Dorota Smaggia

State of the Internet 2011

2011-09-19T15:39:00.000Z

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Creating contagious content

2011-03-27T07:28:00.001Z

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Shocking Video Footage Of The Devastation Caused By Japanese Earthquake And Tsunami

2011-03-16T21:37:00.000Z

Shocking Video Footage Of The Devastation Caused By Japanese Earthquake And Tsunami

Guinness Ad Tells Us How To Give The Perfect Man Hug on St Patrick's Day

2011-03-16T21:36:00.001Z

Guinness Ad Tells Us How To Give The Perfect Man Hug on St Patrick's Day

A Jennifer Aniston Sex Tape? No, Just A Smart Commercial For Water

2011-03-16T21:33:00.000Z

A Jennifer Aniston Sex Tape? No, Just A Smart Commercial For Water

2010 A year of online video

2010-12-01T15:38:00.000Z

The 2010 Social Networking Map

2010-11-11T13:06:00.016Z

As a tribute to XKCD‘s ‘Map of Online Communities’, Flowtown decided to re-create their own, updated version of this map. The numbers are taken to reflect many new developments in the social networking communities, including Facebook surpassing Myspace as the preeminent online community.

I simply love the Google information gathering outposts :)

Read more: http://www.flowtown.com/blog/the-2010-social-networking-map#ixzz14ymsLVX6

Flowtown - Social Media Marketing Application

Social Media Revolution 2 - AWESOME!

2010-05-12T10:31:00.002+01:00

A refreshing update by Socialnomics of the first Social Media Revolution and Social Media ROI

EARTH HOUR 2010 - it is right now! Turn the lights off!

2010-03-27T20:09:00.002Z

Social media like air

2009-12-30T12:17:00.002Z

"Facebook was the #1 most-visited site in the US on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day this year, beating Google.com for the first time" (RWW). Forrester Research’s Vice President and Principal Analyst Charlene Li believes that social networking is becoming so important that it is like air, it is everywhere. Digital identity is becoming increasingly important and massively adopted - and I remember times - not that long ago, in mid-nineties - when 'internet everywhere' was considered as Sci-Fi talk.

Other early 2010 news: MyBlogLog will be closed down by Yahoo! in January. MY BlogLog ?! I love this widget, I have no idea how many users adopted MyBlogLog during the five years of its existence, but I bet that the community of users is very significant. I hear that Yahoo! says through the lips of Chris Yeh, head of the Yahoo! Developer Network, that the shutdown of MyBlogLog is not a final decision (he has responded over at the YDN blog)

MOBILE TV WORLDWIDE - Top mobile TV providers in the US

2009-06-12T11:50:00.003+01:00

There are currently 40 million people watching broadcast mobile television around the world according to a report from consultancy Arthur D. Little.
By country:
18 million in Japan,
17 million in South Korea,
1.2 million in China
1 million in Italy.
Is that all ?! Yes, but the number of viewers will expand to 140 million by 2011 - or so is it expected by the research firm.

How about the revenues?
The research firm SNL Kagan estimates that the top 18 video providers and aggregators recorded revenues of $306 million in 2008.

Here’s the US top 5 providers in order of their 2008 revenue estimates:

1. ESPN : $38.4 million.
2. MobiTV: $23.8 million.
3. MTV Mobile: $22.4 million.
4. CNN: $22 million.
5. Comedy Central: $20 million.

New hegemonies - social networks country by country

2009-06-08T08:49:00.003+01:00

Interesting map set up by Vincenzo Cosenza in his blog listing the main social networks country by country. It looks pretty much like an online game with color codes - and dominating 'regional' forces: whether FaceBook, hi5, Skyrock, Cyworld, Friendster, V Kontakte, Nasza-klasa, Orkut, QQ, Mixi, Maktoob...

Interesting comments (complaints as well from here and there: where the hell is MySpace ?), have a look, Vincenzo is asking for input.

My main comment is that, beyond the clarity of the map, the list mentioning the top 3 networks per country is great. Forza Vincenzo!

