TAG: internet

Behind Enemy Lines With a Suburban Counterterrorist

"Rossmiller succeeds by exploiting a fundamental flaw in al Qaeda's famously decentralized organization. The absence of a strict hierarchy makes it pretty easy for a cunning person to mix among the terrorists."

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McLuhan would blow hot and cool about today's internet

"The internet doesn't really fit into McLuhan's "hot" and "cool" dichotomy. It encourages participation but it also sucks up our attention and dominates our senses."

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Radiohead Results: 38% Forked Over $6 Average

"Paying downloaders forked over an average of $6, with U.S. consumers paying almost twice as much ($8.05) as those from other countries ($4.64)."

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Why Google Turned Into a Social Butterfly

"So far, every time the Web has matched up against a proprietary alternative, the Web has prevailed."

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Why Amazon's HaaS (Hardware as a Service) Strategy is a Winner

"It's intriguing to watch Amazon, the old favorite dot com era e-commerce site, transform itself into a technology company with their new and innovative HaaS unit."

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The Web is the platform

"A lot that you have heard here is about platforms and who is going to win. That is Paleolithic thinking. The Web has already won. The web is the Platform. So let’s go build the programmable Web."

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Did "Saturday Night Live" Rip Off Aphex Twin?

"NBC didn't actually need permission to use the song for "ephemeral use," and won't, until they plan to air the show again . . . the video remains yanked from all official NBC sites until, presumably, some clearance agreement is made."

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Everybody's a media company, chapter 3,672

"Staci Kramer at Paid Content notes that the NFL is in discussions to create an ad network across its 32 team sites. The league would sell some ads and the teams would keep some for themselves."

Tags: media2.0 advertising internet football sports


Online advertisers may gain from downturn

"The focus will be on advertising that can be measured for effectiveness, and online will gain share relative to television, newspapers or radio."

Tags: advertising internet economics trend


design evolution

The evolution of buttons on Yahoo!, Adobe and Apple

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The Power of Six

"Google's plan for world domination. Also why the iPod Classic sucks."

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Ads don't generate money

"To sum it up, does blocking ads mean that the money streams on the Internet will dry out? I don’t think so, that would only happen if the amount of money to be distributed becomes smaller — and I don’t see any reason why this should happen."

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Internet People!

"An animated tribute to the internet people of the world, wherever you may be. Animated by Dan Meth, with music by Dan Meth and Micah Frank."

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The Internet is Dead and Boring

"Some people have tried to make the point that Web 2.0 is proof that the Internet is evolving. Actually it is the exact opposite. Web 2.0 is proof that the Internet has stopped evolving and stabilized as a platform."

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"South Park' Creators Win Ad Sharing in Deal

"Comedy Central and the creators of the popular show, "South Park," have agreed to create a hub to spread the program and related material across the Internet, mobile platforms and video games."

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Facebook Grows Up: Can It Stay Relevant?

"At 19, Mark Zuckerberg came up with a new way for college kids to connect—and started an online revolution. Now 23, he's trying to build out his business without losing its cool."

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Banner Blindness: Old and New Findings

"We simply confirmed for the umpteenth time that banner blindness is real. Users almost never look at anything that looks like an advertisement, whether or not it's actually an ad."

Tags: advertising marketing internet design usability research


design|snips

Little snips of good design.

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NBC Universal launches Didja

Ad friendly video site to combat YouTube

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Slap in the Facebook: It's Time for Social Networks to Open Up

"At this point, "friend" relationships remain unique to the social networks. The web still lacks a generalized way to convey relationships between people's identities on the internet."

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The 7 Deadly Sins of Digital

"There’s a bunch of things that people who are just getting into digital always seem to propose at some point or another. I guess they’re things that are part of the learning process."

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Online Publishers Need To Stop Selling Space

"So what’s the lesson for newspapers and other traditional media companies trying to transform themselves into online publishers? Stop selling space."

