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(Economist) Starbucks has comfy chairs, but they don’t charge people for sitting in them,” says Tom McInerney, the boss and co-founder of Guba, an internet-video company. Instead, he explains, Starbucks provides a comfortable environment, at considerable expense, so that people will buy overpriced coffee. More…

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I’m going back to Holland on Friday. I need to check in with Richard and Sascha at the Amsterdam iizt offices and then go to Krakow later in the week for our progress meetings with Marcin and his crew.
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(NetworkWorld) Do online memorial sites help teens work through the grieving process or drive them to suicide? That’s what University of South Florida researchers are hoping to find out as they examine sites such as MyDeathSpace.com, which lists the MySpace blogs of members who have died and provides a forum.
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(Clickz) If you know social media, you’ll understand the pun is intended when I say it’s the latest, ever-louder buzz. In particular, it’s a result of some recent large deals with social networking sites: Google’s $900 million ad coup with MySpace and other News Corp. properties, and Microsoft’s counteraction deal (of undisclosed size) with the second largest social networking site, Facebook. More…

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(mediacaster) Blogs, vodcasts, wikis and more are examples of social media, an evolutionary step away from traditional media. Technology today lets people and communities assume control of the messages they want to send and receive. This changes the business model for communications, media and technology sectors alike.
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