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  • Interesting Tidbits for May 18th

    Things worth reading for May 15th through May 18th: It is alive! The Death of Email Has Been Severely Exaggerated – Nice piece by Rapleaf CEO Auren Hoffman– finally a defense of email! Netflix Owns The Evening Web | Fast Company – Interesting data– note, though, that Netflix owns the DATA part of the evening’s…

  • Interesting Tidbits for May 10th

    Things worth reading for May 10th: YouTube – SURPRISE MUSICAL – Gotta Share! – Must see! Media Firms Become More Willing to Work With Netflix – WSJ.com – Interesting take on the turning tide for IP based VOD. Fortune Keeps Apple Story Off Web, On iPad and Kindle | Peter Kafka | MediaMemo | AllThingsD…

  • Interesting Tidbits for April 18th

    Things worth reading for April 6th through April 18th: Facebook advertising: Facebook prepares to cash in on users’ data – latimes.com – “The Palo Alto company is looking to cash in on this mother lode of personal information by helping advertisers pinpoint exactly whom they want to reach. This is no idle boast. Facebook doesn’t…

  • Interesting Tidbits for April 5th

    Things worth reading for March 16th through April 5th: IDEO: Five Companies That Mastered Social Media’s Branding Potential | Co.Design – Nice review of 5 strategies that worked. The Big Mobile and Desktop Platform Merge Is Underway: Mobile Technology News « – Nice piece from Om about a new kind of convergence: desktop and mobile.…

  • Interesting Tidbits for March 16th

    Things worth reading for March 4th through March 16th: The State of the News Media 2011 – Here’s the direct study from Pew that Reuters summarized in the next link. Online readership and ad revenue overtake newspapers | Reuters – Reuters Summary: “For the first time, online readership and advertising revenue has surpassed that of print…

  • The Shakespeare Brand: Yesterday’s iMedia Talk now UP on YouTube

    UPDATE: More of the talk now embedded below. Yesterday I had the great pleasure of speaking at the iMedia Brand Summit– an event that I’ve been intimately associated with for years but at which I’ve rarely presented while wearing my research hat.  This talk is the seed of my next book length project, and I…

  • Interesting Tidbits for March 4th

    Things worth reading for February 26th through March 4th: FCC Moves to Redirect Phone Subsidies for the Poor – PCWorld Business Center – Big news, surfaced by @shellypalmer Facebook To Share Users’ Home Addresses, Phone Numbers With External Sites – Yikes!  “Facebook will be moving forward with a controversial plan to give third-party developers and…

  • Interesting Tidbits for February 23rd

    Things worth reading for February 16th through February 23rd: Information overload? Time to relax then | Technology | guardian.co.uk – Nice piece by Mr. Doctorow: “After years of discovering a new information resource, being consumed by it, finding it too much to bear, then getting on top of it, only to find myself being sucked…

  • Interesting Tidbits for February 15th

    Things worth reading for February 10th through February 15th: HP’s Open Innovation Strategy: Leveraging Academic Labs – Technology Review – “When Rich Friedrich of HP Labs looks into the future, he sees desks used as 3-D displays, printers that automatically tailor a newspaper to a reader’s tastes, faster and more secure cloud computing servers, and…

  • Interesting Tidbits for February 9th

    Things worth reading for February 7th through February 9th: Why Didn’t a Newspaper Create The Huffington Post?: Tech News and Analysis « – More thoughtful analysis on the HuffPo/AOL marriage from GigaOm: “As author Clay Christensen outlined in The Innovator’s Dilemma, it is almost impossible for a company that has an established business in one…