Month: May 2011

Counterfeiters: Foes or Friends? – counterfeiters act as market-makers for luxury brands

UK brands adapt on social media: News from Warc.com – interesting with Ash Choudhury about Nokia’s social media approach

Underpinnings of the Internet Shift – NYTimes.com – interesting the way governments are subverting the freedoms of citizens in developed countries. This is probably the most lasting legacy of Wikipedia, the wisdom of mobs and the lobbyists of the media industries who see UGC as akin to communism

MeeGo and Mango promise mobile web delights • The Register

New Media Knowledge – Informa Viewpoint on Ofcom’s research on mobile broadband – basically likely performance is a lottery

Gripe Harnesses Social Media for Consumer Complaints – NYTimes.com – interesting article which shows the challenges of making customer service scaleable

Zuckerberg: Privacy anxiety is fleeting | Digital Media – CNET News – “We’ll roll it out, and pretty often there’ll be this backlash, and people will say, ok, we don’t like this new thing,” said Zuckerberg. “It’s I think a real anxiety. People were really afraid of more people being able to be involved in the social network.” A bit like the analogy of the boot stamping on the face of society in 1984, those people too got used to the new normal

Facebook Still Has No iPad App But They’re Building A Desktop Software Team?! – don’t necessarily agree with MG Seigler; for instance I put out most of tweets via the Mac Twitter client

Should Asia be concerned about the EU’s cookie ban? – Campaign Asia-Pacific – international ripple-through