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Google is getting more and more friendly with Twitter, and the Twitterverse is awash with rumors of a Google Twitter buy-out. This is very strongly denied by Twitter-bosses but it is fair to say that Google is trying to become more social. Now, Google is running a new experiment where for a select number of users, a twitter integration box will be revealed.
Google often runs small experiments where they ask small groups of people to trial test features to gather more feedback and in this case users are being ...
http://www.rev2.org/2010/10/11/google-trialling-twitter-integration/
Recently, the browser wars have begun to get interesting. For example, the launch of Google Instant and Bing’s guided search to name but a few features. Results are now being displayed in very useful boxes instead of dumbed-down single-purpose information.
Google search onebox has been going for a while and aggregates movie names, theatres and times pulling in locations of nearest films, times and even certificates. Not to be outdone, Bing went with the Bing Box which works in a similar fashion. Now Yahoo! has gone one step further and is now pulling data ...
http://www.rev2.org/2010/10/11/songkick-com-kicks-ahead/
The successful online ticketing start-up site Eventbrite is (according to its press releases) the world’s largest fastest growing event ticketing and promotion site. The site tries to make it easy for organizations to manage event administration including ticketing, registrations and promotion in a one-stop solution. They’ve managed to sell almost 18,000,000 tickets to date since their launch back before 2006.
Recently, they’ve joined the social media bandwagon by integrating ticket purchases with Facebook profiles using the Facebook connect APIs. After buying a ticket using the site, you can share the purchase via your Facebook ...
http://www.rev2.org/2010/09/24/eventbrite-gets-cosier-with-facebook/
North Carolina State (NC State) launched a new and free game on Apple’s iTunes App Store on August 27. The game is a collaboration between the school’s Distance Education and Learning Technology Applications (DELTA) program and a local gaming company, Spark Plug Games, who hosts interns from the DELTA program.
The application is a simple match-3 game on an 8 x 6 playing field with 17 levels of game play. It’s curiously addicting and is themed on the NC State Wolf mascot (hence the name, WolfMatch).
The game’s theme isn’t just window ...
http://www.rev2.org/2010/09/13/wolfmatch-north-carolina-states-first-iphone-game/
Google Buzz, the social media service that has not been as popular as expected, attracted a lot of unfavourable attention in February due to privacy concerns. At that stage Buzz, which aggregates social media content, automatically included Gmail users’ frequent contacts on their public Buzz profiles.
However even though Google quickly changed their policy to give its users a better understanding of the privacy features of the service, they still got stuck when Gmail user Eva Hibnick filed a lawsuit against the company in February.
Apparently the proceedings of the settlement of $8.5m will be ...
http://www.rev2.org/2010/09/09/buzz-lawsuit-costs-google-8-5m/
For those involved in project management, Gantt charts have become a staple. First conceived in 1896, the chart was made popular and given its current title in 1910 by Henry Gantt.
Gantt charts have come a long way since then – particularly since the invention of the personal computer. Today, Microsoft Project has become somewhat of an industry standard when it comes to producing Gantt charts.
Now there’s a new kid on the block, a recent recipient of Y-combinator money. Gantto allows you to import MS Project files or start from scratch and create Gantt ...
http://www.rev2.org/2010/09/03/gantto-now-in-private-beta/
YouTube has been working on a movie rental system for some time and the Google-owned video sharing company may soon be getting some Hollywood backing.
Google is negotiating with some major Hollywood studios to stream movies and television content through YouTube via a pay-per-view model. The Financial Times reports that they want to get this streaming by the end of the year. Movies would stream for about $5 each.
This would put Google in competition, once again, with Apple as well as with already-established movie streaming and rental services like ...
http://www.rev2.org/2010/08/30/googleflix-google-talking-pay-per-view-movies/
Beginning next month, Facebook will include location-based status updates into its makeup, allowing all 400 million-plus users to update not just with short text blurbs, but with current location as well. Twitter activated geo-location on their status as well, just in time for South by Southwest (SXSW) in Austin, Texas – one of the biggest tech gatherings in the nation.
Twitter activated their geo-location through the API in November, but did not incorporate it into status updates until yesterday. Facebook, meanwhile, updated their privacy settings (to much controversy) in November, ...
http://www.rev2.org/2010/03/10/facebook-twitter-get-into-the-geo-location-game/
Social media is taking the business of the Internet by storm and is the marketing wave of the now as well as the future. Yet social media is not nearly as social as people might like you to think. Recent events right here in South Florida proved that many of the so-called social media experts are, in fact, just self-serving marketing whiners. The social media bubble is about to burst.
