August 2010
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“Just 4 percent of Americans have tried location-based services, and 1 percent...”
– Location Sites Experiment to Attract Mainstream Users - NYTimes.com
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“Bad as it was to be stalked by shoes, Ms. Matlin said that she felt even worse...”
– Retargeting Ads Follow Surfers to Other Sites - NYTimes.com
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Digital Stats: Snoop Dogg has earned over $200,000... →
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“A beach town near Tokyo has begun catering to a specific segment of young men,...”
– Japanese Resort Caters to Men with Virtual Girlfriends
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“In May, Safaricom took it one step further, partnering with Equity Bank and...”
– The M-Banking Revolution - By Jamie Holmes and Jamie Zimmerman | Foreign Policy
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“M-banking began with the widespread use of prepaid cell-phone airtime as an...”
– The M-Banking Revolution - By Jamie Holmes and Jamie Zimmerman | Foreign Policy
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“The cover of the magazine features a popular German TV personality who comes to...”
– Can Augmented Reality Help Save the Print Publishing Industry?
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“in pop culture, as broadband brought millions of facts, the fantasy of perfect...”
– The Medium - What ‘Fact-Checking’ Means Online - NYTimes.com
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“Personal digitization of books is catching on in Japan…Referred to in...”
– Digital copycats: Personal digitization of books catching on across Japan - The Mainichi Daily News
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“Bill Gates uttered one of the smartest things he has ever said: “The future of...”
– The Future of Internet Search - Project Syndicate
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“German photographer and IT consultant Jens Best wants to personally take...”
– German Guy Wants to Photograph Those Buildings People Want to Exclude from Google Street View
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“In Sean Stewart and Jordan Weisman’s novel ‘Cathy’s Book: If Found Call...”
– Forget Ads In Books, Lit-Lovers Face An Even More Hideous Prospect
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“about 20% of Foursquare check-ins are now pushed to Facebook”
– 20% Of Foursquare Users Are Pushing Their Check-Ins To Facebook (TCTV)
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“Just because you don’t use it, or have never heard of it, doesn’t negate its...”
– Facebook Places Vs. The Location-Based World
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“Coca-Cola Village in Israel. Each of the visitors was provided with a bracelet...”
– Coca-Cola / Real Life ‘Like’ / Contagious Magazine
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“11% of Kenya’s GDP was shifted through Mpesa in 2009, and the company expects...”
– Banks Blocking Mobile Money Innovation in Africa? — WhiteAfrican
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“Branded virtual goods currently make up just 1% of the $3.1 billion virtual...”
– Organic Blueberries to Snoop Dogg: Branded Virtual Goods Are Booming [REPORT]
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“Rather than initiating legal action, BMI and other P.R.O.’s prefer a...”
– The Music-Copyright Enforcers - NYTimes.com (via lynetter)
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“The trick, says Bryant, is to understand the content world as an ecosystem. When...”
– The Music-Copyright Enforcers - NYTimes.com (via lynetter)
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“research2guidance posited that the big surge in applications will also be driven...”
– Smartphone App Market Reached More Than $2.2 Billion In The First Half Of 2010 (via lynetter)
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““Hipmunk makes intelligent decisions about which flights to show you. For...”
– Hipmunk: One Site to Search and Sort All Flights (via lynetter)
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“DVRs are now in 37% of UK homes, with 15% of all viewing time spent watching...”
– Television viewing increases despite rise of internet and social media | Media | The Guardian (via lynetter)
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“At first, co-workers at OSL Marketing, a branding agency where he works, fought...”
– Who Elected Me Mayor on Foursquare? I Did - NYTimes.com (via lynetter)
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“more than 100 million people a month are now using Google Maps for mobile”
– To 100 million and beyond with Google Maps for mobile - Official Google Mobile Blog (via lynetter)
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“Has anyone thought that actual real people who are strangers will be able to see...”
– Facebook Places: how it works | Technology | guardian.co.uk
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“The class of 2014 has “never recognized that pointing to their wrists was a...”
– For the Class of 2014, No E-Mail or Wristwatches - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com
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“Read It Later, a tool that enables people to save stories from their computer,...”
– Poynter Online - Top Stories
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“Orkut has become a better mirror of the Brazilian society, with its class and...”
– danah boyd | apophenia » social divisions between Orkut & Facebook in Brazil
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“LAN-houses (a sort of cybercafé that can be found especially in lower-income...”
– danah boyd | apophenia » social divisions between Orkut & Facebook in Brazil
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“The thing that makes newspapers so fundamentally fascinating – that...”
– Google chief warns on social networking dangers | Media | guardian.co.uk
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“Time Inc. has been forced to delay the release of its People magazine iPad app,...”
– People Magazine iPad App Launch Stalled by Photographer Disputes
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“Nassim Taleb once advised people to ignore any news you don’t hear in a...”
– Chris Anderson: What I Read | The Atlantic Wire
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“An entire generation has grown up in front of a browser. The exploration of a...”
– The Web Is Dead. Long Live the Internet | Magazine
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“at some critical-mass point, not just in terms of registration numbers but of...”
– The Web Is Dead. Long Live the Internet | Magazine
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“Much as we love freedom and choice, we also love things that just work, reliably...”
– The Web Is Dead. Long Live the Internet | Magazine
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“Major retailers are working with a new smartphone application that tracks and...”
– Shopkick App Pushes Bargains, Aisle by Aisle - NYTimes.com
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“A Forrester Research survey of the business landscape in the third quarter of...”
– How corporate America went open-source - Fortune Tech
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“In the last 6 months 1.6 million people used Layar at least once. The active...”
– Layar’s News Round-up from its Anniversary Event – Augmented Reality Browser: Layar
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“Last year, those Evian roller babies skated their way into the pages of the...”
– Viral Complexity
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Surrender Monkey or Not, Google Remains Last, Best... →
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“why is reading books any better than reading tweets or wall posts? Well,...”
– The American Scholar » Solitude and Leadership » Print 