(…) By growing its library of professionally produced content, Google aims to make YouTube a more attractive destination for advertisers. “As a repository of user-generated content, YouTube was not going to make it,” says Youssef Squali, analyst with Jefferies & Co. “They’re putting together the building blocks” for profitability, Squali says.
Source: BusinessWeek
The impending closure of GeoCities is an object lesson in how to get it wrong – and something that new MySpace boss Owen Van Natta should think about carefully.
Source: The Guardian
Facebook now accounts for 4.1 minutes of every 100 minutes we spend online, which is a sign that we are using the site more deeply – or just getting lost because of that new design.
Source: The Guardian
A mix of unrelated YouTube video/clips edited together to create ThruYou. In other words – what you see is what you hear.
Link: ThruYou
We’re fans of Twitter around here, in fact many Automatticians have accounts, but while the format appealed to us it really just whetted our appetite for something more, like a way for each of us to share short messages about what we’re doing or working on internally, or private messages between groups of folks. So last week Joseph Scott and Matt Thomas decided to tackle this problem and within a few days they had a new theme for us: Prologue. Imagine it like a group Twitter.
Source: blog.wordpress
