November 2009
6 posts
Murdoch Proposes To Block Google
Rupert Murdoch recently talked with Sky News political editor David Speers on Sky News Australia. Murdoch has proposed that he wishes to block Google from indexing News Corporation sites. He goes on to say that he envisions a model where users would pay News Corp. for accessing news on his sites.
This seems like a desperate plea from Murdoch and it shows that Newspapers are on the decline. He...
“The key to good decision making is not knowledge. It is understanding.”
– Malcolm Gladwell
Losing Has Been Digitally Redefined
“Lose/Lose” is an Arts project conceived by Zach Gage, a digital and mixed media artist from New York. In a 1980s-style video game the application actually attacks the Mac platform, deleting users’ files as they progress through the level and shoot enemies. It is a ‘video-game with real life consequences’. Zach explains it in more detail on his website:
Each alien in...
“When we change the way we communicate, we change society.”
– Clay Shirky, Here Comes Everybody
Viral Marketing, Meet Social Media
Executive Director of the CA Milk Processor Board, Steve James, talks about the marriage of viral marketing and social media.
Social media and viral marketing are virtually interconnected (no pun intended). The success of social media — in allowing people to gather in groups of mutual interest and to share what’s meaningful in their lives — is really the foundation of viral communication. In terms...
The Viral Loop
I came across a post by Adam L. Penenberg, author of the Viral Loop, in which he talks about entrepreneurs who built multimillion- and billion-dollar businesses from scratch by ‘building virality’ into their products and services. He says:
At some point, as the number of users doubles, then triples, the company achieves what’s known as a “viral loop,” when the product spreads even if...