Tuesday, April 14, 2009
What iPhone Apps Are Used Most? Hint: Not Games.
When it comes to the type of applications iPhone owners use most, ones for checking the weather trump games, music, news and everything else.
Monday, March 23, 2009
I Can Has Internet Millions
For the Web’s cognoscenti, the lolcats fad is so over. I Can Has Cheezburger, the site that sparked captioned-cat-picture mania, launched in January 2007. The online world’s early adopters learned about the phenomenon that February, when Boing Boing first linked to the site. Over the next few months, lolcats showed up in Gawker, Slate, the Wall Street Journal, and Time. Last October, Eric Nakagawa and Kari Unebasami, the site’s founders, published “I Can Has Cheezburger?: A LOLcat Colleckshun,” a book that spent 13 weeks on the New York Times paperback best-seller list.
Can Digg Keep Up With Facebook?
Looking at a regular graph of traffic data from Digg and Facebook, it would be easy to assume that Digg is lagging far behind Facebook’s staggering growth. However, Compete just produced a very different graph that compares traffic at Digg and Facebook since their respective launches, and according to this data, Digg is actually doing better than Facebook.
Thursday, February 19, 2009
Can Hulu Hold Off TV.com?
When NBC Universal and News Corp. created Hulu, they gave the video portal a valuable but short-term asset: exclusive rights to distribute NBC and Fox shows outside of the media giants’ own websites. Hulu.com has become the fourth-biggest online video distributor. But with exclusivity deal ending soon, Hulu will have to see if it can defend the audience and brand it has built.
Wednesday, December 31, 2008
S&P Sees Microsoft-Yahoo JV, Google-Apple Tensions
‘Tis the season to make year 2009 predictions. Today, Standard & Poor’s analysts released their predictions for the Internet in 2009. Internet analyst Scott Kessler says Microsoft and Yahoo will “finally bury the hatchet” next year “and decide to join forces to better compete against Google.”
Friday, October 3, 2008
Most People Don’t Realize Their ISPs Are Already Spying on Them
We recently wrote about how you should probably be more nervous about the data your ISP is collecting rather than what Google is collecting, because your ISP has access to a lot more data, and the data it has isn’t data that you chose to give, as in the case of Google.
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