#trends (65 links)
- Datasift - Tuning Your Tweets datasift.net
Gives developers the ability to leverage cloud computing to build very precise streams of data from the millions and millions of tweets sent everyday.
- Internet Trends 2010 by Morgan Stanley Research slideshare.net
- Do music artists fare better in a world with illegal file-sharing? — Times Labs Blog labs.timesonline.co.uk
- h+ Magazine hplusmagazine.com
Covers technological, scientific, and cultural trends that are changing - and will change - human beings in fundamental ways.
Reviewing is the new advertising.
- SnapStream TV Trends snapstream.com
Graph mentions of any word on national U.S. television
- The Three Sexy Skills of Data Geeks : Dataspora Blog dataspora.com
Statistics, data munging and vizualization.
- Trendrr - Track Compare Share trendrr.com
- Twist - see trends in twitter twist.flaptor.com
- stevenberlinjohnson.com: Old Growth Media And The Future Of News stevenberlinjohnson.com
A simple way to discover events people are chattering about on Twitter.
- Sideline from Yahoo! sideline.yahoo.com
An Adobe® AIR™ desktop application built with the Yahoo! User Interface Library (YUI). It allows users to create and group custom queries by topics of interest.
- Guardian Trends guardiantrends.appspot.com
Graphs of how often things feature on guardian.co.uk
- Twitter Traffic Explodes...And Not Being Driven by the Usual Suspects! (comScore Voices) comscore.com
Reuters reporter Alexei Oreskovic recently authored an interesting blog post about the demographics of Twitter users. What he discovered was that 18-24 year olds, the traditional social media early adopters, are actually 12 percent less likely than average to visit Twitter (Index of 88). It is the 25-54 year old crowd that is actually driving this trend.
- Information Architects » Blog Archive » Web Trend Map 4 - Final Beta informationarchitects.jp
New Web Trends map is nearly there.
The social sites we visit today are not just friend networks - they're also built around objects that connect people with shared interests. These social objects could be anything from a photo on flickr to a video on YouTube or a track on Last.fm.
- Wrong Tomorrow - time vs. pundits wrongtomorrow.com
What does this site do? It keeps track of predictions of the future by public figures.
- Horizon of Stars: Intersection of the web and tangible objects (manufacturing-as-a-service) simoncast.blogspot.com
Manufacturing-as-a-service removes the equipment and capital barrier to entry for new product companies. These companies can focus on product design and building the community around the product and leave the operation of the manufacturing hardware to manufacturing-as-a-service guys.
The Institute of Practitioners in Advertising, which will publish the “Social Media Futures” report compiled by Future Foundation next week, has warned that advertising agencies face growth of just 1.2 per cent a year by 2016 if the industry fails to tackle the changes to the media created by sites such as Facebook, YouTube and Twitter.
- Jeff Price: From MTV to YouTube: When the Net Pays Everyone But the Musician huffingtonpost.com
"When media giants fight over music, you know it has to be valuable. Looking, listening and occasionally buying a "good" song drives revenue, tremendous web traffic and generates big advertising dollars." Great article (with a pitch for TuneCore's new model thrown in at the end).
- Contemplating the Consumerist sale and the adpocalypse arstechnica.com
What advertisers buy when they purchase a magazine or TV ad is slice of the attention of some subset of that media object's audience [...] A web page, in contrast, is typically festooned with hyperlinked visual objects that fall all over themselves in competing to take you elsewhere immediately once you're done consuming whatever it is that you came to that page for.
- The forecast for 2009: Mobile is the key, says Goldmund Byrne of The Sun | Media | guardian.co.uk guardian.co.uk
"An increasing number of mobiles are coming with flat-rate data access as standard. Remember how much more eagerly we used the net when we stopped paying by the minute? Stop the cost clock and mobile booms. Checking mail, synching calendars. Using geo-tagging and location aware services to see what's cool and nearby for a quick impulse buy." No more in the article than that. Ranty counterpoint in the comments.
