Monday, August 31, 2009

Hulu reaches more viewers than TimeWarner


Check out the Chart of the Day at Silicon Alley Insider: Hulu now reaches more monthly viewers than Time Warner. 38 million people watched a video on Hulu in July and it's estimated that Time Warner has 34 million subscribers... Always believed in the power of broadband...

More on real time Web

The Good the Bad the Ugly of Real Time Web or why Tweeter' success / why did Facebook buy FriendFeed.
* Read first part at Read Write Web

Friday, August 28, 2009

Web Video Viewing Breaks Records in July

More video viewing in the US in July with >1 hour average on Hulu
* Full article at Mediaweek

Monday, August 24, 2009

Targeted e-mail newsletters: Way to go?


Succesful e-mail newsletters such as Thrillist, dailyCandy or Flavorpill seem to gain advertisers traction. In the gloomy media landscape are e-mail newsletters a way to link old and new media and still get some revenues for an overall limited cost base?
* Read @ Forbes

Sunday, August 23, 2009

What makes a viral video? and a viral sequel?


Good summary article on what makes a viral video with the 10 most viral videos of all times + how they got there. To see Numa Numa again @ Lifebeyondcode

Friday, August 7, 2009

The Real Time Web


If you want to know all about this new phenomenon called 'real time web", why it's getting all the attention from Silicon Valley VCs and learn the difference between Twitter, Foursquare, Friendfeed, Ginx or Gnip, read this
* @ Businessweek

Wednesday, August 5, 2009

Allowed or not allowed to tweet?


Recent phenomenon: where can do work and social networks meet and where do they separate. After a few newspapers have forbiden their journalist to tweet, which I can understand: personal tweet or news tweet? it seem that espn is now having the same approah with its employees. Wonder if one can stop sport stars as well?
* Read @ CNET

Foursquare


Haven't tried the app yet and unfortunately they it's not available yet in London,but it does sound like the perfect mix between Location Based Services / Social Networks / yelp / party info / what are my friends doing / where are they / app. Also was happy to learn from this article that it was dodgeball v2.0.
* Read the pros & cons, how and why of foursquare and all their competitors in the same space @ mashable

Monday, August 3, 2009

New Strategy Game


Am not exactly a game person but this one sounds really tempting.... I used to play SimCity about 10 years ago so now is probably time for a new conquest civilizations type-of-game.
* Read about Dawn of Discovery @ NYT

It's the 1984 of the online world

See how ads will now track you down online and know what you eat, drink, buy and where you live
* Ads Follow Web Users, and Get More Personal @ NYTimes