16 Millionen UMTS-Anschlüsse in Deutschland
Bitkom: Zum Jahreswechsel gab es knapp 16 Millionen UMTS-Anschlüsse in Deutschland; http://tr.im/gbts
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The Net: Technology vs. Privacy?
Is a more secure Internet one that would almost certainly offer less anonymity and privacy? – http://tr.im/gbtd
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Twitter Raises $35 Million
Twitter closed a third round of funding, raises $35 million. Active users: +900% in a year (+API); http://tr.im/g50f
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NYT: “The fundraising round brings in two top West Coast venture firms. The San Francisco start-up had previously raised $20 million from investors including Union Square Ventures, based in New York, and Spark Capital, based in Boston. Those firms will also participate in the latest round, as could previous angel investors including Ron Conway and Marc Andreessen, which could bring the total to $40 million, said Todd Chaffee of Institutional Venture Partners. They are still working out the final details. … ‘We’re fired up,’ Mr. Chaffee said. ‘They’ve had unbelievably explosive organic growth like I’ve never seen before, and an amazing level of interest from developers, the digerati and the media. We really need all hands on deck to figure how to shepherd that growth.‘”
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SZ: “Der Internet-Kommunikationsdienst Twitter hat sich für seine weitere Entwicklung mehr als 35 Millionen Dollar von Investoren gesichert. Twitter gab die bereits dritte Finanzierungsrunde bekannt, ohne die genaue Summe mitzuteilen. … Die Summe ist umso beeindruckender, da Risikoinvestoren angesichts der Wirtschaftskrise die Finanzierung junger Internet-Unternehmen massiv zurückgefahren haben.”
Netzwertig: “Twitter hat seine bisher umfangreichste Finanzierung erhalten, und das, ohne aktiv nach neuem Kapital gesucht zu haben. Trotz fehlendem Geschäftsmodell ist dies nachvollziehbar. Kaum ein Webdienst hat derartiges Potenzial. Und Vergleiche mit dem kurzen Second-Life-Hype sind falsch. … Twitter revolutioniert die Kommunikation und Interaktion zwischen Menschen. Erkennen kann dies nur, wer den Service selbst für längere Zeit einsetzt und sich eine nennenswerte Zahl an Folgern erarbeitet hat. An diesem Punkt tritt der Aha-Effekt ein, ab da entfaltet der Microbloggingservice seine ganze Kraft. Erst wer diesen kritischen Moment überschritten hat, kann sich ein fundiertes Urteil über Twitter erlauben.”
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The Canonical Tag
Google, Yahoo, Microsoft unite on the canonical tag to reduce duplicate content clutter; http://tr.im/g32z
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Holtzbrincks Experimente
Die Verlagsgruppe Holtzbrinck mit bitterer Experimente-Bilanz: Keine Chance für neue Zeitungen? – http://tr.im/g2ma
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Wikipedia: Self-destruction?
Law professor Goldman: Wikipedia contains the seeds of its own destruction; http://tr.im/g24p
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WikiDashboard
http://WikiDashboard.parc.com provides a social dynamic analysis tool for Wikipedia; http://tr.im/g244
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Twitter Blocks Clickjacking
Twitter blocks clickjacking after a special message triggered an avalanche on its service; http://tr.im/g1xd
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RealNetworks: 34.1 Million Total Subscribers
RealNetworks says it has 34.1 million total subscribers across all of its services; http://tr.im/g1v0
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Google: No More Radio Ads
Google: “We have decided to exit the broadcast radio business and focus on online streaming audio“; http://tr.im/g1td
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Google: “We will use our technology to develop Internet-based solutions that will deliver relevant ads for online streaming audio. We are dedicating a team of people at Google to explore how we can best add value for advertisers, broadcasters and listeners in this emerging advertising space. In addition, we will continue to invest in our growing TV advertising business, where we can measure audience response and help advertisers understand how effective their ads are.”
NYT: “Google said it was ending its radio project, Google Audio Ads, because it had failed to live up to expectations. Up to 40 people are expected to lose their jobs. – It was the second time in two months that Google had killed a program meant to expand its advertising business offline, suggesting that the appeal of Google’s automated model for selling ads may be far more limited than the company once hoped. … Three weeks ago, Google ended its Print Ads program, which sold spots in newspapers. Only one of Google’s offline advertising initiatives survives – the more ambitious effort to sell TV ads.”
TC: “Google says it will still continue to pursue its dreams of serving better TV ads, but it is not clear Google is making much progress on that front either.”
pC: “Google didn’t offer a specific reason for its decision to abandon radio ads. But even the search giant has been affected by the economic downturn and radio, like newspapers, have been struggling mightily. As UBS Equities analyst Matthieu Coppet stated in his revised media ad spend report yesterday, radio ad spend is expected to fall 8 percent this year.”
AdAge: “The idea behind Google Audio Ads, as it was with Print Ads, was to make buying ad inventory much more efficient for the smaller advertisers that have been instrumental in growing Google’s search-ads business and find new ways to match relevant ads to audio content. But one big problem? It was easy to trace return on investment on the click-based web – not so much in radio or print.”
Mashable: “Meanwhile, the loss on the dMarc buy probably wasn’t huge by Google standards. The deal for dMarc was initially for $102 million, with incentives that could’ve pushed the total value of the acquisition to more than $1 billion. With the shutdown of Google’s broadcast advertising program, it’s safe to say that those incentives weren’t reached.“
Twitter: “Twitter is growing at a phenomenal rate. Active users have increased 900% in a year and even though our web traffic is amazing, we see twice that traffic to the APIs. Interacting with Twitter over SMS is also getting more popular every day. Our relatively small team of 29 employees has accomplished quite a bit lately but it’s obvious that we have the world ahead of us. … Twitter is making a real impact around the world as people, companies, and organizations everywhere discover a powerful new way to communicate and find out what’s happening – right now.”
TC: “Update: We just got off the phone with IVP partner Todd Chaffee who says this round was actually in excess of $35 million. Apparently, $35 million is just the total of what Benchmark and IVP put in ($21 million and $14 million respectively), while the additional amount put in by Union Square Ventures and Spark Capital is still unknown.”
Mashable: “In any event, while the business model remains a mystery, it’s clear Twitter is in it for the long-haul, and despite onlookers constantly questioning how they’ll make money, the company still has plenty of time to figure it out, on their own schedule.”
RWW: “One interesting (though not unexpected) statistic in the funding announcement is that Twitter now gets almost twice as much traffic from its API than from the web. That number will surely drive how Twitter plans to monetize its service. If only a few people come to Twitter’s web site, then just putting advertising on the site will not drive enough income to Twitter to keep the service afloat in the long run.”
VW: “A strong, independent company is a longshot, considering that Twitter must pay cell-phone companies to deliver its short text updates to users’ cell phones, while not pulling in compensatory revenues. Twitter’s best hope is a buyout – and what its investors have just done is give it a better hand to bluff with, until it suckers some larger Web company into figuring out how to turn Twitter’s 140-character-long updates into cash.”