Mass media is dying, and it appears that mass politicians are endangered as well.
Tuesday 26 October 2010
Seth Godin: How media changes politics
Friday 22 October 2010
In technology, being late can be as disastrous as being wrong.
Microsoft hasn’t just lost market share since the iPhone inaugurated the modern smartphone era, it has seen its position implode, falling to 5 percent in the second quarter from 22 percent in 2004.
... within five years, more users will connect to the Internet on mobile devices than the desktop computers that Microsoft has dominated for decades. Unless the company can establish a beachhead in mobile, it’s facing a long slow slide into irrelevance.
Wednesday 20 October 2010
Google releases Demo Slam: Let the Slams begin
Via googleblog.blogspot.com:
Google Demo Slam is a competition for tech demos - not just by startups and other tech companies, but for anybody who wants to create a video that shows others how to use a cool tech product.
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A place where boring tech demos become (hopefully) gotta-show-my-friends awesome...
Tuesday 12 October 2010
Twitter Aims to Get 1 Billion Users, Matching Facebook Target
Evan Williams, Twitter Inc.’s co-founder said the world’s third-largest social-networking platform will aim to get 1 billion followers, which may help the micro-blogging site compete with Facebook Inc. in attracting advertisements.
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Williams didn’t elaborate on a timeframe.
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"Twitter now is starting to try different types of monetizing methods," said Elinor Leung, head of Internet research at CLSA Ltd. in Hong Kong. "It’s the same as YouTube. They have a lot of traffic, and a lot of people using it, but it’s not easy to monetize because you don’t know who’s watching."Read more at Bloomberg.com
Monday 11 October 2010
Friday 8 October 2010
Tuesday 5 October 2010
In Vietnam, Politburo Tries 'Friending'
The Internet poses a challenge for authoritarian regimes around the world. But Vietnam's leaders think they have figured out a new way to tame it—by launching their own, Communist-friendly answer to popular social-networking sites like Facebook Full text at online.wsj.com
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