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"We decided to create The Mobile Internet Report largely in PowerPoint and publish it on the web, expecting that bits and pieces of it will be cut / pasted / redistributed and debated / dismissed / lauded. Our goal is to get our thoughts and data into the conversation about what may be the biggest technology trend ever, one that may help make us all more informed in ways that are unique to the web circa 2009, and beyond." - David Black

"Morgan Stanley's global technology and telecom analysts set out to do a deep dive into the rapidly changing mobile Internet market. We wanted to create a data-rich, theme-based framework for thinking about how the market may develop. We intend to expand and edit the framework as the market evolves. A lot has changed since we published “The Internet Report” in 1995 on the web." - David Black

"New application allows users to browse news stories and multimedia content – online or offline" - David Black

"In this age of information overload, a new solution is emerging that could help us cope with the oceans of data surrounding and swamping us. It's called information visualisation. The approach is simple: apply the rules of visual design to information - make information into images, rather than text." - David Black

"So, onwards and upward: we’re now into double-digits in the 21st century and although we’re not yet dressed in tin-foil and driving hover cars, we are going to see the relative equivalent of this in digital marketing, with developments in technology and user-behaviour meaning that I’m expecting to see the following during the course of the next twelve months." - David Black

"Here's the 92-slide version of Mary Meeker's amazing mobile Internet tome." - David Black

"Beyond joining the compressed URL bandwagon, the question is what are the direct and indirect benefits to Google and Facebook in creating these tools?" - David Black

"I see three rings of discovery today: search (Google); algorithms (see: Google News, Daylife); and humans (see: Twitter). Note again that Bit.ly alone causes as many clicks a month—one billion—as Google News. Human power rises again." - David Black

"At the heart of the new plan is a project called "Seed," through which freelancers will be able to register and get hired without the HR processing that today can take up to two weeks, said Bill Wilson, president of AOL Media, who heads content initiatives. " - David Black

" A lot of people who have been thinking about paid content are discovering this curve. And those who do are coming to favor a completely different paid-content model, one that would leave the left side of the graph unmolested, and concentrate on persuading the people on the right side of the graph to pitch in some cash." - David Black

"So what really scares me? It’s the rise of fast food content that will surely, over time, destroy the mom and pop operations that hand craft their content today. It’s the rise of cheap, disposable content on a mass scale, force fed to us by the portals and search engines." - David Black

"Our latest analysis is an end-of-year review of the search advertising landscape" - David Black

"The 2009 AOP Ad Effectiveness Study demonstrates how brand display advertising performs in different online environments and has confirmed the strengths of quality original content rich web sites in this field versus portals or social media sites." - David Black

"Being something of an agency purist, I believe that strategy -- not technology -- is what should drive the relationship between client and agency" - David Black

"Relaunch of Times expected in early 2010 – along with standalone Sunday Times site and introduction of paywall" - David Black

"Click on that graphic to see a slightly larger version. Basically, we see about 50% of our traffic come from the 3% of our readership representing our two most loyal cohorts: ‘daily’ and ‘loyal’ visitors. Those readers come to the site at least 5 times per week. There are not many of them, but they are persistent. " - David Black

"Somewhere down in the Flatiron, out in Brooklyn, over in Queens or up in Harlem, cabals of bright young things are watching all the disruption with more than an academic interest. Their tiny netbooks and iPhones, which serve as portals to the cloud, contain more informational firepower than entire newsrooms possessed just two decades ago. And they are ginning content from their audiences in the form of social media or finding ways of making ambient information more useful. They are jaded in the way youth requires, but have the confidence that is a gift of their age as well. For them, New York is not an island sinking, but one that is rising on a fresh, ferocious wave." - David Black

"Offering an olive branch to critics who have accused it of trying to hoard its own web traffic, the BBC's director of future media and technology, Erik Huggers, said the corporation might do more to open up its site." (!) - David Black

"when it comes to online news, Britons are shamelessly promiscuous... fans of the Daily Telegraph, for example, the most popular quality daily paper, got just 8% of their online news from its website (see chart). They spent twice as much time visiting the BBC’s news website and more than twice as much reading other quality papers." - David Black

Peter Preston: "Whether or not Murdoch builds a pay wall, newspapers are in trouble if they can't utilise unique users who come through search engines" - David Black

"The first major Web trend we're looking at is Structured Data. In prior presentations, this has sometimes been referred to under the umbrella term of 'Semantic Web'. However the way 2009 has panned out so far, it's become clear that this trend is much more than the Semantic Web. In this post, we'll analyze the developments in Structured Data this year and provide you with 3 product examples: OpenCalais, Google, Wolfram Alpha." - David Black

"Online viewing of programmes in the UK will more than triple in the next few years, according to the latest forecasts, boosted by new video on demand websites offering the best British and US shows to internet users for free." - David Black

"In a world where buying media space in ‘real-time’ is becoming increasingly standard, controlling quality can become more challenging. Ad network optimisation provider Improve Digital offers 10 tips for publishers looking to get the most out of their brand image on networks." - David Black

"This document shows how RSS 2.0's <cloud> element can be used to connect a loosely-coupled Twitter-like network of people and 140-character status messages." - David Black

"heraldscotland.com will feature content from Newsquest's Glasgow-based Sunday Herald and The Herald on one website. The new platform replaces the out-going sundayherald.com and theherald.co.uk" - David Black

"The site, which was today rebranded EnvironmentGuardian.co.uk as part of a redesign, will carry new features such as videos fronted by the Observer's Lucy Siegle, an environment data store and an environment research directory." - David Black

"NewsCore system will make content from all company's TV stations, papers and sites instantly available to the rest" - David Black

"Browse thousands of words and phrases, add your own comments to those of the Financial Times editors and suggest new terms for the glossary." - David Black

"Can this be true? A recent study revealed that media buyers will be increasing their budgets for online video advertising. According to a biannual report from the video advertising network Web TV Enterprise, which surveyed 101 media buyers booking pre-roll advertising campaigns, 97 percent were planning on maintaining or increasing video advertising spend." - David Black

"mashable is more influential than CNN" - David Black