HOME - awesome movie by Yann Arthus-Bertrand

2009-06-05T23:12:00.007+01:00

HOME is a documentary by Yann Arthus-Bertrand. Taste it! Here is a trailer

The film is entirely composed of aerial shots of various places around the Earth. It shows the diversity of life on the Earth and how humanity is threatening the ecological balance of the planet. The movie was released today, simultaneously in cinemas all over the world, on DVD, on television and on Internet. Its release on the same date in 50 countries is a world record for any film release in history.
The aim of this simultaneous worldwide broadcasting is to enable as many people as possible to watch the movie together.

The film is 100% free and no profits will be made from its release or future showings. What is more, it can be freely copied, distributed, broadcast etc. - as a whole and in parts.
The movie website: HOME where you can watch the full movie or on YouTube.

Awesome, inspiring, moving stuff. Please seed and share!

Copyright is the new fuel for the economic uptake!

2009-05-12T10:07:00.003Z

Think about creativity and how wide is now the access to content in all forms today.
Think also that copyright is increasingly present, everywhere.
Will copyright be the new source of economic energy in this century ?

Yesterday, copyright was a regulation that only few people were feeling concerned about. See what is hapening now: we are surrounded by copyright. New technologies opened doors to massive creativity and sharing, copying, remixing of all sorts of content. There are (almost) as many creators as users, with a relationship to copyright.

The area is extremely wide.
Sharing files can be a criminal offense.
On the other side, you see teenage amateur artists worried by the copyright of their creations.
And all the way you go, pictures, music, videos, whether professionally produced or not, are being used, accessed to, copied, shared...

The understanding of copyright is progressing and true new understanding of copyright is emerging. It is not anymore only a "Don't Touch My Property" motto. Copyright includes also "some rights reserved" options, notably Creative Commons licenses, permitting a number of usages - legally, according to the rights' owners' choice. Who is involved today in the reflections on copyright ? Lawyers, scientists, economists, politicians - but also you and me and the kids, DJs, teenage programmers, amateurs, pro-am creative teams.

Access to content, whether you call it culture, entertainment or waste of time - is overwhelming. Companies dedicated to disseminate content, invent new models, create value around all those new market sectors.

Semantic search engines - are we there, yet ? Google isn't.

2009-04-11T01:02:00.004Z

I use Google a lot and I am happy with the search results. I am a semiotician, too.
So when I heard that Google is joining the race for the semantic search engine, I couldn't wait, yet I was extremely skeptical. Semantic search is the capability for a computer to understand what you're searching for based on the meaning behind your words (instead of just delivering keyword-based results.
The competitors for the semantic search include Kumo, Microsoft's upcoming redesign of Live Search, Wolfram Alpha (launching in May 09). So far, I have not seen miracles.

I did try the new Google and I found that Google is still the same old Google and an excellent tool for finding information. I have to say that I was not impressed at all. Google is not really delivering a different experience. Semantic search is not only the future of the search, it is part of search at all times, come on, how can you search for information without taking into account its meaning.

As far as my search strategies are concerned, I have a variety of tactics to turn almost ANY search engine into a semantic search champion. A little intuition & imagination - the typical trick such as typing in the beginning of the answer instead of asking a question. Imagine what would write the expert that you are looking for, if you were him. Well, to use this trick, you need to have at least some information already, kindly provided by any key-word search engine. Simple!

It has been ages!

2008-12-31T11:05:00.002Z

Let us catch up with some music, my latest discovery is blip.fm, oh I heard about it, but now I am tasting it. Enjoy and have a fantastic time,
Happy New Year everyone!

Co-branded with OpenMusicWire - enjoy !

2008-09-17T20:34:00.000Z

Magic !

2008-09-03T13:47:00.000Z

New&Fresh jamendo widgets

2008-06-16T11:07:00.000+01:00

Free music from Jamendo for Archos users

2008-06-06T00:15:00.001+01:00

Jamendo and Archos have announced a partnership that means Archos users can freely and legally download in excess of 140,000 music tracks.Jamendo is a platform of free and legal downloads of music under Creative Commons licenses.

