Links for October 12th through October 13th

13 October 2009 | Media | Comments

Things I’m tracking for October 12th through October 13th:

• What I’ve learned about Hyperlocal (Scripting News) –
• The Web’s Inventor Regrets One Small Thing – Bits Blog – NYTimes.com – the lesson of the Web, Mr. Berners-Lee said, is that making information and simple online tools freely available inevitably fuels innovation. If you liberate the data, he asked, who knows what applications people will create?

  “Innovation is serendipity, so you don’t know what people will make,” he said. “But the openness, transparency and new uses of the data will make government run better, and that will make business run better as well.”

• How Addicting is Social Media? | Retrevo –
• 20090929-Tailored_Advertising.pdf (application/pdf Object) –
• Consumers Dislike Behavioral Targeting : MarketingProfs –
• Gordon Crovitz: Media Moguls and Creative Destruction – WSJ.com – "The Internet may be somebody's friend—most notably, the consumers of media—but it is not the friend of incumbent media companies," they assert. "For the incumbent, any benefits from the Internet on either the cost or new revenue opportunity side are overwhelmed by the damage done by the lowering of barriers to entry" by technology. "Digital media systematically lowers the cost of entry into most markets—it's far easier to start a local Web site than a newspaper."