Archive for the ‘internet’ Category

23 Aug, 2010

The Myth of Web Traffic

Posted by: Gary Stockman In: internet

The obsessive focus on online traffic numbers seems to be cooling a little. A recent article I read started with this sentence: “Everyone knows that the really big and popular websites have a ton of visitors.”
The article goes on to detail that to become a top 1,000 website you need at least 4.1 million visitors [...]

25 Mar, 2009

Arm’s–length intimacy

Posted by: Marian Salzman In: internet

Recently, a steamy online romance between bullet-scarred bad boy Tommy, 18, and hot 17-year-old jailbait Jessica ended badly. After exchanging countless e-mails full of intimate details and passionate promises of what they would do when they finally met in person, it turned out that Tommy was actually an overweight, lonely 45-year-old bachelor and Jessica was [...]

One of the most shocking things about the economic bust is the frightening speed at which it has become mission critical. Sure, the subprime cracks started to show in 2007, but the whole thing was barely on the WEF radar last year in Davos. Last May, we raised a red flag about alarming economic problems [...]


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