Darren Herman

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 stop [...]

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 3.0″ was right?
(tags: [...]

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, Cause-Related Marketing top [...]

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 Creative.
My friend Athan launched his [...]

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 To Come in 2008: Our LA [...]

Epic Fu – Josh Spear
An underground show that’s emerging and is on the verge of going mainstream. Check it out – weekly updates. All popculture/technology related.
(tags: show technology popculture culture internet video)

Plenty of Fish, Fark and Vampires founders ask, ‘Who needs VCs?’ (Tech Confidential – VC Ratings)
From the Always-On Summit. Inspirational here.
(tags: [...]

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 on information about email marketing
(tags: email marketing [...]

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 may be more [...]