Monthly Archives: October 2010

In a very interesting interview with CultofMac.com, John Sculley former Apple CEO and a good friend of Steve Jobs for over 25 years opened up about what went on in the company’s early days. The most interesting, but not most surprising, part was when he explained which Japanese company influenced Steve Jobs the most. "[One Japanese company] that Steve admired was Sony," Sculley told the site. "We used to go visit Akio Morita and he had really the same kind of high-end standards that Steve did and respect for beautiful products. I remember Akio Morita gave Steve and me each one of the first Sony Walkmans. None of us had ever seen anything like that before because there had never been a product like that. This is 25 years ago and Steve was fascinated by it. The first thing he did with his was take it apart and he looked at every single part. How the fit and finish was done, how it was built."

According to the Internet marketing research company ComScore, Israel is number 2 in Social Network usage, with the average time per user on social networks being 9.2 hours per month. Russians are currently number 1 with 9.8 hours, and Turkey is 3rd out of all countries at 7.6 hours per month.

The New York Times apparently has more Twitter followers than its print circulation.  Twitter is a newer, quicker way to communicate -  140 characters per posting, to be more precise. The New York Times headlines the list of the top 25 newspapers on Twitter with more than 2.6 million followers.  It’s interesting to note that The New York Times is the “only newspaper from the top 25 with more Twitter followers than print circulation,” reports Journalistics, the blog that came up with the list.

When it comes to gaming, the brands that come to mind are Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft, with their Playstation, Wii and Xbox 360. They have been on the console market for a long time and have earned huge sums of money by selling their software and hardware to your kids, nephews and even you. But, there’s a new kid in town. Facebook has become a game platform of a brand new type of gaming: Social Gaming. Two big differences between Facebook and the other game companies are 1) Facebook doesn’t charge for people to play, instead giving you the option to purchase credits so you can have that edge over your friends, and 2) you have the ability to play with your friends on the social network, without the need to buy a console nor paying for online gameplay (like Xbox’s LIVE).