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What Is Twitter? - Twitter Explained

mohit — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 19:31:36 GMT

Quoted: What is Twitter? A popular service with social networking, instant messaging and micro-blogging features, Twitter is still misunderstood by many people.

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Alaska Airlines begins test of in-flight Internet service - TechFlash: Seattle's Technology News Source

mohit — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 03:19:47 GMT

Quoted: Alaska is introducing the service on a Boeing 737-700 flight between Seattle and San Jose this afternoon. It is free during the 60-day trial, with the airline asking travelers for help in determining a pricing plan. So, here's your chance to weigh in: How much would you pay?

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The Internet's 100 Oldest Dot-Com Domains - PC World

mohit — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 04:16:15 GMT

Quoted: 1. symbolics.com: March 15, 1985
2. bbn.com: April 24, 1985
3. think.com: May 24, 1985
4. mcc.com: July 11, 1985
5. dec.com: September 30, 1985
6. northrop.com: November 7, 1985
7. xerox.com: January 9, 1986
8. sri.com: January 17, 1986
9. hp.com: March 3, 1986

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It's Official: There Is No Bubble - ReadWriteWeb

mohit — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 14:07:52 GMT

PEG is PE/growth projections. The thing to consider is that these companies could miss their growth projections, especially if the economy tanks.

Quoted: So the next stop is the "middle 20". These are publicly traded web technology stocks with a market cap over $1 billion. In our analysis below, more than half have a PEG below 1.0, which tends to signal "bargain opportunity" to investors. (caution: of course that is only a starting point for analysis, there could be some real dogs in there).

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Metrics: Trouble in Online Adland - GigaOM

mohit — Tue, 13 May 2008 15:28:16 GMT

Some good, albeit depressing-if-you're-a-large-site, data here. These eCPM numbers are much lower than we see.

Quoted: The overall trends you pick up from the report are not that surprising. For instance, the improved monetization of small websites is because they have more focused content, which presents more targeted advertising opportunity.

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The internet in China | Alternative reality | Economist.com

mohit — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 14:01:44 GMT

Quoted: When it comes to making money online, the biggest market involves the delivery of mobile-internet content to mobile phones.
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It all sounds trivial, but a few cents here and there multiplied by hundreds of millions of users soon add up. The ringtone from a hit song, “Mice Love Rice”, generated over $10m in sales in 2005, for example.

And, regarding online communities:

Quoted: Often, says Mr Ji, the members of these communities are people who, because of the single-child policy, have no siblings and are searching for virtual friendships.

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Mobile Web: So Close Yet So Far - New York Times

mohit — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 00:43:28 GMT

This numer is actually higher than I thought.

Quoted: Similarly, surveys by Yankee Group, a Boston research firm, show that only 13 percent of cellphone users in North America use their phones to surf the Web more than once a month, while 70 percent of computer users view Web sites every day.

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Silicon Alley Insider: Almost All Consumers Now Use Web for Buying Decisions

mohit — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 02:41:26 GMT

These adoption numbers seem ridiculously high. Will look into them more closely later.

Quoted: Avenue A | Razorfish surveyed 475 consumers across "all demographics" in July. The findings show the usual divide between what the loud techno-elite minority cares about, as compared to the quiet mass-consumer majority:

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Business Models on the Web | Professor Michael Rappa

mohit — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 00:27:46 GMT

Quoted: Business models are perhaps the most discussed and least understood aspect of the web. There is so much talk about how the web changes traditional business models. But there is little clear-cut evidence of exactly what this means.

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Put down the internet and go get some fresh air | The Register

mohit — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 04:47:21 GMT

Wonder if this will start a trend...

Quoted: A leading Indian technology college is switching off internet access to try and get its students involved in a bit of real-world socialising.
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The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Mumbai (Bombay) will turn off hostel students' free internet access from 11pm until 12.30pm. Authorities hope the decision will get students talking to each other again. Mumbai has 13 undergraduate hostels.

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