links for 2007-07-11
Posted by derickson on Jul 11th, 2007
2007
Jul 11
-
A parody blog purporting to be Par Ridder, the embattled publisher of the Minneapolis Star Tribune.
-
Sometime during the digital revolution, consumers’ home entertainment technology began making the travel industry look as if it were stuck in an analog era.
-
A leading online measurement service will scrap rankings based on the longtime industry yardstick of page views and begin tracking how long visitors spend at the sites.
-
What he calls “the dispassionate view of the mind which has guided Democratic thinking for 40 years” is deeply flawed, Dr. Westen argues. What decides elections, he maintains, are people’s emotional reactions, even if they don’t know it.
-
The researchers placed microphones on 396 college students for periods ranging from two to 10 days, sampled their conversations and calculated how many words they used in the course of a day. The score: Women, 16,215. Men, 15,669.
-
Women not only outnumber men online but also rely on the internet for the conduct of their daily lives - so much so, that two-thirds (66.1%) of online women say their lives would be disrupted if they were left without internet access for a week
-
Google and Yahoo are both hard at work on next generation social networks. And while Yahoo has been secretive about its new Mosh network, there’s plenty of news available on Google’s new Socialstream.
-
Nearly half (47 percent) of all adult Americans now have a high-speed Internet connection at home, compared with 42 percent in early 2006 and 30 percent in early 2005.
-
As we know, Netflix.com stands on top of the online video rental industry. Using U.S. monthly unique visitors as a proxy for subscriber-base, and thus overall success, Netflix currently doubles the closest contender, Blockbuster.com.
-
Automakers are taking a page — albeit a smaller and wisely less ambitious one — from Bud.TV and getting into the content game with their own broadband media channels, podcasts and newsletters.
-
Mininova is the fist BitTorrent site to enter the list of 100 most visited sites on the Internet, joining sites like Google, Yahoo! and Digg. A great accomplishment proving that BitTorrent’s popularity and Mininova in particular continues to grow.
-
Online social music network, Last.fm has partnered with Sony BMG Music Entertainment.
-
Linden is working on developing ways for users to use hand-held or wearable devices that untether Second Life access from the PC. These devices will also more fully immerse people into the virtual world, allowing them to control avatars through their real
-
As speculation and chatter increases, the question of whether Google ends up buying Facebook is turning out to be one of the big questions of 2007.
-
The most dramatic increase occurred among 25-34-year-olds (up 181%), while visits from 12-17-year-olds increased 149%, and visits from those age 35 and older increased 98%.
-
Judith Donath of MIT’s Media Lab implemented a study to see what makes for a more lifelike virtual experience.
-
People are calling this the YouTube Election — in which anyone with a minicam or even a mere cellphone can conceivably affect the outcome.
-
A recent study from JupiterResearch predicts that Hispanics will spend $12.8 billion online in 2007, which represents 11% of all online spending. The report also states that Hispanic spending is expected to grow to $21.6 billion (13% of all online spendin
-
By installing a bit of software on a DS Lite, fans can access a live TV feed of the game, along with features like trivia, player stats and more. The DS Lite has wireless connectivity, which is what allows for such usage.
-
Apple’s iTunes may still (barely) be holding onto uniform pricing for music tracks, but it’s introduced new $6.99-and-under pricing to promote selected albums.
-
Single mobile females (SMFs) - young single women who have cell phones - assign their mobile devices an important role in relationships and dating, organizing their lives, and in fashion
-
Online video activities are outpacing the growth in popularity of other digital media, while social networking is quickly becoming the dominant online behavior globally
-
Send RSS feeds to your Twitter account automatically.
-
Do you have a relevant web strategy? Or do you have a traditional marketing strategy with advertising, demand-generation campaigns and a PR program, with some web stuff added as an afterthought?
-
New and resale real and virutal world homes, apartments, timeshares, offices and more.
-
Second part of a presentation on Web 2.0 technologies, called Communications 2.0 presented to a nonprofit communications class at Hamline University in St. Paul, MN. The second segment discusses photo sharing marketing through such services as Flickr.
