Archives for October 2007
links for 2007-10-16
Interactive Marketing Spend to Surpass $61B in Five Years - Marketing Charts
Interactive marketing spend in the US will grow to $61.3 billion in 2012, from $18.4 billion in 2007 - a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 27%, Forrester Research forecast in a report issued this week.
(tags: digital media research)
Pfizer-Doctors Web Pact May Get [...]
links for 2007-10-15
Top Blogs On Google Reader
Here is the unofficial list of the top blogs and the number of subscribers each blog has on Google Reader.
(tags: google)
The New Advertising Outlet: Your Life - New York Times
Nike is aggresively pursuing a “branded experience” strategy. Love the quote from Trevor Edwards: “We’re not in the business of keeping [...]
links for 2007-10-12
Direct2Dell - Dell’s Blog
Dell CMO Mark Jarvis posts on IT Simplification — including a video of Michael Dell’s talk at Gartner Group — this is a must read/view for my WPP/GCI colleagues (Dell is a client).
(tags: dell twitterthis)
If You Could Design Anything to Improve the Way We Live, What Would it Be? (TreeHugger)
Tasked with answering [...]
links for 2007-10-11
61 Billion Searches Conducted Worldwide in August
comScore study found that more than 750 million people age 15 and older – or 95 percent of the worldwide Internet audience – conducted 61 billion searches worldwide in August, an average of more than 80 searches per searcher. Holy SEO.
(tags: search research)
The truth about traffic on the [...]
links for 2007-10-10
Doesn’t Global Traffic Matter? Hi5 is Big, Take Notice
comScore says social network Hi5 gets around 35 million uniques per month which is similar to Facebook. Alexa ranks Facebook 8th in the world; Hi5 is 10th. Facebook gets all the “ink.” Why? Most of Hi5’s traffic originates outside of North America.
(tags: hi5 social networks)
McDonald’s Sells More [...]
links for 2007-10-09
Text your fish safety questions to FishPhone - Slashfood
Useful text messaging application from the Blue Ocean Institute to help you select the healthiest fish at your local market.
(tags: text messaging mobile applications)
Pew Internet: E-patients With a Disability or Chronic Disease
Those with chronic conditions are more likely than other e-patients to report that their online searches [...]
links for 2007-10-08
Google and I.B.M. Join in ‘Cloud Computing’ Research - New York Times
Google, IBM and some top universities are investing to build large data centers that students can use to develop “cloud computing” know-how. Smart idea.
(tags: Google IBM cloud)
VentureBeat » Intel launches a company-ranking site: CoolSW
Intel is launching a Web site that lets people rank [...]
links for 2007-10-05
BlackBerry 9000 whispers in our ear | The Boy Genius Report
Nice… time to start thinking about who will get my hand-me-down Curve…
(tags: blackberry mobile)
UC Berkeley first to post full lectures to YouTube | Tech news blog - CNET News.com
UC Berkeley announced that it has begun posting entire course lectures on YouTube (youtube.com/ucberkeley). The [...]
links for 2007-10-02
Ballmer: Facebook risks being ‘a fad’ - Times Online
“I think these things [social networks] are going to have some legs, and yet there’s a faddishness, a faddish nature about anything that basically appeals to younger people,” Mr Ballmer told Times Online. Microsoft invested in Facebook this week.
(tags: facebook social networks)
Yahoo! Search Blog: From “To Do” [...]
