Archive for July, 2009
Are teenagers using Twitter?
I came across this link in Will Richardson‘s twitter stream this morning about Twitter usage by teenagers. According to a 15-year-old intern at Morgan Stanley, Matthew Robson, teenagers eschew Twitter, don’t read newspapers and want ad-free music from online tools like Pandora, Slacker and Last.fm. From the story: “Teenagers do not use Twitter,” he pronounced. [...]
AWS Start-Up Challenge for 2009
It’s time once again for Amazon’s yearly Start-Up Challenge. Got an idea for a site that uses Amazon’s myriad of web services? Already using AWS in your business? Tell Amazon and you may win some great prizes, including: We’re looking for the hottest and coolest start-ups and start-up ideas. Developers and entrepreneurs in the United [...]
A Middle Eastern Look at Facebook Usage
Last week, I blogged about a guest post I did for Brian Kelly’s UK Web Focus about how we use Facebook here in the US. That post got a great comment from Gregory Morris, who works at German Jordanian University in Amann, Jordan. It’s an interesting look at what schools in that region are doing [...]
