People Won’t Pay For Things Online?

Newspaper industry is looking for a new way to get revenue. Google wants to be a part of newspaper industry’s future; Google ‘wants to save newspapers’ with a micropayment engine. “Micropayments are just part of Google’s overall plan to help newspapers make money from online content. Google’s proposal — its “vision of a premium content [...]

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Korea 2.0 – The Internet Galapagos?

What’s happening in South Korea 2.0 in 2009? “Ten years ago, Korea was an innovation powerhouse in the web industry – The country was filled with entrepreneurship and was churning out some of the most interesting web services before any other countries did. But these days Korea-born innovations are hard to come by. On the [...]

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Ikea’s Great Facebook Campaign

Ikea’s Facebook campaign was a hit – I need a new Ikea sofa, Swedes begged on Facebook. Ikea’s campaign promoted the opening of a new store using Facebook photo tagging. “Facebook being what it is, word got out and needy, enthusiastic Swedes begged for more pictures so that they could tag themselves to a new [...]

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Dell and Intel – Digital Media Brands of the Year

No surprises in 2009. Dell and Intel were jointly named the digital brand of the year 2009. “The campaign involved a microsite to support Swarm and maintained a heavy social media focus, integrating the use of Twitter, mobile and rich media to engage audiences. Bloggers were also given special previews to drive buzz. Swarm used [...]

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Dematerialisation of Consumption

Vili Lehdonvirta’s PhD thesis (.pdf) on people who spend real money on virtual goods. “I locate virtual goods as the latest step in an overall digitalisation of consumption, and examine the reasons behind this “virtual consumption” through data gathered from some of its primary arenas.” (Virtual Consumption by Vili Lehdonvirta)

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How Electronic Ink Works

Interesting article about E Ink on How Stuff Works. “Electronic ink can be printed on any surface, including walls, billboards, product labels and T-shirts. Homeowners could soon be able to instantly change their digital wallpaper by sending a signal to the electronic ink painted on their walls. The ink’s flexibility would also make it possible [...]

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8 Billion Minutes on Facebook – Daily

Accept mistakes, says Facebook. “Move fast, break stuff” is one of Facebook’s engineering tenets, Schroepfer (Facebook executive Mike Schroepfer) explained. “Sometimes we push bugs. Sometimes we push products that people don’t like.” Those missteps, he said, are necessary for constant innovation.” (Cnet)

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A Bottle Phone

Samsung goes green…constructed from water bottles. “Even if solar power isn’t your thing (you Hummer driving, baby suffocating, evil doer), most of the phone is constructed from PCM, a plastic extracted from recycled water bottles. And there’s a built-in pedometer that tells you how many trees you are saving by walking instead of driving (that [...]

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