Here is a graph illustrating total number of unique visitors with the number of unique referrers from StumbleUpon. Those roller coaster like curves are caused exclusively by StumbleUpon. The green line illustrate the total unique visitors if we exclude StumbleUpon from the graph. It is quite a difference!

The TV industry needs to stop living in a one-way broadcast world, and fully engage in a two-way connected world. That means no licensing agreements but instead a direct connection. It means no restrictions or delays that devaluate the new. And it means giving people everything and then let them decide what they want instead of packaging it into predefined boxes.

You have probably already read some of the many articles that have been posted in the past month predicting what 2012 would be about. Some were interesting, some not so much, and most were just written to get more page views.

The two swindlers invited him to step closer, asking him if it wasn't a beautiful design and if the colors weren't magnificent. They pointed to the empty loom, and the poor old minister opened his eyes wider and wider. He still could see nothing, for nothing was there. "Gracious" he thought. "Is it possible that I am stupid? I have never thought so. Am I unfit for my position? No one must know this. No, it will never do for me to say that I was unable to see the material.

Two of the things that I admire most about the world live in today: First, that we have managed to break down the walls of the physical world enabled us to connect freely with anyone, anywhere, using any channel, in any way. It's just amazing what we can do today. In my line of work, I rarely speak with people in the same country that I live in, but I have continual conversation with people from all over the planet.

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Literally, any site that allows people to engage with it (i.e. every single site on the planet) will have to prescreen and actively monitor every single post a user makes, otherwise their site might be censored. One example is Facebook, just imagine if Facebook had to monitor every single post before it was posted. That would require an army of employees, which would cause them to go bankrupt in a second. The amount of information posted online has far exceeded any level of possible manual overs

If you are publisher of content online, either as a newspaper, magazine or just a brand publishing a blog, you are likely to look at two measurements above any other. Those are "absolute unique visitors" and most popular content based on "unique page views."

The CEO calls a meeting with all the division heads and tells them that, "In these economic times, we need to cut cost to keep up our margins. We have looked at each division, and the two smallest, the ones who are not contributing that much to the overall picture, will be closed and the employees will be fired. Adding to that, we are going to cut all the other divisions by 15% and not allow any new investments or budget increases for the rest of the year. "

You might ask, how did I make a living in 2011? The answer is that I didn't. I lost money every single month, except one. Before launching Baekdal Plus I had a regular 9-5 job and I had been saving up to buy a house. I have always been an entrepreneur by heart, so one day I looked at myself in the mirror and asked, "What would I rather do? Continue having a 9-5 job making average products for average people ...or risk it all, including my savings, to do something that really matters! Not just fo

Seeing a company like Kodak fail is sad. It shouldn't be this way, but, unfortunately, that is what happens when you refuse to let go of the old before you embrace the new. Now it is too late for them. There is no way for them to come back, because they no longer have any momentum. And their managers are no longer in the business of being great, they are only in the business of being in business.

Just before Christmas I posted an analysis of the future of advertising. In it you can read how print advertising has already disappeared, and that digital advertising is not much better. With more and more sources, even if the overall advertising market grows, the ad revenue for each publisher is going to decline.

And you have to ask yourself, why did they even ask this question? Black people don't decide to use Twitter because they are black, just as white people don't decide to use Twitter because they are white. You use the tools your friends and influencers use. Social media use is not caused by race. The color of your skin or the birthplace of your great-great-grandfather is completely irrelevant.

This second video is for those who are stressed out by everything Christmas, being over worked, continual financial turmoil and all the other things that can keep you on-edge. You need to disconnect. Go to a place where none of that matters.

There is an ongoing discussion about the future of advertising. On one hand we have print advertising, which is in decline - in some places drastically. Many newspaper executives apparently believe the "worst is over" and that while it will continue to decline for 2-3 more years, it will eventually stabilize.