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No stars

"Due to access restrictions that limit who can see your profile, there are no ’stars’ there. I wonder - does this detract or attract? It’s kind of nice not to be confronted with celebrity at every turn."

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more thingy

"I've liked noticing the solidification of the internet recently, it seems to be becoming more like a thing and less like a service or process."

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I'M IN UR NEWSPAPER WRITIN MAH COLUM

Rapidly spreading Web photo-posting phenomenon centers on felines with poor spelling

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DEC - Glimpse of the Future, 1994

"A view of the future of the Web, circ... A view of the future of the Web, circa 1994 from DEC."

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Mini Showcase

Profero: "In August 2006 we launched a teaser campaign for the new MINI due to launch on 18 November. The campaign seeks to entice users to break from their daily surfing habits and join MINI for a random adventure into the World Wide Web."

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Facebook is the new AOL

"As it happens, we already have a platform on which anyone can communicate and collaborate with anyone else . . . It's called the internet . . . "

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Dreaming in Code

"Jonathan Harris distills the Web’s infinite avalanche of thoughts, facts, and feelings into exquisitely framed portraits of humanity."

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Download 2007 Digital Fact Pack

52-Page Data Guide to the Digital Marketing World

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Google Hot Trends

Google is now showing the hottest trends for the day . . . interesting way to see what's going on at the moment.

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Real world gamed?

"a major feature of the Web is the recording of human behavior in its many forms. To a lesser extent is the creation of truly new behaviors."

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GOOD Magazine: Internet Porn

A video giving the inside scoop on internet porn statistics. NSFW

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World's Slowest Instant Messenger

"Connected things in the era of IP networks always do their thing as fast as possible, approaching speeds that are imperceptible to normal humans. Almost without question, this is seen as a good thing. But I wondered what it would take to disrupt that ass

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Inside the interactive mind - or something resembling a mind

Strawberry Frog's process for making websites.

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Cookie-Based Counting Overstates Size of Web Site Audiences

"Frequent Cookie Deletion by 3 out of 10 U.S. Internet Users Leads to Overstatements in Audience Sizes by a Factor as High as 2.5"

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Forrester Sees Web Design Boom

"Forrester said the Internet's central role as an information resource has made Web projects key strategic priorities at many companies, leading to a revenue growth rate of at least 20 percent at most shops working in that space."

Tags: internet advertising design marketing


Ad Serving 101, Revised

A fairly straightforward look at ad serving.

Tags: advertising internet


Packet Politics

"As someone who's on the Web too many hours, I have wondered what changing screens hundreds of times each day to access different gobs of "information" has done to the way our brains order the world, which is known as human consciousness."

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Picnik

"With Picnik you can quickly edit all your online photos from one place. It's the easiest way on the Web to fix underexposed photos, remove red-eye, or apply effects to your photos. "

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What's next?

"I believe that the basis of competition in web services will shift from the data to the system that manages the acquisition, and use of that data."

Tags: data trend future business internet


The Local Web

Part of Terry Heaton's TV News in a Postmodern World series.

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I Survived My Internet Vacation

The dangers of seven days without the web.

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Dialogue Online

"Moving forward not-knowing is more valuable than moving forward assuming we know. Doubt, not certainty, is the foundation of reasoning, emotion, and learning."

Tags: education conversation community internet


ephemeral profiles (cuz losing passwords is common amongst teens)

"While adult bloggers talk about building an identity through extended blogging, i keep finding teens who got locked out of Xanga and responded by making another Xanga (or a Blogger or a LiveJournal)."

Tags: attention socialnetworking identity youth internet


The Long Tale of 2006

"The language of the long tail often takes on the rhetoric of democracy or even revolution, but the fact is that nothing about the influx of user generated content necessarily impacts the inequalities encoded into the power law curve."

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Predictions

"Due to media hype, MySpace is perceived on a scale next to Fox (as AOL was to Timer-Warner), but maybe it should be considered more like like Lost (which turns Yahoo into The Simpson's)."

