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."
Tags: terrorism postmodernism security internet
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."
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."
Tags: google internet socialnetworking opensource
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."
Tags: amazon business internet technology
"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."
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."
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The evolution of buttons on Yahoo!, Adobe and Apple
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"Google's plan for world domination. Also why the iPod Classic sucks."
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"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."
Tags: advertising internet
"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."
"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 connectâ€â€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
Little snips of good design.
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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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"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."
Tags: advertising business internet
"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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"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."
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."
Tags: advertising internet campaign cars
"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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"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 is now showing the hottest trends for the day . . . interesting way to see what's going on at the moment.
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"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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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
A fairly straightforward look at ad serving.
Tags: advertising internet
"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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"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. "
Tags: photography internet tools
"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
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.
"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 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."
Tags: longtail economics internet
"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)."
"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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"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
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
Flavorpill is a different kind of long tail business.
Tags: culture internet longtail nytimes
"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."
Tags: culture internet identity
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.
Tags: privacy identity internet
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."
Tags: design flash internet browser
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."
Tags: community games internet arg
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."
Tags: business culture innovation internet trend
"How slackers with one dopey idea are getting rich"
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
"That leaves 19%. This is the golden segment. If you can figure out how to engage these folks, you win. "
Tags: attention community internet media2.0
"It's no accident that the rise of blogging coincides with the rise of government surveillance online. The people are watching too."
Tags: internet surveillance terrorism attention privacy
"What if [publishing companies] took advantage of the network's unique virtues?"
Tags: books advertising media internet
"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
"I am suggesting we stop calling them widgets, so we can try and think a lil more deeply about why they are economically powerful."
Tags: widgets viral internet media2.0 marketing
"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."
Tags: business web2.0 internet
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."
Tags: advertising internet amazon
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."
Tags: search innovation internet
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."
Tags: celebrity community video media2.0 internet
The Big Difference Between Old And New
"Old media is begging for attention. New media is attention."
Tags: media2.0 attention video internet business
"'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."
Tags: web2.0 internet technology culture geeks
New services allow print runs of a few, or just one, for customers ranging from aspiring authors to anyone who needs a bound document.
Tags: business diy books nytimes internet
"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."
Tags: attention trust internet
"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."
Tags: business internet movies media2.0 cgm
"We all have the regrettable responsibility to act like some weird hybrid of embedded reporter and reality TV star."
Tags: media2.0 trend internet journalism
"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
"The great Internet search engine is still no match for the passion and expertise of a wise human being"
Tags: internet search connectedness
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."
Tags: culture interviews internet technology
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.�
Tags: metaphors language internet innovation ux
"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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Prove your human by identifying hot people.
The Takeover (or The Death Of The Geek or Who Will Be Running The Internet Next)
"The common folks will win."
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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"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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"We've seen dancing hamsters, Animated GIFs, the blink tag and Netscape Navigator all come and go - but what about the more recent trends?"
The Future of the Object Expanded
A fantastic explanation of Bruce Sterling's “internet of things.�
Tags: things internet rfid identity spimes
"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.'"
Tags: longtail simplicity business internet
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.
Tags: jobs college youth internet identity trend nytimes
Like "hot or not," but not.
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."
Tags: culture internet relationships psychology
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 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."
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."
Tags: internet culture networking search
"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. "
Tags: design icons communication rfid internet technology
An interview with Esther Dyson.
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"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."
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"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."
Tags: video politics netneutrality internet law
"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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"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."
"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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"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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"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."
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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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."
Tags: unbundled television branding internet
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
"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."
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."
"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."
Tags: internet blogs culture media2.0 web2.0
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.
Tags: design html ASCII reference internet
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
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
Andy Rutledge redesigns Google's homepage.
Tags: design google internet ui ia
"Start-to-finish publishing software simple and smart enough to make you an author."
Tags: books internet personalization
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
"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."
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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
Josh Porter thinks about the three attributes a successful piece of web magic must have.
Tags: internet design interface simplicity software usability
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."
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.
Tags: design internet process projectmanagement ia
arcget: Retrieve a site from the Internet Archive
A program by Aaron Schwartz that automates the retrieval of entire sites from the Internet Archive.
Revenge of the Dotcom Poster Boy
Further proof Jason Calcanis is obnoxious.
Tags: blogs aol business internet
A mirror of now defunct Suck.com.
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
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""
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How a room at CERN turned into the message "404: File Not Found"
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
The boom in the intellectual property market will not reap rewards for us all
Tags: ideas business copyright patent innovation internet software technology
"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
Scott Rafer: "A Prediction: The second DotCom Bubble will inflate and burst no later than mid-2009."
