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The lesson learnt by MTV Networks subsidary, Comedy Central, when it made the entire archive of “The Daily Show” available for streaming online, is that Internet TV viewing can lead to more traditional television viewing.
"Rossi declined to disclose how much Verizon paid for the "30 Rock" integration but said that in addition to fees, it provided marketing support for the show with a co-branded ad in Maxim magazine and promotional content on VerizonWireless.com."
77% of today’s online youth would rather live without television than live without the Internet.
- How Your Creepy Ex-Co-Workers Will Kill Facebook -- Facebook -- InformationWeek informationweek.com
Cory Doctorow describes how Facebook and other social networks have built-in self-destructs: They make it easy for you to be found by the people you're looking to avoid.
"Campaign microsites may be a staple of the "old model," but they are by most accounts not facing extinction—although their role will probably be diminished from star to player in a cast of channels that also includes MySpace, YouTube and widgets."
- No Man’s Blog - Facebook Applications Trends Report #1 no-mans-blog.com
A systematic analysis of the 100 most popular applications - those that have at least 1million users - in an attempt to get a better grasp on favoured activities that take place in this global playground.
Those of us older than 25 can't imagine a life without e-mail. For the Facebook generation, it's hard to imagine a life of only e-mail, much less a life before it.
- IBM Press room - 2007-11-08 IBM Predicts the End of Advertising as We Know It - United States www-03.ibm.com
Increasingly empowered consumers, more self-reliant advertisers and ever-evolving technologies are redefining how advertising is sold, created, consumed and tracked.
- The wiki way | Technology | Guardian Unlimited guardian.co.uk
Don Tapscott, the author of an eye-opening new book called Wikinomics, says that we have barely begun to imagine how the internet will change the way we live and work.
- Pew Internet & American Life Project pewinternet.org
Lots and lots of stats.
- Understanding Mobile 2.0 readwriteweb.com
The idea is that the mobile web will become the dominant access method in many countries of the world, with devices that become more hybrid and networks that become more powerful - everywhere in the next decade to come.
- Garrett Dimon / The Time is Now for Front-End Architects garrettdimon.com
Missed this first time round: "The web needs more front-end architects before poor implementations of front-end technology hobble the potential benefits of recent advances."
Here is a small collection of web design trends that I predict we will all be completely sick of in about 6 months.