Ben Israel on all things conversational
I was on The Digital Edge today together with @johnlim, @davidlian and @cerventus. (Thanks John for the invite) One of the topics discussed was the Sidekick fiasco and the growing dependency on the cloud for backup. I made an unashamed plug for the iPhone (yes, I am a new member of iPhonism) saying that iPhone users would not suffer the same fate, as data is backed-up on iTunes - unless you disabled it. Obviously, Nokia users jumped to the defense :) [caveat: I haven't used any of the Nokia smartphones including...
There's a lot of focus on mobile phones and the growing trend of mobility here. The video says that mobile phones will be the primary connection to the internet by 2010. Not surprising, seeing the rise of low bandwidth collaborative tools like twitter. Other points that have jumped out for me: Newspaper circulation is down 7 million (I'm assuming in the U.S. alone) over the last 25 years. But in the last 5 years, unique readers of online newspapers are up 30 million I'm guessing advertising spend has not moved...
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