Justine Toms’ blog

a very nice way to keep people longer and to entertain them, even if you are a washing machine

http://www.bannerblog.com.au/2008/05/puntomatic_tablet.php

Facebook goes more public, and threatens Google

read more here

if interested some of my presentations and lectures are already on SlideShare.net/JustineToms

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read the article here

to all my students or to those who deal with web – an old (Sept 2005), but vary important article of Tim O’Raily on Web 2.0 – main differences in between Web 1.0 and Web 2.0, definitions, key lessons

link the the article here

“In mid-2008, eMarketer calculated that UK social network ad spending would reach £175 million ($322 million) in 2009. Changes in the market have led to revisions of the 2009 estimate downward by about 20%, although that would still be a healthy increase over the £115 million ($212 million) total estimated for 2008.”

more here

“The Internet is now the most popular source of news after TV”

“In 2008, 40% of the respondents said they got most of their national and international news from the Internet, versus 35% for newspapers”

the whole story – here

sure, Youtube is Number 1 in video streaming, also according to Nielsen Online data from November 08 – 85 million unique visitors (cmpared with 83 in october)
in November YouTube delivered nearly 5.6 billion streams!

No 2 is MySpace with 20 million and No 3 7.5 million

washingtonpost.com gives a selection of best viral video on 2008

funny, silly videos quite some of us received and watched in the last months

follow this link to find them

“Blogging became a phenomenon not because of some technological advance, but because between 2002 and 2005 there were a lot of unemployed–and underemployed–individuals with a lot to say and a lot
of freetime. Bloggers like Peter Rojas, Michael Arrington, Nick Denton, Rafat Ali, Xeni Jardin and Om Malik broke out in the down market–not the upmarket.”

the whole article about good news for people who hate bad news – here