February 2008
16 posts
“The DEMOgod winners:
— xtranormal, Inc.
— Flypaper, Inc.
— LeapFrog...”
– And the DEMOgod award winners are… - Tech Talk with Dean Takahashi -
“Web widget company Widgetbox raised $8 million in its second round of venture...”
– Widgetbox raises $8 million - San Francisco Business Times:
January 2008
44 posts
“The outlook for corporate IT spending is gloomy, with growth expected to slow...”
– Belt-Tightening In Corporate IT Spending Will be Good For Web 2.0
“Stats from the IFPI’s report… - Piracy: A 20-to-1 ratio of illegal-to-legal...”
– Music Biz Pushes Piracy Blame To ISPs; Digital Sales Up 40 Percent | paidContent.org
“DoCoMo will incorporate Google’s search and e-mail features into its...”
– DoCoMo, Google say tying up to grow in Japan
“Is this bad news for open source? Not at all. Open source software is more than...”
– Tech’s Bottom Line | Bill Snyder | InfoWorld | Move over, Red Hat. Open source ain’t what it used to be | January 24, 2008 03:00 AM | By Bill Snyder
“With all of the Big Four record labels now jettisoning digital rights...”
– DRM Is Dead, But Watermarks Rise From Its Ashes
“Information Overload: We Have Met the Enemy and He is Us,” authored by...”
– Claims Collaboration Overload Costs U.S. $588B a Year
“Marshall Kirkpatrick penned a good post just before Christmas on 2007...”
– Enterprise RSS: 2008 : The Year of RSS
Small Biz Labs: 2008 Technology Predictions... →
Great list of lists of tech predictions for 2008. What would Nostradamus say?
Next2Friends: Video and social mobile apps to go →
Next2Friends, a new pivately-backed mobile social network, just came out of a short private beta to launch a ranges of mobile applications - including streaming video - which look like they will take on a number of startups including Seesmic, Qik, Kyte, Loopt and even Twitter. How have they stayed under the radar? By launching very quietly in the UK/Europe first, and over the holidays.
TechCrunch...
The Scoble scuffle: Facebook, Plaxo at odds over... →
When a popular blogger revealed that Facebook had banned his account, the Web erupted in speculative chatter. But where should they really be pointing fingers?
Japan Announces Plans For Content Filtering,... →
While the Australian Government is getting slammed on the internet for its proposal to require telecommunication companies to filter online and mobile access to adult content, the Japanese Government has announced a proposal that makes that one seem overly libertarian. The proposals include “banning downloads of copyrighted files for personal use and requiring mobile operators to filter Web...
Privacy or Portability, Which Will It Be? [Web... →
Facebook has been pilloried for not caring enough about our privacy. But now they face a call to offer data portability, something that could, if not carefully designed, compromise the privacy we so wanted last year.
Facebook disabled blogger Robert Scoble’s account after he ran automated scripts against the site. The site’s Terms of Service say that you agree not to “use automated scripts to...
Veoh Adds Videos From Hulu →
Today, video Website Veoh.com is adding more videos from traditional TV networks, including NBC (The A-Team, The Office, Heroes), Fox (The Simpsons, Family Guy, 24), the Sci-Fi Channel (Battlestar Galactica), the USA Network (Monk), and FX (Damages). All of this new content comes from Hulu, the NBC-Fox joint venture. CBS content was already on the site through a previous deal, but now all videos...
Knol: Good Attempt at Herding Knowledge Cats →
After Peter Drucker told us in 1966 that we were becoming a knowledge economy, it was inevitable that big companies would spend lots of money on complex knowledge management systems. Most of those investment had very poor returns, because they were based on old command and control styles of management and that is not how knowledge workers operate; since the Internet gave us the power, we are all...
ContentNext Media Index Up 10 Percent For Year; 7... →
In September, we launched the ContentNext Media Index, an index of the top 100 US-traded companies in our purview. Despite a slew of market-rocking stories, particularly in the second half of the year, the index, along with the major averages, turned in solid gains, with the market extending a multi-year bull market. We set the ContentNextDex at 1000 on Sept. 10, so the year’s closing price...
