March 2009
“Last year, more than 50 new search companies raised $330 million in venture...”
– Life After Google - Forbes.com
“Last year was the worst in US newspaper history: Ad revenues fell 16.6. percent...”
– Newspaper Ad Revs Dropped 16.6 Percent In ‘08; Online Slipped 1.8 Percent | paidContent.org
“Hulu’s audience has exploded. The site attracted 34.7 million viewers in...”
– Disney’s new Web strategy: joining Hulu.com - Los Angeles Times
“In a survey by German broadband association Bitkom around 84 percent of...”
– German twenty-somethings prefer Internet to partner | Technology | Reuters
“A Harris Interactive online survey of more than 10,000 people who married in the...”
– Go online to find your future spouse - tech - 15 August 2008 - New Scientist
“Comparing quants to the scientists who had built the atomic bomb and therefore...”
– They Tried to Outsmart Wall Street - NYTimes.com
“As a survivor of the postage-stamp era, college was my big chance to doff the...”
– The Way We Live Now - Growing Up on Facebook - NYTimes.com
“Ever since I signed up a couple of months ago, I have felt thrust into a...”
– The Way We Live Now - Growing Up on Facebook - NYTimes.com
“The Googleplex is remorselessly international”
– BBC NEWS | Programmes | World News America | Washington diary: Google world
“The internet has become the medium of choice for a great deal of cultural...”
– Brewster Kahle, archivist and idealist | The internet’s librarian | The Economist
“In the same way that hundreds and thousands of tiny little edits make up the...”
– Interview: “The Wikipedia Revolution” | Salon Books
“Suddenly the encyclopedia wasn’t just a memorialization of history; it was...”
– Interview: “The Wikipedia Revolution” | Salon Books
“Wikipedia was born in January 2001, at the dawn of a new century — fitting...”
– Interview: “The Wikipedia Revolution” | Salon Books
“Ms McGonigal’s latest project, “Superstruct”, uses blogs, videos and wikis to...”
– Alternate reality games | Serious fun | The Economist
“William Nordhaus, an economist at Yale University, points out that about 70% of...”
– A special report on entrepreneurship: The entrepreneurial society | The Economist
“today’s entrepreneurs are pioneering a new business model. In the old days...”
– A special report on entrepreneurship: The formula for entrepreneurship | Magic formula | The Economist
“Bollywood produces 1,000 films a year that are watched by 3.6 billion people...”
– A special report on entrepreneurship: Entrepreneurs in India and China | The more the merrier | The Economist
“VICTOR HUGO once remarked: “You can resist an invading army; you cannot resist...”
– A special report on entrepreneurship: Time for entrepreneurship | An idea whose time has come | The Economist
“Vivek Wadhwa, of Duke University, notes that 52% of Silicon Valley start-ups...”
– A special report on entrepreneurship: The United States of Entrepreneurs | The Economist
“IHS Global Insight, a consultancy, calculates that in 2005 companies that were...”
– A special report on entrepreneurship: The United States of Entrepreneurs | The Economist
“Between 1996 and 2004 (the US) created an average of 550,000 small businesses...”
– A special report on entrepreneurship: The United States of Entrepreneurs | The Economist
“Microsoft, Genentech, Gap and The Limited were all founded during recessions....”
– A special report on entrepreneurship: Heroic entrepreneurs | Global heroes | The Economist
“A third of American venture capital flows into two places, Silicon Valley and...”
– A special report on entrepreneurship: Heroic entrepreneurs | Global heroes | The Economist
“Israel has the world’s highest ratio of PhDs per person, the highest ratio of...”
– A special report on entrepreneurship: Lands of opportunity | The Economist
“Who has the most popular page on Facebook? Barack Obama. Who’s second?...”
– How Two Coke Fans Brought the Brand to Facebook Fame - Advertising Age - Digital
“somebody who is entirely unknown can get picked up for basically doing nothing,...”
– How Boxxy brought the web to its knees | Technology | guardian.co.uk
“Data visualization is probably not a foreign concept for anyone familiar with...”
– Data Visualization Is Reinventing Online Storytelling - Advertising Age - DigitalNext
“the art of “data visualization” has exploded recently and it is...”
– Data Visualization Is Reinventing Online Storytelling - Advertising Age - DigitalNext
“PayPal had a better product than Billpoint because they were willing/able to...”
– Redeye VC: Nothing to Lose (or Risk Tolerance is a Competitive Weapon)
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“would someone living next to a person who had had “his” street view...”
– panGloss: Google Street View - Up Your Street?
“42% of the (UK) population have used the internet in the past year to access...”
– News | Over 40% of population use web to access government information - NMA
“29% of Aegis Media’s revenue in 2008 was attributed to the digital business”
– Media and Marketing, for the inside track on international media and advertising
“Six rows of shelves on a single floor hold all of the documents generated by the...”
– LOST Magazine - Are We Losing Our Memory? or The Museum of Obsolete Technology
“there appears to be a direct relationship between the newness of technology and...”
– LOST Magazine - Are We Losing Our Memory? or The Museum of Obsolete Technology
“One of the great ironies of the information age is that, while the late...”
– LOST Magazine - Are We Losing Our Memory? or The Museum of Obsolete Technology
“For every $2 of adjusted advertising revenue TenCent has per user per year, they...”
– How To Monetize a Social Network: MySpace and Facebook Should Follow TenCent « abovethecrowd.com
“Spotting risky rock formations that are about to collapse and trigger tsunamis...”
– Tsunami ‘trigger’ spotted on Google Earth - environment - 19 March 2009 - New Scientist
“Amazon.com changed the retail world. In the process the company built up so much...”
– Amazon Exposes 1 Terabyte of Public Data to Developers - ReadWriteWeb
“The average client worldwide is spending 10 or 12% of his or her budget on...”
– BBC NEWS | Business | WPP boss Martin Sorrell shares his views
“Somebody like Rupert Murdoch understands that he’s not just in the TV...”
– BBC NEWS | Business | WPP boss Martin Sorrell shares his views
“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
“Once upon a time, the BBC decided what you would watch. Then, last year, you...”
– iPlayer to offer friend recommendations
“74 of the world’s 100 best selling dailies are published in Asia. China, Japan...”
– WAN - World Press Trends: Newspapers Are A Growth Business
“Free dailies now account for nearly 7 percent of all global newspaper...”
– WAN - World Press Trends: Newspapers Are A Growth Business 