Gee, Thanks for the Tip Microsoft

Microsoft is advising Mac users of IE5 that they should move to alternative browsers such as Apple’s Safari or the open-source Firefox as they are formally ending support for IE5

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An Audience of One Billion

At this time last year, the world had over 800 million Internet users and according to a December 26, 2004, press release from Internet World Stats we would hit the one billion mark by the end of 2005. Based on the current statistics on their Web site, it looks like they were correct and we will ring in the billionth online user concurrent with the upcoming New Year’s celebrations.

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Ten Years of Thinking In One Issue

There is a good article in the latest issue of strategy+business magazine/enews. There is a discussion of conceptual breakthroughs in business going back ten years to 1995. Many of you will recognize these concepts, but there was a voting process and it is interesting to see which breakthroughs were the most popular from the magazine’s readers (reader demographics here).

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Internet Becoming Powerful New Political Force

I thought the power of the Interent as a political tool was clearly demonstrated during Howard Dean’s campaign to become the Democratic Party’s candidate during the last presidential election.

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Podcasting Will Grow Exponentially

The message is clear according to a BridgeRatings survey. Podcasting is not a short-term trend; it is a rapidly growing new long-term medium. The survey was based on the responses of 4400 radio listeners in ten major markets.

Podcasting’s growth and more information on the survey are detailed in this story in eMarketer. According to the BridgeRatings survey, by 2010 there will be 62.8 million podcast listeners in the U.S. And, this survey doesn’t count video podcast viewers!

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