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Cool Jazz Album from Jamendo

2008-01-02T13:08:00.001Z

Jamendo music to listen, download, enjoy!

2007-12-19T08:51:00.000Z

100 largest US Media Companies ranked by revenue

2007-10-03T15:13:00.000Z

Ad Age published the annual list of the biggest media groups in the US, ranked by revenue, and the numbers are interesting. US media revenue grows significantly, again. The entire group of 100 companies progressed 8 percent to $297 billion.
The 10 largest companies account for 55.6% of revenue collected by the Media 100 in 2006, according to the Ad Age DataCenter.
Who is on top ?
#1 - Time Warner tops the list (and holds the No. 1 spot each and every year since 1995) with 2006 US media revenue of $33.9 billion (i.e. 11.8 % of the entire group's total).
# 2 - Comcast with 96.2 % revenues coming from cable systems. #3 is Disney, # 4 is News Corp. Google scores #19. (up from #25 the year before), Yahoo is #21. And Microsoft comes as #41 with $1.1 billion in media revenue, moved it up four slots from last year.
Here is a handy poster of Media family trees : http://adage.com/images/random/mediafamilytree07.pdf
More data charts (including a look back at the 1980' ranks and figures) http://adage.com/datacenter/article.php?article_id=106352

Prada or Armani ?

2007-09-24T13:39:00.000Z

I did not manage yet to make up my mind for a couture mobile phone ... but now with Armani coming in, resistance might prove futile.
Samsung is teaming up with Armani (following Prada) to launch a branded luxury mobile, credit card-sized cell phone that will be unveiled at the Armani fashion show in Milan today and distributed through Armani stores. Engadget has a picture of the SGH-P520, which it says will be the Armani phone, here: http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/13/samsungs-sgh-p520-is-the-armani-phone/
Aww !

Targeted Ads on MySpace

2007-09-18T15:52:00.000Z

The social networking companies see their members' profile pages as a lush target for advertisers, specifically if the ads can be customized. Members of MySpace treat their individual pages as a creative field for personal expression. This is pure joy for monetization experts!

“We are blessed with a phenomenal amount of information about the likes, dislikes and life’s passions of our users,” says Peter Levinsohn, president of Fox Interactive Media (MySpace is owned by News Corp.). “We have an opportunity to provide advertisers with a completely new paradigm.” The 100-employee team inside the Fox Interactive Media offices in Beverly Hills, called the "monetization technology group" has designed computer algorithms to screen the pages. The algorithms make their judgments partly on certain keywords in the profile, and the targeting technology has improved the likelihood that members will click on an ad by 80 percent on average (!). In November, MySpace will launch a self-serve online ad system to allow smaller companies to aim at MySpace users with their ads.

How will this affect MySpace's bottomline? Pali Capital estimates that this will help increase revenues from $40 million montly in August '07 climbing to north of $80 million monthly over the next 12 months.

The outline of MySpace's ad targeting efforts in details are shown today at the Merrill Lynch Media & Entertainment Conference in LA (the presentation webcast is here):
http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?p=irol-eventDetails&c=80133&eventID=1648797

Quechup Mess

2007-09-10T12:57:00.000Z

If you get an invite from me to join a social network called Quechup, please ignore the e-mail and accept my apologies. It's some kind of viral campaign, in the worst virus-like sense.
Let me explain. I received an invite this morning from someone that I know well to join eh... yet another social networking site. Well... I decided to quickly check it out. One of the features is to compare with your address book who is already a Quechup member. Then, apparently, Quechup sends out invitations to join to my complete Gmail address book :( - without requesting any permission. This is crap. This is very very annoying. From what I could see, many people got caught and want revenge.
So, spread the word and check if all the story is as bad as it seems to be.

VOIP services: I am picking up Jaxtr for a try!

