Ich hatte heute eine sehr interessante Vorlesung im Bereich Nachrichtentechnik. Nach diversen technischen Details kamen wir zur Informationsdichte von verschiedenen Kommunikationsarten. Die Quintessenz der Lehrveranstaltung war weniger ueberraschend als ernuechternd.

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Children and tweens have become an increasingly attractive audience to marketers as their purchase potential has increased (it seems exponentially) over the past decades. Yes it is true, I will admit to owning more Barbies than any one girl could possible need but I don’t think that the sum of their cost would come anywhere near the price of the iPod hanging out of the pocket of the kid next to me on the subway. Kids can get there parents to shell out dough at an amazing rate (and yes, there are a few teens who actually make the cash they spend).

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50 lawsuits have been filed over postings on blogs and web message boards over the past two years according to a USA Today article. The article didn’t differentiate between blog posts and blog comments but there have been lawsuits over both. It also didn’t say how many of the 50 lawsuits were filed specifically against blgos and not message boards. The bright side of the story for bloggers is that fifty lawsuits is still very, very small compared to the 50+ million blogs Technorati is tracking.

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Digby is a mobile commerce service for BlackBerry users. It is the easiest way to use your BlackBerry to find, browse and buy popular, name brand products from premier retailers on the Internet. Digby eliminates the challenges of surfing web sites not designed for mobile devices, and our easy-to-use graphical interface makes browsing intuitive and provides quick access to products in categories like Books, Flowers, Music, DVDs, Electronics and many more. The Digby marketplace is open 7 days a week, 24 hours a day, with a catalog updated on a daily basis to keep content fresh and provide you with special products offers.

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The saga of Facebook’s incredible rise to the top continues. In this episode Microsoft is victorious over Google as the winner of a small but expensive stake in our heroic start-up. But of course this is just one episode, one battle, and it certainly does not predict what will happen at the end of the season, or determine who will eventually win the war for the largest share of the advertising market.

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