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"But today at the Austin Game Developer Conference, the company told VentureBeat that it would be..."

Wed, 17 Sep 2008 08:42:28 -0700

“But today at the Austin Game Developer Conference, the company told VentureBeat that it would be opening up Lively to third-party game developers.”

- Will Google’s Lively Turn Into A Virtual Arcade? (GOOG)

"There’s nothing to do in Lively if you’re not talking to someone"

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 13:08:56 -0700

“There’s nothing to do in Lively if you’re not talking to someone”

- Virtual worlds | If you build it… | Economist.com

"It’s getting worse,” Rick Sharga, RealtyTrac’s executive vice president for..."

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 06:37:01 -0700

““It’s getting worse,” Rick Sharga, RealtyTrac’s executive vice president for marketing, said in an interview. “The number of properties that have been foreclosed on by the banks and still haven’t sold is the highest we’ve ever seen.””

- Bloomberg.com: Worldwide

"Only twice since 1965, despite half a dozen recessions, have Americans spent less in a year than the..."

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 16:21:00 -0700

“Only twice since 1965, despite half a dozen recessions, have Americans spent less in a year than the previous one. Indeed, it often seems that we have defined ourselves by our ability to buy supersized everything, from McMansions to tricked-out SUVs to 60-inch flat-screen televisions—all enabled by decades of cheap credit.”

- Consumerism: Are We Nearing The End Of Credit Card Consumerism?

"All in all, Twitter’s been preaching to the same choir for over two years. If that’s not a failure..."

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 10:26:55 -0700

“All in all, Twitter’s been preaching to the same choir for over two years. If that’s not a failure on the mainstream scale, I don’t know what is.”

- Why Twitter Has Failed: The Power of Time and Mainstream | SheGeeks

"Despite many attempts to measure “engagement” or “ROI” there still is no industry standard to..."

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 09:37:10 -0700

“Despite many attempts to measure “engagement” or “ROI” there still is no industry standard to measure the efforts of social media at the personal –and corporate level. While many have developed their own ability to measure on a one-off way, there’s no industry way to quickly –and easily agree pan-industry.”

- The Many Challenges of the Social Media Industry

"In the West, which extends from California to Colorado, 54 percent said their homes either increased..."

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 12:42:19 -0700

“In the West, which extends from California to Colorado, 54 percent said their homes either increased in value or held steady, but in reality, 88 percent of homes dropped in value.”

- Survey: Homeowners are in denial about declining housing values - Baltimore Business Journal:

"He has led GM into a situation where his choices are to cut costs or to file for bankruptcy. During..."

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 11:14:15 -0700

“He has led GM into a situation where his choices are to cut costs or to file for bankruptcy. During the booming SUV and truck years, Wagoner could have invested the profits in energy efficient vehicles.”

- With a $15.5 billion loss, can GM or its CEO survive? - BloggingStocks

2008 US Movie Box Office

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 09:44:28 -0700

2008 US Movie Box Office:

A great way to see box office returns in a visual format.

Liddle’s three stages of technology adoption

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 09:40:59 -0700

Liddle’s three stages of technology adoption:

Simple breakdown of the progression of technology development.

"These guys are drinking their own Kool-Aid. They don’t understand why Yahoo shareholders are..."

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 09:13:24 -0700

“These guys are drinking their own Kool-Aid. They don’t understand why Yahoo shareholders are upset.”

- Bloomberg.com: U.S.

Although Social Media will Normalize –Why Dedicated Roles and Direction are Required

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 09:10:51 -0700

Although Social Media will Normalize –Why Dedicated Roles and Direction are Required

Today’s Social Media Experts are the Email Experts from 1965

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 08:51:46 -0700

Today’s Social Media Experts are the Email Experts from 1965

"That’s why I’m interested in peer-to-peer approaches to delivering internet..."

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 13:12:31 -0700

“That’s why I’m interested in peer-to-peer approaches to delivering internet applications. Jesse Vincent’s talk, Prophet: Your Path Out of the Cloud describes a system for federated sync; Evan Prodromou’s Open Source Microblogging describes identi.ca, a federated open source approach to lifestreaming applications.”

- Open Source and Cloud Computing - O’Reilly Radar

Why Do Mortgage Brokers Get Paid Everything Up Front? - Freakonomics - Opinion - New York Times Blog

Tue, 29 Jul 2008 20:12:20 -0700

Why Do Mortgage Brokers Get Paid Everything Up Front? - Freakonomics - Opinion - New York Times Blog

The Illogic of Farm Subsidies, and Other Agricultural Truths - Freakonomics - Opinion - New York Times Blog

Mon, 28 Jul 2008 11:59:54 -0700

The Illogic of Farm Subsidies, and Other Agricultural Truths - Freakonomics - Opinion - New York Times Blog

"They have been living off their 19th- and 20th-century heritage for a long time. At the opening of..."

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 13:53:44 -0700

“They have been living off their 19th- and 20th-century heritage for a long time. At the opening of the 21st century, they need to redefine themselves.”

- Paris in decline

Virtual goods a fad, generational thing, or here to stay?

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 13:11:14 -0700

Virtual goods a fad, generational thing, or here to stay?:

I commonly see headlines on virtual goods like, Virtual goods starting to pan out for Facebook game app developers, and not just the venture-funded ones. Virtual goods are of course an important…

"Facebook is a generational platform. Just like AIM was the most popular social tool of the nineties..."

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 11:33:59 -0700

“Facebook is a generational platform. Just like AIM was the most popular social tool of the nineties in the US and MySpace was huge a few years ago, Facebook is the new king in the social space. Right now, it’s cool for high school and college kids to log on to Facebook, send messages to each other, and play the myriad games that make it such a compelling platform. But as those kids grow up and enter adult life, they will find other tools – much like the AIM and MySpace crowds did – and leave Facebook in its wake.”

- Why it’s Time for Facebook to Sell

"Second life is a place, its like Luton, you can play games in Luton but Luton is not a game"

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 09:16:38 -0700

““Second life is a place, its like Luton, you can play games in Luton but Luton is not a game””

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