Broadband Adoption Rising In Asia

Chinese Can Only Access Video from State-controlled Companies

You knew it had to happen sooner or later: China is cracking down on Internet video. Under the new regulations, Chinese web surfers will only be able to access video from state-controlled companies. It looks like these regulations will effectively kill user-generated and other video sharing sites. However, as the AP reports, there is some uncertainty there:

Zango’s Got a Secret Crush on Facebook

Zango's at it again, showing the company will stoop to any level to serve pop-up ads to people that don't want them. What's being dubbed by security experts as a malicious social worm is brought to you via Zango and Facebook's open platform.

Yahoo’s Key To Kill AdSense

The still in testing Yahoo Publisher Network has been touted as a potential disruptive force, once it opens to more publishers.

Did Web Traffic Predict The Iowa Caucus Results?

Is there a correlation between web traffic and the results of the Iowa Caucus? Well, maybe.Hitwise's Heather Hopkins was half right a couple of days ago, all the way from England. Hopkins measured the Iowa traffic going to different candidate websites and yes indeed Barack Obama beat out Hillary Clinton.

Social Media as a Distraction

Social media is a waste of time.  There, I said it.  Yesterday, I read a long blog post by a guy I’ve never actually met.  Then I read all the comments.  Then I left a comment, offering advice he asked for. It made me no money.  It gave me no leads.  It helped me cross nothing off my to do list. I fell a few…