Tags: economics internet startups posted
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
With an enviable track record in newspapers, books, TV and film, the News Corp. chief pushes his chips toward his latest passion: the Internet.
Tags: entrepreneur interviews media television internet posted
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."
Tags: amazon internet usability tags interface business posted
Google launches a free analytics program with lots of goodies.
Tags: statistics internet google posted
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.
Tags: innovation internet creativity posted
"CEO Jason Fried's startup philosophy can be summed up in three short words: Keep it simple"
Tags: business design internet simplicity software posted
Some great URLs including the one for Pen Island (penisland.com) and Mole Station Native Nursery (molestationnursery.com)
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.
Tags: future internet technology culture posted interviews
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"
Tags: youth research internet blogs remix trend posted
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."
Tags: writing tips internet business posted
"Digg, Memeorandum, Findory, Blogniscient, and other startups promise to manage news overload on the Web."
Tags: business internet startups posted
America Internet Usage and Population Statistics
"Internet User Statistics and Population Stats for 51 countries and regions"
Tags: internet statistics research
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."
Tags: youth internet technology myspace research posted
Seven Technologies That Change Everything
Everything from AJAX to biogenerics
Tags: ajax business internet science technology posted
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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"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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"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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"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 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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"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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"We interrupt this broadcast to bring you a Special Report from Jon Stewart."
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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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"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 Internetsâ€â€five mistakes that band and label sites make (and a few tips on how to fix them)."
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"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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"These are the celebrity victims of the new-economy bust."
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Rushkoff: "But cable television is not the place to launch the great interactive media experiment for the 21st Century. The great cable TV revolution already happened with CNN and MTV."
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Apple to add Trusted Computing to the new kernel?
"My data is my life, and I won't keep it in a strongbox that someone else has the keys for."
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A list of good (and bad) musicians' websites
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Gore's Webby TV Network Debuts
"With its debut Monday, Current TV will be judged by the same mundane standards as other networks -- on whether its programming can hold a viewer's interest."
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Cisco Harasses Security Researcher
"If companies have the power to censor information about their products they don't like, then we as consumers have less information with which to make intelligent buying decisions."
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Security researcher quits job and blows whistle on Cisco's fatal flaws
"Now he's under a restraining order from Cisco, arising from his disclosure of critical flaws in Cisco's routers that threaten the world's information infrastructure."
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Pew Internet: Teens and Technology
Teens and Technology: Youth are Leading the Transition to a Fully Wired and Mobile Nation
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Coldplay X&Y Album Art Generator
You type your words and it encodes it into Coldplay X&Y album art
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Co-opting the creative revolution
Digital technology is providing people with the tools to produce and share content like never before, and it is set to throw the relationship between them and institutions into turmoil, say experts.
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CNet looks at the top 10 web fads over the last 10 years. Where's Dahler Mendi?
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On the Job, the Pauses That Refresh
NYTimes: "There is a point, of course, where distraction becomes blatant slacking off, but I would argue that some percentage of time wasted during work is actually a part of the work."
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"These are online games that, in my opinion, offer a "good experience" - good game design with an overall attention to quality. Unless otherwise noted, they're all free, online, and available right now."
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Jerry Yang co-founded Yahoo, which celebrates its 10th anniversary this year
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Jakob Nielsen explains the three things holding up usability on the web.
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Why Analog Property Rights Are Wrong For a Digital World: DRM vs Plasticity
"Since most DRM is based on the fundamentally flawed notions of analog property rights discussed above, it can (in the long run) never work in a digital world."
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Ten years later, the story of Suck.com, the first great website (A very very very long history of Suck.com)
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This year's finalists are a mix of newcomers, new discoveries and veterans that have learned some new tricks.
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Supreme Court's unsound decision
Monday's ruling against Grokster will do nothing to stop peer-to-peer file sharing -- but it may well stifle technology innovation.
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Web Content by and for the Masses
The next generation web will be read/write . . . wow New York Times, way to be on the ball.
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Google vs. Yahoo: Clash of cultures
On the walls of Yahoo's modest Silicon Valley offices there are posters with sketches of oddball inventions that have landed patents, such as a portable bird cage. The point: If a bird cage can get a patent, Yahoo's employees can come up with something bi
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how i learned to stop worrying and relinquish control
adaptive path: "Relinquishing control is becoming a requirement in all aspects of Internet businesses."
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Pew on Online Sports Fantasy Leagues
Eight percent of adult American internet users say they participate in sports fantasy leagues online. That represents roughly 11 million people.
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"Google is the new Internet behemoth, snatching up small companies left and right. So, in this article, I ask: what tech gems are in the running for Google's growing subsidiary menagerie?"