Recently, the Sun Sentinel announced this year’s Best of Blogs Awards for South Florida in which fans of various ...
http://www.rev2.org/2010/03/08/the-unsocial-social-media-and-south-florida-bloggers/
The Google Chrome Blog has announced a new beta edition of Chrome, Google’s browser, which includes innovative language translation options and a new set of privacy tools. The machine translation comes as part of Google’s popular Web Monkey translation engine for the Web while the new privacy tools are what many users have said Chrome should have had from the get-go.
eWeek says that the new updates come when Chrome has reached 5.6% of the browser market share. The polyglot language options for Chrome are very unique ...
http://www.rev2.org/2010/03/02/google-chrome-beta-release-gets-privacy-language-translation/
Watch out Netflix, the Disneyland of retail is moving into streaming movies. In a surprise move, Walmart announced the takeover of VUDU, a little-known provider of digital movie and entertainment content. The company has been embedding itself over the past three years into HD-ready televisions and Blu-ray players while at the same time brokering licensing deals with major movie studios and distributors.
According to the New York Times on the issue, less than 5% of HD TVs can connect to the Internet directly. Walmart, obviously, wants to ...
http://www.rev2.org/2010/02/23/walmart-gets-into-the-movie-business/
Google admitted to BBC News that they made some big mistakes with the new social service called Buzz. When Buzz released, it faced a sudden (and unexpected) backlash from several fronts, almost all concerned with privacy issues related to the service. Most of this was probably due to one simple mistake on Google’s part: lack of testing before launch.
Google now admits that they didn’t run the usual trials with external users (users outside of the Google intranet), as they normally do, and that mistake meant there were a lot of things ...
http://www.rev2.org/2010/02/16/google-buzz-has-flaws-theyre-working-on-it/
At the Mobile World Congress 2010 today, Microsoft unveiled the Windows Phone 7 Series, now known as Windows Phone. A lot of hype and hoopla has buzzed around with this announcement, which came as a surprise to most in the press. Looking through that hype, the question remains: is this really something new and revolutionary from the Seattle Giant or is it just the same old Windows Mobile with a new name?
The first step is the hardware requirements for the new phone OS itself. Ina Fried ...
http://www.rev2.org/2010/02/15/windows-phone-new-and-daring-or-same-old-mobile/
The Wall Street Journal reported yesterday that Gmail, Google’s email service, is going to rival Facebook and Twitter. Then USA Today did the same, targeting Facebook as the next one to receive a Google bomb. The two media giants got the scoop, but probably missed the core of the whole situation.
That is centered on who, if anyone, Gmail is really targeting and Business Insider’s Nicholas Carlson thinks it’s Twitter, not Facebook. He’s got a good point, though, but he misses the reason that Facebook ...
http://www.rev2.org/2010/02/09/googles-twitter-killer-or-just-more-buzzkill/
Facebook is redesigning their home page, at long last. Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook founder, announced a teaser to the changes on the Facebook Blog last night in celebration of the social media site’s 6th anniversary and 400 millionth user. Later, on the same blog, Jing Chen introduced the new updates.
Some of the new improvements include putting more core features right on the front page in easily-accessible menu options. The features are rolling out slowly, with about 100 million users having it as of this writing ...
http://www.rev2.org/2010/02/08/facebook-getting-a-facelift-full-featured-webmail/
Apple finally made the announcement about their new touch screen (“tablet”) computer called the iPad yesterday and today, every tech site on the ‘Net seems immersed in commentary and speculation about how the device will measure up, how much it looks like an oversized iPhone, and who can best guess the “big picture” on the thing.
Let’s look at an iPad reality check instead.
As we reported yesterday, McGraw-Hill’s CEO leaked information about the device that he probably shouldn’t have. That seems to have angered Steve Jobs, ...
http://www.rev2.org/2010/01/28/enough-about-the-ipad-already/
Twitter has changed how new users just signing up find others on the app. Rather than the old, random, Suggested User list of (mostly) celebrities, Twitter has installed a new Suggestions list based on topics. The change was officially announced on the Twitter blog today.
