Interesting Snippets

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Fri, 27 Nov 2009 21:07:53 +0000

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"100,000 users of FourSquare to date since the launch in March of this year"

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 16:20:56 +0000

“100,000 users of FourSquare to date since the launch in March of this year”

- Foursquare makes global push: 50 new cities | VentureBeat

"From a historical perspective, it’s clear why The Tale of Genji racked up the page count. The..."

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 14:24:24 +0000

“From a historical perspective, it’s clear why The Tale of Genji racked up the page count. The ladies of the Japanese court had nothing else to read. After all, this was the only novel in existence in the entire world. It’s not as if Lady Murasaki had to compete with Stephen King or Tom Clancy. Today, of course, we’re in the opposite scenario: everything we write competes with trillions of Web pages, all a few clicks away. As a result, most people actually read very few words on the Web.”

- Velocity of Media Consumption: TV vs. the Web (Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox)

"What had started as an exercise in escape quickly became a cross between a massively multiplayer..."

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 10:02:04 +0000

“What had started as an exercise in escape quickly became a cross between a massively multiplayer online game and a reality show. A staggeringly large community arose spontaneously, splintered into organized groups, and set to work turning over every rock in Ratliff’s life. It topped out at 600 Twitter posts a day. The hunters knew the names of his cat sitter and his mechanic, his favorite authors, his childhood nicknames. They found every article he’d ever written; they found recent videos of him. They discovered and published every address he’d ever had in the US, from Atlanta to Hawaii, together with the full name and age of every member of his family.”

- Writer Evan Ratliff Tried to Vanish: Here’s What Happened | Vanish | Wired.com

"Twitter never asked anyone to have a permanent relationship among each other. Indeed, we even..."

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 11:54:29 +0000

“Twitter never asked anyone to have a permanent relationship among each other. Indeed, we even changed the question we used to asked on Twitter ‘What are you doing?’ last week in ‘What’s happening?’ because everybody was ignoring it anyway.”

- After social networks, what next? | Media | guardian.co.uk

"In 2008, Wikipedia’s editors deleted one in four contributions from infrequent contributors,..."

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 22:49:29 +0000

“In 2008, Wikipedia’s editors deleted one in four contributions from infrequent contributors, up sharply from one in 10 in 2005, according to data compiled by social-computing researcher Ed Chi of Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Center.”

- Volunteers Log Off as Wikipedia Ages - WSJ.com

"In the first three months of 2009, the English-language Wikipedia suffered a net loss of more than..."

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 22:47:25 +0000

“In the first three months of 2009, the English-language Wikipedia suffered a net loss of more than 49,000 editors, compared to a net loss of 4,900 during the same period a year earlier, according to Spanish researcher Felipe Ortega, who analyzed Wikipedia’s data on the editing histories of its more than three million active contributors in 10 languages.”

- Volunteers Log Off as Wikipedia Ages - WSJ.com

"Malware on smartphones could do significantly more damage than malware on a PC. Imagine a nasty..."

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 08:35:46 +0000

“Malware on smartphones could do significantly more damage than malware on a PC. Imagine a nasty application that records every word you speak—both on and off the phone—without your knowledge, and then e-mails the audio to a stranger. Or picture one that surreptitiously tracks your movements and sends them to a stalker.”

- Apple’s Schiller Defends iPhone App Approval Process - BusinessWeek

"The number of applications available at the App Store is now north of 100,000, and about 10,000 are..."

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 08:30:32 +0000

“The number of applications available at the App Store is now north of 100,000, and about 10,000 are submitted each week”

- Apple’s Schiller Defends iPhone App Approval Process - BusinessWeek

"The number of applications available at the App Store is now north of 100,000, and about 10,000 are..."

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 05:15:11 +0000

"If your business is focused on making life more difficult for a competitor, rather than adding more..."

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:19:24 +0000

“If your business is focused on making life more difficult for a competitor, rather than adding more value to users, you’re doing the wrong thing”

- Dear Rupert: You Don’t Succeed By Making Life More Difficult For Users | Techdirt

300 Case Studies of Social Media Marketing

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 18:51:08 +0000

300 Case Studies of Social Media Marketing

"a fair amount of what makes Sarah Palin weird is the very same stuff that makes Alaska weird"

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 18:05:21 +0000

“a fair amount of what makes Sarah Palin weird is the very same stuff that makes Alaska weird”

- Sarah Palin - Salon.com

"The New York Times (NYT) says it’s generating 60 million mobile page views a month, up 100 percent..."

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:53:20 +0000

“The New York Times (NYT) says it’s generating 60 million mobile page views a month, up 100 percent in the last year.”

- For Newspapers Publishers, the Kindle-iPhone Race Is Already Over | Peter Kafka | MediaMemo | AllThingsD

"Social media has totally changed media planning because marketers now have to realize that, more..."

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:41:08 +0000

“Social media has totally changed media planning because marketers now have to realize that, more than ever, the receiver of the message can now also quickly become the Sender”

- How Social Media Is Changing Media Planning - ClickZ

"The extent of Facebook’s reach in Australia - it accounts for 29 per cent of all time spent..."

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:31:58 +0000

“The extent of Facebook’s reach in Australia - it accounts for 29 per cent of all time spent online by Australians - has led to research group Nielsen defining the trend as “Facebook Time” and “Non Facebook Time”. “It’s just phenomenal,” said Nielsen Online’s director of analytics, Mark Higginson. “Every time I run those numbers I have to double check. Australians are spending nearly a third of all their time browsing the internet on Facebook alone.””

- Bebo Australian operations killed by Facebook

YouTube - searchstories's Channel

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 07:32:11 +0000

YouTube - searchstories's Channel

"It’s no longer the wisdom of the crowd; it’s the wisdom of my crowd that’s most important"

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:36:19 +0000

“It’s no longer the wisdom of the crowd; it’s the wisdom of my crowd that’s most important”

- Social Media ROI: Digging for Traffic - Newspaper Association of America: Advancing Newspaper Media for the 21st Century

"On March 12, 2007, the Chicago Tribune ran a story about a black teenage girl from Texas, sentenced..."

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:35:41 +0000

“On March 12, 2007, the Chicago Tribune ran a story about a black teenage girl from Texas, sentenced to seven years in jail for shoving a hall monitor. The story received 16,000 page views that day and about 1,000 page views the next day. Yet one month later it was the site’s most popular story, attracting 126,000 page views a day. Certainly, blogs were driving a good portion of the traffic. But more than one-quarter—about 35,000 page views—came from the social bookmarking site Digg.”

- Social Media ROI: Digging for Traffic - Newspaper Association of America: Advancing Newspaper Media for the 21st Century

"(The Trafigura case) was the latest example of what I think of as the mutualization of a newspaper...."

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:25:20 +0000

“(The Trafigura case) was the latest example of what I think of as the mutualization of a newspaper. Our readers have become part of what we do. They write commentaries for our Comment is Free site—they have helped with investigations into tax avoidance and police brutality. They form communities around individual reporters and issues, lending a hand with research and ideas, bringing us up short when we get things wrong. They have collaborated on big projects needing resources beyond our scope. We have done things that would have been impossible without them.”

- First Read: The Mutualized Future is Bright : CJR