It looks like sales of Google’s Nexus One haven’t really improved since we checked in on them last. According to the same Flurry mobile analytics team who estimated 20,000 sales in week one, the Nexus One at least held pace to turn in about 80,000 sales in its first month.

As compared to first month sales of the iPhone (about 600,000) ... Read More

What better to way to watch the convergence of social media and the Super Bowl than to follow the real-time ratings and rankings of advertisers as determined by your tweets?

BrandBowl2010 — a new Super Bowl advertiser tracking site from Mullen and Radian 6 — offers near real-time analysis for an immediate look at pre-, post- and in-game Twitter reactions to ... Read More

According to Broadcasting & Cable, NBC is planning to broadcast the Emmy Awards live nationwide without tape delay this year, following up on the success of the Golden Globe Awards, whose previous live show garnered the network a ratings jump of 14% in total viewers.

The Golden Globes marked the best ratings NBC had in that time slot (excluding sports) ... Read More

2009 was a big year for social media moms, with brands like Huggies actively targeting this increasingly tech-savvy demographic. Brand outreach to moms via social networking will only increase in 2010, but as an eMarketer study points out, the method of that outreach is of vital importance — especially when using Facebook. Lisa Finn and Lucid Marketing collected data ... Read More

Urbanspoon, one of the iPhone’s most popular apps for food and travel, finally has an Android version.

Urbanspoon for Android, now available for Nexus One and Droid phones, provides the same awesome functionality that you’ve likely come to expect from its iPhone version. For those unfamiliar with the iPhone app, Urbanspoon allows you to find and choose nearby restaurants and reviews ... Read More

Want to catch a show tonight — without having to deal with the giant who inevitably steps in front of you the minute the band takes the stage? Well, tonight at 8 p.m. EST/5 p.m. PST, you can watch the UK eletcro-pop band Hot Chip via Livestream on MySpace. The physical show, which is taking place at New York ... Read More

Is Google the fashion industry’s muse du jour? Perhaps, as the search giant has just put up three high-end, Google-inspired pieces — created by designers as part of the Vogue/Council of Fashion Designers of America Fashion Fund — for sale in the Google Store.

The designer Google duds now up for sale — prices start at $85 for a tee ... Read More

The Wall Street Journal reports that French publisher Hachette Book Group has sent letters to book agents letting them know that it is going the way of Macmillan and defying Amazon’s pricing scheme for e-books on the Kindle reader.

Amazon has tried to keep new digital books at $9.99 or less, but publishers are concerned that the price will undercut hardcover ... Read More

Sree Sreenivasan is a professor and Dean of Student Affairs at Columbia Journalism School and contributing editor at DNAinfo.com.

Ask a journalist about the state of the media and the answer you get may range from dire predictions about  journalism’s imminent demise to cautious optimism. The doomsayers point to falling newspaper circulation, fragmenting TV audiences and the 18,000+ jobs lost ... Read More

More than 2,000 people have RSVPed for MashBash SXSWi 2010, our second annual official SXSWi event, taking place on Sunday, March 14, at Buffalo Billiards in Austin, Texas.

If you don’t have your SXSWi ticket yet, this is your last chance to enter our giveaway to win two full SXSWi conference badges and access to the MashBash VIP List via a ... Read More