Americans Spend Less Time On Social Networks
I’ll admit it: I’m not the most social person you’ll ever meet. In fact, it seems like a lot of Americans aren’t all that social, compared, at least, to people from South Korea, Brazil, China, and Mexico. This is one of the findings of a new Ipsos Insight study.
Jakob Nielsen Hates Blog Posts, Comments
Little quick-hit blog posts (should we call them blosts?) and comments left on other blogs don’t do enough to attract truly desirable customers to sites.
Google Introduces AdWords Automotive Newsletter
Google caters to a lot of specialized interests and industries – with a market cap of almost $170 billion, the company can afford to be versatile. Yet a new AdWords newsletter addresses a topic about which I’m especially enthusiastic: cars.
Internet Use Below Average In Asia-Pacific
In May there were 284 million people in the Asian- Pacific region who accessed the Internet, according to a comScore World Metrix study.
Verizon Cuts Copper, Installs Incentive To Invest
A chief argument against Net Neutrality has been that it will remove incentive to invest. Recent moves by Verizon to lock customers into fiber shows that the incentive is most certainly present, and the company will do what is necessary to muscle the future into being.
Scoble on the Adobe AIR Bus
Adobe invited me to come along on part of its On AIR Bus Tour. I’ll be making the trip today up to Seattle. We leave at 6 a.m. from Adobe’s buildings in San Francisco. There’s going to be a live video feed. It’ll be interesting to see what happens. AIR stands for “Adobe Integrated Runtime” and is Adobe’s competitor to Microsoft’s .NET and Sun Microsystems Java. Basically it lets you move Web apps onto the desktop and out of the browser. Offline and all that fun stuff.
Sesam.se Seals Deal With Blinkx
Sesam.se launched in November of 2006, and “is now Sweden’s leading search engine.” That’s pretty impressive, and thanks to a partnership with Blinkx, Sesam.se is set to take another leap: it will gain access to 12 million hours of video.
Maps Get A Makeover At Local.com
One week ago, Local.com declared that it had secured a patent “For [An] Ad-Supported 411 Local Search Model,” and the company’s stock skyrocketed as a result. Today’s announcement, which involves “Enhanced Interactive Mapping Capabilities,” is less likely to produce that effect, but it’s still interesting.
Google, Yahoo Quietly Develop Social Networks
So Google’s Orkut hasn’t taken off where it counts and the company missed its chance to buy MySpace for the half the price News Corp. paid for it. And Yahoo couldn’t get Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg out of bed long enough to negotiate a successful buyout. Must be why both of them are working on new social networks on their own, on the sly.
Calacanis & Godin – Ultimate Linkbait?
‘Link Bait’ Or ‘Link Worthy’, Are The Lines Becoming Blurred? That’s a topic that is being currently discussed in the Cre8Asite Forums. With Google putting so much emphasis on links, there is a natural tendency to drum up as many links as you can. ‘Link Bait’ Or ‘Link Worthy’ almost seems to revolve around whether […]