Political Dashboard – 2008 Presidential Election on Yahoo! News I like how Yahoo! is displaying this information. Very nice interface. (tags: yahoo elections politics visualization) Lefsetz Letter Aspen Today Instead of selling your soul to reach everybody, concentrate on your base, growing your base, organically. There’s plenty of money in the music business today. Just [...]

Big Shift to Online Ad Spend in $40B Global Auto Ad Market by 2011 – Marketing Charts Internet’s share is expected to grow from 5% in 2007 to 13% in 2011 – or roughly on par with newspapers’ share and more than all other segments but television. (tags: advertising media automotive trends forecasts) Calacanis’s “Web [...]

Retail Holiday E-Commerce Nears $19B, Heaviest Spending 10-11 AM & 1-2 PM – Marketing Charts More than half of all online dollars were spent between 9:00 AM and 3:00 PM, with the heaviest spending (26.9%) occurring during the 12:00 PM – 3:00 PM time segment. (tags: shopping trends retail ecommerce forecasts holidays) AMA: Social-Network Shopping, [...]

Managing less than 1,000 domains 101 A nice look at how to organize your domain names for amateur collectors (tags: domain names internet web 101) twitter in 2 lines Jon Burg’s take on Twitter (tags: twitter internet communication jonburg)

Facebook vs. w00t: The Web Defines Word of the Year Competition (tags: facebook culture trends woot)

Who’s Buying Electronic Arts (ERTS)? No One. It’s tough being #1 because there are very few acquirers. EA may be feeling the pain. (tags: EA videogame stocks economics electronicarts) Human Statue of Liberty | News | The Personal Site of Emil Rensing This is one fascinating find- wow. (tags: art inspirational) GorillaSpot: Go Bananas. Get [...]

Video Ad Formats – It’s Not The Technology My friend Rags has a epiphany about video ad formants (tags: advertising video media internet) Apple Macintosh Computers Likely To Gain Market Share The future looks great for Apple, if they can hold on (tags: apple economics stock market business) Online Video Entertainment In 2007, And What’s [...]

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Free in-flight Wi-Fi on JetBlue with a catch, of course I’m a huge fan of JetBlue but why would they put constraints on wifi?! (tags: jetblue internet news wifi) Hey Facebook, WTF? Stay Away From TechCrunchers Arrington is pissed (tags: talent hr employees hiring facebook) Email Marketing Statistics and Metrics – EmailLabs A great resource [...]

Digg – Digg The Candidates Do we need the primaries anymore? (tags: politics candidates) AppleInsider | iWork dents Office share; Nokia/Universal music; iPod giveaway Apple is enjoying at least a temporary surge in sales of its iWork suite at Microsot’s expense. This a rather big deal because if Apple can get the right software, people/companies [...]