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Twitter Approval Matrix - October 2009
November 04 2009
Twitter Approval Matrix - October 2009 read moreTwitter Approval Matrix - August 2009
September 06 2009
This is the fourth post for the Twitter Approval Matrix with data that spanned the month of August and different sources such as Hashtags.org, scraping archives, and observations. read moreTwitter Approval Matrix - July 2009
August 12 2009
This is the third post for the Twitter Approval Matrix with data that spanned the month of July and different sources such as Hashtag.org, scraping archives, and observations. read moreState of the Computer Book Market - Mid-Year 2009
July 24 2009
The market has been on a steady decline since mid-2008 and has continued downward right through the first half of 2009. And there are very few signs that the book-buying slump is going to turn around anytime soon. Overall, the market saw 595,821 fewer units sold in the first half… read moreTwitter Approval Matrix - June 2009
July 02 2009
A quick refresher, the matrix shows four quadrants used to describe trends found on Twitter, or related sites such as hashtag.org, tweestats.com, etc. For this post, I've limited the data and activity to the month of June. read moreJune 09 2009
This matrix shows four quadrants used to describe tastes found on Twitter, or related sites such as hashtag.org, tweestats.com, etc. The Y-axis is partly analytical and shows popularity (mostly through scraped numbers) or perceived popularity (in the future nominated by you). The other part of the grid is more curated… read moreState of the Computer Book Market 2008, part 5 -- eBooks and Summary
February 27 2009
In this final post, 1, 2, 3, and 4 were posted earlier, we will provide a summary of the first four posts and include some data on electronic books and how the digital world is catching up the the print world. read moreState of the Computer Book Market 2008, part 4 -- The Languages
February 25 2009
In this fourth post (parts one, two and three are found here) on the State of the Computer Book Market, we will look at programming languages and drill in a little on each language area. Overall the market for programming languages was down 5.9% in 2008 when compared with 2007. There… read moreState of the Computer Book Market 2008, Part 3: The Publishers
February 23 2009
In this third installment, (see part one and part two; part four to come later this week), we will look at how Publishers fared in 2007 when compared to 2006. The chart below shows our dashboard view of the Large publishers’ results for 2007. The most notable factor is that… read moreState of the Computer Book Market 2008, Part 2: The Technologies
February 20 2009
In this second installment (the first post is found here), we look at computer book sales in specific technology categories. Remember that we've organized the data into six "Category Families" -- Systems and Programming, Web Design and Development, Business Applications, Digital Media Applications, Consumer Operating Systems and Devices, and Other.… read moreState of the Computer Book Market 2008, Part 1: The Market
February 17 2009
What you won't see on this chart is that the computer book market cratered in 2001, shrinking twenty percent a year for three years until it stabilized in 2004 at about half the size that it was in 2000. ... Web Page Creation 4.77% -15.57% Large category with 42 new… read moreSeptember 29 2008
Last May, Tim O'Reilly posted a piece on whether or not Adobe was worried about the new threat to their dominance in the RIA space by the introduction of Silverlight from Microsoft. In a nutshell, the answer was no. From a book sales perspective, that was true and remains true… read moreSeptember 27 2008
Is Adobe worried about the new threat to their dominance in the RIA space by the introduction of Silverlight from Microsoft. read moreIgnite Boston 4 -- Videos Uploaded
September 23 2008
Ignite Boston 4 was an interesting and insightful event. We have many things to take away as we plan our next event for January. read moreRecent Posts | All Posts
