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    FaceBook at Five Percent

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    FIve Percent of Internet Time

    The CommScore announcement that Facebook now consumes five percent of the time that Americans spend online is not surprising. The fact that Farmville turnips wither and die if they are not watered each day by a returning player is going to insure that there are sixty million people who return. Add in the hundreds of thousands of Baby Boomers who discover Facebook each day, and the multiplication of Fan Pages. And the amount of minutes multiplies like.. well, rabbits in Farmville.

    All of that lurks somewhere between interesting and profound. If you are a casual observer of trends, the interesting part makes sense. And if you are a part of the traditional media, particularly television it could easily havea a profound impact on your business livelihood. Simply put, neither virtual farmers, baby boomers or just about anyone else are holding up their end of the bargain. Other than the rapidly aging out populations over 65 that never made the transition, television viewership continues to drop in favor of smaller screens.

    Five percent is not much. But as the maxim goes, 5% of something beats 100% of nothing every time.

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    ]]>     http://slashdotreview.com/sdrnews-facebook-at-five-percent.html/feed 0 android,facebook,gPhone,spam Ads to Offset Google Phone Costs Facebook Takes Five Percent Honeypot Traps the Billionth Spam * Ads to Offset Google Phone Costs * Facebook Takes Five Percent * Honeypot Traps the Billionth Spam (http://slashdotreview.com/wp-images/sdr_125x50.gif) SDR News is a Daily (M-F) Technology Podcast with Tech News Highlights from Slashdot, Digg and Reddit Click Here to Sign Up for the SDR Newsletter (javascript:void(0)) (javascript:void(0))(http://www.podtrac.com/PodtracPlayer/playerbutton1.jpg) Prefer a Direct Download ? (mp3) Download today's show. (http://media.techpodcasts.com/news/www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/libsyn.com/media/slashdotreview/SDR2009-12-16.mp3) SDR News Links (http://del.icio.us/SDRNews/SDR2009-12-16) If a news item has disappeared from the Del.icio.us list above, try the full list here. (http://del.icio.us/SDRNews) SEARCH ANY STORY YOU HEAR ON THE PODCAST More Info on Screencasts Online (http://www.screencastsonline.com/scoaffiliates/jrox.php?id=474_1_tlid_2) FaceBook at Five Percent by Andrew McCaskey FIve Percent of Internet Time The CommScore announcement that Facebook now consumes five percent of the time that Americans spend online is not surprising. The fact that Farmville turnips wither and die if they are not watered each day by a returning player is going to insure that there are sixty million people who return. Add in the hundreds of thousands of Baby Boomers who discover Facebook each day, and the multiplication of Fan Pages. And the amount of minutes multiplies like.. well, rabbits in Farmville. All of that lurks somewhere between interesting and profound. If you are a casual observer of trends, the interesting part makes sense. And if you are a part of the traditional media, particularly television it could easily havea a profound impact on your business livelihood. Simply put, neither virtual farmers, baby boomers or just about anyone else are holding up their end of the bargain. Other than the rapidly aging out populations over 65 that never made the transition, television viewership continues to drop in favor of smaller screens. Five percent is not much. But as the maxim goes, 5% of something beats 100% of nothing every time. Contact Us Electronic Frontier Foundation Watch Today's Video Episode (http://www.eff.org/give) Be sure to check out GoToMeeting (http://www.gotomeeting.com/techpodcasts). Why? Because you can hold meetings right over the Net -- from anywhere. Plus, you can hold all the meetings you want for one flat rate. To get your free 30-day trial (http://www.gotomeeting.com/techpodcasts) , visit www.gotomeeting.com/techpodcasts. * Take 10% off any order at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH * Take $5 off any $30 order at GoDaddy.com! Code SDR530 * .com Domains $6.95 at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH3 * More blogs about SlashdotReview and SDRNews... (http://static.technorati.com/pix/tbf.gif) (http://slashdotreview.com/wp-images/adverts/468x60_podcast.gif) Andrew McCaskey clean     SDRNews: Ethanol Keeps Going.. and Going http://slashdotreview.com/sdrnews-ethanol-keeps-going-and-going.html http://slashdotreview.com/sdrnews-ethanol-keeps-going-and-going.html#comments Thu, 03 Dec 2009 00:55:35 +0000 Administrator http://slashdotreview.com/?p=1962
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    Ethanol Keeps Going and Going

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    Ethanol Keeps Going and Going..

