Category: Trends

  • Is anyone measuring Twitter on mobile?

    As the news spotlight shone brightly on Twitter yesterday – the company announced a new injection of $100 million in more venture funding – market researcher Hitwise published some new stats about Twitter’s growth. Hitwise’s data, measuring visits in the…

  • Finding a viable pay-for-content model

    PaidContent UK reports some of the details of a Harris Interactive survey they commissioned which asked what people will do if their favourite online free source of news started charging for access to that content. The results surely won’t surprise…

  • A greyscale view of chargeable mobile content

    Quite a bit of comment and opinion greeted the news from Dow Jones a few days ago that access to the mobile edition of the Wall Street Journal will no longer be free from later next month. It caught my…

  • Understanding the large organization

    ReadWriteWeb reports on a Forrester survey last April which has revealed that despite the hype, it’s not Generation Y – those born somewhere between the late 1970s to the late 1990s, also known as Millenials – that’s getting business to…

  • There’s a social media evolution – Part 1

    (See “There’s no social media revolution” by Paul Seaman for direct context.) Over the past few weeks, Paul Seaman and I have engaged in a friendly debate (well, a series of individual blog posts) about social media and whether or…