links for 2009-01-06

"The tinyurl.com domain dominates, accounting for 75% of all URL shortening on Twitter. Thoughts about how much valuable traffic Twitter is simply throwing away by not owning on a postcard please."

"Mr Christmas has munched his way through 117,600 sprouts, quaffed 5,110 bottles of Moet, and sent himself more than 23,000 Christmas cards since began treating every day as December 25". It just seems an elaborate way to disguise a bad alcoholic habit to me - bottle of champers every day sir?

“A newsroom is a real-time peer review system - that bloggers in their pyjamas can’t replicate". I'm not so sure there Paul, I tend to get peer-reviewed in the comments pretty quickly if I drop a clanger on the blog - and, unlike us bloggers, how many of your journalist peers will take the time to critique your pyjamas via Twitter if you post a picture of them eh?

"Now I don't know what the overlap would be (i.e. unique members) but it looks to me like there are about 1/2 a billion social networkers out there". Stephen with a useful set of figures from ComScore.

"No reason for the departure was given, but it is likely that Schneider will now focus on solo projects". At their usual rate of work, we should see the first fruits of this in 2017. Very sad though - Ralf and Florian had worked together for 40 years, "longer than most marriages" as my wife quipped.

"So, if you make cool, unique content like Michiel did, make sure you prepare to get something out of it if it hits the major (tech-)news sites!"

NYT article looking at the impact of Google's book scanning on libraries. "Some librarians privately expressed fears that Google might charge high prices for subscriptions to the book database as it grows. Although nonprofit groups like the Open Content Alliance are building their own digital collections, no other significant private-sector competitors are in the business. In May, Microsoft ended its book scanning project, effectively leaving Google as a monopoly corporate player."

"Look at this media rich Google search result page from Korea". Includes sections for YouTube, images and 'social media'