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Permalink the New York Times

"Under the new model, a blogger can permanently "activate" the content, distribute it and allow the New York Times to generate ongoing ad revenue from the article."

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The On-Demand Trap

"Did the users of youTube give their loyalty (and eyeballs) to youTube or NBC during and after the whole "Lazy Sunday" fiasco? Do users of iTunes give their attention to ABC or iTunes (or their iPod) when they download the latest episode of "Lost?""

Tags: media2.0 ondemand television internet


Wallflower at the Web Party

The story of the downfall of Friendster.

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Digital Competition - Avram Miller

You know when you read one of those things where someone has said everything you're thinking . . . and then you realize they said it seven years ago?

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Participation Inequality: Lurkers vs. Contributors in Internet Communities

"In most online communities, 90% of users are lurkers who never contribute, 9% of users contribute a little, and 1% of users account for almost all the action."

Tags: design internet blogs search attention web2.0


10 Things That Will Make Or Break Your Website

"These are the top 10 things I learned from attending the Future of Web Apps Conference 2006 in San Francisco earlier this month."

Tags: tips internet marketing design startups usability business


Virtually Cool

Flavorpill is a different kind of long tail business.

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Thirty.

"The most intelligent producers of media have clued into the way the Internet’s destroyed social censure, and are turning this knowledge into dollars as fast as they can."

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A Sense of Belonging Among Belongings

"Zebo.com, a new Web site devoted to lists of everyday possessions of young consumers, with postings from the United States, Canada, Britain and Ireland and as far across the globe as the Philippines, Australia and New Zealand."

Tags: consumerism internet socialnetworking nytimes


Consumers' Dilemma: Consequences Of Exposure

Max Kalehoff discusses the dangers of exposing your life to the world.

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Consumers' Dilemma: Consequences Of Exposure

Max Kalehoff discusses the dangers of exposing your life to the world.

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Just in! Facebook worth more than Antigua and Barbuda

"Yes ladies and gentlemen, Facebook is reportedly valued higher than the GDP of Antigua and Barbuda."

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Why is it so hard to grasp scrolling?

"The Internet was founded as, and should remain a system on which people agree to agree for the sake of a better good, not simply wrap the conformance with substrates that enable a more “free� form of expression."

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Chasing Bees, Without the Hive Mind

"These ARGs teach participants how to navigate complex information environments and how to pool their knowledge to solve problems."

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Research Note: Show Me the Money Markets, Networks, and Communities

"The next great game isn't about just microchunking ads (preroll, postroll, blah, blah) - it's about making ads part of the hypercultural and part of the hypersocial."

Tags: marketing trend media2.0 myspace advertising internet


Advent of an era? Corporate America finally gets contemporary culture?

"When does the corporation get in touch and build a system for staying in touch? Naturally, this will happen when senior managers decide that it is in their best interests that it happen."

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The new Web geniuses

"How slackers with one dopey idea are getting rich"

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Sex Baiting Prank on Craigslist Affects Hundreds

A man posted on Craig's List looking for sex then posted the emails (including photos) that he got.

Tags: attention privacy sex craigslist culture community law internet identity


The 80-19-1 Rule

"That leaves 19%. This is the golden segment. If you can figure out how to engage these folks, you win. "

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Weaponized Data

"It's no accident that the rise of blogging coincides with the rise of government surveillance online. The people are watching too."

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book trailers, but no network

"What if [publishing companies] took advantage of the network's unique virtues?"

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Pageviews are Obsolete

"In summary, there's no easy solution. There's a big opportunity (though very tough job) for someone to come up with a meaningful metric that weighs a bunch of factors."

Tags: attention internet trend statistics business advertising


Industry Note: Viral Funpacks

"I am suggesting we stop calling them widgets, so we can try and think a lil more deeply about why they are economically powerful."

