March 2010
39 posts
Facebook Bug Exposes Users' Hidden E-mail... →
the unraveling of Ning
Clients of Ning are outraged [Link disabled by Ning] over a decision that Ning made public last week. The software maker sent out an email to all of its clients, those who have created a social network on Ning, stating that they would email all members of all websites who use the Ning software to promote the newly designed Ning.com.
Ning Exposed - Tech Company Ning Scams its Clients
Google Code Blog: OAuth access to IMAP/SMTP in... →
“78% of consumers use catalogs to browse products at least four times a year.”
– via @ATG_ecommerce
“Harvard is the first university to use Foursquare to help its students explore...”
– Foursquare Follows The Facebook Model, Takes Its Game To Harvard
Are you surprised that virtual currencies are such...
It doesn’t blow my mind because I think people want entertainment and they want stuff to be invested in and they want to spend real currency to have social currency in some ways. That’s the most important part.
It is not about the virtual currency so much, but about their status and how they are perceived in the game. So, if you are competing with a friend it might be worth $2 to...
Window decals from Judy's Book feature interactive... →
How to Ask Questions at Panels →
“The days of dictating your brand to the public are long gone. There is so much...”
– Aaron Magness, Zappos’ Marketing Chief in Fast Company
“There is one aspect of life in France I have come to value: the sanctity of a...”
– Lucy Wadham: End of the secret garden « Prospect Magazine
“Articulated social networks are the lists of people that you indicate that you...”
– danah boyd: “Making Sense of Privacy and Publicity”
“This is treating people like machines, like so many cattle to be monitored and...”
– Human Rights Attorney Kazuo Hizumi, on the news that Japanese phone giant KDDI Corporation has developed technology that tracks even the tiniest movement of the user and beams the information back to HQ, as reported in BBC News - Mobile that allows bosses to snoop on staff developed
33% of Mobile Searches are Hyper-Local →
“Viewers of major TV events, such as the Super Bowl and the Academy Awards, favor...”
– Simultaneous TV/Web Usage Jumps - MediaBuyerPlanner
“The final challenge with evaluating social media purely based on directly...”
– ROI, Wal-mart and SKU reduction—and what we may learn about Social Media ROI | Forrester Blogs
Technical Note TN2262: Preparing Your Web Content... →
Facebook tightens its grip on the mighty Google -... →
Facebook Surpasses Google In US Says Hitwise →
C-Span Puts Full Archives on the Web
C-Span has uploaded virtually every minute of its video archives to the Internet.
The archives, at C-SpanVideo.org, cover 23 years of history and five presidential administrations and are sure to provide new fodder for pundits and politicians alike. The network will formally announce the completion of the C-Span Video Library on Wednesday.
C-Span Puts Its Full Archives on the Web - NYTimes.com
“The person and the various parts of their brain and the mouse and the monitor...”
– Anthony Chemero, cognitive scientist at Franklin & Marshall College, in Your Computer Really Is a Part of You ( Wired Science) via @tylercurtain
Starbucks Fans Can Become ‘Baristas’ on Foursquare... →
“A hot new social-networking service dubbed Bubbly, which is essentially a...”
– Social Media: Is Voice-Based Bubbly the New Twitter? - Global News - Advertising Age
“While $155 billion worth of consumer goods were bought online last year, a far...”
– Forrester Forecast: Online Retail Sales Will Grow To $250 Billion By 2014
Books in the Age of the iPad by Craig Mod →
“The old idea in the industry was to protect the archive and drive fans to the...”
– Gregg Winik, CEO of CineSport, commenting on the release of ThoughtEquity’s NCAA Vault in N.C.A.A. Puts Its Tournament Video Online, in Searchable Bits
full disclosure: I have family involved in the NCAA Vault project. Even still: I think it rocks.
72% of social media users share product searches... →
Google Responds To Privacy Concerns With... →
China's Top 3 Social Network Sites →
Making AJAX Applications Crawlable - Google Code →
How do People Share Content? →
Why the internet will fail (Newsweek 1995) →
