From the height of this place
“Only accounts that choose to be publicly accessible are included in Twitter...”
– Twitter Blog: Testing A More Integrated Search Experience
“Today more than 70% of Facebook users are outside the U.S., and most of them...”
– How Facebook is taking over our lives - Feb. 17, 2009
“Imagine if an advertiser had the ability to eavesdrop on every phone...”
– How Facebook is taking over our lives - Feb. 17, 2009
“Your Facebook ID quite simply will be your gateway to the digital world,...”
– How Facebook is taking over our lives - Feb. 17, 2009
“the Facebook army, 175 million strong and, Facebook says, growing at the...”
– How Facebook is taking over our lives - Feb. 17, 2009
“Nevada gambling regulators have warned casinos in the state about a...”
– Yahoo! News - Casinos are warned about card-counting iPhone app by AP: Yahoo! Tech
“About 10 percent of US cellphone users take advantage of map features”
– The Cellphone, Navigating Our Lives - NYTimes.com
“How long will it be before you come out of the subway and you hold up your...”
– The Cellphone, Navigating Our Lives - NYTimes.com
“We’re way early on, and we don’t know what the Macintosh of maps will be...”
– The Cellphone, Navigating Our Lives - NYTimes.com
“More than 175 million people use Facebook.”
– Update on Terms | Facebook
“as a Microsoft spokesman said recently, Songsmith is being “used in ways...”
– Tech Central - Times Online - WBLG: Top 20 tracks remixed by Microsoft Songsmith
“every English-language newspaper is in direct competition with every other”
– Op-Ed Contributor - You Can’t Sell News by the Slice - NYTimes.com
“Newspaper readers have never paid for the content (words and photos). What they...”
– Op-Ed Contributor - You Can’t Sell News by the Slice - NYTimes.com
“In a Collective Media survey of agency executives and advertisers last year, 39%...”
– Frito-Lay Puts Cheetos Brand in Bloggers’ Hands - Advertising Age - Madison+Vine: News
“the bizarre recent news about Germany’s new economic affairs minister,...”
– Doomed: why Wikipedia will fail - Ars Technica
“there is a growing belief among engineers and security experts that Internet...”
– Do We Need a New Internet? - NYTimes.com
“What makes Google and other search engines so valuable is that they capture...”
– Mining The Thought Stream