Each of about twenty categories (including Books, Fashion, Tech, and the like) has a floating list of users that Twitter keeps track of. Active users are Twitter are categorized by the subject matter of their posts and their activity level. Those who are most ...
http://www.rev2.org/2010/01/22/twitters-new-suggested-user-list-better-than-before-at-least/
The founder of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, went on stage Saturday, joining TechCrunch founder Michale Arrington at the Crunchies. Zuckerberg talked about Facebook, the social media revolution, and privacy. He flatly stated that the age of privacy is over now and if he were to start Facebook as a new startup today, he would make user information public from the get-go.
Explosive words, for sure, and his explanations of why this is are being analyzed and re-analyzed by websites everywhere. Why? Well, Facebook is the largest social networking venue on the planet ...
http://www.rev2.org/2010/01/11/privacy-schmivacy-facebooks-zuckerberg-says-it-doesnt-exist-anymore/
Rumors have been flying about the (as yet unconfirmed) Apple tablet device that’s supposedly been in the making for quite a while now. Now, The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Apple will be shipping the new tablet in March, after making an announcement later this month.
Their description gives the new (unnamed) Apple tablet a size of aout 10 inches square with Wi-Fi connectivity and possibly two finishes (looks) for the touch-screen computer. Price guesses range from $1,000 to $3,000.
Every industry analyst is in the game of speculating ...
http://www.rev2.org/2010/01/05/apple-tablet-coming-in-march-and-with-3d-graphics/
A funny Web app from the Netherlands is the Web 2.0 Suicide Machine. Through it, users can commit (virtual) suicide to kill off their accounts on various social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, etc. The app graphically shows your accounts in their death throes before the final snuff-out. Noticing the 50,000+ users who had nixed their accounts through the machine, Facebook banned the IP addresses the site uses, without comment.
The Suicide Machine is not a forced endeavor, but a voluntary decision by people who really want to get ...
http://www.rev2.org/2010/01/04/the-web-2-0-suicide-machine-facebook-responds/
Speaking of the Nexus One.. Someone got their hands on one and made a 10 minute video of the phone in action. It’s been leaked to YouTube.
The video shows off many of the capabilities of this iPhone Killer. It appears to play very clean video streams, connect almost seamlessly with Google Apps, Android apps and impressive user interface. This video comes from TheNextWeb (there is no sound):
http://www.rev2.org/2009/12/31/nexus-one-video-demo-leaked/
Not only does this site have a fun name (quick, say it! “Toooooooobla!”), but it’s got a good idea behind it too. Toobla.com is a collection and sharing portal for all things Internet. Think of it as Delicious with pictures.
If something is on the Web, you can share it through Toobla. The difference being that everything presented in your albums on the site is in pictoral form: whether it be screen captures, photos, stills from videos, or whatever. Instead of just a bare link (ala Delicious), Toobla offers ...
http://www.rev2.org/2009/12/04/toobla-collecting-and-sharing-your-life-web/
Putting together an event with several groups involved can be a real pain. When it involves a lot of people traveling in to participate, multiple offices, and more, an event planner can literally start to go nuts with all of the details. Especially if they don’t have the staff to work the event.
StaffReservations.com combines the needs of the travel director and the event planner so that both can more easily work together to make the event go off without any problems. This way the event planner can set ...
http://www.rev2.org/2009/12/03/staff-reservations-collaborating-staff-directors-and-event-planners/
This is another one of those apps that should have a giant warning sign on it when you go to get it: WARNING This app is extremely addicting. Clear your calendar!
It’s the latest experiment from Google. Building Maker’s idea is to create three dimensional buildings from Google Earth aerial/satellite photos, street views, and simple geometric shapes. Sound simple? Ya, right. If you’ve ever played SimCity or a sim(ilar) game, you know that simple doesn’t mean boring. After a couple of hours of building building (ha), you start to realize that ...
http://www.rev2.org/2009/11/10/googles-3d-building-maker/
If you have a blog or website where you publish product reviews, you’ll be interested in this. Here at Rev2, we obviously do reviews and so the new FTC rules will apply to us. Those rules, under the Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising, material connections to the products mentioned have to be disclosed. Here at Rev2, of course, we do not receive compensation for the apps and websites we review, but we’ll still be subject to the new FTC regs.
