Yes, it is that Nostradamus time of the year when experts, pundits and amateurs enjoy looking into a crystal ball and venturing what the next year will bring to New Media.
It’s fun and it’s silly, so following from my somewhat successful forecast of 2007 ( here and here), these are some initial thoughts on what [...]

If you are curious about how Apple kept the iPhone plans secret for so long, you should check out this Fortune article:
Apple, legendary for the ferocity with which it safeguards new product announcements, had extraordinary challenges in keeping the iPhone under wraps for 30 months. Besides involving Cingular, Google and Yahoo, not to mention the [...]

Are we approaching an economic slowdown?
analysts are predicting so.
If that is the case, the economic slowdown will dampen consumer spending and thus advertising.
Already in late 2006 Yahoo started warning about its advertising revenues slowdown.
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DMNews has an interesting analysis:
Searches conducted on AOL were most likely to lead to online consumer purchases in January, according to a new WebSideStory index. This may reflect a difference in the demographics of people visiting various search engines.
WebSideStory’s index compares the median conversion rates of four major search engines at business-to-consumer e-commerce sites. AOL [...]

John Maeda at Simplicity blog has researched an interesting comparison of the evolution of the Google vs. Yahoo interface.
The analysis is fascinating, using archive pictures to show just how over the years the Yahoo site has become more complex, while Google simplified the design as much as possible.
By the way, let me clarify that my [...]

In the ongoing discussion of whether violent videogames are bad for kids or actually a great way for them to learn to focus, here comes an interesting survey:
The Entertainment Software Association, in conjuction with Peter D. Hart Research Associates, surveyed 501 parents with children between the ages of 2 and 17 to understand how videogames [...]

Talk Digger is a new metasearch engine for blog conversations, helping you “find, follow and join discussions evolving on the Internet”.
The search engine has been developed by Frédérick Giasson as a research project, and started its life as a way to compare how different search engines track links to a particular site. Search engines [...]

In the wake of Yahoo’s acquisition of del.icio.us. my cogratulations go to the founder Joshua Schachter and the VC Fred Wilson at Union Square Ventures.
You will find more info on this acquisition from Om Malik and del.icio.us themselves.
I just wanted to emphasize the importance of the del.icio.us database remaining open for the long term if [...]

BBC NEWS has an interesting article on US dating agencies sued for fraud:

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Lately the number of spam comments on this blog has started to become unbearable, almost as bad as the number of junk emails crowding my old Yahoo account.
To better understand the size of the spam problem, I did a quick search for market data on the size of the spam problem on the Web.
The results [...]