"Gives developers the ability to leverage cloud computing to build very precise streams of data from the millions and millions of tweets sent everyday."

"Those frustrated with Twitter are frustrated because they have a belief that a story needs a beginning, middle, and end. And that it should have all of those parts before it’s presented to them. What the hell am I supposed to learn from a tweet? The point of Twitter isn’t knowledge or understanding, it’s merely connective information tissue. It’s small bits of information carefully selected by those you’ve chosen to follow and its value isn’t in what they send, it’s how it fits into the story in your head."

"Covers technological, scientific, and cultural trends that are changing - and will change - human beings in fundamental ways."

"Reviewing is the new advertising."

"Graph mentions of any word on national U.S. television"

Statistics, data munging and vizualization.

"A simple way to discover events people are chattering about on Twitter."

"An Adobe® AIR™ desktop application built with the Yahoo! User Interface Library (YUI). It allows users to create and group custom queries by topics of interest."

"Graphs of how often things feature on guardian.co.uk"

"Reuters reporter Alexei Oreskovic recently authored an interesting blog post about the demographics of Twitter users. What he discovered was that 18-24 year olds, the traditional social media early adopters, are actually 12 percent less likely than average to visit Twitter (Index of 88). It is the 25-54 year old crowd that is actually driving this trend."

New Web Trends map is nearly there.

"The social sites we visit today are not just friend networks - they're also built around objects that connect people with shared interests. These social objects could be anything from a photo on flickr to a video on YouTube or a track on Last.fm."

"What does this site do? It keeps track of predictions of the future by public figures."

"Manufacturing-as-a-service removes the equipment and capital barrier to entry for new product companies. These companies can focus on product design and building the community around the product and leave the operation of the manufacturing hardware to manufacturing-as-a-service guys."

"The Institute of Practitioners in Advertising, which will publish the “Social Media Futures” report compiled by Future Foundation next week, has warned that advertising agencies face growth of just 1.2 per cent a year by 2016 if the industry fails to tackle the changes to the media created by sites such as Facebook, YouTube and Twitter."

"When media giants fight over music, you know it has to be valuable. Looking, listening and occasionally buying a "good" song drives revenue, tremendous web traffic and generates big advertising dollars." Great article (with a pitch for TuneCore's new model thrown in at the end).

"What advertisers buy when they purchase a magazine or TV ad is slice of the attention of some subset of that media object's audience [...] A web page, in contrast, is typically festooned with hyperlinked visual objects that fall all over themselves in competing to take you elsewhere immediately once you're done consuming whatever it is that you came to that page for."

"An increasing number of mobiles are coming with flat-rate data access as standard. Remember how much more eagerly we used the net when we stopped paying by the minute? Stop the cost clock and mobile booms. Checking mail, synching calendars. Using geo-tagging and location aware services to see what's cool and nearby for a quick impulse buy." No more in the article than that. Ranty counterpoint in the comments.

"The most profound technologies are those that disappear. They weave themselves into the fabric of everyday life until they are indistinguishable from it." Must read.

"According to a recent Nielsen Mobile Advertising Report MySpace Mobile is the leading mobile social networking site in Europe, occupying first or second position in four of the five key markets measured. Visiting social networks on mobile phones is experiencing big growth in Europe."

"Driven by iTunes and the iPod, Gen Y has a voracious appetite for digital music, ring tones and all things mobile."

Beep beep.

"As of November 2007 there were 3.3 billion mobile phone subscriptions around the world. At 6.6 billion people globally, yes, there is a mobile phone subscription for half of the planet. But that is not really the whole story. So lets delve deeper into these numbers."

"One of the more interesting things I’ve found is what is happening in the bottom 1.5 to .5% of the browsers that are hitting our sites. I’m starting to see devices appear en masse which are not PC’s."

"The busyness economy works on face time, incremental improvement, strategic long-term planning, return on investment, and hierarchical control. The burst economy, enabled by the Web, works on innovation, flat knowledge networks, and discontinuous product

"As consumers opt for fixed-price purchases, what happens to the company that perfected the art of online bidding—and the scores of e-auctioneers?"

"While artists and their handlers devote massive attention to the Web site and MySpace, the Wikipedia page is often overlooked. Recent data suggests they may want to reconsider their priorities."

"Functionality, utility [...] brings a different level of engagement from consumers [...] Because it helps [people] to get something done, they come to them with a different mindset than they do marketing communications that interrupts, whether a TV comme

"Chinwag's monthly snapshot of market conditions, career satisfaction, salary views, and more."

"An overview of some of the top trends we cover on ReadWriteWeb; such as Websites becoming web services, Semantic Apps, Open Data, Mobile Web, Recommendation Engines."

"The easiest way to sell the Semantic Web vision to consumers is to talk about how it can make their lives easier. When machines understand things in human terms, and can apply that knowledge to your attention data, we'll have a web that knows what we wan

"2008 may well also be the year of Peak Advertising. In the West at least. The year in which there is the most advertising. And after that there's less and less each year."

"According to new figures from Nielsen Online some online video sites have doubled their audience since the strike began."

"As Borges wrote reviews of non-existent books, I have notes for essays I'll never write. Here I've collected what's been on my mind the last couple of months."

"A new study by Simmons, a unit of Experian Research Services has found that consumers are 47% more engadged by ads that run with television programs viewed online than those watched on a TV set."

We have fallen in love with a particular visual style and we just will not let it go. Everywhere you turn there is a gradient. Drop-shadows are surrounding us. We are pinned down by rounded corners.

"We predict internet advertising to pass three milestones over the next three years," ZenithOptimedia's forecast said. "We expect it to overtake radio advertising in 2008; to attain a double-digit share of global advertising in 2009; and to overtake magaz

"The lesson learnt by MTV Networks subsidary, Comedy Central, when it made the entire archive of “The Daily Show” available for streaming online, is that Internet TV viewing can lead to more traditional television viewing."

"Rossi declined to disclose how much Verizon paid for the "30 Rock" integration but said that in addition to fees, it provided marketing support for the show with a co-branded ad in Maxim magazine and promotional content on VerizonWireless.com."

"77% of today’s online youth would rather live without television than live without the Internet."

"Cory Doctorow describes how Facebook and other social networks have built-in self-destructs: They make it easy for you to be found by the people you're looking to avoid."

"Campaign microsites may be a staple of the "old model," but they are by most accounts not facing extinction—although their role will probably be diminished from star to player in a cast of channels that also includes MySpace, YouTube and widgets."

"A systematic analysis of the 100 most popular applications - those that have at least 1million users - in an attempt to get a better grasp on favoured activities that take place in this global playground."

"Those of us older than 25 can't imagine a life without e-mail. For the Facebook generation, it's hard to imagine a life of only e-mail, much less a life before it."

"Increasingly empowered consumers, more self-reliant advertisers and ever-evolving technologies are redefining how advertising is sold, created, consumed and tracked."

"The 200 most successful websites pinned down on the Tokyo Metro Map, ordered by category, proximity, success, popularity and perspective."

"If the volume of searches reflect the regional popularity of a search string, then Google Trends reveal useful information for marketing agencies, record labels, and booking agents."

"Don Tapscott, the author of an eye-opening new book called Wikinomics, says that we have barely begun to imagine how the internet will change the way we live and work."

Lots and lots of stats.

"The idea is that the mobile web will become the dominant access method in many countries of the world, with devices that become more hybrid and networks that become more powerful - everywhere in the next decade to come."

Missed this first time round: "The web needs more front-end architects before poor implementations of front-end technology hobble the potential benefits of recent advances."

"Here is a small collection of web design trends that I predict we will all be completely sick of in about 6 months."