    The New York Times noted that ” the EPA will likely approve an increase to 15% ethanol next summer, perhaps for use only in cars of the 2001 model year and later. This raises the possibility that gasoline retailers might need to carry different ethanol blends in different pumps, and that drivers with older cars might have to be careful about which blend they buy.

    The E.P.A. was responding to a petition from ethanol manufacturers, who have complained that unless a higher blending level is approved, within two years they will not have a big enough market to absorb their production.

    Congress ordered increased use of ethanol in energy bills that passed in 2005 and 2007 . Adjusted for its lower energy content, E85, as the higher blend is known, is more expensive than gasoline, and motorists thus have little reason to use it.”

    Plus the fact that it takes more energy to produce it than it delivers- is there anything that can put this into it’s well deserved grave ? Or will it be like the monster in the grade B flick that keeps popping out of the grave ?

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    Wall Street Journal is Special

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    NewsCorp execs might want to exercise some caution as they extend their Wall Street Journal experience into other online media. Rupert Murdoch has been very clear – he intends to charge for every bit of content across the NewsCorp empire. And, the reasoning goes, if the WSJ can do it it ought to apply to other product like the Fox content produced for Hulu.

    The thing that is being overlooked is that the WSJ is special – a specialized audience to whom the Journal is as much of a financial tool or aspirational statement as it is a news source. Generalizing into the realm of online media is dangerous. And, introducing the notion of charging for online content a the rate equal to a newspaper is on slippery slope.

    The reason is demographic: As long as Murdoch is alive, it’s probably a viable strategy. The point is that at age 81, he’s right. A lot of his audience is not 30 years old, and don’t value the Journal as much as someone in their 40′s or 50′s. In ten years, though, they will be forty. They just won’t be subscribers to the Wall Street Journal, since the habit (not the delivery mechanism) did not get set early. And Hulu will be forgotten, since it did not take all that much time to fire up the torrents again.

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      eBay’s Lost Chances

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      It’s No Fun Anymore

      A great guest editorial in Techcrunch explains a lot about eBay’s problems. They are not going to get better anytime soon. The reason is that eBay is simply not much fun any more. And, as an online experience they have been replaced by Facebook pages, online video (both You Tube and Hulu) and Twitterstreams.

      In 2000, eBay tapped into both the transition from dialup to broadband, as well as the American fascination with discovery, a bargain, interactive suspense, serendipity, and a chance for bragging rights for beanie babies, collectables and eventually houses, motorcycles and all manner of goods. By 2004 half the US internet population signed on to eBay, most often from work to check on auctions or just surf.

      That was the peak, By early 2007 Facebook opened it’s API, permitting further entertaining applications – and at the same time eBay began to favor “buy it now” over auctions. In December 2008, eBay’s visitors accounted for only 1.5 percent of total minutes spent online (according to comScore Media Metrix). The leader board for top online properties showed Google, home of YouTube.com, and Fox Interactive Media, which includes MySpace.com, in the top five.

      Never underestimate the business value of fun.

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        Mainstream Media’s Success

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        It’s Not Dead

        And it proves it in the reach and growth that was reported by Twitter. Nothing else could have delivered a 33% growth in members at Twitter in a month. The coverage on CNN (particularly on weekends), NPR and NBC virtually insures that the public at large is at least aware of the service. And now only aware, it is incorporated as an integral part of the programming.

        From a CNN perspective, it’s a way to engage viewers and provide inexpensive programming at the same time. It provides a realtime link to breaking events worldwide, and best of all it’s delivered to CNN at almost no cost. The masterful iReporter system is being copied by local Television stations as well – for their web presence if not their on the air copy.

        So far, this has been “embrace and leverage” as opposed to “embrace and extend” in some mode that would try to press things back into a more conventional delivery stream. With millions of viewers craving their fifteen minutes of fame, there is no shortage of raw material coming in. The only question is if and how CNN and other news outlets verify the information coming in to them before it goes to air and has the endorsement and brand authority that they have worked over twenty five years to build.

