The Edison/ADM Consumer Attitudes To Podcast Advertising Study

Sunday, 31 January 2010, 3:10 pm
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*Nearly 80% of these podcast consumers agreed that "when price and quality is equal," they "prefer to buy products from companies that advertise on or sponsor" the podcasts they regularly enjoy.

*37% of these respondents expressed some positive sentiment about advertising in the podcasts they regularly listen to or watch, compared to only 6% positive sentiment expressed for the advertising approaches of television or commercial radio.

*In fact, 78% of these respondents agreed (and 21% agreed strongly) that their opinion of a company is more positive when they hear it mentioned in one of the podcasts they regularly enjoy.


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Fraser Speirs – Blog – Future Shock

Sunday, 31 January 2010, 3:05 pm
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What you're seeing in the industry's reaction to the iPad is nothing less than future shock.


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Steve Jobs at Apple Town Hall Meeting on Google, Adobe, Next iPhone, 2010 Macs and More – Mac Rumors

Sunday, 31 January 2010, 3:01 pm
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On Google, Jobs confirms the much-reported competition between the two companies.

On Google: We did not enter the search business, Jobs said. They entered the phone business. Make no mistake they want to kill the iPhone. We wont let them, he says.
As for Adobe, Jobs said they are lazy and Jobs blames Adobe for a buggy implementation of Flash on the Mac as one of the reasons they won't support it.

Apple does not support Flash because it is so buggy, he says. Whenever a Mac crashes more often than not its because of Flash. No one will be using Flash, he says. The world is moving to HTML5.


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Gmail Buzz?

Sunday, 31 January 2010, 2:59 pm
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“Sorry, you can’t create a label named ’buzz’ (it’s a reserved system label). Please try another name”

Does anyone know what this could be? The label wasn’t always reserved, according to Scott, who says he had used the name buzz before.


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Amazon, Macmillan: an outsider’s guide to the fight – Charlie’s Diary

Sunday, 31 January 2010, 11:21 am
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Last Friday, Amazon.com unilaterally pulled most or all of Macmillan's books from their online store. (You can still find them via afilliates or second-hand stores, but Amazon themselves won't sell them to you. Note that this only affects me via my Merchant Princes books — published by Tor, a Macmillan subsidiary — in the US Amazon store. My Ace titles are safe … for now.)

This whole mess is basically about duelling supply chain models.

Publishing is made out of pipes. Traditionally the supply chain ran: author -> publisher -> wholesaler -> bookstore -> consumer.

Then the internet came along, a communications medium the main effect of which is to disintermediate indirect relationships, for example by collapsing supply chains with lots of middle-men.

From the point of view of the public, to whom they sell, Amazon is a bookstore.

From the point of view of the publishers, from whom they buy, Amazon is a wholesaler.


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Leo’s Twitter Updates For The Week Of 2010-01-31

Sunday, 31 January 2010, 7:00 am
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Apple vs. Amazon: The Great Ebook War Has Already Begun

Saturday, 30 January 2010, 2:02 pm
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We’re not going to see the iPad hit stores for another two months, but it is already changing the ebook game and forcing publishers and consumers to pick sides.

Last night, several blogs including Venturebeat and NYT’s Bits Blog noticed something was amiss on the website of the world’s largest retailer: Amazon suddenly stopped selling books from Macmillan, one of the world’s largest book publishers.


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Google news « BuzzMachine

Saturday, 30 January 2010, 8:04 am
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At a private meeting with a dozen and a half media people at Davos with CEO Eric Schmidt, President of sales Nikesh Arora, search boss Marissa Mayer, YouTube founder Chad Hurley, and counsel/”chief diplomat” (Schmidt’s joke) David Drummond in a Davos apartment dolled up with lava lamps, the execs discussed China, the company’s push into display, critics from France to News Corp., Android and its phone strategy, and news.


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Google Twists Knife In IE6, Pulls Support From Docs And Sites

Saturday, 30 January 2010, 7:54 am
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This has not been the greatest start to the year for Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser. Days after news of the latest security flaw in Internet Explorer, Google is adding fuel to the fire by phasing out support for IE6 for two of its Google Apps products, Docs and Sites (which recently got an aesthetic upgrade).


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The sequel stinks: critics trash new Google Books settlement

Saturday, 30 January 2010, 7:51 am
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Le Guin's concerns about the deal's shift from opt-in licensing to opt-out deals are echoed by major companies that also offered their take, such as Amazon and AT&T, which filed very similar objections. As potential Google competitors, both of these companies also focused on the antitrust issues involved, objecting to the fact that the revised settlement could still leave Google with extensive control over orphaned works and digitized books in general.

One of the changes to the settlement is that Google will help set book prices by developing an algorithm that simulates what the prices would be under competitive market conditions. In essence, Amazon argues, that's simply having a computer make a decision that would otherwise be made by a human; the net result would still be a fixed price dictated by a single entity, something that antitrust law is intended to prevent. "The claim that this is acceptable or well-intentioned price fixing," Amazon's filing reads, "because it will supposed


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