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Failure to Fail

"In short, we don't have a company creation crisis. But we might have a company destruction crisis. Something is off in our ecosystem - there's simply not enough failure out there right now."

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Everything Is Media: The Online Retailer Edition

"If consumers could actually see how this type of advertising on retail sites was effectively lowering their prices — and not just interrupting their shopping with unsolicited brand messages — that would be way cool."

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Next Search Wave: It's What you do with the Data

"Certainly, it is valuable to be able to compare prices from several carriers. But all that is presentation of data. The use of that data? That represents a significant, disruptive breakthrough. This is the way search engines should be thinking."

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Interface Culture 10 Years Later Notes

"Interface ecosystems. It's now easy to think of the world in terms as modules. Don't have to reinvent the wheel every time. You deal with this problem, I'll deal with that one. Easier to stitch together innovations."

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Internet killed the TV star from Guardian Unlimited

"Hardly a day goes by now without the minting of a fresh internet celebrity. Some of them will no doubt go the way of Mahir Cagri and the Hamster Dance, but most no doubt hope that they are making their first steps towards mainstream stardom."

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The Big Difference Between Old And New

"Old media is begging for attention. New media is attention."

Tags: media2.0 attention video internet business


Netscape's junk drawer

"'What if the New York Times decided to have readers vote on where things should be placed in the paper?' Only a very narrow slice of the population - the Web 2.0 true believers - would view this as anything other than a rhetorical question."

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Technology Rewrites the Book

New services allow print runs of a few, or just one, for customers ranging from aspiring authors to anyone who needs a bound document.

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Trust Dilemmas and Attention

"Trust dilemmas seem to play an integral part in attention economies. When deciding how we should direct our attention, we are essentially faced with a continuous stream of trust dilemmas."

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What is the 1% rule?

"It's an emerging rule of thumb that suggests that if you get a group of 100 people online then one will create content, 10 will "interact" with it (commenting or offering improvements) and the other 89 will just view it."

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Little guys could take Hollywood out of the picture

"For Hollywood, the solution is not in expanding distribution into new digital channels but in rethinking its entire business model for content creation."

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Digital Media Predictions

"We all have the regrettable responsibility to act like some weird hybrid of embedded reporter and reality TV star."

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Confidant Crisis

"Perhaps, as the study’s authors themselves hint at one point, we’ve also gotten better at demarcating what constitutes truly intimate communing — expecting more of our confidants, we have, in effect, defined intimacy up."

Tags: connectedness community psychology internet culture nytimes


Emerging Technology

"The great Internet search engine is still no match for the passion and expertise of a wise human being"

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A Conversation with Steven Johnson, Part 1

"All other things being equal, a person who is used to making active choices while consuming media is going to be more receptive to complex media, even if the medium is a passive one, like television."

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Using Adoption Metaphors to Increase Customer Acceptance

“Adoption metaphors have a lifecycle. They begin by introducing a new concept. They help us map something new to something we already understand and give us a framework in which to understand the new thing.�

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7 Reasons Why Web Apps Fail

"I’m not one to believe that we’re in a Bubble 2.0 or anything like that (aren’t we always bubbular?), but here are a few ideas about why some of the web apps out there fail."

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Captcha Mashup

Prove your human by identifying hot people.

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The Takeover (or The Death Of The Geek or Who Will Be Running The Internet Next)

"The common folks will win."

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Hacking Netflix Interviews Netflix CEO Reed Hastings

Really interesting interview with the CEO of Netflix. I especially like what he says in response to a question about a referral program. Turns out when offered a financial benefit, no one really referred any more than normal.

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Are you reading the news?

"The average half-life of a news item is just 36 hours, or one and a half days after it is released."

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8 Web Design Cliches of 2006

"We've seen dancing hamsters, Animated GIFs, the blink tag and Netscape Navigator all come and go - but what about the more recent trends?"

