Archives for July 2007
links for 2007-07-13
GigaOM Debunking 5 Business Myths about Second Life «
Second Life sanity… it’s been overhyped for sure, but it continues to be an interesting, mid-size social network. Here is a balanced perspective on the “myths” of SL.
(tags: secondlife)
Pew Internet: China’s Online Population Explosion
The growth rate of China’s internet user population has been outpacing that […]
links for 2007-07-12
Teen Spending and Web Usage Up - eMarketer
Spending on and by teenagers will reach $208.7 billion in 2011, up from $189.7 billion in 2006, according to Packaged Facts’ “The Teens Market in the US” report.
(tags: geny)
Wikipedia Becomes Web’s Top News Site by Wide Margin - MarketingVOX
n the past year, Wikipedia has had a flux of […]
links for 2007-07-11
blog.pmarca.com: Eleven lessons learned about blogging, so far
Marc Andreessen talks about what he’s learned in his first five weeks of blogging. Marc invented Netscape, by the way.
(tags: blogging)
Bay Partners Launches Facebook-Apps-Only Fund
Silicon Valley VC fund Bay Partners has earmarked millions of dollars for investments in startups creating applications for Facebook. The new program, called […]
links for 2007-07-10
Nielsen scraps Web page view rankings - Yahoo! News
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. Our CEO Jeff Hunt supports the idea of killing pageviews.
(tags: measurement)
Social Networking Around the World - eMarketer
About a fifth […]
links for 2007-07-09
Official Google Blog: Welcome, Postini team
Google is positioning Google application in the large enterprise space. F500 CIOs are a pretty risk averse bunch.
(tags: google)
Dow Jones Makes Late Push To Find Other Buyers - WSJ.com
As negotiations with News Corp. continue, Dow Jones & Co. is making one last push to find other possible buyers for […]
links for 2007-07-08
Facebook | Paul Bennett Walker
Testing del.icio.us integration with Facebook, the platform. Facebook’s open API is spurring a lot of cool app’s which makes Facebook a lot more fun than MySpace.
(tags: facebook platform)
links for 2007-07-06
Facebook Sees Flood of New Traffic from Teenagers and Adults
comScore says Facebook grew to 26.6 million unique visitors in the U.S. in May 2007, marking an 89-percent increase versus the same month last year. Facebook - the platform - is more fun than ever. Watch for another spike in the coming months.
(tags: facebook social […]
links for 2007-07-05
MarketingSherpa: Exclusive: Dramatic New Data on How User Reviews Influence Purchasing Decisions
Goldstar research finding: 86.9% of respondents said they would trust a friend’s recommendation over a review by a critic, while 83.8% said they would trust user reviews over a critic. This influence makes user reviews a good marketing tool.
(tags: reviews)
links for 2007-07-04
Straight dope from Fake Steve Jobs | Newsmakers | CNET News.com
CNET can’t get an interview with Steve Jobs so they settled for the Fake Steve Jobs, author of the Fake Steve Jobs blog which has become quite popular.
(tags: msm)
Google shows off secret “efficient” power supplies used in server farms
For the first time, Google showed some […]
links for 2007-07-03
Online Customized Ads Move a Step Closer - New York Times
Yahoo is about to make online advertising highly personal… They may be ahead of Google on this front.
(tags: online advertising)
Calling In Pros to Refine Your Google Image - washingtonpost.com
Good overview of “reputation management” and how to improve an individual’s search engine results. This […]
