Best links - week 9

By Paulina Modlitb... on 2010-03-05

A random mix of things we have read and liked this past week.

Facebook Revenues For 2010 Could Hit Between $1.2 To $2 Billion

According to a recent WSJ article, Facebook executives have mentioned that "revenues for 2010 could hit between $1.2 to $2 billion", reports TechCrunch.

First Look: How Penguin Will Reinvent Books With iPad

paidContent:UK comments on one of the latest tablet prototype demos: Penguin Books' CEO John Makinson shows how their children's books may look and be used on the Apple iPad.

E-Readers' Price May Fall to $150 With New Chip, Freescale Says

Freescale Semiconductor Inc., an American microcontroller, microprocessor and semiconductor manufacturer, whose products power about 90% of e-reader, is launching a new processor that will help drive down the price of the devices to less than $150 this year.

Loving mobile and print: Five key findings from Pew's new news study (via @JohnEi)

Nieman Journalism Lab reports that, according to Pew Internet's Project for Excellence in Journalism study, Americans want their news portable (33% of cell phone users now access news on their devices), personalized (28% of internet users have customized home pages) and participatory (37% of Internet users have contributed to a news story or shared it in some way). Bonus: Read the original Pew Internet summary of findings here.

Connecting Your Car, Socks and Body to the Internet

Sparked by a new trend report by McKinsey & Company, NY Times addresses the emerging topic of Internet of Things; objects that are connected via e.g. WiFi and RFID. Journalist/entrepreneur/investor Esther Dyson is one of the most public and active I o T advocates in the US. Read a recent interview with her here.

The Raging Septuagenarian (via @vassaeggen)

NY Magazine has written a (very!) long and comprehensive article on Rupert Murdoch and even quotes his 101-year-old mother.

Data, data everywhere

Make sure not to miss this: The Economist's latest issue, which focuses on data mining: "Information has gone from scarce to superabundant. That brings huge new benefits - but also big headaches".

The Game-ified Life

Editor Kevin Kelly summarizes game designer Jesse Schell's much talked-about presentation on the future of games. If you haven't watched the video yet, watch it here (watch it now).

For Social Networking, Women use Mobile More Than Men

In a new demographic study of mobile social networking behavior by Nielsen, women were found do use their phones to "tweet" and "friend" 10% more than men. Furthermore, the 35-54 age group had more active mobile social networkers than any other group. Bonus: GigaOm addresses the same topic by comparing two quite contradictory studies by Liberty Mutual and Royal Pingdom.

How Much Are Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn Worth?

Mashable publishes private equity company SharesPost latest estimates of the value of some of the most hyped (social) media startups/companies: Facebook: $11.5 billion, Zynga: $2.6 billion, Twitter: $1.4 billion, LinkedIn: $1.3 billion, Linden Labs (Second Life): $383 million.

Follow me - Adverts that know where you are could be lucrative-not to mention controversial

The Economist addresses both possibilities and fears related to the quickly growing field of location-based services.

Sony planning PlayStation-compatible smartphone and tablet for this year

Gaming blog Joystiq reports that, according to WSJ, Sony is prepping a 2010 launch of a "smartphone and an iPad competitor", said to be "a portable device that blurs distinctions among a netbook, an e-reader and a PlayStation Portable".

Miscellaneous:

The iPhone Numbers

Infographics which show everything you need to know about the iPhone.

Glow - How do you feel today?

Mobile sentiment (emotion) analysis in practice.

Infographic of the Day: LastHistory Graphs All Your Last.fm Listening

JESS3 / The State of The Internet (via @durietz) [Vimeo]

Information is beautiful: The BBC-O-Gram (via @tobybarnes)

Breakdancing Is No Match For Project Natal's Sensors

Yet another Microsoft Natal demo video.

Google facts and figures

And even more infograhics.