2007-09-06T15:30:00.000Z

A bunch of VOIP services are there to help people make cheaper calls from normal phones. So far, I have not found any of them compelling.
VOIP is fine when you initiate calls from VOIP phones or software (Skype, Vonage, etc.). These networks can call other VOIP phones, or patch into the normal telephone networks to make inexpensive calls. But if you are trying to let people make free or cheap VOIP calls from a normal phone (or a cell phone) to another good old phone... it becomes less simple.
And the mass market won’t adopt these services until they are dead simple to use. I wouldn't!

These services generally take one of two approaches to allow people to make VOIP calls.

The service calls both parties and connects them.

The service assigns special phone numbers to use instead of the normal phone number. These special numbers are controlled by the VOIP service and bypass the regular system for the most expensive parts of the call.

Neither approach allows people to make quick calls on the fly to someone. Both require multiple steps to make a call, usually involving the use of a website as well (meaning you have to be at a computer or try to access the services via a mobile browser).
Here are a few examples:

jajah.com
rebtel.com
hullo.com
connectmeanywhere.com
jaxtr.com

I am now picking up jaxtr to check it out. Keep an eye on it !

2007-09-06T15:24:00.001Z

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More advertising revenues Online than On Air

2007-09-06T10:12:00.000Z

For the first time ever, revenues generated by online advertising will be higher than those on the radio.
The study Radio Trends: On Air and Online, issued by eMarketer, shows clearly, that by 2008, online advertising spending in the US is expected to surpass radio advertising spending. "While not signaling the death of radio, it is an indication that radio is being subsumed into a broader sector called: audio." says Ben Macklin, Chief Analyst and author of the study.

The Radio Trends report shows also that Online does not cannibalize On Air, on the contrary, the combined media are stronger and radios benefit from online growth.

New digital and interactive technologies are changing traditional business models—altering the distribution and access of audio content. Internet and satellite radio, podcasting, high-definition radio and mobile audio services are all part of the radio industry.

SERVICES STREAMING AUDIO & VIDEO TO YOUR MOBILE

2007-07-31T15:54:00.000Z

Some call it a bore, but wait, if I had access to any online content I wished, through my cellphone with my own playlists, feeds, in real time, at a reasonnable rate, I would like it. And we are not quite there yet, with the current services, are we ?

The new-born Buzzwire lets you stream video, audio, and live internet radio to your mobile phone — as long as it is a 3G device, with no download required. The beta was launched yesterday. Buzzwire says that it is plug-and-play, and its team has experience working with international mobile carriers (Four of the five top execs, including CEO Andrew MacFarlane, are ex-Openwave).

Main competitors are MyWaves (free service, claims 1M users) and MobiTV (charges $9.99 per month, and includes advertising) focusing on video. and requiring downloads.
What is the experience for the user? You can create your own mobile content home page. Nice, huh? First, you visit Buzzwire Web site and create an account, you browse through the video, audio, and internet radio content it offers and add channels to your subscriptions, which then appears on your Buzzwire mobile homepage. Interesting. Users can also share audio and video files and playlists.
Buzzwire claims that it stands apart from other mobile TV plays because it uses 3G networks and doesn't require special client software or hardware on the handsets. Here, I have to say that this is pretty incredible -although users do need to have Web-browsing software enabled on their phones, but no little software to install at all?!

META-VIDEO SHARING SITES IN SIGHT

2007-07-20T12:20:00.000Z

Complaints about fragmentation of video sharing offers might be solved by meta-sites or online aggregators allowing users to collect and organize videos from all kinds of video sharing sites... VodPod is one example, founded by Mark Hall, the former VP of International at RealNetworks. VodPod claims that it collected videos from 1000 different video sharing sites...yes, that is quite a lot. Which are those sites ? The YouTube, MetaCafe, Yahoo!Video, MySpace, DailyMotion likes would be that many out there ?

Once users collect and organize the videos in their "pod", they can then take the pod and embed it into their own blogs or social media pages. VodPod is competing against others like Mesmo.tv and WeShow. This sounds really compelling and goes certainly beyond social video bookmarking tools... To be followed up closely !