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Mistakes developers can make using AJAX
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Google's War on Hierarchy, and the Death of Hierarchical Folders
"Hierarchical Folders have dominated info organization since they first appeared over 40 years ago. But in industry after industry, a strange thing is happening: hierarchy is under severe attack, and even dying out."
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Chinese blogs face restrictions
The Chinese government has announced plans to police web forums, chat rooms and blogs alongside other websites.
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Panasonic Promotes Plasma "Heaven"
ClickZ: "Panasonic and Renegade Marketing Group have conjured a quirky "spokesangel" for an online promotional campaign for the company's plasma TVs."
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The Web is San Francisco circa 2001
"Visiting San Francisco for the first time in 2001, it all snapped into place. Here was a city cross-hatched by freeways that each felt just a little too dangerous to walk under."
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If You Can Make It in Silicon Valley, You Can Make It . . . in Silicon Valley Again
More talk about the internet "reboom"
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Celebrating good writing on the web.
Nature.com: "A team of scientists from Hungary and the United States has found that the majority of online news items have a lifetime of just 36 hours."
Accessibility, usability, the W3C . . . are graphic designers finally coming to terms with the Web?
What the “long tail� means for the economics of e-commerce
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I am an information glutton, and so are you.
"Information is the most potent weapon in the fight against oppression and inequality wherever it occurs."
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What is information architecture?
This article provides an introduction to information architecture, discusses the evolution of the discipline and provides a 9-step guide for how to create an effective information architecture.
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A decade of adoption: How the internet has woven itself into American life
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Online advertising is becoming a serious rival to the traditional sort. Google’s new advertising service could make the internet an even more valuable marketing medium
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How "search" is redefining the Web  and our lives
Seattle Times: "When search engines can change the lives of pastry chefs, a technology transformation clearly is under way. These online guides were once merely the means to a destination, the robots that could quickly fetch a site from the Web haystack."
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Tips & Tweaks: Essential Web Sites
PCWorld: "There are the things you need; and then there are the things you didn't know you needed until you bumped into them on the Web. Here are a slew of sites I've come to love."
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Folksonomies: A User-Driven Approach to Organizing Content
"One of the most promising features of folksonomies is that there is no disconnect between the user’s words and the words on the site: the users words are the words on the site!"
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Dan Gillmor: "The emerging web is one in which the machines talk as much to each other as humans talk to machines or other humans. As the net is the rough equivalent of a computer operating system, we’re learning how to program the web itself."
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adaptive path: "The Internet has always been a medium for democratization, and by reconnecting with our idealism we’re once again uncovering its poetry, nobility, and transformative power."
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Running your company on web apps
evhead: "One interesting thing about starting a company today versus a few years ago: Lots of cool web apps are now available that you can more or less run you company on."
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Internet: A New Forum for Proclaiming the Gospel
John Paul II on the internet from the 36th World Communications Day
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Wired: ITC tests your "ability to make sense of the multiple streams of information that our computers throw at us every day."
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Some key findings from the latest JupiterResearch online teen survey
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Terry Heaton: "Here's where the paradox comes in. One doesn't find influence in the URL world without providing a service to others, for it is the linkers (the bottom) who provide the influence, not those receiving the links."
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Why don't authors put their indexes online? A book index is a perfect example of something that is much more efficient with a search function.
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David Byrne launches internet radio station
Boing Boing: "There's value in being exposed to things you didn't know you want. When you walk down the street, you have experiences that are unplanned and accidental that may expose you to new ideas, new things... it isn't just a matter of running an err
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On the Internet, 2nd (and 3rd and . . . ) Opinions
NYTimes: "Not all lists are so much fun. There are plenty of boring lists on the Web. Everyday, Web contests list their winners. Every blog has a running tab of favorite Web sites. Many of them take a good part of a minute to scroll through."
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Choose a website and see what would happen if aliens attacked or coffee spilled on it . . . kind of like those Sim City disasters
The Internet, ranked No. 1, changed the world
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It's Not Graffiti, It's Grafedia
Wired: "Geraci wants grafedia to make people think about the idea that the boundaries of the web are totally arbitrary. If you can put links in different places, he said, you're essentially extending the internet."
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Good-bye, computer; hello, world!
CNET: "Now think about what would happen if you had a word processor . . . a music jukebox, and any other "software application" running inside a Web framework that's as fast and responsive as any desktop you've ever used."
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angiemckaig.com: "Instead of implementing a business model that doesn't make sense just to protect your bottom line, why not come up with something that DOES make sense?"
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Ontology is Overrated: Links, Tags, and Post-hoc Metadata
Clay Shirky: "The Web's main virtue, in handling data, is to transmute organization from an a priori, content-based judgment to one that can be ad hoc, context-based, socially embedded, and constantly altered."
