SEO for Naver – Search Engine Watch (#SEW) – Naver pioneered modern user generated content services
Dezeen » South Korean road signs by Studio Dumbar – better than many designs in Asia but still not as good as the work of Kinneir & Calvert
Number of weibo users hits 300 million: Shanghaiist
Parks Associates CEO, Tricia Parks comments on tablet holiday trends – US looking at another gadget Christmas
Windows Phone Marketplace Is Riding High On Free Content | paidContent – similar dynamics to Android
Nokia’s Microsoft Phones May Not Get Traction, Analyst Says – NYTimes.com – no USP, apart from a bucketload of advertising
Douban e-publishing platform – Chinese creative social network Douban now allows members the opportunity to publish their own e-books and earn cash from readers
Chinese Consumers (and Beijing) Breath a (momentary) Sigh of Relief on Inflation… | Mintel
Google Announces Plans To Shutter Knol, Friend Connect, Wave, And More | TechCrunch – interesting that they are whittling down a lot of the social experiments. Knol always used to remind me of Squidoo but not as crap
OTE, eircom most exposed of Euro telcos to refinancing risk – Moody’s – not terribly surprised by this Eircom has been stacked with debt due to leveraged buyouts
What I Learned Building the Apple Store – Ron Johnson – Harvard Business Review – create a store that’s more than a store to people
Chinese luxury: immune or human? | beyondbrics | FT.com
Millennial: Android, iOS shares flat in October; Apple still top vendor, HTC now No.2
The Rise of the Microsoft Monopoly – in productivity software
Piper Jaffray: Android app revenue is 7% of iPhone’s – Apple 2.0 – Fortune Tech – if you are in the paid apps game, develop for Android as an afterthought
Study Shows That Early Adopters Of Social Media Have Captured Real Economic Value | Social Media Blog for Business | Michael Brito – is the gain because of social media or because these companies are innovators – was enough done to separate the two concepts?
Darpa: Do Away With Antibiotics, Then Destroy All Pathogens | Wired.com
danah boyd on a nuanced understanding of privacy in the networked age – Boing Boing
MSN Mall Closes, as Microsoft Rethinks its E-Commerce Strategy in China | Tech in Asia – Microsoft victim of hyper-competition in China