links for 2007-07-03
Posted in Daily Reads by del.icio.us Tuesday, July 3rd at 1:20 pm
Universal Music is apparently thinking it can walk away from Apple and iTunes.
On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a human — until you fill out a captcha.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Jaiku has created a mobile version of its micro-blogging service for the iPhone, and has launched it just now.
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.
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.
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.
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!
(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.
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.
Airports, restaurants, online stores and police stations often have the same challenge: they don’t deal with regulars.
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.
