Window Shoppers, Soda Jerks and Dodo Birds

Like the big blue public mailboxes, and the pay phones before that, window shoppers are diminishing; perhaps resident mall grandpas too, people-watching and purse-holding. Actual shopping - that is, comparing - is done online, even if the purchase is often offline.

Mobile Users Open To Ads, Not To Land Lines

Mobile phone users are showing an increased interest in a give-and-take advertising system. According to Harris Interactive, 26 percent of mobile phone subscribers say they'd swap attention for free stuff.

Add Facebook To Your Social Bookmark

Facebook introduced a limited beta test of social bookmarking today, hopefully without the outcry some previous new additions received not too long ago. Facebook members from California universities Cal-Berkeley and Stanford are testing the feature and as Techcrunch pointed out, the ability to socially bookmark doesn’t have the same security issues faced by other recent […]