Article Highlights:

• The internet's share of total media spending will continue to rise, from 15 percent in 2010 to 20 percent in 2014
• Display -- banners, rich media, and video -- remains a bright spot within the online ad ecosystem
• Tied into the shift away from traditional forms of media advertising is an increased emphasis on branding

Happy New Year Projection by Anema

Thus far, urban projection mapping hasn’t made an impression on architecture in the US on this list.  Here, Sugarland, Texas celebrated New Year’s Eve 2010 with a projection by Anema.  While the music leaves a bit to be desired, the video certainly does not.  Enjoy the cameos from Tetris and Tron, both of which helped the countdown to the new year in Sugarland.

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Blogs. Status updates. Family photo albums, political tweets, viral videos. In the age of the social web, many people broadcast themselves to the world, but not everyone does it in the same way. Using fresh data from the Trendstream Global Web Index—a recurring survey of more than 50,000 users of social platforms in 18 markets—we mapped by country how people are sharing information about themselves online. We looked at five broadcast behaviors: blogging, managing a social-network profile, sharing photos, sharing videos, and microblogging.

The map that emerges shows an East-West divide in users’ broadcast behavior. Asian users are more engaged with the social web than users in the West, where social networks are popular but other behaviors lag. Chinese and Indian users, for example, are three times as likely to microblog, or tweet, as American users. They’re also twice as likely to share videos.

As with most any medium, if the eyeballs are there, advertisers will follow. Now it's just up to the medium to deliver on the predictions coming in for the next year.

According to a new survey from eMarketer, video content is being consumed online at a rapidly growing clip. eMarketer found a quarter of Internet users were watching TV online in 2008. Almost 30% did so in 2009. And 77% of all internet users in the U.S. will watch videos online by 2014.

This art-meets-robot has the grueling task of standing on one foot all day long while other robots get to bend to their heart’s content. It balances on that single point by adjusting its center of gravity with six pendulum-like appendages.

Great video, wonderful summary..

Montage of people saying "Get Out Of There!" in movies..