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The Future of the Object Expanded

A fantastic explanation of Bruce Sterling's “internet of things.�

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Pre-Internet Thinking

"The time is long since past when morning newspapers can pretend they are breaking big national and international news stories. They have to remember that their readers know what has happened."

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Scaling up is good. Scaling down is even better.

"Traditional businesses target the top end of the market. . . But the lesson of the Long Tail is that, as Nobel physicist Richard Feynman predicted, 'there's a lot of room at the bottom.'"

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Top Ten Truths About the Digital Ecosystem

A great state of the digital ecosystem piece.

Tags: business culture internet media2.0 technology


For Some, Online Persona Undermines a Resume

College kids are facing the hard truth from all the stuff they've posted about themselves online.

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F*ck Kill Marry

Like "hot or not," but not.

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Metadata is (Still) Democratic

'[Attention data] is the easiest--and most democratic--form of expression."

Tags: attention metadata internet


Tell me about couples and surfing!

"A couple watching TV, curled up on a sofa together, may have felt "together", a couple surfing on two wifi laptops are visiting different sites, having different experiences . . . The internet age feels less communal than the TV age did."

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From a Small Stream, a Gusher of Movie Facts

"In the retail business, that is the equivalent of excellent shelf frontage, or, in television, of having a single-digit channel number rather than being relegated to Channel 284 on the cable lineup."

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Swarm

"Swarm is a graphical map of hundreds of websites, all connecting to each other. It updates itself every second with where people are going and coming from."

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Can We Please Kill This Meme Now

"Thanks to the connective nature of hypertext, and the blogosphere's exploratory hunger for finding new stuff, the web is the greatest serendipity engine in the history of culture."

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Graphic language for touch

"This work explores the visual link between information and physical things, specifically around the emerging use of the mobile phone to interact with RFID or NFC. "

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The Value of Attention

An interview with Esther Dyson.

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Paying Attention

"In a world of attention scarcity, we will not continue to receive attention unless we earn that right. If we do not receive attention, we risk becoming progressively marginalized."

Tags: attention culture trend internet


Net Neutrality

"A video that explains why discrimination on the Internet is a problem and will continue to be as long as net neutrality rules are not enforced."

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Discovering the Wrong Future

"Value capture in the new media value chain is a function of market power. And market power is a function of attention. And attention is allocated most efficiently by markets, networks and communities."

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Design Magazines Online

"As the barriers to Web publishing continue to diminish, more design-focused publications are springing up online. Here’s a list of what I’ve come across."

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The Problem with "Half Full"

"When the viewing universe for any program shrinks, that impacts ad rates, which impacts revenue. The only way these companies can produce growth, then, is by cutting expenses, and in the creative world, that is suicide."

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Not quite a New Age

"We must engage strenuously with the future, thinking through the dark side of each opportunity, and working to maximize the good that we create while minimizing the harm."

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Painting a Better Landscape

"Our community provides a virtual banquet of learning opportunities for Web development, but if you’re looking for actual design information you’ll need to tighten your belt. The fare is paltry."

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Powazek: Just a Thought: Death to User-Generated Content

"Calling the beautiful, amazing, brilliant things people create online 'user-generated content' is like sliding up to your lady, putting your arm around her and whispering, 'Hey baby, let's have intercourse.'"

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Redesign

New York Times editor briefly explains their web redesign.

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The Mistake of Extending Brands

"In trying to protect and expand its brands, network television is shooting itself in the foot with an all or nothing strategy involving those brands."

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Is Amazon S3 the first Tier 0 Internet Service?

"When you get down to it, Amazon S3 is simply a large, distributed hash map with an API. Unless people build applications on top of it, it’s useless. Amazon clearly expects this will happen - and what’s more they expect people will pay for it too."

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Internet of things: working bibliography

Lots of great links about the "internet of things."

Tags: things technology internet lists


Make it Ugly

"First of all, dismissing visual design as just a matter of “making things pretty� cuts off your ability to communicate with your customers at the knees."

