Posts from May 14, 2008

David Card | May 14, 2008, 07:07 PM
Signs of the End of Western Civilization, Part CCC
From a PR email: "We’d love to see a post of it on your site for feature and/or preview. The show could best be described as “The Darwin Awards meets Faces of Death,” telling the true stories of actual deaths and recreating them through awesome comic-book style graphics, acting, CGI,...( more )

IanFogg | May 14, 2008, 06:11 PM
iPhone Revisited: Signs and Portents
I've not been using the iPhone as my main phone (various reasons, nothing exciting). This week I had another go and I was impressed all over again. It's so easy to forget this is still just a version 1, given the smoothness of most of the experience: version 1 hardware;...( more )

David Card | May 14, 2008, 01:25 PM
Online Ad Forecasting Poll
It's online ad forecasting season, and we really would like Jupiter clients input. The survey on our site is too small to be useful -- so I'm not posting any results except to say it looks mighty bullish to me (a plurality says 25% growth or better), and the results...( more )

Zia Daniell Wigder | May 14, 2008, 11:46 AM
Global Online Retail report posted
We've just published our report on Global Online Retail. Many thanks to the dozens of online retailers, e-commerce platform vendors, logistics providers, payments enablers and customer service providers that provided input for the report. For those of you reading the report, I welcome your thoughts and feedback....( more )

David Card | May 14, 2008, 09:38 AM
What Happens if a Story Breaks, but Nobody PRs It?
YouTube's announcement of rudimentary buzz-targeting -- that is, placing its ad overlays on videos as they become popular -- strikes me as at least the most important tech news that broke yesterday. I mean, c'mon, Carl Icahn? Craigslist lawsuits? Yet, most of the tech blogs, and all of MSM have...( more )

Mark Mulligan | May 14, 2008, 08:00 AM
imeem Takes on Yahoo and AOL
Social music site imeem have been placed as the number one US music-streaming service in the US, ahead of Yahoo and AOL. The rankings aren’t from either of the main measurement companies (Comscore and Nielsen) so will doubtlessly be contradicted / challenged by other rankings. Also the difference between imeem...( more )

Thomas Husson | May 14, 2008, 06:18 AM
Mobile Internet for dummies
Brought to my attention via MobHappy, an interesting blog from Russell Buckley and Carlo Longino. Russell (in charge of European operations at Admob) has just been elected Chairman of the Mobile Marketing Association for EMEA (in replacement of Richard Saggers from Vodafone). Congrats and good luck to him....( more )

Thomas Husson | May 14, 2008, 05:56 AM
MVNOs better than their hosts?
According to the J.D. Power and Associates 2008 UK Mobile Telephone Customer Satisfaction Study released recently, Tesco Mobile ranks highest in customer satisfaction with pre-pay mobile telephone service for the first time, while Virgin Mobile ranks highest among contract mobile phone customers for a second consecutive year. There are obvioulsy...( more )