http://www.overroll.com Happenings In New Media Thu, 03 Apr 2008 16:32:37 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Over at Springwise, they uncover a Dutch group that helps business folks and adults alike, acquire skills on the mobile platform. The twist is, these seminars are tought by teens and at 60 Euros and hour (roughly $95), that's good business. Bellendoejezo—which roughly translates to “this is how you make ... http://www.overroll.com/2008/04/03/teen-mobile-seminar-schools-adults/ The promise of the Microsoft Surface is now starting to come to life. AT&T is starting a roll out of the Surface as way to help demonstrate phone capabilities and provide services to existing phones while in store. The big U.S. wireless provider says its retail customers will be able ... http://www.overroll.com/2008/04/02/microsoft-surface-and-att-stores/ The PlayStation Online Store and mainly its navigation (or lack there of) has taken a lot of hits compared to its rival XBOX Live. Word on the street is that that the Playstation Store is getting ready to launch an upgrade that will help bolster its online offering. Reports this ... http://www.overroll.com/2008/04/01/playstation-store-stepping-up-its-game/ Web analytics is of immeasurable importance to anyone who works in any Internet based profession, but it could also be something fun for any Internet user to play with and understand. So whenever I find a new web analytics tool, I am all over it… And recently I just came across a ... http://www.overroll.com/2008/01/25/dugg-analyzer/ Soon enough we will know a little more on who is editing pages on the most popular open content encyclopedia, Wikipeida, thanks to its operator The Wikimedia foundation, who plans on surveying its contributors. The main goal of the survey strategy will be to uncover the identities and posting habits ... http://www.overroll.com/2008/01/25/who-are-wikipedia-authors/ Many of us know and love Google Trends as the great tool for collecting information on keywords being used in Google searches throughout the world. But very few people know that the service is sometimes also available to other Google services besides search. One of the services to receive the Google ... http://www.overroll.com/2008/01/14/google-checkout-user-statistics/ I just recently came across some interesting information that I thought I’d share with everyone. According to the Internet research and trend analysis website, eMarketer.com, ad spending on social networking sites is anticipated to grow 75% next year and ad revenue for niche communities is expected to grow to 10% ... http://www.overroll.com/2008/01/13/social-networking-growth/ It has just come to my attention that a very shady FaceBook application has been going around that can cause some real damage to your computer. This may not seem like anything new, since there are many FaceBook applications with hidden agendas that perform devious actions. Except, according to security solutions provider, ... http://www.overroll.com/2008/01/04/face-applications-with-caution-facebook-applications-that-is/   The other day on the Gmail and Google blog it was announced that the planned Gmail chat and AIM integration we have all been waiting for is finally here. We can now finally talk to both our Gtalk friends and AIM friends by signing on to both networks right from one ... http://www.overroll.com/2007/12/06/gmail-integrates-with-aim/ With last week's release of Rock Band from Harmonix (the original developer of Guitar Hero), two unlikely competitors hit the ring. Guitar Hero III, published by Activision, takes on Rock Band, published by MTV Games (distributed by Electronic Arts). While both games let users live out their rock ... http://www.overroll.com/2007/11/26/battle-of-the-bands/