Apr 21, 2009

ReadWriteWeb Google me? I'll Google you! Google has become the de facto public record these days but most people remain in relative obscurity there and/or fear of what past indiscretions Google will expose to people who search for them. (Read More)

Apr 20, 2009

louisgray.com By Rob Diana of Regular Geek (Twitter/FriendFeed)It feels like ages ago, but it was only four months ago when the extended louisgray.com team debated whether Twitter would go mainstream. Did we underestimate Twitter and its team? No. We did not foresee who would be using it. What did we think was needed for Twitter to hit t (Read More)

Apr 20, 2009

Mashable! Each month (and often more frequently than that) we take a look at trends in social networking, by the numbers. Recently, we’ve focused on Twitter’s astronomical growth - now up better than 2,500 percent in one year - and Facebook’s climb to become top social network over MySpace. However, this month there are a few othe (Read More)

Apr 20, 2009

The Huffington Post | Full News Feed In anticipation of the release of his 33rd album, Together Through Life, Bob Dylan sat down with rock critic and MTV producer Bill Flanagan for a rare and unusually candid conversation. The first three portions of their meeting can be read at bobdylan.com, and the fourth and fifth installment can be read here and here on t (Read More)

Apr 19, 2009

Edible Apple Apple History, Featured, photography. (Read More)

Apr 19, 2009

Delicious/tag/wordpress Is blogging dead? Last year, questioning the future of the iconic weblog would have had me institutionalized. But today, in the face of the dramatic explosion of real-time social media services like Twitter, the future of blogging is far from certain.It’s not just me questioning the blog. Last week, I was in Amsterdam, with (Read More)

Apr 19, 2009

The Forrester Blog For Interactive Marketing Professionals  “We all know that young consumers, both in Europe and the US, have adopted social media avidly. But what about their parents’ generation – the Baby Boomers (those aged 43 to 63)? How are they using social media? Well, I’ve just finished a piece that looks at the Baby Boomer generation in Europe and their social media activ (Read More)

Apr 18, 2009

The Guardian Pink Floyd, the band behind Dark Side of the Moon, one of the best-selling albums in music history, have filed a lawsuit against EMI, claiming the private equity-backed firm has miscalculated royalty payments.The unprecedented legal claim is a glimpse at the fraught relationship between EMI, under the ownership of Guy Hands (Read More)

Apr 17, 2009

VentureBeat Today may very well be the end of an era. Actor Ashton Kutcher, the first man to reach 1 million Twitter followers, and Twitter co-founder Ev Williams are going on The Oprah Winfrey show today to talk about the microblogging service, and it looks like Winfrey has started tweeting (and is already approaching 120,000 follower (Read More)

Apr 17, 2009

24/7 Wall St. When Google (GOOG) reported earnings, earnings which were extraordinary during a poor economic period, for the first quarter, the company’s chatty CEO Eric Schmidt said “Google had a good quarter given the depth of the recession — while revenues were down quarter over quarter, they grew 6% year over year thanks to continued (Read More)

Apr 15, 2009

Submitted by Gleonhard from Twitter: Futurists Glen Hiemstra and Gerd Leonhard on Behavorial Targeting, the Future of Advertising and Google (video) http://tinyurl.com/c54cyj. (Read More)

Apr 15, 2009

Technorati Search for: newspaper circulation Three veteran media executives have partnered to launch a company with the goal of helping struggling U.S. news papers and other traditional media make money online by charging readers for content.Journalism Online says it " will quickly facilitate the ability of newspaper, a magazine and online publishers to realize revenu (Read More)

Apr 15, 2009

ReadWriteWeb Ten years ago the ClueTrain manifesto said that "markets are conversations" but today a more pertinent statement could be that conversations are becoming markets - or that there's a market for monitoring conversations. A whole class of technologies are emerging to help companies keep track of the conversations exploding on (Read More)

Apr 14, 2009

ReadWriteWeb Thanks to its extensibility, Firefox quickly became the favorite browser for most power users. But while extensions are a great way to make Firefox more functional, Mozilla's designers are also currently thinking about a complete redesign of the way the browser looks and feels, in order to keep up with changing usage patter (Read More)

Apr 15, 2009

The Next Web Google’s first attempts at a social network with Orkut have not proved fruitful, apart from in Brazil of course. Other more standard social networks such as Facebook, MySpace and Bebo have seen great success with large rounds of investment and major acquisitions. (Read More)

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