This month’s adventure with Kojo Nnamdi and The Computer Guys
Listen here: http://bit.ly/ofujZk (60 minutes)
Book mentioned during show: The Ultimate Web Marketing Guide by Michael Miller http://amzn.to/nwEhNN
# 1 Laptops as popular as desktops: 57% US adults own desktop 56% laptop (both?) More Americans own an e-reader 12% than a tablet at 8% http://www.pewinternet.org/Media-Mentions/2011/EReader-Ownership-Doubles-in-Six-Months.aspx
# 2 We know there are 500+ million on Facebook – but – ten million on fourssquare? Who knew? Who is the mayor of WAMU? https://foursquare.com/10million
#3 iPod? how outré! – Kojo may be the only person of note with an iPod !http://www.thestreet.com/story/10820263/1/the-era-of-the-apple-ipod-may-have-passed.html
# 4 comScore:: one billion a month for Google . . but Google isn’t the only major player to gain some significant traffic. BING took second place with 905 million unique views, a 15% increase. Facebook increased 30% to 714 million, and even Yahoo had 689 million views in May (surprising?).
http://blog.hubspot.com/blog/tabid/6307/bid/17586/Google-Becomes-First-Company-to-Hit-1-Billion-Views-per-Month.aspx#ixzz1Q7kglXgP
# 5 VMWare’s president advances the phrase “post document era” (“last month Post PC era”) Promoting the cloud concept where information is located in the cloud, not on paper. http://gigaom.com/broadband/vmwares-preparing-for-the-post-document-era/
# 6 “Unfortunately” we can’t discuss this word. Wonder if it was surgically removed from Bill’s brain?http://gawker.com/5812157/apple-store-employees-arent-allowed-to-say-unfortunately
# 7 Facebook: lost users in May! Mark Zuckerberg suicidal? . . or . . nobody left to conquer? http://www.slate.com/id/2296932/
# 8 Old school: 500 channels and nothing to watch Today: 300,000 apps – many “gimmicky http://www.guardian.co.uk/mobile-marketing-2011/creating-mobile-content-lack-application
# 9 Facial recognition—a mild bump in the news—a major concern? http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-20070148-93/facebook-facial-recognition-prompts-eu-privacy-probe/
# 10 Smartphone App Downloads to Reach 48 Billion in 2015 (POTENTIAL WAMU SURVEY QUESTION) http://instat.com/press.asp?ID=3155&sku=IN1104930MCM
Entertaining for insiders: http://www.businessinsider.com/big-tech-org-charts-2011-6
