Month: June 2006

  • Myspace statistics

    Marketwatch have just released this “The social networkingphenomenon also continued its stratospheric ascent, as MySpace.com reached newheights with 50 million visitors in May [2006]” that is virtually the equivalent of the whole UK population visiting the site in one month! Youtube is ramping up as well “YouTube.com nearly doubled itstraffic from April, reaching 12.6 million…

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  • Myspace statistics

    Marketwatch have just released this “The social networkingphenomenon also continued its stratospheric ascent, as MySpace.com reached newheights with 50 million visitors in May [2006]” that is virtually the equivalent of the whole UK population visiting the site in one month! Youtube is ramping up as well “YouTube.com nearly doubled itstraffic from April, reaching 12.6 million…

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  • The Jeff Pulver Blog: The Internet Tax May Be Creeping Up on Us in the Guise of Imposing the Universal Service Fund on Internet-delivered Voice Applic

    The Jeff Pulver Blog: The Internet Tax May Be Creeping Up on Us in the Guise of Imposing the Universal Service Fund on Internet-delivered Voice Applications: “The voice application riding on the broadband network is being asked to be the application subject to paying into the Universal Service Fund” Just love this “The voice application…

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  • The Jeff Pulver Blog: The Internet Tax May Be Creeping Up on Us in the Guise of Imposing the Universal Service Fund on Internet-delivered Voice Applic

    The Jeff Pulver Blog: The Internet Tax May Be Creeping Up on Us in the Guise of Imposing the Universal Service Fund on Internet-delivered Voice Applications: “The voice application riding on the broadband network is being asked to be the application subject to paying into the Universal Service Fund” Just love this “The voice application…

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  • Gaping Void Mug shot

    Gaping Void Mug shotOriginally uploaded by geofones. Hughs mug finally arrived from cafepress today (article number 60517719 – (all though a search on cafepress denies its existence!) it was ordered on 3rd June so not bad delivery from the USA Really quite amazing that Hugh set up the online shop from scratch in about 5mins…

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  • Not so rare – Face Blindness

    Interesting site (run by UCL and Harvard) that I came across through Mind Hacks today dealing with Prosopagnosia or face blindness. Results they have produced show that it can affect 2% of the population This is something that I can certainly relate too “One of the telltale signs of prosopagnosia is great reliance on non-facial…

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  • Gaping Void Mug shot

    Gaping Void Mug shotOriginally uploaded by geofones. Hughs mug finally arrived from cafepress today (article number 60517719 – (all though a search on cafepress denies its existence!) it was ordered on 3rd June so not bad delivery from the USA Really quite amazing that Hugh set up the online shop from scratch in about 5mins…

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  • Not so rare – Face Blindness

    Interesting site (run by UCL and Harvard) that I came across through Mind Hacks today dealing with Prosopagnosia or face blindness. Results they have produced show that it can affect 2% of the population This is something that I can certainly relate too “One of the telltale signs of prosopagnosia is great reliance on non-facial…

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  • Scoble happy – Bill looking glum

    Never realized that Bill Gates would be so crestfallen on the news of Scoble leaving. So Robert could become a millionaire! According to this story Podtech was valued at $10m a few months ago and coupled with this story “Furrier said. Part of the investment is giving Scoble a significant equity stake of the PodTech.net,…

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  • Ellee Scribble’s….

    Ellee has taken on board Orya’s new company Scribble and published a press release here. Orya is a Ruby on Rails guy who I convinced to come to the Our Social World conference last year. It will be interesting to see how the concept of internet ordered handwritten greeting cards takes off. I’m sure Ellee…

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