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The Collaborative Effort to Edit: CODE
"Professor Lessig is using this wiki to open the editing process to all, to draw upon the creativity and knowledge of the community. This is an online, collaborative book update; a first of its kind."
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Can Papers End the Free Ride Online?
New York Times writes about newspapers deciding to charge for content online. Foreshadowing?
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Live animals can now be hunted on the Web, and state lawmaker wants practice stopped
Understanding the Internet generation
Blake Ross: "I want to understand now why today’s admissions climate makes students crave the decision, what’s unique about my generation that so affords this craving, and how we can make progress toward curing both."
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Madrid: Terrorism, the Internet and Democracy
Keeping the internet free and open is important to democracy
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Getting the net off the ground
Early attention to security issues might have given us a better internet today - or the project might never have taken off at all, says Robert Kahn.
The Internet Revolution has Little to do with Technology
It's all about ideas
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Why I Don't Entirely Hate Online Viral Marketing
A pretty good list of online viral campaigns
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The coming crackdown on blogging
Is the government going to crackdown on political links?
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Some data from JupiterResearch on the increase in internet usage time
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Going Online: Youth & the Internet
A brief look at the numbers of children and teens accessing the Internet and what they do online. (2003)
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On the potential for browsers to replace all local advertising...
Why this whole Google AutoLink thing might be dangerous
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Whither The Wall Street Journal?
What will the effects of the Wall Street Journal's subscriber only online model be?
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You There, at the Computer: Pay Attention
New York Times examines the attention issues associated with using computer and the internet
Why Bloglines Doesn't Need Weblogsinc's 73 Blogs To Make Money with Advertising.
Really good comments on the Bloglines taking advertisements debate
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Information Wants to be Liquid
A next generation web idea that makes each word a "hyperword"
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Symbolics.com was the first registered domain name
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Buzzing the Web on a Meme Machine
The Web is obsessed with anything that spreads, whether it's a virus, a blog or a rumor. And so the Internet loves memes.
The role the internet has played in the 2004 presidential election
Forget squeezing millions from a few megahits at the top of the charts. The future of entertainment is in the millions of niche markets at the shallow end of the bitstream.
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10 Major Trends Emerging in the Internet’s First Decade of Public Use
Once thriving, these sites are enduring tougher times as social networks online and flirting over mobile devices catch users' fancy
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Investor doesn't see browser in Google's future
And other comments from Web 2.0
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Alternative Names for MoveOn.org.
IdAppreciateChangeButIllSettleForDreadlocks.org
Top 10 Independent Web Site Hosting Reviews
Good place to find cheap webhosting
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Wired News stops capitalizing internet
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Online Diary: A Last Look at Web Destinations
Power Laws: Hype or Revelation? [ MAS 965 ]
Some "Web as platform" noodling
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"Copyright Fight" with Ziff Davis
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Why Googleworld will beat Murdoch
Internet as Unique News Source
Active Internet Users by Country, June 2004
Parents 'under-estimate' net risks
We Don't Need No Stinkin' Login
The business side of social media
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Brazilian internet usage and Orkut
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Access to original government documents through P2P
Technology Review: Messaging Tool Taps Social Nets
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Guardian Unlimited | Online | All eyes on Blinkx
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BBC NEWS | Technology | Militants weave web of terror
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Be my friend? Only on my turf | Perspectives | CNET News.com
Esther Dyson's look at social netoworking software
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Wired News: Searching for The New York Times
Usability News - Feature: Debunking Web Accessibility Myths
BBC NEWS | Technology | Rivals nibble at Microsoft's IE
Friendster allows studios to post fakester accounts to market Anchorman
Waxy.org: Daily Log: Anchorman's Friendster Marketing
Interesting possible marketing strategy
A Wikipedia of Free Culture? | Creative Commons
Pitch in
5 Predictions for web deisgn in 2004
Aviation message board breaks Edwards as VP
Dot.tv Brings Riches and Worry
Starbucks Says Wi-Fi A Success
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Wired: Building a better Mozilla
TV News in a Postmodern World, Part XXVII
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Findory Blogory: Your personalized weblog reader
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Wired News: E-Mail Snooping Ruled Permissible
It's not just Gmail, everybody can do it now
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Slate: Are the broswer wars back?
I've finally made the switch away from IE
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Online advertising predictions
Techdirt:The Personal Surfing Menace
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Sign up for the Google Newsletter
Kind of ironic that the Google Newsletter is handled by Yahoo: Groups
Anil Dash: learning from experience
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Boing Boing: A Directory of Wonderful Things
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User Registration Need Not Be Inevitable
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BBC NEWS | Technology | Net pioneer predicts web future