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digithoughts: PC market overview for Q1-2012 The iPad single...

Thu, 24 May 2012 17:02:18 +0200

PC market overview for Q1-2012

The iPad single handedly holds 11% of the PC market. Not to shabby.

Highlights:

Windows: 78%

iOS (iPad): 11%

OS X: 3.7%

Android and others: 7.3%

dizzyseo: How will a particular link help your website? Use...

Sat, 19 May 2012 22:32:21 +0200

dizzyseo:

How will a particular link help your website? Use this flow chart and see for yourself.

Infographic by SEOrisk.com

Klash: About haircuts and pivoting

Sat, 19 May 2012 21:46:04 +0200

Klash: About haircuts and pivoting :

klashapp:

There is a new vocabulary in town!

PIVOTING!!

In case you have no clue what that means here is your Wikipedia definition:

“The pivot or pivot element is the element of a matrix, an array, or some other kind of finite set, which is selected first by an

searchengineland: reuters: thesochillnetwork: you know what’s...

Sat, 19 May 2012 09:11:22 +0200

searchengineland:

reuters:

thesochillnetwork:

you know what’s cool…

We did the source on that graph.

Maybe if he wore a short with a collar like Hillary recommended, it would have gotten over $50.

The Philosopher's Guide to Startups: Why it doesn't matter if your product is better

Fri, 18 May 2012 18:48:30 +0200

The Philosopher's Guide to Startups: Why it doesn't matter if your product is better:

mattangriffel:

It doesn’t matter that your startup’s product is better than anything else out there. There, I said it.

Let’s try a little thought experiment: What if I told you there was a better search engine than Google? Or a better email client than Gmail? Or a better social network than Facebook?…

Trading Begins on Facebook Shares

Fri, 18 May 2012 18:23:14 +0200

Trading Begins on Facebook Shares

digithoughts: Android phone revenue share Ever wondered why...

Thu, 17 May 2012 17:11:38 +0200

digithoughts:

Android phone revenue share

Ever wondered why operators push so hard for Android? For starters, they see more money than the OEMs.

Numbers source: Asymco. The chart is based on revenues of $6.50/device/year.

longreads: Why do startups struggle after being acquired by...

Wed, 16 May 2012 01:04:50 +0200

longreads:

Why do startups struggle after being acquired by giant companies like Yahoo? They’re forced to focus on integration instead of innovation:

When a new startup comes into an established company, the first wall it typically hits is CorpDev, or corporate development: the group within a business that manages change. CorpDev is usually charged with planning corporate strategy—where a business will grow or shrink, the markets it will enter or exit, and what kind of contracts and deals it may strike with other companies. It often oversees acquisitions. It plans them. Approves them. And then it sets the terms.

When a big company gobbles up a smaller one, only a fraction of the money is handed over up front. The rest comes later, based on the acquisition hitting a series of deliverables down the road. It’s similar to how incentives are built into the contracts of professional athletes, except with engineering benchmarks instead of home runs.

“How Yahoo Killed Flickr and Lost the Internet.” — Mat Honan, Gizmodo

This piece shows us how automated media trading has evolved over...

Mon, 14 May 2012 12:39:50 +0200

This piece shows us how automated media trading has evolved over time within the digital advertising industry, complete with several interesting figures and statistics.

For a Future-Friendly Web (Mobilism 2012)

Sat, 12 May 2012 15:09:00 +0200

marksbirch: Every so often in my web ramblings, I come across...

Tue, 08 May 2012 14:11:05 +0200

marksbirch:

Every so often in my web ramblings, I come across an interesting tidbit. While not meant to be an endorsement of Automattic, I find it interesting that a company with such a huge impact on the Internet has 113 employees total and is not constrained by geography. While not quite the 12 person, $1 billion tech company I wrote about last year (and which Instagram was so gracious to prove), it is quite an impressive feat.

Massive teams with extraneous resources not directly adding value to the products these companies create are going to be a thing of the past. I could not honestly tell you what 75% of the employees at Oracle, Microsoft, Google, and the like are doing. These are companies with teetering org charts filled with people that exist only to justify their own existence and make imaginary work for others. The result is that the products produced over time are simply not that great.

Forget about starting all lean startup then binge hiring to scale the company. That is the slow boat to Bloatsville, management bureaucracy, product stagnation, and shitty HR employee manuals. Size is simply puts a chokehold on innovation and stifles independent thought. Start lean and stay lean and never hire for the sake of hiring even if the pull of snagging an “A player” infects your thinking* or your investors push you to hire in order to take the market advantage.

* There are no A players, that is a bit of myth-busting I plan to drop this week.

Networked Society, On the Brink (di ericssonmultimedia)

Tue, 08 May 2012 11:59:05 +0200

Networked Society, On the Brink (di ericssonmultimedia)

Photo

Sat, 05 May 2012 18:53:38 +0200

"Whereas Web 2.0 values – characterized by social sharing and collaboration – drove the design and..."

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 02:20:42 +0200

“Whereas Web 2.0 values – characterized by social sharing and collaboration – drove the design and development of the likes of Facebook and LinkedIn, the mobile age demands new parameters. Now we need services that require less typing, fewer buttons, simple swipe and pinch actions, browsing that seamlessly integrates vertical and horizontal movement, larger images, and fewer data hooks that clutter up the user experience.”

- Web 2.0 Is Over, All Hail the Age of Mobile

Put articles, videos or pretty much anything into Pocket. Save...

Sun, 29 Apr 2012 19:07:00 +0200

Put articles, videos or pretty much anything into Pocket. Save directly from your browser or from apps like Twitter, Flipboard, Pulse and Zite

http://getpocket.com/

The Mobile Movement: Understanding Smartphone Consumers (di...

Sun, 29 Apr 2012 18:50:11 +0200

The Mobile Movement: Understanding Smartphone Consumers (di GoogleMobileAds)

digithoughts: Apple’s Quarter in Charts | ReadWriteWeb →

Fri, 27 Apr 2012 19:44:31 +0200

digithoughts:

Apple’s Quarter in Charts | ReadWriteWeb →

searchengineland: Could DuckDuckGo be the biggest long-term...

Fri, 27 Apr 2012 19:12:52 +0200

searchengineland:

Could DuckDuckGo be the biggest long-term threat to Google?

Are you Nuts.com?

Thu, 26 Apr 2012 18:08:25 +0200

Are you Nuts.com?:

The site, which had been averaging more than 30,000 visits each week from nonpaid Google searches, with traffic rising 5 to 10 percent a month, suffered a 70 percent decline in nonpaid Google traffic in the two weeks after the switch. Almost three months later, it was still down by more than 50 percent. The decline, Mr. Braverman said, cost the company at least 100 to 150 orders a day.

6 Changes Every SEO Should Make BEFORE the Over-Optimization...

Fri, 20 Apr 2012 10:43:17 +0200

6 Changes Every SEO Should Make BEFORE the Over-Optimization Penalty Hits - Whiteboard Friday

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/6-changes-every-seo-should-make-before-the-over-optimization-penalty-hits-whiteboard-friday