SONY'S GROUPER CRACKLES

2007-07-18T10:37:00.000Z

Sony turns its video sharing site into a kind of TV & movie studio. Aha! Sony's Grouper, initially focused on user-generated video, is becoming something closer to a production studio, renamed Crackle. Here is Grouper founder Josh Felser's comment: "We all know what happened to the user-generated content space—it's gotten really fragmented and hard to monetize... With this new service, it's dead to us. We're out of that business. We're focused on emerging talent, on finding the next generation of producers, directors, and writers."

Do you remember when Sony bought Grouper last year for $65 million ?
Perhaps this UGC business is none of Giant-thinking businesses ?

IT THERE REALLY NO IMMUNITY TO SPAM ?

2007-06-28T15:44:00.000Z

What Compels us to Keep Clicking on Spam? asks Lisa Vaas in e-Week.com. What sophisticated psychological tricks are used by spammers ? And she says that none of us are immune to their overtures.
Let us see: gullibility, lack of intelligence or rationality, there are many other psychological factors that trip up e-mail users. According to psychologists, motivation is an important factor: "Manipulating motivational processes of "approach and avoidance" are the most basic tricks spammers employ. Scam-spam often attempts to motivate click-throughs via pleasure/positive goals/positive outcomes, via avoidance of negative or unpleasant goals or outcomes, or with a combination of both. "

Beyond motivation, however, scammers must overcome skepticism, they do so by trying to convince recipients of their legitimacy, which can be garnered via many means, including intimacy/familiarity ("Is it you?" or "Hi from Lenny Cabrera") or authority ("Must Complete and Submit"). But also curiosity ("The report says"), freebies ("Unlimited Adobe Downloads"), current affairs ("Mother's Day," "Valentine's Day"), emotion/love/loss ("another week lonely"), auction fraud ("Brighton handbags"), employment scams ("Instant Payouts"), competition winner ("YOU WON"), and embarrassment ("attack obesity," "VIAGRA").

Nah, I am not infected... but how come I still receive spam mails ?
Full article is here : http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2151568,00.asp
Come on, give it a try, click on this link...

FEEL LIKE BETA-TESTING BABELGUM? ENJOY!

2007-06-13T16:09:00.000Z

Mobilized Wikipedia

2007-06-01T11:20:00.000Z

Wireless access to the Wikipedia by people on-the-go ? Here is the press release: http://www.marketwire.com/mw/release_html_b1?release_id=259740 annoucing a preliminary agreement with mobile search services provider AskMeNow.
At first, AskMeKnow will put in place a Beta for a natural language desktop search. If the Beta works out nicely, AskMeNow and the Wikimedia Foundation will launch a free Mobile Wikipedia service allowing users to search using their mobile phones.

Mobile Wikipedia seems small compared to Google's mobile plans.
Google CEO Eric Schmidt has promised more mobile applications “Google is focusing on applications that run on mobile phones... The new model of these phones is going to be person-to-person -with people exchanging videos and other types of data. “It’s sort of SMS gone wild... The sum of that is a whole new platform thing”
"We’ve been, internally, saying ‘mobile, mobile, mobile,’ and the simple reason is everyone here has a mobile phone,” he said. “Instead of saying ‘mobile, mobile, mobile,’ I should be saying ‘apps, apps, apps’.”
Ah, I bet Schmidt meant ODP (on-device-portal).
Here is more on All Things Digital: http://d5.allthingsd.com/20070531/d5-eric-schmidt/

POWERFUL COMPUTERS BASED ON FREESTYLE QUBITS DANCE

2007-05-29T08:31:00.000Z

Quantum computers... rings a bell? They are meant to be infinitely more powerful and use electrons to transport data. Aha!
Now, the way to control the behaviour of those elementary particles was recently (today I guess) presented by scientists from the French ENS. They created a system where electrons would cross a 2DEG universe (two-dimentional electron gas)... ah, I love that part! turning eletrons into qubits (quantum bits) that is a more sophisticated unit comparing to traditional bits. Here is a brief article in Science on this system. http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/316/5828/1169
I am thrilled. It is news to me. I will remember qubits, no doubt.
More on quantum computers and on 2DEG from Wikipedia, read it! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_computer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2DEG