        I wonder how long it will be before a major networked gets Pwned or punkd during those fifteen minutes of fame.

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          Expanding Feeds from SDRNews
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          The first one to go up is the SDRNewsroom Special Media feed. Right now, I am planning to publish interview content from CMSExpo Denver – some of which has been published as video and some of which has not. You’ll get the word from time to time on the regular SDRNews and CMS Expo programs to let you know what’s coming down the pipe. There will be a mixture of audio and video, edited and backchannel.

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            Social Networking Limits

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            Setting up a Facebook/YouTube clone for various intelligence agencies sounds like a good idea. The public enthusiasm is a reward for agencies working to 1) Get over the same sorts of behavior that allowed the attacks of 9/11 to occur 2) Avoid criticism on aged equipment and procedures like their counterparts at the FAA with the Air Traffic Control System and 3) capitalize on the current trend and buzz associated with social media in all forms.

            It all sounds like a wonderful PR spin to me. As much as we would all like for it to be true, there have got to be some incredible issues on “how does that happen really ?”

            Large organizations with various databases and systems are notarious in their difficulty in merging information and systems. Thousands of SAP specialists roam the globe performing those very tasks on legacy systems of all forms.

            I have to admit to a very large degree of skeptical prejudice when there is any talk of smoothly implementing such a fusion in any large institution. And I can think of no larger, partitioned and cumbersome aggregation of multiple technologies and agendas that the one that this technolgy supposedly solves.

            It was a great demo for CNN. Now, lets see some assurance that there really is a roll-out.

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                Observing the news flash by day after day, it’s a bit un-nerving when they seem to converge into a coherent and larger story.

                That’s the feeling that I had today, reading the item on the addition of Artificial Intelligence to the CCTV surveillance cameras in the UK. For now, at least nominally, it is only a research project.

                The issue is combining that technology with the Petabyte Age storage story featured in Wired and mentioned yesterday – and the discussion on the surveillance and security systems that have been put in place in China.

                Ostensibly, the systems designed and installed by US contractors in China are a part of the anti-terrorism apparatus for the Olympics. One has to question the real intent, and mix the three elements together.

                Omniscient observation, both visual and audio. Transactional analysis of financial flows. The convenience of “EasyPass” for the Indiana Toll Road and Chicagoland toll roads – that also allow the correlation of vehicle, time and place.

                I am paying a lot more attention to these issues, and hope that you are also.

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                    Multi-tasking Age

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                    The article should surprise no-one.
                    Multi-tasking is in fact different from tightly scheduled focused tasks and making effective use of downtime.

                    The demon seems to be not the fact that multiple tasks are occurring – perhaps in a waiting mode or rendering time – but that the attention is divided between tasks.

                    That’s why I am trying , really trying to like Twitter, Friendfeed, and Pownce.

                    That’s why I keep them turned off – as I find that my tolerance is very, very low for interruption with trivia.

                    I certainly see value in certain venues or situations – and I will certainly have Twitter engaged for CES coverage this coming year.

                    But for the moment, it is at arms length.

