An unwanted message The internet is not replacing advertising but shattering it, and all the king’s horses, all the king’s men, and all the creative talent of Madison Avenue cannot put it together again. Eric Clemons on why advertising is failing on the internet via mUmbrella Update: for an alternate view check out: For Your Sunday Bullshit Reading: Search Ads Are “Misdirection” Advertising
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A fantastic find from Something Changed. Now you can be on the in jokes too. Silly internet thing. Thanks, Jessica. E4 Book Of Internet Humour
Cerf is Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist - what a job title, eh? - for God Google. He discusses the need for more internet access and more bandwidth, then onto video (4 mins in) and how as this access increases, people will begin to download it -- like iTunes where you can download more music than you could listen to in the same amount of time. What do you think?
1991: They Call It "The Internet" - remember this? Highlights the sense of community and fellowship - "tapped a world wanting to connect" for individuals to "indulge deep into abiding passions". Just like social networking, online communities and of course, MMORPGs. I recently read over at Mashable! a great article on the similarities between MMORPGs and Social Media. Briefly, they compared the two online forces across a number of areas. Let’s compare these two pursuits: Friends/Contacts vs. Allies Stats and Skills/Experience Quests/Deeds vs. Accomplishments Property/Territory vs. Publication Entrepreneurism From MMORPG Gamers and Social Media Junkies More Alike Than You’d Think Being a former Diablo II addict, I couldn't agree more. ...
Big shout out to Age for this posting this fabulous video. A great insight into the web as we know it, and we will know it, in the next 5000 days. Also a great explanation of what the 'semantic web' really means. we need to get good at believing in the impossible For me, the most interesting point was about the social media sites (at 14:25) Kabillion social sites on the web, and each time you go there you have to tell it who you and your friends, you should just have to do that once.. and it shouldn't be that way, you ...
As the number of online applications and services increase, many of them in the same sector (e.g. social networking), the time it takes to load up and login to all these becomes longer and longer. The more passwords you forget, the more usernames you begin to hesitate on. Prediction: whoever manages to combine one interface drawing on all these sites and applications will soon find themselves with not only a huge market, but loyal followers. Mine are posted on the right hand side of the page. And then there are my various online applications I use for work. Moving right along - FaceBook ...