NO EMI - WMG MARRIAGE IN SIGHT

2007-05-22T09:53:00.000Z

The battle for EMI appears to be over, as the company has accepted a takeover bid by private equity firm Terra Firma for 2.4 billion pounds, or about $4.7 billion.
EMI has long flirted with Warner Music Group, since 2000.
So, no more short term consolidations of this size in the music industry ? Or is it a strategic move to gain momentum and afford to be even more flirtatious on the music scene ?

Citizen Murdoch's big move

2007-05-22T09:24:00.000Z

Rupert Murdoch created and runs one of the largest media empires in the world with interests in television, film, pay TV, the Internet, newspapers, and publishing. He wants, for some time now, to add the Wall Street Journal to his empire. He recently put a $5 billion bid for Dow Jones & Co. Here is a paper in the paper in question (WSJ):
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB117803255991188252.html?mod=home_whats_news_us#CX
Peter Bart says, in Variety: "Murdoch has always salivated for the Journal because it's rich, conservative and could be an elegant companion piece to his long-planned Fox Business Channel."
The voices against this move are very strong, yet Rupert is determined and patient. I agree with his quote: "The world is changing very fast. Big will not beat small anymore. It will be the fast beating the slow." But Rupert is big and he can afford to be slower, at least for such strategic developments.

ODP in hunt of identity

2007-05-21T14:14:00.000Z

A mobile-oriented post this time ! I don't mind new acronyms, let's check on this one: ODP goes for on-device portal (mobile device, that is).

What is an ODP? About the only thing that the industry agrees on is that the definition is murky. In a nutshell, ODP refers to applications that run on mobile phones and try to achieve a number of cool things with content. Their mission is to make content easier to discover and use. One example of an ODP would be an on-device store front or a home-screen replacement product.
Monica Alven in WirelessWeek goes even futher: "... point to Alltel Wireless’ Celltop, Yahoo! Go and Apple’s iPhone as examples of ODPs. Some have even suggested an ODP as an alternative for brands to act like an MVNO without all the hassle of becoming an MVNO."
Murky, eh ?
Let us throw in some figures, still from WirelessWeek: "Matt Lewis, research director at London-based ARCchart, predicts the ODP market will be valued at more than $1 billion by 2009."

Making content easier to discover and use on the handset – that is great. It is like defining your own homepage on your mobile right ? Sounds weird today, tomorrow it will be obvious, that is what my intuition is telling me.
Here is a pdf link to a whitepaper on ODP, source: excellent as always Rafat from MoCoNews.
http://www.newmediaedge.co.uk/reports/odpwhitepaper.pdf

Recruitment 2.0 - outstanding idea and true colors !

2007-05-04T08:53:00.000Z

Do you know JobMeeters ?
It is a great concept in e-recruiting, based on relational networks. e-HR 2.0 if you want. But no numbers here, let us have a look at the colors ! With shocking pink as a trade-mark, JobMeeters takes advantage of the true colors of each candidate and tends to find talents where ever they are, even if they are not actively looking for a job.

JobMeeters is a French platform (with international ambition). I met with one of the founders yesterday, Patrice Malaurie, at an informal mixer and immediately loved this new kind of solution. It is an online service which connects recruiters to a large and open referrer’s community. The platform is up and running and the new version is coming soon, with fiesta and champagne, I'll be there, if you feel like joining, here is the invitation ! http://www.uneinvitation.com/invitation.asp?tp=mail&id=18599&id2=568

I believe in ideas based on communities and will be absolutely delighted to contribute to their success.

