Broadband Usage Around the World

I didn’t realize that the U.S. was such a laggard when it came to the deployment of broadband Internet access. See chart below, courtesy of the International Telecommunications Union. We’re 16th on the list of the top 20 economies, one-half Korea’s rate, and just under Liechtenstein’s.

Not very impressive;...

Netscape Enters News Aggregator Space

Netscape has just entered the news aggregator business, launching the beta version of a news site that mimics the model of sites like Digg and Newsvine. These sites rely on users to vote on the stories they like and use this data to create the equivalent of a newspaper homepage,...

Doing the (Market) Research

So now that we’ve all agreed that The World is Flat and also that we’re a nation of people drowning in debt, Boston Consulting Group senior consultant Michael Silverstein has a new theory for us: Middle class consumers are on an eternal treasure hunt, looking for an emotional connection to our purchases,...

Senate Campaign Study on CNN.com Blog

We got a short and sweet mention of our campaign study on CNN’s blog, the Situation Report.  Here’s the relevant snippet:

“An extraordinary study examines how well candidates for Senate are utilizing online technology in the 2006 campaigns.”

You can view the study here....

Global Cyber-Campaigns: How does the US Measure up?

After finishing our 2006 study of political web campaigns, we became curious as to how American politicians’ campaign websites compared to those in other countries.  We looked at similar studies conducted in the UK, Germany, Australia, Finland, Hungary, and Sweden, and drew some conclusions:

Countries with parliamentary systems of government tend to have websites that are highly centralized. ...