David Black

“For our money, you’re going to have a hard time finding a better device for two hundred bucks — or maybe even for any price. But that doesn’t mean you ought to toss your original iPhone, either.”

“Guardian News and Media, the publisher of two British newspapers, purchased Mr. Ali’s homegrown media company, ContentNext, for a reported $30 million.”

“Almost six years after our company started with paidContent.org, we have been acquired by Guardian News & Media (GNM), the news media division of UK-headquartered Guardian Media Group (GMG),”

bbc.co.uk stats: “3.6bn page impressions a month, 33m unique weekly global users, 12m British adult users a week “

“Getty will hand-pick photos from the Flickr group and sell images on to its commercial clients, with photographers taking commission for each image.”

“Flickr hits 2 Billion photos served… How do they do it?”

“The WordPress for iPhone App is nearly ready to go. It supports WordPress.com blogs as well as self-hosted WordPress.org blogs running version 2.5.1 or newer.”

“Logically establishing that the tail is difficult to profit from because it is increasingly flat, Elberse suggests that it’s ‘imprudent for companies to upend traditional practice and focus on the demand for obscure products’.”

“I believe it is crucial that managerial decisions are grounded not in romantic notions of the impact of technology, but are based on empirical evidence of what is actually taking place.”

“Their strength is creating content and their best chance of building community involves giving people a chance to discuss, comment upon and contribute to their content”

“If you actually do research — something that is depressingly rare in the world of Internet punditry — you’ll discover that in pretty much every American city there’s a deep need for social connections that isn’t being met for a lot of folks.”