This new service, CMP.ly, hopes to help ...
http://www.rev2.org/2009/11/06/cmp-ly-shortening-the-ftc-rules-the-easy-way/
So you have the next hottest startup idea burning your idea tree and ready for development. All you need is a good name for it and a domain to match. Easy right? “Not so fast,” your marketing sense tells you. In order to hit it big on Web 2.0, you need a short, catchy, and brandable domain and name. “MyKillerNewStartupPlanForWeb20.com” is not exactly, shall we say, memorable.
There aren’t very many short domains available anymore. Even 5-character wonders like “9oxt3.com” are hard to get and aren’t exactly useful. BrandBucket.com ...
http://www.rev2.org/2009/10/30/brand-bucket-short-memorable-phonetic-domain-names/
Is there really a need for another online survey tool? Survey says: yep, if it’s more than just a Facebook app or lame “get paid to take…” offer.
Survs.com is a new survey-making tool and service that has recently come out of closed beta. The site offers survey building, hosting, and statistical delivery tools for building professional surveys with third-party verification. Nothing new there, really.
What changes is the survey tool itself and how it can build a survey using logical progression. So the flat, one dimensional surveys most ...
http://www.rev2.org/2009/10/26/survs-online-survey-tool-with-logic/
If you’re idea of great pizza starts with a “D” or has the word “Hut” in it, then you probably don’t need to read any further. On the other hand, if your pizza requires a stone oven, charcoal grill, or something other than a conveyor belt with a heat source, then you’ll be interested in this.
Whether you own the restaurant or you frequent pizza joints, you probably have things you think could improve or are wondering how great your favorite pie really is. Enter thePizzaExperts.com.
Building on the unexpected huge ...
http://www.rev2.org/2009/10/16/the-pizza-experts-prowling-for-the-good-pie-so-you-dont-have-to/
File this under “that’s nutty awesome.” It’s an extremely simple idea and is probably as old as ASCII itself, but turning plain text upside down has been the stuff of cyber-trickery for all of our modern age. Now, with the latest communication tool being Twitter, comes Tweact.com.
This is one of those things that despite being as old as the byte it’s based on, it never seems to lose its novelty. No matter what, it’s always going to make people look twice at what you’ve sent, even if it’s ...
http://www.rev2.org/2009/10/14/tweact-flip-your-tweets/
The idea behind Perpetually.com isn’t new, but it’s definitely something that’s always been improved upon as technology gets better. Websites are dynamic things and the content on a site is often changed over time or even replaced altogether. With the exception of a few archive sites like Internet Archive’s Way Back Machine, there really isn’t a good way to keep content intact and there definitely isn’t one for keeping it in context.
Just launching a couple of weeks ago, Perpetually is a very slick startup that gives a ...
http://www.rev2.org/2009/10/08/perpetually-site-backups-for-historical-recording/
There are a lot of ways to communicate your story to the world. But on your website, you have just three options. Text, graphics and video. Why is it that 99% of the communications are in text form, when all the studies show that people aren’t reading text but rather scanning it.
Your website has the capability to be a full fledged HD broadcast center, though most just use it for an online brochure. With that in mind, check out an explanatory video I saw on how Skype works. This ...
http://www.rev2.org/2009/09/15/why-type-it-when-you-can-show-it/
Would really appreciate it, if you guys could vote for the panel I have suggested to the South By Southwest (www.sxsw.com) community. There is a good chance with many of your new votes, that I could finally get to present there. It is something I have wanted to do for a few years, but never found the proper subject to discuss.
So if you could please vote for my panel at this link http://pie.im/sxsw for SXSW 2010. THANKS!! You might have to sign up, but it takes a second and ...
http://www.rev2.org/2009/08/17/sxsw-2010-interactive-vote-for-my-panel/
If you’ve got a pet, specifically a dog, you’re probably a little worried about what to do if something happens or tired of sitting on hold or making a guess when those little injuries come up. Maybe your dog got a bee sting and is itching too much, or maybe she got in a fight and has a swollen cheek.
Well, a trip to the vet can cost $100 just to walk in the door. Often, the problems are minor and easily taken care of yourself, if you just know ...
http://www.rev2.org/2009/07/13/petmd-now-on-the-iphone-dog-app/
Remember the print-your-own biz card kits at Office Max that used MS Word templates to make business cards you could print on your printer? Then came VistaPrint with their online business card designer software. Now there’s Business Card Star, which mixes the two ideas together.
