Twitter’s a Big Baby! Apple iPhone’s AT&T Problem! MySpace’s Blues! No One’s Gonna Pay for This Blog! We Went Poll-Crazy at D7
by Kara Swisher
Posted on June 5, 2009 at 11:06 AM PT
Hey, politicians aren’t the only ones who get to do fancy polls!
Walt and I had a bunch of them about a variety of tech topics that we pulled out to ambush, ooops, pose to speakers at our seventh D: All Things Digital conference last week.
For the D7, we commissioned a study of digital trends from Penn, Schoen & Berland Associates (PSB), a global market research and consulting company and a conference production partner.
PSB conducted 1,005 interviews within the general U.S. population–you know, real people who are not geeked out.
One showed–despite Silicon Valley hype–how Twitter was still in its infancy, in awareness, engagement and size, which we got Co-founders Biz Stone and Evan Williams to react to onstage. (They could care less.)
Another showed that the biggest problem that users of the Apple (AAPL) iPhone cited was the poor AT&T (T) network. (Sorry, Randall Stephenson!)
Another looked at the declines in usage of the MySpace social networking site, which we know its new CEO Owen Van Natta enjoyed reacting to in front of the crowd. (Okay, he did not enjoy it.)
Also, no one is paying for subscriptions to blogs, which the Huffington Post impresario Arianna Huffington said was okay, since consumers will only fork over money for “very weird porn.” (Yes, she said that!)
In any case, here is a selection of slides that were shown and discussed during various speaker sessions.
Click on any slide below to enlarge, then hit “next” or “previous” on either side of the slides to page through.
