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The scene at the feeder. It was busier earlier. I think the birds have finally decided it’s bad flying weather.

Residents of Rugdeveien Street in Bergen, Norway had this reaction to Google Street View:

Globally, mobile data traffic will double every year through 2013, increasing 66x between 2008 and 2013. Mobile data traffic will grow at a CAGR of 131 percent between 2008 and 2013, reaching over 2 exabytes per month by 2013.

Skype is taking its time with a VoIP app that exploits the recently unlocked 3G data channel on the iPhone. But they have a pretty good reason. They’re working on adding their own SILK wideband audio codec to  a 3G … Continue reading →

Incredibly effective and strangely moving. It brought a strong emotional connection to the mundane act of entering keywords. The ad is saying Google is more about freedom, and in that respect, I think it serves as a subtle rebuke to … Continue reading →

Unsurprisingly, millions of consumers turned to social networks including Twitter to discuss their favorite ads. According to social media monitoring service Trendrr, the four top gaining Super Bowl ad brands on Twitter within the last 24 hours were Dockers (+307%), … Continue reading →

Will Skype be assumed into Avayatel? Or will it stand on its own in the Silver Lake portfolio and transform into an IPO butterfly? Bloomberg.com writers Edward Robinson and Joseph Galente think the latter is more likely. They have a  … Continue reading →

About a year ago, I was momentarily entranced by blended reality— a hybrid of Second Life-style virtual reality and, er, reality. Rather than building graphical renderings of cityscapes and store-interiors, blended reality relies heavily on 360-degree videos—more commonly found on … Continue reading →