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Internet generation smarter, quicker, more tolerant, author says

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 … Continue reading

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Poll Crashers Tilt Unscientific Polls Their Way

Via Media Shift by Simon Owens, November 6, 2008 During the Republican National Convention, NOW, a PBS weekly TV news magazine, posted an unscientific poll on its website asking viewers to vote on whether they thought vice presidential nominee Sarah … Continue reading

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Worldwide broadband prices drop 20% in less than a year

Via ARS Technica By Nate Anderson | Published: November 07, 2008 – 05:10AM CT UK analysis firm Point Topic has just released its new set of worldwide broadband figures, and the news is encouraging: broadband is getting cheaper, fast. Prices … Continue reading

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Study: LinkedIn Users Rich (But Still Annoying)

Via Tech Crunch by Michael Arrington on November 5, 2008 a study by Anderson Analytics confirms what everyone already suspects: LinkedIn users are rich. Nearly 60% of users have incomes of $93,000 or more. Executives with an average income of … Continue reading

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19% of mobile consumers in U.S. now using smartphones, according to study

Via Mobile Crunch by Greg Kumparak on November 3, 2008 As the entry fee for smartphones drops lower and lower, the wallet friendly price point found with most feature phones (or, as some might say, “dumbphones”) is beginning to lose … Continue reading

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Low Mobile Video Figures Show Networks Need to Get Smart and Play Dumb

Via Mashable November 1, 2008 – 9:52 am PDT – by Paul Glazowski I don’t know whether to think recent calculations for mobile video consumption (or lack thereof) via the four top wireless carriers in America are just a little … Continue reading

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They’ve Got Your Number

Via the New York Times By ROB WALKER Published: October 31, 2008 Maybe you’re the kind of person who doesn’t believe that the kind of person you are can be deduced by an algorithm and expressed through shorthand categorizations like … Continue reading

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New 2008 Social Technographics data reveals rapid growth in adoption

Via Groundswell by Josh Bernoff Data is my secret weapon. Every time I visit a company, we bring data we’ve collected about the social behaviors of their customers, structured according to the Social Technographics Ladder we introduced last year, a … Continue reading

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Online Video — And Our Attention Span — Get Longer

Via the New York Times By Saul Hansell Many people watch free, advertising-supported episodes of shows on sites like Hulu. The conventional wisdom is that people on computers only have the attention span to watch very short video clips. But … Continue reading

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Social Marketing and Maximizing the Post-Click Experience

Via Mashable October 29, 2008 – 4:40 pm PDT – by Kevin Barenblat At the OMMA and MIXX events last month we heard the message loud and clear – engaging users through social media is the future of marketing. The … Continue reading

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