Entries from December 2007

December 6, 2007

TV and Reading Still Top the Lists

An eMarketer article, TV and Reading are Consumer Faves, states that US consumers continue to rank TV and reading at the top of their favorite leisure activities list with computers named as fourth fave on the list.  So much for the demise of Books!  Also, as an aside, turns out we are working less hours, spending [...]

December 6, 2007

Facebook Does an About-Face

Just two weeks ago Facebook, in a desire to translate its popularity into profits, announced a new advertising system called Beacon.  As Louis Story and Brad Stone write in their New York Times article, Facebook Retreats on Online Tracking, the controversial advertising system was designed to send messages to users’ friends about what they are buying [...]