Posts on ‘October 6th, 2008’

Via ARS Technica
By Jon Stokes | Published: October 06, 2008 - 08:30AM CT

IT consumerization—i.e., the growing use of “consumer”-oriented devices in the enterprise—is one of the major business trends that we’ve been tracking here at Ars, and last week Citrix, like some other large businesses, made a major move in this direction, though with a lot more [...]

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by Erick Schonfeld on October 3, 2008

Apple’s stock took a temporary 10-point hit this morning after a false report surfaced on CNN’s iReport that Steve Jobs had a heart attack. The report has been removed, but only after Silicon Alley Insider and others confirmed with Apple that Jobs did not have a heart [...]

Via Mashable
October 3, 2008 - 4:43 pm PDT - by Mark ‘Rizzn’ Hopkins 

 A new report was issued today by eMarketer that showed a distinct pattern of growth in video advertising spending over the next five years, with percentage increases year over year between 5% and 12%. In dollars, they predict that video ad spending, which [...]

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October 4, 2008 - 2:47 pm PDT - by Paul Glazowski 

You’ve likely heard often enough about YouTube channels established by news media organizations to distribute material to Web users in a place many are expected to frequent. But do you take those sources up on their offers? Do you subscribe? Do you follow?
This week, [...]

Via Gerry McGovern
by Gerry McGovern
We don’t scan a webpage. Instead, we scan a particular block or section of it.
I was working with a company who, based on research, had discovered a top intranet task. It was interesting that the web team initially had no idea what this task was about, even though there was huge [...]

Via Tech Crunch
by Michael Arrington on October 5, 2008

It took iTunes nearly three years to get to 1 billion song downloads. MySpace Music streamed a billion songs in just a few days after it launched on September 25. And while this isn’t a fair comparison (songs on MySpace are free to stream; on iTunes users [...]

Via ARS Technica
By Julian Sanchez | Published: October 05, 2008 - 11:30PM CT
Review

The Future of Reputation: Gossip, Rumor, and Privacy on the Internet
Daniel J. Solove
Yale University Press
256 Pages

Understanding Privacy
Daniel J. Solove
Harvard University Press
272 pages
“I know I got a bad reputation,” sang Freedy Johnston in his minor mid-90s college-radio hit, “and it isn’t just talk, talk, [...]