How digital ad marketplace MoPub can help expand Twitter’s umbrella
MoPub, a mobile ad marketplace that Twitter acquired late last year, could help the company expand its reach and broaden its revenue potential.
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Is mobile dating the new ride sharing?
Silicon Valley has always been ground zero for predicting the latest mobile trends — just look at the runaway success of Uber. But given how many singles are finding love via mobile app these days, are we entering the age where mobile dating is the must-do trend in the Valley?
Why game developers must wait for the coming wearable computing breakthrough
With the dawn of wearable technology, games are sure to become an important part of the experience. But if it’s the same old games on smart watches and glasses, I’m already over it.
Google Zeitgeist: U.S. trends full of tragedy
Google’s year-end Zeitgeist showed that we searched for catastrophic events and celebrity deaths the most this year.
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Can watching Twitter trends help predict the future?
Researchers are busy trying to use Twitter to predict everything from disease outbreaks and financial markets to elections and even revolutions. New research from Topsy Labs shows that Twitter can provide a window into events like the Arab Spring. But can it predict what will happen?
The 12 Apples of Christmas
With all the rumors, announcements, keynotes, and online drama, 2010 has been a banner year for Apple. The 12 days of Christmas start after Christmas day, so in the spirit of that tradition, here’s a look at what was and what’s to come for the company.
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Earthquakes, Bieber and iPads: Apple’s Year in Web Trends
The three biggest names in global web trends – Google, Facebook and Twitter – have released their top ten lists for 2010. In lists filled with global recession worries and natural disasters (earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, Justin Bieber) it says a lot that Apple is still popping up everywhere.
Top Twitter Trend for 2010: No, It Wasn’t Justin Bieber
Although 2010 isn’t over yet, Twitter has come out with the top trending topics for the year, and surprisingly enough, Justin Bieber — the guy who is so popular that Twitter had to modify the way it calculates trending topics — didn’t take the top slot.
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iTunes Rewind 2010 Highlights Top Apps, App Trends
Apple’s year-in-review iTunes Rewind special section of the iTunes Store went live today, and the App Store selections in particular give a good overview at the year that was for iOS software. Here’s a look at the big winners, and some interesting trends.
Workplace Trends: The End of Cubicle Dwelling?
Many of us have left the world of cubicles behind as our jobs increasingly move into the online realm, where physical presence becomes just an occasional part of our work lives rather than a daily grind of commuting in traffic and cubicle dwelling for 40 hours a week. I see more and more people joining the remote web worker ranks every day, and I’m not the only one seeing this trend. What does this mean for us?
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Praise-based Economy: How Much Are You a Part of It?
I came across this very interesting BusinessWeek article by Stephen Baker last week, which discusses how willing we are to do free…
Follow Twitter Trends With Connect the Tweets
When I explain Twitter to the uninitiated, I tend to describe it as my virtual water cooler. It helps me keep a…
Web Working: Not a Niche
At WWD, we’ve long recognized that there are many types of web workers: though the stereotypical web worker may be the always-on-the-go,…
I Am Rich: Proof that Apple doesn’t do any quality control with the App Store
What more can I say, the fact that this application is live in the App Store proves Apple couldn’t possibly do more…
NBC Direct, Take Two, Out for Testing
NBC is opening a trial of the new version of its web VOD software NBC Direct, which now incorporates the download-speeding assistance…
Three webcasts you don’t want to miss this month
Mark your calendars and set those reminders now: there are three mobile technology webcasts geared towards UMPCs and Tablet PCs that you…
The ChargePod for true gadget addicts
What looks like a squid and will charge six mobile gadgets at the same time? That would be the ChargePod by callpod. …
Speech Therapy
Voice recognition software mini-giants Scansoft and Nuance are tying the knot in a $221 million merger. Maybe finally the damn technology will…
Ten Years Later, Do We Need Streaming Radio?
Business 2.0: Online radio’s other name might as well be “irrational exuberance.” Not a day passes when I don’t come across an…
