Archives for April 2007

links for 2007-04-13

BBC NEWS | Technology | China seeks to ‘limit game hours’
The Chinese government has clamped down on the amount of time youngsters can spend playing online games, according to the official news agency Xinhua.
(tags: china)

Welcome :: rss2twitter.com
OK, let’s see if Twitter can be useful. Now I am Twittering some RSS feeds. Another way [...]

12 April 2007 | del.icio.us | No Comments

links for 2007-04-12

Heather Hopkins - Hitwise UK: Facebook 20th Most Visited Website in UK with Visits up 20-fold
Facebook became the 20th most visited website based on share of UK Internet visits for the week ending April 7, 2007. Facebook’s share of UK Internet visits grew 20 times year-on-year in March and are up seven-fold since early October.
(tags: [...]

11 April 2007 | del.icio.us | 1 Comment

links for 2007-04-11

Search Engine Marketing Research: iProspect Social Networking User Behavior Study
In January 2007, iProspect partnered with JupiterResearch to study how the U.S. online population uses the most popular social networking websites (or social search engines). Here’s the executive summary.
(tags: social networks search)

I’d Rather Be Writing » Twenty Usability Tips for Your Blog — Condensed from [...]

10 April 2007 | del.icio.us | 1 Comment

links for 2007-04-10

100 Million iPods Sold
Apple® today announced that the 100 millionth iPod® has been sold, making the iPod the fastest selling music player in history.
(tags: audiocast videocast ipod)

O’Reilly Radar > Draft Blogger’s Code of Conduct
O’Reilly is drafting a code of conduct and creating a badge that sites can display if they support it. There’s been A [...]

9 April 2007 | del.icio.us | No Comments

links for 2007-04-08

YouTube - 7 Seven Minute Sopranos - a “whacked out” refresher
You’ve never watch the Sopranos but want to watch the last season which starts Sunday night? Here’s a 7-minute video created by a fan that will get you caught up. NY Times gave it a nice review.
(tags: videocast viral sopranos)

Why is London [...]

7 April 2007 | del.icio.us | No Comments

The .5 Second News Cycle and Crisis Management

Twenty-twofour people (including 156 client executives) sent me Business Week’s “Web Attack” (4/16/07) which provides a high-level overview of crisis management in the age of blogs, forums, camera phones, etc.
In the last eight weeks I’ve presented to Global 1000 brands and my colleagues in London, Chicago, Atlanta, New York and Austin our research and point-of-view [...]

7 April 2007 | Crisis, Research, smart mob | 4 Comments

links for 2007-04-07

It’s not the cover of Rolling Stone on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
Dave Winer — the father of RSS — says he’ll be on the cover of Wired next month. Actually, it looks like his foot and his couch (which I believe he calls the RSS couch since that’s how he paid for it) will be [...]

6 April 2007 | del.icio.us | No Comments

links for 2007-04-06

Grounded In Reality
Nice post from Wilson Tan on Google MyMaps.
(tags: google)

GigaOM » Marketing in Second Life doesn’t work… here is why!
James Wagner makes some very relevant points about why SL is not geared for branding and marketing initiatives. At the same time, I’ve said this before: It’s not about SL. The web [...]

5 April 2007 | del.icio.us | No Comments

New Stats From Technorati

Technorati’s State of the Blogosphere — now called The State of the Live Web –  came out today.  Here are some highlights:

70 million weblogs
About 120,000 new weblogs each day, or…
1.4 new blogs every second
1.5 million posts per day, or…
17 posts per second
Growing from 35 to 75 million blogs took 320 days
22 blogs among the top [...]

5 April 2007 | Blogging, Research | No Comments

links for 2007-04-05

Accenture Blogs
(tags: accenture)

4 April 2007 | del.icio.us | 1 Comment