BrandBrains

• AppleInsider | Apple's App Store sees first month sales of $30 million
  "This thing's going to crest a half a billion, soon," he said. "Who knows, maybe it will be a $1 billion marketplace at some point in time. I've never seen anything like this in my career for software."
  (tags: apple iphone appstore itunes digitalmedia software mobile wireless applications)

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• Wall Street Questions Sirius Xm Satellite Radio’s Future
  “I don’t think making people pay subscriber fees for content is sustainable,” said BlogTalkRadio CEO Alan Levy.
  (tags: xmradio siriusradio xm sirius blogtalkradio alanlevy davidfrear digitalmedia satelliteradio streamingmedia podcasting)
• Newhouse News Service To Close After Election
  “They felt they could not afford to pay for a central Washington bureau at a time when they were steering all available resources to local coverage back at home.”
  (tags: newhousenewsservice media newspapers news)
• Alan Levy Goes Head to Head with Newly Merged Sirius XM
  (tags: blogtalkradio sirius davidfrear alanlevy satelliteradio digitalmedia talkradio newyorkpost howardstern)

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Technorati Tags: xm, sirius, satelliteradio, blogtalkradio, podcasting, digitalmedia, alanlevy, radio, ipod, apple, businessmodels

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• For XM, Howard Stern is the king of satellite radio
  “Arbitron has released its first-ever ratings for XM and Sirius, covering April-June 2007, and they show that in an average week, 1,225,000 listeners at some point heard Stern.”
  (tags: satelliteradio metrics arbitron davidhinckley howardstern opieandanthony xmradio siriusradio xm sirius)
• Sirius vs XM: Listener trends
  (tags: satelliteradio xm sirius xmradio siriusradio metrics measurement trends Arbitron)

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• Get Satisfaction - People-Powered Customer Service
  “Get Satisfaction is a place where people can get the most from the products they use, and where companies are encouraged to get real with their customers.”
  (tags: customerservice crowdsourcing socialmedia wordofmouthmarketing wom *****)
• UserVoice » Customer Feedback 2.0
  “UserVoice adds structure to feedback and reduces the overhead of an honest dialog with our users — It creates a market around good ideas so we get more quality than quantity.”
  (tags: crowdsourcing customerservice wom wordofmouthmarketing feedback uservoice productmanagement productmarketing innovation research *****)
• P8TCH | Commando Nerd Patches for iPhone Scanning
  “The QRCode on the p8tch contains a URL. If you scan the code with your iPhone, Mobile Safari will take you directly to that URL. Or, if it’s a Google Maps link, directly to the Google Maps app. Or, if it’s a YouTube link, it’ll show a movie. Cool, right?
  (tags: qrcode scanner iphone nokian95 n95 semacode patches geek nerd)

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• Phantom Fish - Byline - Google Reader on the go.
  Offline access and synchronization with Google Reader
  (tags: google googlereader rss blogs iphone phantomfish)

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Thanks to Paul Colligan (via Michael Geoghegan)

Technorati Tags: Video, Humor, Presidential Elections, Funny

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I’ve been using a twitter application for the iPhone called Twinkle for the past few days.

Occasionally, it can’t connect to twitter (surprise!). When that would happen, I would notice an orange triangle in upper left corner with something inside it. I didn’t really bother to figure out what that “something” was.

Yesterday while on the train home, I finally figured it out: the Fail Whale Tail! Brilliant!

Technorati Tags: twitter, Fail Whale, Twinkle, iPhone, Social Networking, Social Media, Microblogging, Lifestreaming, Creativity, Humor, Funny, Clever

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• Apple iPhone JAVOShield- The Armor Metal Cover (Jet Black)
  iphone cases javoshield screenprotector
• TiVo, Amazon Let Customers Buy Products by Remote Control
  “TiVo Inc. and Amazon.com Inc. reached an agreement to allow consumers to purchase products from Amazon through their television sets using their TiVo remote control.”
  (tags: amazon tivo ecommerce tv television dvr digitalmedia)
• Google Throws Open Rival for Wikipedia — Anon Editors Barred
  “Google hopes that Manber’s project will give experts who know their stuff a platform to share it with everyone else. Google is especially keen on seeding this information internationally, in languages where the online corpus is sparse.”
  (tags: google knol wikipedia experts digitalmedia search)

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Technorati Tags: Swimming, Kids, Summer, Pool, Friends

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