Twitter is a mainstream communications technology that plays a critical role in news and content discovery. The company has spawned a business ecosystem of third-party developers and services that create apps… Read more »
Today’s must-read is this thought-provoking post from The Wall Street Journal that compares the app industry to the early days of the U.S. music market. The massive inventories in Apple’s App… Read more »
Facebook’s initial public offering has sparked a number of debates about the effectiveness of social advertising and whether the company is failing to take advantage of mobile. But investors should be… Read more »
Advertisers have long been enamored with the promise of location-based advertising (LBA). To date, however, national advertisers’ and agencies’ enthusiasm has been tempered by fragmented audiences, and advertisers and agencies have… Read more »
At its f8 developer conference, Facebook laid out a grand vision of a new class of lifestyle apps enabled by its platform. Last week, at a subdued event that attracted far… Read more »
Today’s must-read comes from Time, which asks whether mobile gaming is Facebook’s Achilles heel. Writer Keith Woolcock notes that while Facebook takes a 30 percent cut of revenues through social gaming… Read more »
The digital living room was also the scene of a lot of activity in the fourth quarter. Microsoft rolled out a major upgrade to its Xbox Live platform, adding dozens of… Read more »
The rise of third-party messaging services is impacting SMS revenues of some operators in overseas markets and will eventually affect U.S. markets too. Operators looking to compete against offerings like Apple’s… Read more »
Don’t expect the pace of change in web technologies to slow down in 2012. The web is far from dead. Social media may have anointed one huge player in Facebook, but… Read more »
Call it the year of lessons learned, if not quite bubbles burst. In 2011, several trends in the connected consumer space that appeared inexorable at the start of the year seemed… Read more »