Year: 2009
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Now there’s a hoopy frood who really knows where his towel is.
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Andrew Sullivan misunderstands the “long tail”
A new British study finds that the most pirated pop songs on the internet are those that already top the charts. Instead of giving rise to a “long tail” where small indie acts broaden their appeal online, the study found that digital technology – and music pirating – simply work to reinforce the fat head…
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Like yourmonkeycalled I too enjoyed taking The Deck Ad Network Readership Survey.
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Like yourmonkeycalled I too enjoyed taking The Deck Ad Network Readership Survey.
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MOSA
An NPO supporting Macintosh software developers in Japan. Other than ADC this seems to be the only place Japanese devs can get support. MOSA
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iPhone’s disappointing lack of effect on keitai UX
Softbank and DoCoMo have released their summer lineup of mobile phones, one year after the initial release of the iPhone. I was truly optimistic. When the iPhone hit Japan last year I was excited at the prospect of a shakeup for Japanese mobile handset makers. I hoped they would be forced to abandon their horrid…
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The Atlantic: Can Apple manage without Steve Jobs?
Harris Collingwood gathers some interesting leadership studies to find the effects of CEOs on corporations. However, I would have liked to have seen a study on the effects of perceptions of CEOs on publicly traded businesses. It seems to me that this is the question facing the reaction to Jobs’s supposed comeback next month. The…
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Twitter circa 1935
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Twitter circa 1935
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Mac marketshare in Japan up to 2.9%
Danbo links to an MM Research Institute study on computer marketshare in Japan for FY2008. Apple’s share of the personal computer market in Japan increased to 2.9%, ranking Apple in tenth place. Last year Apple was ninth place with 2.8%. The big story is netbooks, which saw a whopping 13.2% increase in their marketshare. Asus…