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“If you’re looking for a way to connect your calendar /…/ with all the social/Web 2.0 parts of your life /…/ it’s cheers for 30Boxes. If you’re looking for an all-around dependable online Calendar /…/ then it’s a solid victory for Google.”

“Trib Local targets nonconsumers /…/, uses a business model with a drastically lower cost structure, aims to be ‘good enough’ /…/, is starting in limited locations to minimize risk and discover what may need to be re-vectored /…/.”

Videoannonser.

“Clearly, when the notion of a ‘primary’ locale was introduced to V2.0, the system really should have asked me/checked it’s assumption rather than make a guess in the background.”

“Here’s my solution: Start a ‘criticism blog.’ Put all those questioning and critical letters in the blog, and like a blog quote and respond. /…/ Open up comments on each post.”

“if they want to come to the social media party, they need to – like any /…/ new-guy-on-the-block crashing a party – make sure they come with beer. And if they really want to be liked, they ought to also order the pizza and definitely help clean up.”

“Teresa invented a technique called disemvowelling – removing the vowels from some or all of a fiery message-board post./…/ this /…/ leaves the words intact, but requires that you read them very slowly – so slowly that it takes the sting out of them.”

“If your paper is thinking about video delivery, check-out Brightcove”

“What’s radically changed during the past dozen years is the balance of the supply & demand equation. It’s shifted from scarcity to surplus for consumers.”

“Around our home, that ‘ding’ sound produces Pavlovian responses. Both Betsy and I dive to our computers to see what the “Ding!” deals are. They’re often good. But sometimes they are mind-blowingly good.”

“The idea that I was doing what I was doing, and I could look down and see what he was doing just struck me, ‘I can’t believe I know that’ and it made me giggle that I knew that.”

“This promotes other media to the exalted rank of text. And it tells publishers that they’d damned well better do the same. /…/ You should be using whatever media best communicates information in the form the user wants.”

En Lost-wiki.

“Inspirerad av Salubris Google Reader Keyboard Shortcuts – Readable Version, bestämde jag mig för att göra en egen version på svenska över dessa kortkommandon.”

“But LibraryThing, for example, HAS no advertising. Not only do we offer a service good enough to charge top users, but the data members add /…/ has a lot of value. A better recommendation algorithm is a force-multiplier for ecommerce.”

“Jag tycker att det är ganska tydligt att bloggarna sedan ett antal år tillbaka redan står för en ny sorts samarbetande skrivande, där kommentarer och länkar faktiskt kan betyda lika mycket som inläggen i sig.”

“Två exempel på intäktsmodeller som skapar värde är: Sponsrade länkar i sökresultat. Avgifter för att sortera bort mindre intressanta köpare eller säljare.”

“För mig är inte Johan Larsson okänd /…/. Likadant är det med Beta Alfa trots att han eller hon inte anger sitt namn. För mig är de inte anonyma. Jag tycker jag känner dem efter att ha läst båda under några år.”

Oerhört läsvärd debatt bland kommentarerna. “Hur vi använder verktyg är upp till var och en. Det går inte att anklaga hammaren när man slår sig på tummen. Det är alltid en klant som håller i hammaren.”

“Google is not a search engine. Google is a reputation-management system.”

“För egen del är jag övertygad om att jag, tack vare elektroniska medier, träffat fler människor rent fysiskt än jag annars hade haft möjlighet.”

“Mediehusen skapar merparten av sina intäkter från tjänster /…/, snarare än journalistik. Det redaktionella arbetet kommer i ännu högre grad att vara gratis, men sammankopplat med lifehacks, communities och premiumtjänster bibehålls lönsamheten

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“On the whole, podcast downloaders tended to be male, young and educated. Notably, people between the ages of 35 and 54 represented about half of the podcasting audience.”