Archives for February 2008
links for 2008-02-29
Designing Da Vinci: Dell’s new mouthpiece - Austin Business Journal:
Nice feature on DaVinci, the WPP and Dell agency venture, in the Austin Business Journal today.
(tags: WPP Dell)
links for 2008-02-28
Mobile Social Network Growth Ahead - eMarketer
The number of consumers worldwide using their mobile phones to access social networks will more than triple from 2010 to 2012, according to Pyramid Research’s “Social Networking Goes Mobile” report.
(tags: mobile social)
Greg Verdino’s Marketing Blog: Social networking world map
Cool infographic of social networks around the world.
(tags: social networks lookfeel)
TED […]
links for 2008-02-25
The Yankee or Dixie quiz
I’m 80 percent Dixie and my NYC-born wife — to her dismay — is only 43% Yankee. Living in Texas is slowly converting her.
(tags: texas fun)
YouTube - Frozen Grand Central
Bob Pearson @ Dell shared this. Interesting and funny experiment.
(tags: video fun)
links for 2008-02-23
With BigCarrot Anyone Can Offer an X Prize - ReadWriteWeb
A new web site called BigCarrot aims to change that by crowdsourcing the creation of inducement prize contests.
(tags: crowdsourcing newideation)
Journal of the American College of Surgeons
Social connectedness — and social networks — is thought to play an important role in overall health and well being.
(tags: social […]
links for 2008-02-22
Sorry, Boys, This Is Our Domain - New York Times
Research shows that among the youngest Internet users, the primary creators of Web content (blogs, graphics, photographs, Web sites) are digitally savvy teenage girls.
(tags: geny)
Google Health Begins Its Preseason at Cleveland Clinic - Bits - Technology - New York Times Blog
Google’s technology for personal health records […]
links for 2008-02-21
Olympic Committe Rules Revealed: No Posting of Media Allowed - ReadWriteWeb
The International Olympic Committee announced they would allow athletes and other accredited persons to blog at the Beijing Olympics. Great! But the “small print” specified that postings of sound, moving images and still pictures is not permitted. Huh?
(tags: olympics twitterthis)
introducing BuzzD
This mobile start-up […]
links for 2008-02-20
Sports News, Comments & Analysis | Bleacher Report
The newly announced “open source sports network.” Steve Bonsignore will be interested in this.
(tags: joesportscaster sports twitterthis)
First Look: Kluster’s Market Approach to Crowdsourcing
Crowdsourcing continues to pick up steam.
(tags: crowdsourcing newideation)
Newspond
This new news site is generating a lot of “news” as a Techmeme and Digg challenger.
(tags: news)
links for 2008-02-18
A Start-Up Says It Can Predict Others’ Fate - New York Times
Is your start-up worthy of investment? Ask the venture investor in a box. If this really worked they would not need investors or customers — they could make a fortune by raising a fund and investing. Unfortunately, it’s hard to predict human […]
links for 2008-02-17
Hitwise Intelligence - Heather Hopkins - US: Yahoo! Search Draws Younger Audience; Google Users Big Spenders Online
Google users are older and more affluent. Yahoo users trend younger. Interesting, but difficult to explain.
(tags: search google yahoo)
Republican National Convention 2008 - September 1-4, 2008
The GOP announced that Google will serve as the Republican Convention’s Innovation Provider. […]
links for 2008-02-12
IDC - Press Release
Internet ad spending in the fourth quarter of 2007 (4Q07) grew nearly 28% over the same quarter in 2006 to $7.3 billion. For the full year 2007, online ad revenue grew 27% year over year to $25.5 billion.
(tags: advertising research)
Pangea Day
1200 films from 40 countries have been submitted to this program and […]
