Posts on ‘November 18th, 2008’

Via Tech Crunch
by Serkan Toto on November 18, 2008

Why do certain videos on YouTube become mass phenomena while the vast majority of videos just get a handful of views, if any?
Riley Crane, an American post doctoral fellow currently researching at the Chair of Entrepreneurial Risks at ETH university in Zurich/Switzerland, says he has [...]

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November 18, 2008 - 10:20 am PDT - by Ben Parr

History tends to remember only pivotal moments in time, discarding the day to day struggles. Even when the occasional diary survives, it only archives what one person does - it doesn’t track his or her interactions with others. But with [...]

Via the New York Times
By RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑA
Published: November 17, 2008
SAN DIEGO — Over the last two years, some of this city’s darkest secrets have been dragged into the light — city officials with conflicts of interest and hidden pay raises, affordable housing that was not affordable, misleading crime statistics.
Investigations ensued. The chiefs of two redevelopment [...]

Via Parent Central.ca
Angela Pacienza
November 05, 2008
Today’s youth are plugged into the world in more ways than one, according to the author of a new book that explores the so-called Internet generation.
Don Tapscott says those weaned on the Internet - people born roughly between 1977 and 1997 - are more politically savvy, socially engaged and family-centred [...]

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November 18, 2008 - 3:18 am PDT - by Mark ‘Rizzn’ Hopkins 4 Comments

A topic I’ve tackled several times here at Mashable has been the question of Hulu versus YouTube in terms of their advertising strategies. My friend Frederic Lardinois over at ReadWriteWeb brought the topic up today in [...]