Musings Archive

• 0October 12, 2010

  The Rise Of Online Advertising

  Online advertising is showing healthy gains this year. During the first half of 2010, online advertising revenues were up 11.3 percent to $12.3 billion, according to a new report from the Interactive Advertising Bureau and PriceWaterhouseCoopers (embedded below). At this rate, the report estimates that online ad revenues for the full year should surpass the 2008 peak of $23.4 billion. [...]

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• 2October 10, 2010

  Google TV

  Google TV - a software and hardware platform for set-top boxes and HDTVs based on the Android operating system and co-developed by Google, Intel, Sony and Logitech - is beginning to roll out into the marketplace. This could possibly mark the beginning of the next big thing, as true Internet TV becomes a reality. The really exciting part will be how developers utilize this new medium to create new [...]

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• 0July 19, 2010

  What the F**k is Social Media NOW?

  It’s that time again! Time for another asterisk-ridden diatribe on the state of the state in social media (for those of you who prefer asterisk-free diatribes, here’s a cleaner version)!
  Except this year, we’re not merely asking “What the F**k is Social Media?” We’re asking “What the F**k is Social Media NOW?”
  In 2008, when we published the original What the F**k is Social [...]

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• 0July 08, 2010

  iPhone: The Art of the Launch

  Over the years Apple has taken product launches to new heights. Whether it’s due to hype, technological breakthroughs, or simply a loyal fan-base, Apple has, indeed, perfected the art of launching a new product. Thanks to the good folks at GigaOm we have breakdown of one of Apple’s most successful products, and launches… the iPhone. It happens every year and every year it gets bigger, [...]

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• 0July 07, 2010

  The Facebook Economy: Economics of The Ecosystem

  There are 550,000+ apps that are used on Facebook. Seventy percent of users engage with apps each month. There are one million app developers. Zynga, the top app developer, made $250 million in 2009. Of that amount, $80-$150 million is estimated to be profit, more net profit than Facebook itself made.
  The most popular Facebook apps are: [...]

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• 0June 17, 2010

  The New Xbox Experience: E3 Keynote

  It’s official, Project Natal has moved beyond its codename pseudonym and received its official name… Kinect. I think it’s perfect. Combining the key aspects of the Xbox 360 add-on: Being virtually connected to our consoles with the physical kinetic attribute of how we will be controlling them in games, entertainment, and more.
  One of the coolest things about the new Xbox 360 Experience [...]

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• 0June 10, 2010

  WWDC 2010 Keynote Takeaways

  Apple’s iPad has sold over 2 million units in less than 2 months, selling 1 iPad every 3 seconds.

  Proving that Steve Jobs really knows how to pick his catch-phrases (in a classic Jobs moment) he opens the Keynote with a customers email to Jobs claiming that he has experienced the truly “magical” powers…

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• 0May 12, 2010

  Web 3.0: The Movie

  A story about the Semantic Web by Kate Ray
  Whether you call it Web 3.0, the Semantic Web, or the Giant Global Graph… due to the massive amounts of information on the web, relational databases with linked data are inevitable. The above, roughly 15 minute, video provides a good overview of the semantic web, which is essentially a move to “extend principles of the Web [...]

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• 1May 10, 2010

  Social Media Revolution 2 (Refresh)

  If Facebook was a country, it would now be the third largest country in the world. It passed the U.S. earlier this year and is now eclipsed only by China and India in terms of raw population. That mind-boggling statistic — along with a few dozen more — are showcased in the above video, demonstrating social media’s explosive growth in recent years. Based on the book Socialnomics by Erik Qualman, the video [...]

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• 0April 29, 2010

  March 2010 U.S. Online Video Rankings - comScore

  comScore Releases March 2010 U.S. Online Video Rankings
  YouTube Viewers Watched Average of 96 Videos per Viewer in March
  RESTON, VA, April 29, 2010 – comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released March 2010 data from the comScore Video Metrix service showing that more than 180 million U.S. Internet users watched online video during the month. [...]

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