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Agencies Slow to Embrace New Media: Not the Problem

Gary Stein: "I certainly don't mean that the spread of digital technology is not an important thing for business and for advertising. But if you're focused on the technology, you're going to solve the wrong problem."

Tags: advertising marketing media2.0 internet business


Cosby's Lawyers See No Flattery in an Imitation

The New York Times covers Andy Baio (waxy.org) being told to get rid of the Cosby parodies he's hosting.

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Project Lemonade: Creating Beauty within Chaos

"Despite the proliferation of gallery sites like Stylegala, there is still an overwhelming amount of confused designers who start off with a great vision and then fail in execution."

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In Media, Only Ideas Matter

"The democratization of content creation will not democratize value creation. Only a small handful of people has the gift of original insight and original ideas. All the rest is echo and noise."

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Industry Note - The Great Divide: Why is the Valley Afraid of MySpace?

"Web 2.0 can't live up to its game-changing potential until and unless the geeks step outside and think outside their own box of geekery."

Tags: media2.0 internet web2.0 venturecapital geeks myspace


HTML Codes - Table of ascii characters and symbols

Standard ASCII set, HTML Entity names, ISO 10646, ISO 8879, ISO 8859-1 Latin alphabet No. 1.

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Marketer's Paradise: Owning the Channel Itself

"In the experience economy, it seems the best thing you can be is a media company. It's really the only way to take advantage of all those advertising dollars sloshing around the Web these days."

Tags: marketing media2.0 advertising internet


Rambling about blogging and TV

"It's only because things are so lax that everyone and their brother saw the Chronicles of Narnia SNL spoof video, and SNL ratings definitely saw a spike in the shows that followed."

Tags: television viral video technology internet


Design Inspiration

A Flickr photoset of sites that Andy Budd finds inspirational.

Tags: design inspiration internet


Madison Avenue's 30-Second Spot Remover

Robert M. Greenberg is redefining advertising by making the delivery of the message a two-way street between marketers and consumers.

Tags: marketing advertising media future internet nytimes design


Hungry? Want another bullshit sandwich?

"Those who say that poorly designed websites are partly responsible for some companies’ success are feeding you a load of crap. And too many of you are eating it up."

Tags: design business internet


Google Redux

Andy Rutledge redesigns Google's homepage.

Tags: design google internet ui ia


Blurb

"Start-to-finish publishing software simple and smart enough to make you an author."

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Web economics 2.0 and paying with data instead of dollars

"People understand that someone has to get paid to develop apps or write articles, and if we can pay with something other than money, that’s great!"

Tags: attention internet economics


The Attention Economy: The Natural Economy of the Net

Michael Goldhaber's speech about the relationship between the new attention economy and the internet.

Tags: attention economics internet trend


Google Code: Web Authoring Statistics

Google: "In December 2005 we did an analysis of a sample of slightly over a billion documents, extracting information about popular class names, elements, attributes, and related metadata. The results we found are available below."

Tags: internet design statistics research


10 Web Trends That Should Die in 2006

"Here’s a new years resolution for the web at large: stop doing silly things to users. Following are top trends that I just hope will not see 2007."

Tags: trend design internet usability


E-Mail Bolsters Social Bonds

"The report's major conclusion is that the heaviest e-mail users are more likely to also meet with friends and acquaintances in person--or talk to them on the telephone--than are those who don't use e-mail as often."

Tags: research email interaction relationships culture internet


Mass media's last blast

Most obnoxious line of an otherwise good article: "In the existential hall of mirrors of the new mass technoculture, what goes around comes around, like plot points in a Charlie Kaufman screenplay."

Tags: unbundled business future trend advertising internet technology media


Simple. Desirable. Sharable.

Josh Porter thinks about the three attributes a successful piece of web magic must have.

