"This is a discussion of the eight realities of technology and social experience that are shaping the world of today's teens and twenty-somethings.

It looks at the growing role of technology in teens' lives, the way they use their gadgets, their expectations about how to find and use information, and the social consequences of their use of technology."

by Lee Rainie Director, Pew Internet & American Life Project

I'm with VQUENCE and am always intrigued by the machinations of GoogleTube here on the BBC.

I was finishing up some work at home tonight and got a skype message from Jan Wyllie, who publishes Trend Monitor.

Jan has done some extremely interesting work analyzing consumer trends over the last ten or more years. He is in the process of writing a new report on the impact of Web 2.0 on business. And I have no doubt that this is going to be a pretty interesting report.

Here is part of his blog that points to where he is going this time round. Should be worth watching.

I had an opportunity to meet Guy KAWASAKI last week at an AMCHAM event in HK.

 

An Apple Fellow, and now MD at Garage Technology Ventures www.garage.com , Guy makes for a compelling funny and pithy speaker.

 

I got talking to him about VQUENCE and his main comment was show people what a vquence is and also – so when do you ship ?

 

He sent me a copy of his ppt. centered around his latest book ‘The Art of the Start’ and I managed to get a picture with him “advertising” VQUENCE.

 

In conclusion he told us to 'kick butt' and after reading our white paper said " ..I could make the case that it's a very valuable service for people who are pushing out video. "

 

He also mentioned a neat company called iStockphoto.com which he is mentioning around on his travels - it's cool .

A little dated but still worth knowing, I found this article about a chap - "Matt Cutts works for Google and has a blog about how to court their search engine; so, when Matt flaps his blog wings in America there is a tsunami on the far side of the Internet."

Which alleges that - According to China Internet Network Information Center, CNNIC, Google is losing market share from 33% last year to current 25.3%.

It goes on to support this at the following link @ Linux World .