Saturday, April 30, 2005

The Internet Advertising Boom

Keywords: internet, advertising, boom

The Age of Engagement - Morgan Stanley
Mary Meeker's presentation at AdTech
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Mo Money From Online Ads - John Battelle's Searchblog
"The industry is posting record numbers, quarter after quarter."
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Ten--No, Eleven--Years of Internet Advertising - O'Reilly Radar
"A few weeks ago, DoubleClick published a report entitled Ten Years of Online Advertising(PDF). It has some interesting stats on the growth of internet advertising over the past decade, and some keen observations about the current internet advertising landscape."
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Google the rampant ad machine - what’s a publisher to do..? - SimonWaldman.net
"But the really striking thing here is the pace of it all. Blistering. Fuelled of course by an arms race with Yahoo! that seems to be bringing out the best in both players."
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News:
Advertising - Topix.net

Blog:
Advertising Archives - PaidContent.org
Ad-Tech Blog

Discuss:
Internet ad sales better than ever - AO
WebmasterWorld

Bookmarks:
del.icio.us/tag/marketing
del.icio.us/tag/advertising

Learn:
How Web Advertising Works - HowStuffWorks

Saturday, April 23, 2005

The Age of Blogs


The Age of Blogs
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Keywords: blog

"How big are blogs? Try Johannes Gutenberg out for size. His printing press, unveiled in 1440, sparked a publishing boom and an information revolution. Some say it led to the Protestant Reformation and Western democracy."

"In a world chock-full of citizen publishers, we mainstream types control an ever-smaller chunk of human knowledge. Some of us will work to draw in more of what the bloggers know, vetting it, editing it, and packaging it into our closed productions. But here's betting that we also forge ahead in the open world. The measure of success in that world is not a finished product. The winners will be those who host the very best conversations."
Link
Source: Business Week

Discuss:
Blogs Matter, and So Does Smart Online Advertising - AlwaysOn

News:
Blog News - Topix.net

Blogs - Europe:
Vive les Blogs! - Wired

Blogosphere:
Technorati
The Blog Herald
BlogPulse Highlights
Blogcount.com

Entrepreneur:
Jason Calacanis & Brian Alvey, Weblogs, Inc., blog
Nick Denton, Gawker Media
Hylton Jolliffe & Stowe Boyd, Corante
Torsten Jacobi, Creative Weblogging
Advertising, editorial lines blur as bloggers' salaries tied to traffic - OJR

Events:
Les Blogs

Books:
We the Media

Blog Glossary:
Samizdata.net

Speech:
Rupert Murdoch

Special Report:
Abandoning the News - Carnegie Reporter

Audio:
Bloggercon III - IT Conversations

Thursday, April 21, 2005

The Personal Fabrication Revolution

Keywords: Neil Gershenfeld

"What if you could design and produce your own products, in your own home, with a machine that can be used to make almost anything? Imagine if you didn't have to wait for a company to sell the product you wanted but could use your own personal fabricator to create it instead.

Neil Gershenfeld, Director of MIT's Center for Bits and Atoms, believes that personal fabricators will allow us to do just that and revolutionize our world just as personal computers did a generation ago. He highlights the need for a micro-VC investment model in order to encourage the adoption of Fab Lab type initiatives and promote the concept of personal fabrication."
Link
Source: IT Conversations

Video:
Personal Fabrication Future Salon - Internet Archive

News:
Desktop manufacturing - Economist

Blogs:
Second Life Future Salon
Neil Gershenfeld - Technorati

Books:
Desktop Factories - Business Week

Learn:
How to Make (Almost) Anything - MIT OCW
How Printable Computers Will Work - HowStuffWorks

Tuesday, April 19, 2005

China's Great Depression

Keywords: China, Great Depression, recession

"Having recently completed Rothbard’s 'America’s Great Depression', I couldn’t help draw the parallels between America’s roaring 20’s and China’s roaring economy today, and I couldn’t help conclude that China will inevitably fall in a depression just like America did during the 1930s. The objective of this article is to present an Austrian argument as to why this must happen; to substantiate my arguments, I will be quoting Rothbard’s Fifth Edition where relevant."

"In order to establish our parallel, we need some historical perspective of the relationship between a world superpower and a rising economic giant. In the 1920s, Great Britain was the superpower of the world, and the United States was the rising giant. As such, Great Britain ran its economic policies independently, and the U.S. adapted its own policies in a somewhat subordinated manner. Today, The United States is the hegemonic superpower of the world, and China is the rising economic giant. Not surprisingly, the U.S. runs its policy independently, while China adjusts its own accordingly."

"Finally, the bust may be triggered by a worldwide crisis in crude oil supplies. Peak oil supply is around the corner, if not already behind us, and Middle East or Caspian instability could sharply cut oil supplies. Historically, oil shortages and their concomitant rise of oil prices have always induced a recession. China’s growing dependence on oil ensures that should an oil crisis occur, it will slip into recession.

To summarize, the likely candidates for a trigger to the Chinese depression are (1) a worldwide currency, banking, or derivatives crisis, (2) a U.S. recession, (3) the containment of runaway inflation, (4) the disappearance of Chinese trade surpluses, and (5) an oil supply crisis.

Whatever the trigger of the bust in China, there is little doubt that this will provide the onset of a worldwide depression. Just like the U.S. emerged from the Great Depression as the unrivalled superpower of the world, so it is likely that China will emerge as the next."
Link
Source: Financial Sense

Discuss:
AlwaysOn

Scenarios:
China's Stresses, Goals, Military Buildups... and Futures - Winds of Change.NET

See also:
The Coming Energy Crisis or Peak Oil
The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century
Sinking Globalization

News:
China - Topix.net
China - Google News
China - Yahoo News

Blogs:
China - Technorati
The China Finance Resource Page
Bubble Blog
China Bubble

Google's Magic and Challenges

Keywords: Google

"Over the last five years, the world has witnessed the rise of Google from one search engine among many to the undisputed leader of the pack. Googling is now a global phenomenon. Our Read My Lips feature takes a look at Google’s recent successes — and explores what lies on the horizon for the California-based company."
Link
Source: Globalist

Discuss:
AlwaysOn
Google Finance and Business Operations - WebmasterWorld
Google - Slashdot

News:
Google - Google News
Google - Yahoo News
Google - Topix.net

Blogs:
Google - Technorati
Google Blogoscoped
John Battelle's Searchblog
Inside Google
Search Engine Watch Blog
The Unofficial Google Weblog
Google Blog