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Year: 2010

  • Facebook is not the only game in town

    With the news confirmed that Facebook membership now exceeds 500 million people worldwide – that’s nearly 10 percent of the world’s total population – it’s a worthy reminder to note that, never mind its size or seeming monolithic ubiquity, there…

  • Compelling reasons to mobilize your website

    A few weeks ago, I installed a new WordPress plugin on this site that would enable visitors on mobile devices to find their experience here worthwhile and make it more likely they would stick around on their visit, perhaps engage …

  • Is The Times paywall a viable business model?

    Comment and opinion have intensified in the past few days that The Times paywall isn’t working. And according to The Guardian, the paper has seen a 90 percent fall in its online readership since the paywall went up three weeks…

  • FIR Cut: Vaseline skin lightening cream meets social networking

    Overflow from FIR #556 on July 19, 2009. Salon.com: Skin-lightening meets social networking NDTV Profit: Vaseline’s skin-lightening Facebook app stirs debate Download this podcast (798Kb, 1:51) If you want to automatically receive FIR Cuts as they’re published, subscribe to the…

  • FIR Cut: BBC tests tracking real-time Twitter trends with Zeitgeist tool

    Overflow from FIR #556 on July 19, 2010. Journalism.co.uk: BBC tests tracking real-time Twitter trends with Zeitgeist tool BBC R&D Blog: Zeitgeist – the most shared BBC links on Twitter Download this podcast (1.52Mb, 3:42) If you want to automatically…