By Ryan Van Etten on 06/30/2010
Choose Life. Choose a username. Choose a social network. Choose on-demand internet television, MP3s, and eBay. Choose blogging, sharing, remixing, crowdsourcing, and DIY. Choose microfunding and locating your home on Google maps. Choose leisurewear that supports an artist or a cause. Choose realtime frictionless communication, GPS, and AR. …
Posted in Infoculture, Visual | Tagged choose life, DIY, mediaspotting, poster, remix, social media, social media day, trainspotting
By Ryan Van Etten on 05/30/2010
Call me crazy, but I was surprised to see that only 13% of international call minutes last year were on Skype. I thought that number would be higher—I think it will be within a few years because of the amplifying access to computers both at work and home. Then there’s mobile VoIP. Skype already has apps for iPhone/Blackberry/Android/Symbian, and it’s only a matter of time before the majority of cellphones are smartphones.
Posted in Infoculture, News, Visual | Tagged communication, data, infographic, mobile, mobile VoIP, skype, smartphones, stats, trends, usage, visualization, VoIP, wi-fi
By Ryan Van Etten on 05/26/2010
“You’ve just got to be open and free, because that’s the way people want to get content on the web”, says Dallas Penn. “Don’t be afraid of someone stealing your work so much, just have more work to give, and, if people are stealing it, you know what you’re onto something. You’re moving in the right direction.” continued Penn. Frank Talk summarized it in poetic terms, “If they’re stealing from you, [then] you’re on the right track.”
Posted in Discussion, Infoculture, Media/Journalism, Music, Music Flux | Tagged bandcamp, blogging, blogosphere, blogspot, circular promotion, community, content, copyright law, counterculture, culture, curating music, hip hop, internet, music bloggers, MusicBiz, net neutrality, new media, Oddisee, open, openness, personal brands, video
By Ryan Van Etten on 04/27/2010
Here’s some graphical perspective on Facebook’s growth via estimated traffic data from Quantcast and Compete. The numbers are significantly different between the sources but the basic trend and relative traffic difference between Facebook and Google is evident: Facebook is a rocket, or, rather a full-blown planet with enough gravity to start a galaxy—the data shows it surpassed Google in traffic in late 2009.
Posted in Infoculture, News, Visual | Tagged comparison, compete, data, facebook, facebook growth, facebook vs google, Google, graph, open, quantcast, social media, stats, traffic, trends, visualization