I’m sure you’ve all read about Facebook adding email to their social platform. If you didn’t know that you can read Gizmodo’s report here and there are lots of others out there. It’s being mentioned as a Gmail killer and as a threat to Yahoo mail (the world’s biggest provider). It incorporates email, SMS, Facebook messaging and chat. Given that Facebook has half a BILLION people using its platform, it’s not hard to think that way.
But I don’t. And here’s why. Continue reading
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I’m not sure what to make of a new report out the other day from Flurry, a firm that tracks applications running under iOS, the iPhone’s operating system. On the one hand, it reminded me of the power of aggregated numbers; on the other hand it contains a few comparisons I think might be sort of specious. But as we do in matters of this sort, let me lay out a few things and you make up your own mind. Continue reading
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I’m sure you’ve noticed that many folks – maybe even you – spend a lot more time watching video and reading stuff on their computers than they used to. I know – I’m pretty observant. Some of what everyone seems to be watching is user-generated – weird YouTube videos of babies and dogs – some are the sort of thing you used to see more of on TV – music videos – and some actually is time-shifted TV – Hulu.
What’s been going on has only been the first step, in my opinion. What’s happening now is way more important and could bring about yet another round of media business changes. Continue reading
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