Fun Stats
Nielson’s Top 10 online destinations for current events and global news, in descending order: washington post.com, usatoday.com, Google News, Gannett Newspapers & Newspapers Division, Tribune Newspapers, NY Times.com, AOL News, MSNBC Digital Network, CNN Digital Network, and Yahoo! News.
http://www.centerformediaresearch.com/cfmr_brief.cfm?fnl=071207
User-Generated Sports Journalism
“ESPN Campus Connection” to foster user-generated sports commentary by connecting ESPN with journalism and marketing students at various universities. Because who’s more level-headed about sports than a rabid, face paint-wearing journalism student? http://publications.mediapost.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=Articles.san&s=72281&Nid=37124&p=910435
Fly The Friendly Wi-Fi
Jet Blue is offering free e-mail and instant messaging service. American Airlines, Virgin America, and Alaska Airlines will be offering in-flight broadband for a fee in 2008. You still can’t line up outside the bathroom, though, so the system of racing other passengers to the toilet is still in effect.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/07/technology/07air.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&ref=technology
http://www.cio-today.com/story.xhtml?story_id=013001A0RTZC&nl=5
AT&T: Look at me! Look at me!
AT&T says they are the most open mobile network.
http://gigaom.com/2007/12/06/att-verizon-t-mobilewe-are-all-open/
http://www.cio-today.com/story.xhtml?story_id=013001A0RTWG&nl=5
Free Webs
Former web site hosting company Freewebs has changed its name to Webs.com and is now focusing on developing games for social networks via its Social Gaming Network, or SGN.
http://publications.mediapost.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=Articles.san&s=72292&Nid=37124&p=910435
XP for the XO
Microsoft wants the OLPC folks to redesign their laptop, the XO, so it can run Windows XP. That way, children in developing countries using the XO will hate Microsoft tech support, too.
http://www.cio-today.com/story.xhtml?story_id=01300000FWSW&page=2