Tags: internet design interface simplicity software usability


Web 3.0

Jeffrey Zeldman: "Web 2.0 is a fresh-faced starlet on the intertwingled longtail to the disruptive experience of tomorrow. Web 3.0 thinks you are so 2005."

Tags: web2.0 internet ajax


1000tags.com

The guy who made the million dollar homepage is at it again. I hate it when people make a bunch of money doing stuff I could have thought of. Damn them!

Tags: advertising tags internet


The Website Development Process

The process of creating a website performed by Playmobile toys.

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arcget: Retrieve a site from the Internet Archive

A program by Aaron Schwartz that automates the retrieval of entire sites from the Internet Archive.

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Revenge of the Dotcom Poster Boy

Further proof Jason Calcanis is obnoxious.

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Suck: Daily

A mirror of now defunct Suck.com.

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Jon Udell: Predictions for 2006

Jon Udell makes some 2006 predictions based on the fact that roughly 9 months after his first mention companies like del.icio.us, Flickr and Bloglines were acquired.

Tags: business future predictions internet


Psst, Don't Tell Anyone, But the Internet Is Over

David Card explains, "People seem to be settling on what they use the Internet for, and doing fewer things overall."

Tags: internet trend youth research


Mass-Produced Individuality

CafePress brings customization to the world.

Tags: business consumerism internet


There's no such thing as cyberspace.

"I find very compelling the idea that we beginning to see a generation that has not grown up with the idea of the internet as a separate "cyberspace""

Tags: internet youth research trend


The History of 404

How a room at CERN turned into the message "404: File Not Found"

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Companies I'd like to Profile (but don't exist)

Michael Arrington from TechCrunch thinks about the companies he'd like to see sprout up around the net. Lots of good ideas in this one.

Tags: business entrepreneur startups internet


Does Pre-Roll Video Change Traditional Online Media Buying?

"The growth of video content online and its various distribution opportunities make any particular Web site almost irrelevant. This means that the way that pre-roll advertising is bought and sold must be radically changed."

Tags: internet advertising unbundled


Owning ideas

The boom in the intellectual property market will not reap rewards for us all

Tags: ideas business copyright patent innovation internet software technology


Washington Post Remix

"Why are we doing this? Because we want to foster innovation, and because we want to see your ideas about new ways of displaying news and information on the Web."

Tags: internet remix newspapers media posted


The Lessons of Recent History

Scott Rafer: "A Prediction: The second DotCom Bubble will inflate and burst no later than mid-2009."

Tags: economics internet startups posted


Is your homepage immature?

Adaptive Path: "Every large corporation has a marketing strategy that outlines what it wants to say to customers, but many of them still aren’t using their homepages effectively to highlight that message."

Tags: architecture branding internet design marketing usability posted


Exclusive: Full text of Gates email, Ozzie memo

Leaked copies of both emails detailing the changes Microsoft must make to keep up with the "OO"ses

Tags: business microsoft software internet advertising google web2.0 posted


Dialogue: Rupert Murdoch

With an enviable track record in newspapers, books, TV and film, the News Corp. chief pushes his chips toward his latest passion: the Internet.

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Amazon, excess and the future of navigation...

"A massive explosion in trustworthy ways of exploring through your data is how you turn a business from a repository or a directory into a web native, 21st century operation."

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Google Analytics

Google launches a free analytics program with lots of goodies.

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Newsvine and How Big Companies Can Innovate

Kareem Mayan, who has and still does work at a big company, considers why they have so much trouble being innovative.

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37 Signals, 1 Clear Message

"CEO Jason Fried's startup philosophy can be summed up in three short words: Keep it simple"

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Wackiest web names ever

Some great URLs including the one for Pen Island (penisland.com) and Mole Station Native Nursery (molestationnursery.com)

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The Road Ahead

We assembled some of the smartest people we know to identify the trends that are most likely to affect our future. What we got was a fascinating discussion about religion, technology and politics and why no one's golf scores seem to be getting any better.

