People Pay for Ring Tones
An interesting statistic from the 9/5/05 issue of Red Herring magazine: 30 million Americans have downloaded cell phone ring tones and 78 percent of them (23 million people) paid for them.
TechCrunch reports on an interesting approach by Seth Godin to marketing his new book: As I mentioned in a recent weekly summary (see no. 6), Seth’s new book, The Big Moo, is coming out and he’s eating his own dogfood in promoting it. Seth has started selling batches of 50 galley copies to people if…
I published a column reflecting on my memories of my grandfather. He passed away today at 100 years old. Read the full column here.
Mayor/Governor Moonbeam (Jerry Brown) has started a blog. The Christian Science Monitor examines what this means. (Thanks to Jim Horton for pointing out this story.)
Florida Trend carries a lengthy profile of Jimmy Wales, the man behind perhaps the most successful consumer generated media site, Wikipedia. he website is among the 100 mostvisited on the internet, according to the web-traffic analysis firm Alexa. The firm reports that Wikipedia is the 58th-mostvisited site globally, compared to a 69th-place ranking for About.com,…
Realm Systems tried to one-up U3 (see previous post) by unveiling the Mobile Personal Server 1400E. It’s bigger – both in claimed capabilities and size. I haven’t yet stopped by their booth to get more information (though I plan to tomorrow), but their presentation showed enhanced security possibilities that caught my attention. They demonstrated the…
A Kintera/Luth study found that: On average, online givers donate in total (both online and offline) more than 50 percent more than those donors who do not give online.