links for 2008-11-20

• Putting people first » Worldwide Lab at Alcatel-Lucent
  A-L's lab is a great example of an initiative to "crowd source" ideas. On a regular basis they study young adults preferences and communications behaviour. Click on the link and read some of the reports.
  (tags: mobile innovation)
• Habits of US Web Users by Age – Marketing & Strategy Innovation Blog
  According to Nielsen amercian internet users over 35 spend more time online than users under 35. It become obvoius that internet is a good channel to reach the old demograhics. Now if somebody could just send me a report that describes what they acutally do online..
  (tags: statistics planning)
• Twittertise: Playboy Does it. Why Not You?
  Interesting service for sending scheduled messaegs on Twitter. And hey, playboy uses it…
  This have quite a lot of potential for companies using twitter as a channel
  (tags: applications)
• China Online Travel Industry Report of 2007 Q4 from Baidu
  Interesting stats from Q4 07 on SEM and online travel in China. E.g. a large percentage of people are searching for “itinerary” (旅游路线) which I will understand as “deciding where to go”.
  (tags: china SEM travel)