Android for More Than Phones

Interesting move on the mobile operating systems side. Shows that mobile devices are broader than phones and a good mobile OS could as well be powering a netbook in the future, or a STB to go... read @ CNET

The world is Receding but Internet Usage is Growing

~The same day that global ad spending is announced to be dropping at ~7% from last year, Nielsen announces that online video usage is soaring at more than 40% increase from a year ago and US people now spend more than 3 hours watching videos online.
On Nielsen Online Video report:: read an article in Mediapost

Europe Logs On:: TV on the TV or on the PC? or anywhere through the Internet?

I strongly believe that consumption of video over the internet even has a stronger appeal internationally. Outside of the US, multichannel homes penetration is much lower than in the US where ~95% of the homes have access to cable TV with more than 100s of channels, and broadband penetration is much higher (more than 80% is Northern Europe). In France, the UK, or Italy for instance, there is still a large % of the population who only has access to the terrestrial channels and who wouldn't mind having access to a wider choice, at the right price, over their broadband connections.
Microsoft just published a report going in that sense as it predicts that "Internet will take over TV as the most consumed form of media by the middle of next year".
Read the article @ReadWriteWeb.com
Download the report here

On Electric Cars

What our streets will start looking like in the next few years. From the papomobile to the James Bond-like Tesla. From TBI

On Social Networking and Video

When social networking meets TV and people realize that Facebook is the 5th largest country in the world
** Facebook EMEA's Commercial Director on 'connecting' with the iPlayer. Would make pave the way for even more mainstream social TV integration
** Facebook now 5th largest country in the world. From SA Insider with a cool map
** and someone put the words in my mouth explaining what's wrong with the recent Facebook changes and why Facebook trying to be twitter can't work. To quote the GigaOm article: "Twitter allows almost anyone to follow (or discover) anyone else based on their celebrity, interests or location. Twitter is about infinite affinity circles. Facebook is not. By allowing a torrent of status updates into our Facebook pages, the company has destroyed what made it special: its ability to construct a constantly updated newspaper about us."
** Facebook CEO on FB monetization, T&Cs, latest changes, young CEO, etc. From Business Week