http://www.venturecommons.com/blog All you need is Knowledge Fri, 21 Dec 2007 11:54:06 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en eMarketer December 14, 2007 Nice data and perspectives for social networkers in the US: Social networking is an Internet success story. This year, 37% of the US adult Internet population used online social networking at least once a month. That figure will rise to 49% in 2011. Read the full article: ... http://www.venturecommons.com/blog/the-promise-of-social-network-advertising/ eMarketer December 18, 2007 Research about how internet has been influencing consumer-purchase decisions: Advice from friends, family and experts is consistently cited as an important factor in consumer-purchase decisions. And the Internet has made it easier to spread word of mouth quickly. Read the full article: http://www.emarketer.com/Article.aspx?id=1005734&src=article2_newsltr http://www.venturecommons.com/blog/marketers-missing-out-on-word-of-mouth/ TechCrunch December 18, 2007 By Duncan Riley Some numbers and analysis about Google Docs: A new survey by NPD has found that the 73% of Americans have never heard of Google Docs and other online office applications, but perhaps worst still only 0.5% of respondents have abandoned desktop office applications for an ... http://www.venturecommons.com/blog/majority-of-americans-still-use-desktop-applications/ Gizmodo December 17, 2007 What to expect from Google Android? See some comments by Gizmodo Blog: Here's the first gorgeous shot of an Google Android prototype in the wild. It looks HTC-ish in build, similar to the grainy versions we've seen in the official videos and the renderings in the SDK ... http://www.venturecommons.com/blog/google-android-prototype-in-the-wild/ Read Write Web December 15, 2007 By Richard MacManus Nice review of 2007 and perspectives for the next year in business: Originally we planned to pick the most promising Web company for 2008. But in the end the ReadWriteWeb team decided to follow the example set by Time magazine last year, when it ... http://www.venturecommons.com/blog/most-promising-for-web-2008-open-source-movement/ Marketing Daily | MediaPost Publications December 14, 2007 By Sarah Mahoney What consumers really look for? Marketing Daily gave some tips: With uncertainties about the economy creeping into more and more holiday purchase decisions, a new survey of online shoppers finds that price trumps everything. About 43% of online shoppers say a product's price ... http://www.venturecommons.com/blog/to-online-shoppers-price-is-everything/ CNET News.com December 13, 2007 By Martin LaMonica Main facts and interesting evaluation of 2007: Web 2.0 applications just keep getting better, gaining the features people expect from traditional desktop applications. Even though the business models to support online applications are still fuzzy, tech start-ups and established software vendors plowed ahead ... http://www.venturecommons.com/blog/web-2-0-apps-get-slicker-more-social/ KenRadio.com IQ Reports by Ken Radio Behavioral data and trends of internet using: Cell phones and the internet are becoming more and more an essential part of our daily lives. So essential, in fact, that the majority of 1,011 people when asked how long they would feel OK without online ... http://www.venturecommons.com/blog/users-are-seriously-addicted-to-the-internet/ Google Blog December 13, 2007 By Udi Manber Google plans to provide knowledge. The project is being compared to Wikipedia, Yahoo Answers, Mahalo and Squidoo: The web contains an enormous amount of information, and Google has helped to make that information more easily accessible by providing pretty good search facilities. But not ... http://www.venturecommons.com/blog/encouraging-people-to-contribute-knowledge/ KenRadio.com IQ Reports by Ken Radio Very nice data about video viewers' profile: 62% of consumers are viewing video online and these viewers are not just young adults viewing user-generated videos; in fact, most (69%) are ages 35 and older with a preference for viewing news clips online, according to ... http://www.venturecommons.com/blog/who-when-and-what-works-of-online-video/