- The Computer for the 21st Century ubiq.com
"The most profound technologies are those that disappear. They weave themselves into the fabric of everyday life until they are indistinguishable from it." Must read.
- TechCrunch UK » Blog Archive » MySpace looks to mobile to take the fight back to Facebook uk.techcrunch.com
According to a recent Nielsen Mobile Advertising Report MySpace Mobile is the leading mobile social networking site in Europe, occupying first or second position in four of the five key markets measured. Visiting social networks on mobile phones is experiencing big growth in Europe.
Driven by iTunes and the iPod, Gen Y has a voracious appetite for digital music, ring tones and all things mobile.
- Communities Dominate Brands: When there is a mobile phone for half the planet: Understanding the biggest technology communities-dominate.blogs.com
As of November 2007 there were 3.3 billion mobile phone subscriptions around the world. At 6.6 billion people globally, yes, there is a mobile phone subscription for half of the planet. But that is not really the whole story. So lets delve deeper into these numbers.
- blackrimglasses - The Bottom 1.5%, up from 0% blackrimglasses.com
One of the more interesting things I’ve found is what is happening in the bottom 1.5 to .5% of the browsers that are hitting our sites. I’m starting to see devices appear en masse which are not PC’s.
- Web Worker Daily » Archive Busyness vs. Burst: Why Corporate Web Workers Look Unproductive « webworkerdaily.com
"The busyness economy works on face time, incremental improvement, strategic long-term planning, return on investment, and hierarchical control. The burst economy, enabled by the Web, works on innovation, flat knowledge networks, and discontinuous product
- Auctions on eBay: A Dying Breed businessweek.com
As consumers opt for fixed-price purchases, what happens to the company that perfected the art of online bidding—and the scores of e-auctioneers?
While artists and their handlers devote massive attention to the Web site and MySpace, the Wikipedia page is often overlooked. Recent data suggests they may want to reconsider their priorities.
- Think Different: Maybe the Web's Not a Place to Stick Your Ads - Advertising Age - Digital adage.com
"Functionality, utility [...] brings a different level of engagement from consumers [...] Because it helps [people] to get something done, they come to them with a different mindset than they do marketing communications that interrupts, whether a TV comme
- Digital Pulse | Chinwag - the UK's leading community media company for the new media industry chinwag.com
Chinwag's monthly snapshot of market conditions, career satisfaction, salary views, and more.
- Web Technology Trends for 2008 and Beyond - ReadWriteWeb readwriteweb.com
An overview of some of the top trends we cover on ReadWriteWeb; such as Websites becoming web services, Semantic Apps, Open Data, Mobile Web, Recommendation Engines.
- Web 3.0: Is It About Personalization? - ReadWriteWeb readwriteweb.com
"The easiest way to sell the Semantic Web vision to consumers is to talk about how it can make their lives easier. When machines understand things in human terms, and can apply that knowledge to your attention data, we'll have a web that knows what we wan
- russell davies: 2008 - the year of peak advertising russelldavies.typepad.com
2008 may well also be the year of Peak Advertising. In the West at least. The year in which there is the most advertising. And after that there's less and less each year.
- Thanks Striking Writers, Online Video Going Up, Up, Up, Up techcrunch.com
According to new figures from Nielsen Online some online video sites have doubled their audience since the strike began.
- Online TV Ads Suck Less Than TV Ads On TV: Study techcrunch.com
A new study by Simmons, a unit of Experian Research Services has found that consumers are 47% more engadged by ads that run with television programs viewed online than those watched on a TV set.
- DRAG-ing Your Design Down - How To Style Yourself To Anonymity » SOME RANDOM DUDE somerandomdude.net
We have fallen in love with a particular visual style and we just will not let it go. Everywhere you turn there is a gradient. Drop-shadows are surrounding us. We are pinned down by rounded corners.
"We predict internet advertising to pass three milestones over the next three years," ZenithOptimedia's forecast said. "We expect it to overtake radio advertising in 2008; to attain a double-digit share of global advertising in 2009; and to overtake magaz