Best Links week 50

Stunning infographic by Facebook intern Paul Butler

Best links are back!

Things have been pretty hectic at the Stockholm office lately. We've now released two of Bonnier's morning papers on the News+ platform, DN+ and Sydsvenskan+, and soon the business daily Di+ will follow. It's been a lot of work and a lot of fun. Watch the concept video and read more about News+ here.

Here's a random mix of things we have read (mostly at night:) and liked this past week:

Everyone Uses E-mail, But Hardly Anyone Blogs Anymore
The 2010 report on how different generations are using the internet. [Mashable]

Loving Your Phone (podcast)
Smartphones have become increasingly personal, often functioning as extensions of our brains, and it is the software we really love, according to NYT's Tech Talk Podcast. [NYT]

Shanzai!
Anthropologist/ethnographer/usability researcher Jan Chipchase guides us to the world of "Blockberry" and "Svumsung" and counterfeit innovation. [Wired UK]

One Step Back From the Digital World
The digital dilemma of social relationships. [NYT]

The People Who Use Twitter
New report from Pew Internet & American Life project. 8% of online Americans use Twitter and it is particularly popular with young adults, minorities, and those who live in cities. [Pew]

26% Of Xbox Owners Are Streaming Web Video Through The Xbox
Gaming consoles are the new media hubs, according to data from Nielsen. [Nielsen]

Facebook Makes Big New Move to Capture More User Data
Facebook just launched a(nother) user registration service, ReadWriteWeb provides perspective on what it all means. And what it could mean, if Facebook opened up its data to outside researchers. [RWW]

How We Had YouTube's Top 2 videos, and 1 Billion Views, in 2010
Next New Networks' web tv strategy: 1. Betting on new talent for a new medium, 2. Consistent programming, not just viral hits, 3. Optimizing for how audiences watch online. Obviously, it worked out quite well (rumour has it Google is now in talks to acquire the company). [NNN]

Video Will Be the Online Advertising Engine
What does advertising have to do with bandwidth issues? The answer is: behavioral vs. contextualization, Frédéric Filloux writes. [Monday Note]

Is the Social Graph Good for Video Recommendations?
Clicker TV will be tapping users Facebook profiles to serve up personalized recommendations. [Gigaom]

Groupon, Google, and value on the Internet
Groupon might be less vulnerable to competition than people think, but it's a much more old-school business than Facebook or Google. [New Yorker]

Groupon, iPad and Twitter: 2 much 2 hope 4?
Publishers need to look and plan carefully before they leap into Ipad apps, Groupon-like buying programs and Twitter campaigns. [Newsosaur]

What will 2011 bring for journalism?
One of many interesting posts in Nieman Journalism Lab's series of 2011 trends. Clay Shirky predicts widespread disruptions for syndication. [Nieman]

The Newsonomics of All-Access
Ken Doctor on Apple's subscription policy and the 2011 business model for news: cross-platform all-access. [Nieman]

Time Inc. Opening Up On Digital Initiatives
Adage interviews Time Inc's CEO and New Digital Officer about apps, acquisitions and paywalls. [Adage]

CNN explains new iPad strategy & what’s next for mobile
With their launch of a free Ipad app this Tuesday, CNN switched monetization strategy. The Iphone app has been a paid download, now the network's switching to URL strategy – ubiquity first, revenue later. [Poynter]

Narrative Visualization: Telling Stories with Data
Research paper from Stanford on the storytelling possibilities of data visualization. [Stanford]

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Misc:

Mark Zuckerberg named Person of the Year by Time Magazine
The Facebook Map of the World [Infographic]
Periodic table to get ten historic changes 
The 10 Most Powerful Tweets of 2010
Flipboard’s CEO on the New Version
A Conversation With the Creator of the iPad Magazine App, Letter to Jane

Have a nice weekend!

Jonas