June 2011
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“Interestingly, the amount of data people create by writing email messages,...”
– World’s data will grow by factor of 50 in next decade - Digital Lifestyle - Macworld UK (via infoneer-pulse)
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From brand.com to con.brand? (via @Identity_Forum)
Should brand owners invest in ownership of their own “.brand” domain, or is this just one last ICANN effort to monetize a no-longer-so-important monopoly?
Three years ago, rumour first began circulating about the possibility of private ownership of top level URLs (Uniform Resource Locators). On June 20 2011, ICANN, the governing body for online domain names, formally approved a decision to...
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"Data!"
As for trends/areas that interest me right now: “Data makes the world go round!” Nothing new, but with the value placed on linkedin (recent IPO), more conversations surrounding the valuation of Facebook (an inevitable and imminent IPO) and Microsoft’s recent purchase of Skype (huge value placed on such a little revenue generator), just another bubble waiting to burst, or will...
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10 brands that won't be around in 2012 →
Reblogged infoneer-pulse:
24/7 Wall St. has created a new list of brands that will disappear, which includes Sears, Sony Pictures, American Apparel, Nokia, Saab, A&W All-American Foods Restaurants, Soap Opera Digest, Sony Ericsson, MySpace, and Kellog’s Corn Pops.
Each year, 24/7 Wall St. regularly compiles a list of brands that are going to disappear in the near-term. Last year’s list...
“Employees at the Genius Bar are asked to say “as it turns out” instead of...”
– Inside The Apple Store: Rules That Govern The Retail Chain (via huffingtonpost)
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".brands" approach with Internet name shake-up →
Reblogged infoneer-pulse:
Brand owners will soon be able to operate their own parts of the Web — such as .apple, .coke or .marlboro — if the biggest shake-up yet in how Internet domains are awarded is approved.
After years of preparation and wrangling, ICANN, the body that coordinates Internet names, is expected to approve the move at a special board meeting in Singapore on Monday.
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