Jul
3rd
links for 2007-07-03
Posted in Daily Reads by del.icio.us at 1:20 pm
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Universal Music is apparently thinking it can walk away from Apple and iTunes.
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On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a human — until you fill out a captcha.
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Eric Goldman has a fantastic blog. Here’s a run-down of interesting legal cases as well as some additional links to some great articles.
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Pownce is a way to send messages, files, links, and events to your friends. You’ll create a network of the people you know and then you can share stuff with all of them, just a few of them, or even just one other person really fast.
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A new study from JupiterResearch indicates that social sites do little to influence sales but can help with branding. Specifically, social and community sites influence only about 12% of online shoppers to buy more than planned.
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Mister Wong is a social bookmarking site that originated in Germany, and has since become a popular and widespread tool in Europe. It’s recent launch in America and is a direct competitor to del.icio.us.
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Jaiku has created a mobile version of its micro-blogging service for the iPhone, and has launched it just now.
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Terminal 5 , Heathrow’s soon to be opened British Airways Terminal will have over 300 digital ‘ sites ‘ installed, representing over half the advertising real estate within the terminal.
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Looks like the rest of this year’s Palm products will be forced to stick to Garnet OS and Windows Mobile, because Palm OS II won’t be available until 2008.
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Ticketmaster, the world’s leading ticketing company and an operating business of IAC , has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire all of the outstanding equity of ticketing services and software provider Paciolan.
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I have a free membership with SEOmoz. I don’t do enough SEO work to warrant a premium account with SEOmoz, but I’d love to dabble in some of these applications!
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(Joke) WASHINGTON, DC—President Bush spoke out Monday in support of a revised version of the 2001 USA Patriot Act that would make it illegal to read the USA Patriot Act.
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I read somewhere that Intuit, the makers of QuickBooks and Quicken, have a practice they call “follow me homes” that allow them to go into an actual customer’s home and watch them install their software and get it set-up.
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Airports, restaurants, online stores and police stations often have the same challenge: they don’t deal with regulars.
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There are a number of reasons to utilize social media if you’re a corporation. This is a fantastic post on the breakdown of reasons for companies to turn to social media to further their marketing efforts.