To nutshell it, Business Card Star is a Web-based biz card designer similar to VistaPrint, but instead of being stuck with their system and having to use them as your exclusive printer for your card designs, you can download the finished product as a PDF ...
http://www.rev2.org/2009/06/20/businesscardstar-design-business-cards-for-free-online/
When Facebook announced that they were going to implement user names (vanity names) on the site, some buzz started amongst users. When Facebook started promoting the change by giving it a virtual “countdown” to the implementation, the buzz became a real roar.
Twitter was aflame with “OMG! Have you chosen your Facebook name yet?” and “Facebook announces vanity names. Y U need one for your social marketing.”
These were endlessly retweeted and nearly every Facebook profile started sporting status messages like “My new name’s gonna be CAPTAINX” ...
http://www.rev2.org/2009/06/19/facebook-usernames-are-used-for-what/
Launching a start-up in today’s dot-com graveyard requires two must-have conditions to even get funding: You need to align with one of the few industries able to thrive during a recession, and you need instant (Wall) Street cred.
Hara.com has both of these. First, it’s in the green space, focusing on carbon limits and other Mother Earth dieting tips espoused by President Obama. And second, one of Hara’s partners is…Former Vice President Al Gore. Who else, right? Odds are, one way or another, Hara employees will be rubbing ...
http://www.rev2.org/2009/06/15/hara-looks-to-court-green-biz-with-presidential-appeal/
Since we’ve been doing so much about Twitter lately, it was time for Rev2 to have a good look at the most popular of Twitter apps: online photo services. Two things Twitter doesn’t supply are photo embedding and hosting.
With the ever-growing field of Twitter apps attempting to fill in the gaps that Twitter leaves open, it’s sometimes hard to figure out what to use and why. Especially with photo hosting apps targeted at the tweet stream. We’ve narrowed the field down to five great apps you’ll want to look at.
Our ...
http://www.rev2.org/2009/06/12/the-best-photo-sharing-app-on-twitter/
Here is a new post-modern twist on a popular idiom:
If the road to hell is paved with good intentions, then the scholarly path that earnest researchers take while stumbling upon “2 girls 1 cup” is paved with domain name liberalization.
We think that makes sense.
OK, ok, maybe we’re crying wolf. But when the green light flashes on the new domain feeding frenzy, the old whitehouse.com vs. whitehouse.gov debacle may look like a footnote in the domain name confusion manifesto.
Here is what we’re talking about: Beginning shortly, companies and municipalities will be able ...
http://www.rev2.org/2009/06/11/domainconfusion-who-should-police-web-domain-names/
We received a few requests to look over currency converters and pick our favorite. This sounds a lot easier than it is. There are literally hundreds of online currency converters out there, not including the plugins/widgets being used on various financial websites. So we narrowed the list by cutting out those that just don’t have the traffic to justify their website.
That left us with some pretty good picks. We tried each of these, wrote out pros and cons for each, and compiled the results. Here’s our top five, listed in descending order with the best being the last.
http://www.rev2.org/2009/06/06/the-best-currency-conversion-site/
The new Palm Pre is set to hit the streets, via the Sprint network, tomorrow. Sprint is hoping this will be their new flagship smartphone. AT&T and Verizon are hot on Sprint’s heels, waiting for the relatively short exclusivity contract with Palm to end so they can get in on the Pre action too.
Although Verizon Wireless’ CEO made claims last week that it would be putting the Pre on its network in about six months, the CEO of Sprint, Dan Hesse, says that’s inaccurate. While he wouldn’t give a tim period, he says ...
http://www.rev2.org/2009/06/05/apple-to-launch-new-iphone-to-compete-with-new-palm-pre/
Google has opened Google Squared to the public. The announcement came on Google’s blog Wednesday afternoon, posted by Alex Komoroske, the Associate Product Manager for Google Squared.
Of course, you’ll probably recall that Google showed off this new spreadsheet-style search about three weeks ago. Now that it’s open to the public, we at Rev2 got a chance to check it out and see what it can do. While the fanfare around its announcement initially compared it to Wolfram Alpha and said it would revolutionize search, I think that’s a ...
http://www.rev2.org/2009/06/04/google-squared-debuts/
Microsoft’s new Bing search engine has debuted, very quietly, and is already the talk of the ‘Net. Contrary to what you might have heard, Bing does not stand for “But It’s Not Google,” though that might be a close approximation of what it is.