Technorati

2007-05-03T09:42:00.000Z

All right, I finally joined.
Technorati Profile

Video content on the web: what is coming down the track

2007-04-07T21:43:00.000Z

What lies between media companies and video hosting sites online ? Some call it The Content Wars - when Viacom hits YouTube with a $1bn lawsuit... Let us look at this from a more positive perspective of rule changers such as Joost, Babelgum, Eyeka is also part of the game, on the mobile side. Here is an interesting wiki about video content players http://www.gugelproductions.de/wiki/
Enjoy !

Good old times' music channels

2007-03-26T12:42:00.000Z

I received this morning the news on Music Choice Europe acquiring Xtramusic, thanks to Julian Clover, from BTN: http://www.broadbandtvnews.com/today/?p=583
MCE acquired previously another fierce competitor, five years ago : MultiMusic. I happen to have run both companies: MultiMusic for almost 10 years and Xtramusic for 2 years.
I have no lessons to give to MCE's execs, but let me say that my companies have always succeeded in the digital music business thanks to creativity, innovation and restless interactivity with the music communities. It is my kind of way to score high while MCE always believed that scale comes first. Scale is not bad, but it is not enough.
Good luck Margot.

Any recent news about Agloco ?

2007-03-24T22:08:00.000Z

It is not there yet, not even a beta version in sight, but it may well finally see the light some time. What is the idea behind Agloco ? "Get paid for surfing". Agloco is meant to create an economic network and reward its members with a share of revenues generated by their clicks, searches and visits...
I did join and will keep an eye on it : http://www.agloco.com/r/BBCR9746
Beware: by clicking on this link, you may make my fortune, so don't freak out, be yourself !

Are you A Tech & Entertainment Addict ?

2007-03-23T11:38:00.000Z

We are all part of the "Always On" family with the line between work and play becoming blurred... "The growth of portable technology has sparked fears that people are becoming addicted or swamped by gadgets and their uses". Here is an interesting article from the BBC: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/click_online/6411495.stm
This is probably tough to confess that we might see it from that angle.
Welcome to my brand new blog, that is not work, it is not play, it is in a way both of it. How come ?

Dorota Smaggia

State of the Internet 2011

Top 20 Most-Shared Video Ads This Month

Creating contagious content

Top 10 Most Popular Xtranormal Videos

Shocking Video Footage Of The Devastation Caused By Japanese Earthquake And Tsunami

Guinness Ad Tells Us How To Give The Perfect Man Hug on St Patrick's Day

A Jennifer Aniston Sex Tape? No, Just A Smart Commercial For Water

2010 A year of online video

The 2010 Social Networking Map

Social Media Revolution 2 - AWESOME!

EARTH HOUR 2010 - it is right now! Turn the lights off!

Social media like air

MOBILE TV WORLDWIDE - Top mobile TV providers in the US

New hegemonies - social networks country by country

HOME - awesome movie by Yann Arthus-Bertrand

Copyright is the new fuel for the economic uptake!

Semantic search engines - are we there, yet ? Google isn't.

It has been ages!

Co-branded with OpenMusicWire - enjoy !

Magic !

New&Fresh jamendo widgets

Free music from Jamendo for Archos users

Cool Jazz Album from Jamendo

Jamendo music to listen, download, enjoy!

100 largest US Media Companies ranked by revenue

Prada or Armani ?

Targeted Ads on MySpace

Quechup Mess

VOIP services: I am picking up Jaxtr for a try!

More advertising revenues Online than On Air

SERVICES STREAMING AUDIO & VIDEO TO YOUR MOBILE

META-VIDEO SHARING SITES IN SIGHT

SONY'S GROUPER CRACKLES

IT THERE REALLY NO IMMUNITY TO SPAM ?

FEEL LIKE BETA-TESTING BABELGUM? ENJOY!

Mobilized Wikipedia

POWERFUL COMPUTERS BASED ON FREESTYLE QUBITS DANCE

NO EMI - WMG MARRIAGE IN SIGHT

Citizen Murdoch's big move

ODP in hunt of identity

Recruitment 2.0 - outstanding idea and true colors !

Technorati

Video content on the web: what is coming down the track

Good old times' music channels

Any recent news about Agloco ?

Are you A Tech & Entertainment Addict ?