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Teen Content Creators and Consumers

"Teen Content Creators and Consumers: More than half of online teens have created content for the internet; and most teen downloaders think that getting free music files is easy to do"

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Geek to Live: Write effectively for the Web

"From Lifehacker’s very own internal editorial style guide, today we’ll go over some simple guidelines for writing on the Web that will help you get your message across and elicit the best responses."

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Finding Signals in the Noise

"Digg, Memeorandum, Findory, Blogniscient, and other startups promise to manage news overload on the Web."

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America Internet Usage and Population Statistics

"Internet User Statistics and Population Stats for 51 countries and regions"

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Power Companies Enter the High-Speed Internet Market

"Known as broadband over power line, or B.P.L., the service is poised to challenge the cable and phone companies that dominate the high-speed Internet market."

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Web 2.0: Conversation with Five Teenagers

Web 2.0 Conference: "Safa Rashtchy, managing director at Piper Jaffray, moderated a panel with five Bay-Area teenagers."

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Seven Technologies That Change Everything

Everything from AJAX to biogenerics

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Mobile phones are more than just phones in China

"All this suggests a lot of room for growth, for China at least, in presumably the same "advanced services" that only 17% of UK survey respondents use on a daily basis"

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Jonathan Ive Interview

"The winner of the Design Museum's inaugural Designer of the Year award in 2003 was JONATHAN IVE, senior vice-president of design at Apple whose innovations include the iPod and iMac."

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The Power of Conversation

"So, the real value of communicative technologies like social software is that they re-enable and enhance our ability to use a time-tested means of information processing, i.e. the conversation, in new and interesting ways!"

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famfamfam.com: Icons

"Need icons for your new website or web application, at the best price there is (free!)? Try one of the following sets"

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The Million Dollar Homepage

"The idea is simple: to try and make $1m (US) by selling 1,000,000 pixels for $1 each. Hence, 'The Million Dollar Homepage".:

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New Approach From Gap to Cut Down on Clicks

""A lot of this was borrowing metaphors from the store experience," Mr. Lenk said."

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How to Launch a Viral Service

"The use of it by one person naturally informs others of its availability and benefits. (eg Get your free web-based accessible at any computer e-mail at hotmail.com, condoms)"

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Web Development Trends for 2006

"Curious about what technologies and techniques are going to be popular in the coming months and into the next year? Well, our crack team of editors . . . have assembled a list of up-and-coming trends that you should keep an eye on."

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Reinventing Television

"We interrupt this broadcast to bring you a Special Report from Jon Stewart."

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Interview with John Gruber

GUIdebook: "Welcome to the interview with John Gruber, author of Daring Fireball Link points to external site and long-time critic and observer of Mac OS X interface."

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GoogleOS? YahooOS? MozillaOS? WebOS?

Kottke riffs on the idea of a web operating system

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An Introduction to Using Patterns in Web Design

"To make better sites — sites that are functional, beautiful, and "usable" — we have to break our design problems up into small independent chunks based on the real issues within our requirements."

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GUIdebook

"Welcome to guidebook, a website dedicated to preserving and showcasing Graphical User Interfaces, as well as various materials related to them."

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Industries that Don't Seem to Understand the Web

"While there are plenty of businesses that don’t seem to understand that the web can do amazing things for them, there are some cases where an entire industry seems to not understand the full potential of the web."

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Five Mistakes Band Label Sites Make

43 Folders: "Admittedly, this is well off our usual fare, but please indulge me in a public service message on behalf of music fans across the Internets—five mistakes that band and label sites make (and a few tips on how to fix them)."

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The next Web revolution

"The Web celebrates its 10th anniversary and it's still a pain to use -- clunky, slow and unresponsive. But thanks to creative small companies like Chicago's 37 Signals, the Web is finally becoming as fun and flexible as your favorite software."

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Top 10 dot-com flops

"These are the celebrity victims of the new-economy bust."