Sysomos | In-Depth Look Inside the Twitter World
Twitter Growth in 2009
Twitter "Twitpocalypse" Snags Mac, iPhone Apps
Twitter's Epic Fail in Iphone Apps
Dell Makes $3 Million From Twitter Sales
Dell makes $3million from Twitter links.
- Of that $3 million, the company claims that $1 million was made in the past six months following
A.P. in Deal to Share Investigative Work From Nonprofit Groups - NYTimes.com
AP to publish non profit investigative journalism. Internet based system for members to receive AP material makes it easier to share and offer new products such as the investigative journalism pieces
- She said the development in 2006 of an Internet-based system for members to receive A.P. material made it easier to do that kind of sharing, and to offer new products like the investigative service.
PC Pro: News: Dell makes $3 million from Twitter sales
Dell profit from Twitter
Though the $3 million sounds like a drop in the ocean given the $12.3 billion of revenue the company earned during the first quarter of this year, it further bolsters Twitter's case for charging businesses.
The social-networking site has floated this possibility in the past, but was immediately shot down by Dell which claimed "if it becomes complicated and costly, our instinct would be to move elsewhere."
Slashdot Technology Story | What Open Source Shares With Science
Science as an allegory of open source
- practitioners of Science publish not only results, but methodology, and techniques. In programmatic terms, this is equivalent to both the binary and the source code. This not only helps 'bootstrap' others into the field, to learn from the examples set, but makes it possible for others to verify or refute the results (or techniques) under investigation
- He needed the 'firmament' beneath him hypothesized, tested and confirmed by generations of scientists, philosophers and thinkers before him, over centuries."
Apple Patent To Safeguard 911 Cellphone Calls
Apple to patent emergency phone call system that would enable users to make emergency calls despite phone being out of battery - amazingly helpful!
- Engineers from Apple have applied for a patent on an 'emergency' mode for cell phones that would squeeze every last drop of energy out of the batteries. The phone would recognize emergency calls
- It would disable 'non-essential hardware components' and applications on the phone, reduce power to the screen and potentially reduce the phone's processor speed. It also would make it harder to disconnect the call and enable 'emergency phrase buttons' on the phone."
The political blogosphere and the 2004 U.S. election
Patterns of political bloggers - contrast and interaction between liberal and conservative blogs in 2004 US Presidential Election
- political bloggers. Our aim is to measure the degree of interaction between liberal and conservative blogs, and to uncover any differences in the structure of the two communities. Specifically, we analyze the posts of 40 "A-list" blogs over the period of two months preceding the U.S. Presidential Election
- We also study a single day snapshot of over 1,000 political blogs. This snapshot captures blogrolls
- presents a more static picture of a broader blogosphere. Most significantly, we find differences in the behavior of liberal and conservative blogs, with conservative blogs linking to each other more frequently and in a denser pattern.
Digital rights management for content distribution
Analysis of current DRM model (obstacles, legal implications) and how it will grow in future.
- Transferring the traditional business model for selling digital goods linked to physical media to the online world leads to the need for a system to protect digital intellectual property. Digital Rights Management(DRM) is a system to protect high-value digital assets and control the distribution and usage of those digital assets
- security technologies, underlying legal implications and main obstacles to DRM deployment
- well prepared for grasping future prospects.
Digital rights management for the online music business
- Existing digital rights management systems are backed by two license management models, the tethered model and the untethered model.
- The problems with these models are that the tethered model forces consumers to be online, while the untethered model provides relatively less security to the license residing locally. This paper proposes an enhanced license management model for the online music business,
Comparing the usage of digital rights management systems in the music, film, and print industry
Analysis of effectiveness of DRM in the protection of print, music and film industry and how it will be enforced in the future
Literature in the digital environment
ailin_bezzo 's List: Literature in the digital environment
Posted from Diigo. The rest of ARIN6912 2009 Digital Research and Publishing group favorite links are here.
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