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                    ]]>                     http://slashdotreview.com/sdrnews-sdr2008-06-24-twitter-at-arms-length-again.html/feed 0 facebook,iPhone,motorola,myspace,Razr,twitter 728 Ton Stabilizer Multi-Tasking Loses Again How Rich Spend Their Time (http://slashdotreview.com/wp-images/sdr_125x50.gif) * 728 Ton Stabilizer * Multi-Tasking Loses Again * How Rich Spend Their Time SDR News is a Daily (M-F) Technology Podcast with Tech News Highlights from Slashdot, Digg and Reddit Click Here to Sign Up for the SDR Newsletter Contact Us (javascript:void(0)) (javascript:void(0))(http://www.podtrac.com/PodtracPlayer/playerbutton1.jpg) Prefer a Direct Download ? (mp3) Download today's show. (http://media.techpodcasts.com/news/www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/libsyn.com/media/slashdotreview/SDR2008-06-24.mp3) CES 2008 Coverage for Tech Podcast Network (http://slashdotreview.com/?page_id=878) Taipei 101 Damper 12 May 08 Earthquake Watch the You Tube Episode (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYSgd1XSZXc) (http://slashdotreview.com/wp-images/sdr_125x50.gif) Today's Headlines Include... * 728 Ton Stabilizer * Multi-Tasking Loses Again * How Rich Spend Their Time SDR News Links (http://del.icio.us/SDRNews/SDR2008-06-24) If a news item has disappeared from the Del.icio.us list above, try the full list here. (http://del.icio.us/SDRNews) Thumbnail Views: Via Thumblicio.us (http://thumblicio.us/index.php?username=SDRNews) SEARCH ANY STORY YOU HEAR ON THE PODCAST (https://secure.nozbe.com/img/nozbe-ad-2.gif) (http://www.lduhtrp.net/image-2623879-10513782) BLOCKBUSTER Total Access click to activate coupon for $10 off your first month. (http://www.tkqlhce.com/click-2623879-10522285) (http://www.ftjcfx.com/image-2623879-10522285) Multi-tasking Age by Andrew McCaskey The article should surprise no-one. Multi-tasking is in fact different from tightly scheduled focused tasks and making effective use of downtime. The demon seems to be not the fact that multiple tasks are occurring - perhaps in a waiting mode or rendering time - but that the attention is divided between tasks. That's why I am trying , really trying to like Twitter, Friendfeed, and Pownce. That's why I keep them turned off - as I find that my tolerance is very, very low for interruption with trivia. I certainly see value in certain venues or situations - and I will certainly have Twitter engaged for CES coverage this coming year. But for the moment, it is at arms length. (/wp-images/YTlogo.gif) Click to view videos submitted or recommended by other SDR podcast listeners. . . (http://www.youtube.com/group/slashdotreview) If you find a YouTube video that pertains to one of our news items, or have produced an item that would be of interest to SDR listeners, please send us the link slashdotreview{at}gmail.com Save $10 on any order of $50 or more at GoDaddy.com! Be sure to sign up (http://www.techpodcasts.com/special.html) for our upcoming roundtable. We will be using GoToMeeting (http://www.gotomeeting.com/techroundtable). Also, be sure to check out GoToMeeting (http://www.gotomeeting.com/techroundtable). Why? Because you can hold meetings right over the Net -- from anywhere. Plus, you can hold all the meetings you want for one flat rate. To get your free 30-day trial (http://www.gotomeeting.com/techroundtable) , visit www.gotomeeting.com/techroundtable. * Take 10% off any order at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH * Take $5 off any $30 order at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH2 * .com Domains $6.95 at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH3 * More blogs about SlashdotReview... (http://static.technorati.com/pix/tbf.gif) * Slashdot Review by Email - Sign up here: Enter your EmailPowered by FeedBlitz (http://www.feedblitz.com) (http://slashdotreview.com/wp-images/adverts/468x60_podcast.gif) Andrew McCaskey clean                     SDRNews SDR2008-06-13 Swiftfuel: Wanting to Believe http://slashdotreview.com/sdrnews-sdr2008-06-13-swiftfuel-wanting-to-believe.html http://slashdotreview.com/sdrnews-sdr2008-06-13-swiftfuel-wanting-to-believe.html#comments Fri, 13 Jun 2008 04:35:59 +0000 Administrator http://slashdotreview.com/?p=1009 SDR 125x50
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                        First of all, from Indiana. As a Purdue grad, from Purdue. Finally sorghum based, not corn. Six times more efficient. Finally energy positive, not energy negative.
                        Cringley makes the point that the platform and infrastructure that we have is what we are stuck with. As we discussed a week or two ago, even if hydrogen cars were here today, it would take the best part of twenty years to work their way into the inventory. Swiftfuel would allow all of this to continue – and in fact for about half of the cost of gasoline today. No action required on your part, just wait and let the FAA finish testing.

                        If this were real, why wouldn’t Swiftfuel be offering this as a replacement for gasoline right now, pocketing a good deal of the differential price and attracting capital the likes of which have never been seen ?

                        Why wait for the FAA to go through some glacial approval process for aviation use? You could verify every claim in the marketplace within six months. If it were real.

