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10 Sobering Twitter Statistics

Here’s the one that jumped out at me:

• 90% of tweeting is done by 10% of Twitter users

So if 10% do all the Tweeting that gives you the “addressable” market size. Now take 1% of that to give you the “available” market size. The rumor is that Twitter has 10 million users, which using the formulae above gives an addressable market size of 100,000 users who “might” be interested in paying for a service.

100,00 paying users is NOT a sustainable business model.

Internet Marketing: 10 Sobering Twitter Statistics

How Facebook Can Ruin Your Friendships

Facebook fatigue, Twitter fatigue, RSS fatigue – it’s changed the way we interact with each other and we’re the worse for it. Life is not 140 characters, it’s not R  U OK or other abbreviated sentences. Life is richer than that.

I’m cleaning up Facebook, dropping the number of feeds (RSS) that I follow and cutting back on Twitter. It’s time for a breath of fresh air, not more digital air.

How Facebook Can Ruin Your Friendships - WSJ.com

Till Debt Does Its Part

An excellent read – it’s a political issue “not” so much an economic issue. It will all boil down to maturity. We’ll see which party has it and which doesn’t

Op-Ed Columnist - Till Debt Does Its Part - NYTimes.com

Good Morning Colorado!

Sunset In Colorado

Letter to Pelosi

Ouch. Tell us how you really feel.

 

Letter to Pelosi

Here's to the Heroes: A Military Tribute

Wow!

Here's to the heroes,
Those few who dare,
Heading for glory,
Living a prayer.

Here's to the heroes
Who change our lives.
Thanks to the heroes,
Freedom survives.

Here's to the heroes
Who never rest.
They are the chosen,
We are the blessed.

Here's to the heroes
Who aim so high.
Here's to the heroes
Who do or die.

 

Here's to the heroes
Who aim so high.
Here's to the heroes
Who do or die.
Here's to the heroes
Who do or die.

 

Windows Phone OS walkthrough

This is definitely worth a watch: http://intruders.tv/inqtv/2009/07/31/windows-phone-os-walkthrough/

Windows 6.5 in action on a HTC Diamond II

At 5:56 they show you the browser in action and around 8:50 you see “tags” in action.

Microsoft is seriously focused on Mobile.

Windows Phone OS walkthrough « INQ TV

Microsoft and Nokia to Announce Alliance for Office Today

Great – what comes next? Windows Mobile on Nokia phones? You can bet it’s already running in a lab somewhere.

TOP TEN INDICATORS THAT YOUR EMPLOYER HAS CHANGED TO OBAMA'S HEALTH CARE PLAN

(10) Your annual breast exam is done at Hooters.
(9) Directions to your doctor's office include  "Take a left when you enter the trailer park."
(8) The tongue depressors taste faintly of Fudgesicles.
(7) The only proctologist in the plan is  "Gus" from Roto-Rooter.
(6) The only item listed under Preventative Care Coverage is "an apple a day."
(5) Your primary care physician is wearing the pants you gave to Goodwill last month.
(4) "The patient is responsible for 200% of out-of-network charges," is not a typographical error.
(3) The only expense covered 100% is "embalming."
(2) Your Prozac comes in different colors with little M's on them.
AND THE NUMBER ONE SIGN YOU'VE JOINED OBAMA'S HEALTH CARE PLAN:
(1) You ask for Viagra, and they give you a Popsicle stick and duct tape.

The Tribune’s alternative universe

Just what planet are they living on. Certainly not this one. Got to love the balls on this COO though. Why not – all they can say is no and they might say yes.

The Tribune company, which filed for Chapter 11 in December, is expected to argue in bankruptcy court today that it needs to spend $70 million on executive bonuses.

"Incentivizing employees is essential to Tribune's future success. We must continue motivating our people to overcome obstacles, achieve our performance goals and take the company to the next level," the Tribune's COO Randy Michaels wrote the court in a letter earlier this month.

A Scary Reality

The economy won’t turn around until we solve this problem (see below). Tackling this should be our first priority not spending trillions to fix health care (which cannot be solve with the current approach). What is it about Washington – they just don’t get it, but when all you do is go to the Fed and shake the money tree – nothing changes.

Very sad!

Only 65 of every 100 men aged 20 through 24 years old were working on any given day in the first six months of this year. In the age group 25 through 34 years old, traditionally a prime age range for getting married and starting a family, just 81 of 100 men were employed.

For male teenagers, the numbers were disastrous: only 28 of every 100 males were employed in the 16- through 19-year-old age group. For minority teenagers, forget about it. The numbers are beyond scary; they’re catastrophic.

This should be the biggest story in the United States. When joblessness reaches these kinds of extremes, it doesn’t just damage individual families; it corrodes entire communities, fosters a sense of hopelessness and leads to disorder.

Op-Ed Columnist - A Scary Reality - NYTimes.com

The Real List Of The Largest Mobile Ad Networks—Sort Of

I found this pretty interesting. Some pretty serious competitors amongst this group.

Here’s the updated list in terms of monthly unique visitors:

1. Millennial: 45.6 million
2. Yahoo: 36.1 million
3. Google: 31.9 million
4. AOL/Platform-A’s Third Screen Media: 28.6 million
5. AdMob: 25.7 million
6. Microsoft’s MSN Ad Network: 25.4 million
7. Jumptap: 23.4 million
8. Quattro Wireless: 23 million

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Big Media Companies Navigate Free Content and Apps - (but where’s the revenue stream?)

Great article – lots of talk about apps for just about everything on the iPhone but where’s the revenue stream? One obvious one is to build advertising into the app – fine you say, but how many people will actually do something with that ad?

Hint – the people who make all the money are Apple & AT&T – nobody else is making bupkis

Big Media Companies Navigate Free Content and Apps - NYTimes.com

What’s the difference between Strategy and Tactics?

Strategy describes results – tactics describes actions that result in the strategy

What will you create?

Mobile SaaS… Enables synchronized communications between a Web server & mobile device, using real-time information from the device.  What can be created is limited only by the imagination of the Web app designers and builders!

 

Mobile SaaS…

· Device and OS agnostic – uses the browser

· Loosely coupled – one set of logic supports all devices and browsers

· Integrates User preferences, Device Capabilities, and real time Location

Other benefits…

· One platform – the Web

· One interface – the browser

· Multiple data sets – the context