July 2009
“From survey of 14000 12-18 year old students, living in 12 cities across...”
– TCS News & Events: Press Release: Urban students are digital natives, reveals TCS Generation Web 2.0 survey
“Nearly one out of 10 people on the planet are under 25 years old and living in...”
– TCS News & Events: Press Release: Urban students are digital natives, reveals TCS Generation Web 2.0 survey
“Roughly 12 percent of Americans, or more than one in 10, have bought a virtual...”
– 12% of Americans Bought Virtual Goods in Past 12 Months: Survey
“the JK Wedding Entrance video (which featured Chris Brown’s song Forever),...”
– @DMS: How YouTube Made Money From The Latest Viral Video Sensation | paidContent
“In response to Apple pulling the Google Voice application from the iPhone App...”
– BBspot - Google Pulls Apple from Search Results
“There are two types of schedule… The manager’s schedule is embodied...”
– Maker’s Schedule, Manager’s Schedule
“Last year, the world carried out many more Google searches for the footballer...”
– FT.com / weekend columnists / Simon Kuper - What Google tells us about the global obsession with sport
“Like a doll’s house owner obsessed with kitting out the model home with...”
– Spotify’s iPhone app could succeed where so many others have failed - Times Online
“During its most recent quarterly review, Apple chief financial officer Peter...”
– Digital Stats: 8 billion songs have been sold through iTunes
“Photographers around the world are taking part in a Flickr project that matches...”
– Looking into the Past
“Downing Street spends 20 minutes on its Twitter stream with two-three tweets a...”
– Government releases 20-page guide to using Twitter | UK news | guardian.co.uk
“if government departments start following individual users on Twitter uninvited,...”
– Government releases 20-page guide to using Twitter | UK news | guardian.co.uk
“rating is about to spread like a pandemic. Everything—everyone—will get rated by...”
– The Atlantic Online | July/August 2009 | The Rating Game | Kevin Maney
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“In 1953, a fledgling company called Rocket Chemical Company and its staff of...”
– WD-40 Company and Product History
“the Bureau of Investigative Journalism will launch in the UK with a £2m donation...”
– Journalism should look to collaboration, not charity | Media | The Guardian
“retail giant Best Buy recently posted a new position of senior manager, emerging...”
– Need a job? Show them you can Twitter
“On July 8, Google introduced a Google Maps addition that calls up listings for...”
– Housing Bulletin: Google’s Home Sales Tools - Deal Estate - July 2009 - Chicago
“Phrases like ‘scatterbrained’ or ‘featherbrained’ are the same put-downs applied...”
– At Home With - Hope Sandrow - An Artist Feathers Her Nest - NYTimes.com
“Google new Belgian data-center uses weather prediction to save energy, shifting...”
– Google’s new data-center cools with weather prediction, not electricity - Boing Boing
“I think it would make sense for bloggers right now to start posting AP headlines...”
– Is AP Run By Idiots? | BNET Technology Blog | BNET
“Introduced in 1980, such sophisticated lavatories have become a national...”
– Face value: Flush with ambition | The Economist
“the number of people online worldwide expected to go from 1.5 billion today to...”
– Monetising social networks: Tweeting all the way to the bank | The Economist
“At Gaia Online, users spend more than $1m per month on virtual items”
– Virtual worlds for children: Online playgrounds | The Economist
“In America, nearly 10m children and teenagers visit virtual worlds regularly”
– Virtual worlds for children: Online playgrounds | The Economist
“For those of the Jewish faith, iBlessing helps in figuring out which blessings...”
– Religious Groups Turn to Technology | Newsweek Technology | Newsweek.com
“Once the students arrive at school, they receive their individual playlists...”
– ‘School of One’ Pilot Program Under Way in Chinatown Middle School 131 - NYTimes.com
“57,000 people from 101 countries became “fans” of the Mass Animation page on...”
– An Animated Film Is Created Through Internet Consensus - NYTimes.com
“Aniboom, which was founded in 2006 by the Israeli media mogul Uri Shinar and...”
– An Animated Film Is Created Through Internet Consensus - NYTimes.com
“Live Music” was made for about $1 million and took about six months to complete....”
– An Animated Film Is Created Through Internet Consensus - NYTimes.com
“don’t tweet anything that you aren’t willing to see on a billboard in Times...”
– Advertisers Are Watching Your Every Tweet - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com
“Printcasting, has a Web site on which anyone can put together a magazine...”
– A Path to a Magazine Where You’re Editor and Publisher - NYTimes.com
“Japan’s cellphones are like the endemic species that Darwin encountered on the...”
– Why Japan’s Smartphones Haven’t Gone Global - NYTimes.com
“At all times Wikipedia is 45 minutes away from utter destruction. It’s a...”
– TEDGlobal: iPods won’t end dictatorship | Media | guardian.co.uk
“The internet works on a process that Zittrain compared to passing a beer to a...”
– TEDGlobal: iPods won’t end dictatorship | Media | guardian.co.uk
“what YouTube is for video, or Flickr is for photography, Scribd is fast becoming...”
– Bobbie Johnson on how Scribd made pages pay | Technology | The Guardian
“lack of loyalty has been a key driver of the Valley’s rapid innovation...”
– Laid Off? It’s Good for You and Good for the Tech Industry
“The Queensland Police fraud squad says it will be the first police force in the...”
– The great WiFi robbery: police to patrol down your street
“the total installed base of iPhones (26.4 million) plus iPod touches (X) is now...”
– Where in the world are those 18.6 million iPod touches? - Apple 2.0 - Fortune Brainstorm Tech
“This is an apology for the way we previously handled illegally sold copies of...”
– Amazon’s Bezos Apologizes For The “Stupid” And “Thoughtless” Kindle Incident
“GoldenAge: It’s a Google Maps time machine that settles arguments, informs...”
– Ten iPhone Apps We’d Like to See — Daily Intel — New York News Blog — New York Magazine
Amazon Buys Zappos; The Price is $928m., not... →
“In Kenya, various sectors of the economy are expecting a major boost following...”
– BBC NEWS | World | Africa | Kenya cable ushers in broadband era
“Judaism’s holiest prayer site has entered the Twitter age. The Western...”
– The Associated Press: New service lets Jews tweet a prayer to God 