Internet Marketing and Social Media Consultants

It’s past 10AM Pacific time, the moment the big Firefox Download Day is supposed to start, and Mozilla’s Firefox homepage just took five minutes to load and prompted me to download Firefox 2.

Better yet, the Spreadfirefox.com site that shows us how many people over the world have pledged to participate in Firefox 3 Download Day is not loading.

This is not going according to plan for Mozilla.
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The new iPhone is receiving near-universal praise from tech circles, and there’s plenty of reasons why. It’s powerful, cheaper, and cooler than anything out there. The original iPhone reports customer satisfaction that is off the charts, and the next gen iPhone is even faster. Add to this a built-in iPhone store combined with the iPhone’s upcoming availability in far more markets than it’s in now, and it seems as though Google Android developers would be jumping ship, if only for their own good.

Not so fast. As Vasanth Sridharan reports in Silicon Alley Insider, there are a few very important reasons why Android developers are hesitant to make the leap.
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It was bound to happen at some point, but MySpace has been caught by Facebook in the number of worldwide unique monthly visitors.

While Facebook’s push for a wider foreign audience is having some success (I even see them advertising at English Premier League matches), they are still lagging behind in the United States by a significant margin and aren’t doing much at this point to chip away at it. MySpace’s unique visitors double Facebook’s in the US, and that number hasn’t changed much over the last year.
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I woke up this morning, and instead of grabbing the morning paper, I signed into to Digg to see what wonderful thing Barack Obama was doing (for those not familiar with Digg, Obama is a demi-god on there).

One story that was Dugg up came from ITBusinessEdge, via Vnunet. A poll done by IT services provider Telindus showed that 39% of 18 to 24-year-olds would consider leaving their jobs if their employers decided to block access to Facebook. The number was far lower for older employees. Additionally, 21% more of the youngsters said they’d feel “annoyed” by the ban.

What does this point out? First of all, that young people have high expectations of the freedom they should have in the workplace. There are trade-offs to this. Obviously, if you have a friendly work environment like Google, you’ll have to make up for your perks by working longer hours.
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Back in the 70’s, the Miller v. California case established that in the case of obscenity, community standards would determine whether or not something was deemed pornographic. In other words, small towns could reserve the right to shut down adult book stores if they pleased, while cities in the fast lane didn’t have to be held to some Draconian standard that a one-size-fits-all approach would create.

How does this work in the Internet age? Paul F. Little, aka “Max Hardcore,” has been charged with 20 counts of obscenity in a Tampa, FL court because some of the servers his website uses are located in Tampa. With each charge resulting in a maximum sentence of 5 years, Little could face 100 years in prison if things go downhill.
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