Mojo fight - Google adds satellite imagery to maps. Good for consumers and probably fun for the employees of both Google and Yahoo.
One in three of the 22 million MP3 player owners has listened to a podcast, according to a new Pew study.
Editor and publisher story about newspaper revenue
Another way of looking at it:
Revenue for newspaper websites, year 2004, aggregate:$1.19 billion, with nearly half that amount coming from classifieds.
Revenue for Google adwords, year 2004: 3,143,288,000–roughly half that amount on Google, the other half on third-party websites (the adsense program).Likelihood of only newspaper classifieds growing 25% this year, given the lower costs and better reach offered by others? 0. (via: John Battelle)
A line from a paypal spoof I received this morning, "One of our Customer Service employees has already tryed to telephonically reach you."
Having an electric kettle and drinking tea in the morning means never having to go through the day worrying about not turning off the coffeemaker and burning the house down. Plus you get to drink almost twice as much tea for one cup of coffee. Lately I've been buying tea from the Upton Tea Company. They have a nice feature on their site that enabled you to make custom labels for your tea.
CNET bought a 4 month old photo sharing service yesterday. Talking with a friend about this yesterday I said that I thought I was living on the wrong coast. He said we were living in the wrong country since Korea is doing so many impressive things with mobile devices. He is a bit of a futurist.