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                        ]]>                         http://slashdotreview.com/sdrnews-sdr2008-06-13-swiftfuel-wanting-to-believe.html/feed 0 aviation,faa,facebook,fuel,iPhone,spit,swiftfuel,Vista Vista's True Cost SwiftFuel Bags Cringley Murketing Popcorn Headset Video (http://slashdotreview.com/wp-images/sdr_125x50.gif) * Vista's True Cost * SwiftFuel Bags Cringley * Murketing Popcorn Headset Video SDR News is a Daily (M-F) Technology Podcast with Tech News Highlights from Slashdot, Digg and Reddit Click Here to Sign Up for the SDR Newsletter Contact Us (javascript:void(0)) (javascript:void(0))(http://www.podtrac.com/PodtracPlayer/playerbutton1.jpg) Prefer a Direct Download ? (mp3) Download today's show. (http://media.techpodcasts.com/news/www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/libsyn.com/media/slashdotreview/SDR2008-06-13.mp3) CES 2008 Coverage for Tech Podcast Network (http://slashdotreview.com/?page_id=878) Firefox Mobile Concept Video (http://www.vimeo.com/1152218?pg=embed&sec=1152218) from Aza Raskin (http://www.vimeo.com/user532161?pg=embed&sec=1152218) on Vimeo (http://vimeo.com?pg=embed&sec=1152218). Mozilla Labs Mobile Firefox Watch the You Tube Episode (http://labs.mozilla.com/2008/06/firefox-mobile-concept-video/) (http://slashdotreview.com/wp-images/sdr_125x50.gif) Today's Headlines Include... * Vista's True Cost * SwiftFuel Bags Cringley * Murketing Popcorn Headset Video SDR News Links (http://del.icio.us/SDRNews/SDR2008-06-13) If a news item has disappeared from the Del.icio.us list above, try the full list here. (http://del.icio.us/SDRNews) Thumbnail Views: Via Thumblicio.us (http://thumblicio.us/index.php?username=SDRNews) SEARCH ANY STORY YOU HEAR ON THE PODCAST (https://secure.nozbe.com/img/nozbe-ad-2.gif) (http://www.lduhtrp.net/image-2623879-10513782) BLOCKBUSTER Total Access click to activate coupon for $10 off your first month. (http://www.tkqlhce.com/click-2623879-10522285) (http://www.ftjcfx.com/image-2623879-10522285) I Want to Believe by Andrew McCaskey want to believe in SwiftFuel. I really do. pride in the research from First of all, from Indiana. As a Purdue grad, from Purdue. Finally sorghum based, not corn. Six times more efficient. Finally energy positive, not energy negative. Cringley makes the point that the platform and infrastructure that we have is what we are stuck with. As we discussed a week or two ago, even if hydrogen cars were here today, it would take the best part of twenty years to work their way into the inventory. Swiftfuel would allow all of this to continue - and in fact for about half of the cost of gasoline today. No action required on your part, just wait and let the FAA finish testing. If this were real, why wouldn't Swiftfuel be offering this as a replacement for gasoline right now, pocketing a good deal of the differential price and attracting capital the likes of which have never been seen ? Why wait for the FAA to go through some glacial approval process for aviation use? You could verify every claim in the marketplace within six months. If it were real. (/wp-images/YTlogo.gif) Click to view videos submitted or recommended by other SDR podcast listeners. . . (http://www.youtube.com/group/slashdotreview) If you find a YouTube video that pertains to one of our news items, or have produced an item that would be of interest to SDR listeners, please send us the link slashdotreview{at}gmail.com Save $10 on any order of $50 or more at GoDaddy.com! Be sure to sign up (http://www.techpodcasts.com/special.html) for our upcoming roundtable. We will be using GoToMeeting (http://www.gotomeeting.com/techroundtable). Also, be sure to check out GoToMeeting (http://www.gotomeeting.com/techroundtable). Why? Because you can hold meetings right over the Net -- from anywhere. Plus, you can hold all the meetings you want for one flat rate. To get your free 30-day trial (http://www.gotomeeting.com/techroundtable) , visit www.gotomeeting.com/techroundtable. * Take 10% off any order at GoDaddy.com! Andrew McCaskey clean