NYT Survey: How Many Would Pay For Twitter? Zip, Zilch, Zero If microblogging service Twitter was entertaining even the slightest notion of charging for its service, then it might want to reconsider. A recent survey of nearly 2,000 people found that zero percent - you heard correct - of respondents would pay to use the service. The survey, conducted by the University of Southern California's Annenberg… Social Mike Melanson View comments
Apple Apple's Last Ditch Effort: iPhone Jailbreaking Will Void Warranty Yesterday, new exemptions were added to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), and much of the Web and the blogosphere went a bit wild over the new legality of jailbreaking the iPhone. Today, Apple wants to reinforce that, while no longer a potential breach of the DMCA, jailbreaking your phone will void your warranty. The thing is… Mike Melanson View comments
Location Are Location-Based Services All Hype? Are location-based mobile applications like Foursquare, Loopt and Gowalla just hype? That's the potential, at-a-glance takeaway from a new study released today by Forrester Research. Only 4% of U.S. online adults have ever used location-based apps such as these, and only 1% out of those that use them do so more than once per week. Meanwhile, 84… Mobile Sarah Perez View comments
How-To How to Create a Web Content Strategy For Your Company These days, it's no longer enough to have an inviting storefront and amazing products on your shelves, whether physical or digital. Fueled by social media, with which even the search engines scrambling to keep up, the Web is now happening in real time. How can a small company stay competitive? One critical component of the answer to that… John Paul Titlow View comments
International New Google Chrome Extension Will Translate Your Tweets and Facebook Updates The social web is increasingly multilingual. About half the updates on Twitter are in a language other than English, according to a study released in February. Facebook has been translated into more than 50 languages for its 500 million users are all over the world. The day when English is no longer the dominant language on social networks may… Adrianne Jeffries View comments