Bing is pretty, that’s for sure. It has a very nice layout and a great way of organizing results. Much better on the eyes, in my opinion, than Google. It doesn’t yet have the ability, but it will soon have alternate skins available to customize the ...
http://www.rev2.org/2009/06/01/the-bing-bling/
WolframAlpha.com, the new information search tool, has been up and running for over a week now. If you want to know exactly how long, just put “how old are you?” in the search box and WolframAlpha will tell you.
That is one of many little Easter Eggs that the search tool has in it. The new site has a lot of interesting uses–I’m beginning to use it regularly. Here’s our favorite list of WolframAlpha eggs so far. Type them in (or cut-and-paste) to see how Wolfram reacts:
Hello
Why did the chicken ...
http://www.rev2.org/2009/05/26/rev2s-favorite-wolfram-alpha-easter-eggs/
Once again, Facebook is all over the tech and business news. The fast-rising star of the social networking planetarium is on the verge of surpassing MySpace as most-used and is becoming the target of lawsuits and speculation. Like any Hollywood star, Facebook is getting massive publicity and papparazzi-style scrutiny.
The latest news is with the Russian investment group, Digital Sky Technologies, and their move to put $200 million into Facebook, valuing the social networking giant at $10 billion, according to the Wall Street Journal. There’s no ...
http://www.rev2.org/2009/05/23/want-a-seat-on-facebooks-board-2-billion-please/
As you might have noticed, VOIS.com recently acquired Rev2.org, and Craig Agranoff, who has been filling in for me for the last year or so, has now taken on the blog full-time as Editor.
The decision to sell Rev2 came as a difficult one seeing it has been a part of my life for the last five or so years, but given my lack of time and neglect for it, it was either a case of watching it die a slow death with the lack of content and missed hosting bills, ...
http://www.rev2.org/2009/05/18/a-last-word/
In seven days, the erotic services section as you know it on Craigslist will end. No more listings are being accepted and all current listings will expire at or before that time. This is due to pressure from state and local law enforcement over the legalities of the services often listed there.
The cost for posting to the “adult services” section will double. While initially this money will be donated to charity, Craigslist CEO Jim Buckmaster has said that this is temporary. The money will likely go to fund new human ...
http://www.rev2.org/2009/05/13/no-more-erotic-services-on-craigslist-mostly/
There’s a lot of buzz about Microsoft’s latest ads aimed at iTunes. Apparently, the four Laptop Hunter ads Microsoft ran to target the price difference between Macs and PCs have been well-received. These new ads targeting iTunes (to promote Zune) are along the same vein.
What Microsoft is doing is finally standing up and getting aggressive in the advertising game. Up to now, most of MS’ policy was to sit and wait. I guess they got tired of that. Apple has a lot to deal with ...
http://www.rev2.org/2009/05/12/the-microsoft-vs-apple-ad-game/
As many of you know, I am involved with several websites including VOIS, which I am a co-founder of. Please hear me out this is not a shameless VOIS plug. I have never written about my involvement with VOIS on here before, but I feel that what happened to me last week is lesson we could all benefit from. As I said something pretty exciting happened to me recently and I wanted to share my experience in hopes of helping others achieve the same possible results.
Like other dreamers out ...
http://www.rev2.org/2009/05/04/how-i-created-one-of-the-fastest-growing-twitter-apps-for-under-1000-ssing-voiscom-and-you-can-too/
USA Today is reporting that Apple is in serious talks with Verizon Wireless about a possible iPhone for Verizon’s CDMA network. Apple’s exclusivity deal with AT&T ends in 2010.
While AT&T might attempt to persuade Apple to renew the exclusivity deal, it’s up to question whether Apple would be better served if they did so. Right now, the iPhone accounts for a large part of AT&T’s customer base. As much as 40% of new customers to AT&T are iPhone users.
Roger Entner, Nielsen rating’s head of telecom research, says ...
http://www.rev2.org/2009/04/27/apple-and-verizon-talk-iphone/
Two things fill the Twitterverse right now: discussions of how badly Twitter is performing and worries about how large it’s getting in such a short amount of time.
I’m sure the folks at Twitter are ecstatic about a 95% growth rate in just one month (users went from 9.8 million to 19.1 million in just one month, according to TechCrunch and comScore). Most of those users are outside of the U.S., it appears. Those numbers, by the way, are highly conservative. They only count hits to ...
http://www.rev2.org/2009/04/24/twitter-spins-out-of-control-the-planets-axis-in-peril/
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