Why the Japanese Hate the iPhone

Wired.com: "Besides cultural opposition, Japanese citizens possess high, complex standards when it comes to cellphones. The country is famous for being ahead of its time when it comes to technology, and the iPhone just doesn't cut it."

Online networking 'harms health'

BBC: "Social networking sites should allow us to embellish our social lives, but what we find is very different. The tail is wagging the dog. These are not tools that enhance, they are tools that displace."

The Database of Intentions is More Valuable than the Database of Musings For Now (Google and Twitter)

Charles Hudson: "whoever beats Google won’t do it by beating them in web search - it will have to be something different and non-obvious to Google as the incumbent"

Make Online Ads Accountable

BusinessWeek: "You might conclude we're measuring online advertising in a perverse way. Yes, the Web is effective for brand building, but in dwelling relentlessly on display advertising and CPM pricing, we're losing focus on the Internet's real power as a medium for direct marketing and eliciting a response."

The future of newspapers: "Google devalues everything it touches"

Poynter Online: "Google devalues everything it touches. Google is great for Google, but it's terrible for content providers, because it divides that content quantitatively rather than qualitatively."

Pew: Twitter and status updating used by 11% of Americans

Pew: "As of December 2008, 11% of online American adults said they used a service like Twitter or another service that allowed them to share updates about themselves or to see the updates of others."

Blogging Hits Crossroads: A-Listers Giving Up

WebProNews: "Like it or not, the corporation is going to have to enter the blogosphere, and by irony, will ruin it in order to save it. Luckily, unlike the past, there will be wider avenues via user-generated media for quality content producers, so long as they have the passion and will to walk those avenues. Besides, writers write, bloggers blog, regardless."

Bigger than TV, bigger than the internet: Understand mobile of 4 billion users

Communities Dominate Brands: "Newspapers? the total circulation of all daily newspapers worldwide is about 480 milllion. Cars? There are about 800 million cars on the planet. Cable and satellite TV subscriptions? About 850 million. Personal computers including desktops, laptops and netbooks, about 1 billion. Fixed landline telephone connections, about 1.2 billion. eMail users about 1.3 billion. Internet users about 1.4 billion. Television sets about 1.5 billion. And credit cards? About 1.7 billion people carry at least one credit card in their wallet.

But there are 4 billion mobile phone subscriptions now in January 2009. More than twice the number of credit card owners, 2.5 times the number of TV sets or internet uses, approx 3 times the number of email users of total landline phones and yes, four times the number of personal computers. This is a monster sized industry, totally towering over all others."

Android: Being ported beyond smartphones

BusinessWeek: "In late 2009, Touch Revolution plans to introduce a remote control and a touchscreen land-line home phone that will be powered by Android. Also in the works from Hamblin's company: touchscreen menus for restaurants, Android-based medical devices, and a 15-in. kitchen computer where family members can leave messages for one another."