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The lost decade: Harbinger of change or beginning of decline

January 4, 2010

A steady meme over the past month has been the zero sum game that comprised the U.S. economy over the past decade. Net job creation was at zero; GDP, adjusted for inflation, grew less than 20%; and, household net worth (through November 2009) was down 4%.
The Washington Post ran a great graphic contrasting the [...]

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10 years past, 10 years forward

December 23, 2009

10 doesn’t sound like a big number, but when you start looking back over a decade, 10 years of an ever-expanding and innovating world, 10 years feels huge and unwieldy.
At the beginning of this past decade (the first decade of the 21th Century…how cool!) I was working with an Internet company called Themestream, started by [...]

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The economy needs to create 15 million jobs over the 5 years…here’s 5 million in the next 10

December 15, 2009

Experts suggest that to return to 5% unemployment the economy will need to create about 15 million jobs in the five years. This volume of job creation would satisfy the job needs created by the expansion of the population, while replacing jobs for the recently-unemployed.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics released a projection of the [...]

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A global shift in GDP Market Share

November 24, 2009

An interesting, quick analysis of global GDP trends by Mark Perry, a University of Michigan professor, shows that on the big stage, the United States has held its share of economic production remarkably steady for the past 40 years.

Bottom Line: World GDP (real) doubled between 1969 and 1990, and has increased by another 60% since [...]

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The new Word of Mouth: Social network contacts, bloggers rank high as trusted sources of information

October 27, 2009

Lightspeed Research released research last week that showed an interesting trend in what sources for information about purchase decisions U.S. internet users trusted most, as reported today in eMarketer.
As most other surveys over time have shown, you rely the most on the center of your social graph — family and close friends — for information [...]

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An expert observer takes a quick look at user trends & demographics at top social media sites

October 19, 2009

Brian Solis took the time last week to dig into some of the trends and the demographics at top social media sites.  He was struck by the rapid growth at Facebook and Twitter over the past year, and wanted to get a better feel for what was characteristic of the users driving the changes in [...]

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When can a 1% drop feel explosive? When it follows double-digit declines…

October 14, 2009

Another sign of the leveling off of the economy: ad forecaster Magna Research has upgraded its projection for ad spending next, calling for a 1.3% decline. That compares to an earlier forecast of 2.1%.
The contrast to this year’s performance is stark. In the first and second quarter, ad spending declined 18%, Magna has [...]

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