Archive for October, 2006
October 31, 2006
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October 28, 2006
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On how some users are renouncing social networking: “At first, Mr. Kalyn was excited that “these hot girls allegedly wanted to be my friend.” But after looking at a few profiles, he realized: “If it’s a picture of someone fairly attractive, they’re proba
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October 26, 2006
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UK companies are using vast amounts of electricity to power the country’s 1,500 data-centres that support the UK’s growing IT needs. An average UK data-centre uses more power in a year than the city of Leicester.
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“More worrying still for old media, user-generated content is particularly popular with the young, which makes it potentially highly attractive to advertisers. The reason advertising tends to target low-earning youth before higher-earning, older age group
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October 25, 2006
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October 24, 2006
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October 18, 2006
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October 17, 2006
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October 13, 2006
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Kyle McNabb, an analyst at Forrester Research Inc., says that Google’s moves are less about grabbing market share today than about changing behavior and getting consumers accustomed to free online software that they now buy from Microsoft. “Google is help
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“The task for anyone in the information business will be to figure out what people really value and to craft the products and service to fit that need.”
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Extract: Peter Hershberg, a managing partner of Reprise Media, a search advertising agency, said: “Google is so much ahead. Google is going into new channels like video, and Yahoo is still trying to fix their core channel.”
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October 11, 2006
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Extract 1: “Described by former editorial-page editor Michael Kinsley as “long the industry’s leading example of needless excellence” (the Times has a monopoly in the region), the paper under Tribune ownership still has the biggest editorial staff and bu
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Extract: The rules are seen as a particular threat to Reuters, which has a substantial lead in the Chinese market for news and financial data over rival provider Bloomberg.
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Glocer launches new data centre that “aims to tap into language graduates from top Beijing colleges and some of the army of software engineers China graduates every year …”
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Will Lewis makes editor …
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“Fifteen per cent said they would shop for food only online, while another 39 per cent opted for a mix of online shopping mixed with specialist stores and supermarket visits” – Elizabeth Rigby points out that Morrisons, Somerfield and M&S don’t have onlin
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Former Italian competitors hook up – and pool customer lists in bid to expand their markets.
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“I see no evidence that YouTube has figured out how to avoid the copyright issue. ” said Allen Weiner at Gartner. “This deal makes no sense. [YouTube] do have a pretty powerful platform, but it’s a platform in search of a sustainable business model.”
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Some good resources on digital libraries and digitisation.
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Developed quite a bit since last look ..
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October 10, 2006
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Analysis on how publishers are reacting to the digitisation of books – view is that book publishers are perhaps better prepared that music publishers and also that there is no “killer” device (yet) to reads electronic books – as in iPod for books/text.
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Looks at potential bid from Google and refers to recent talk saying Google are likely to focus greater engineering resource on core servivces rather than developing new products.
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Look at how newspaper circulation is holding up in Japan and suggests that it is perhaps due to high levels of literacy and … “Furthermore, the tendency to conform to social norms means that most people consider reading newspapers almost a social obliga
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Neil on the launch of The Business as a magazine, compares the challenges faced by the newspaper industry as being like “Wapping” without the pickets.
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“The fact that internet consumption has passed print consumption is an important landmark for the establishment of the internet in Europe,” said Mark Mulligan, research director at Jupiter. “This shift in the balance of power will increasingly shape
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More on the Jupiter research findings – including an interesting point on the freesheets “… Jupiter also concluded that print is in danger of losing its grip on commuters, as devices such as Apple’s iPod and third-generation mobile phones allow people t
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Refers to how Jeff Jarvis reckoned GoogleMaps was “a stake in the heart of local newspapers”
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