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‘I Am Rich’ is the most expensive iPhone app
And it's useless... The description in iTunes reads "The red icon on your iPhone or iPod Touch always reminds you and others when you show it to them that you were able to afford this. It's a work of art with no hidden...
Tags: apple iphone, app, digital music, digital media, personal technology, consumer electronics, andrew mager
Blog posts 2008-08-05
Day 1: iPhone Dev Camp 2
iPhone development has been strong for over a year now. Ever since the device debuted in June of 2007, people have been hacking away at the platform. Now, in the summer of 2008, we have an SDK. We are now allowed to build and submit apps that...
Tags: Apple iPhone, Adobe Systems Inc., Apple Inc., App, iPhone Development, iPhone App, Device, Tapulous, August Joki, 3G, Corporate Communications, XML, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Marketing, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Andrew Mager
Blog posts 2008-08-02
Are ATI and Nvidia doing enough with their Vista drivers?
I spent the weekend setting up some new hardware. One change was to add a PCI Express graphics card to a system that had been using onboard graphics primarily so I could use two monitors with it.After completing the upgrade, I noticed that this ATI X1300 card was still using...
Tags: Uncategorized
Blog posts 2007-06-04
Hammer out a social network: Only $20,000
Who is Stanley Kirk Burrell? What does he know about social networking?Rich Skrenta to the Burrell--aka MC Hammer--rescue: "The collective response to Michael Arrington including MC Hammer on his TechCrunch 20 review panel is pretty lame, IMO."Skrenta deplores, above all, a lack of common blogosphere courtesy.He is really on the...
Tags: Lets Get, social networking, networking?Rich Skrenta, network
Blog posts 2007-05-13
Craigslist vs. Facebook? Why Craigslist wins, big time
In teasing a classifieds “Facebook Marketplace” offering via a CEO Mark Zuckerberg briefing for the New York Times Friday, the Facebook message apparently was “Craigslist, here we come!” But why? In addition to being blind to multi-million dollar buyout offers, Craigslist is blind to market share.Nevertheless, the opening NYT...
Tags: Craigslist, Facebook
Blog posts 2007-05-13
Google Gmail: Hot, hip or third place player?
Hitwise is aptly named: It creates Internet hits, courtesy of its “Hitwise Intelligence Analyst Weblogs”! The blog of LeeAnn Prescott, Research Director at Hitwise, solicits prospective clients to use its: “competitive insights to maximize online marketing programs.” Prescott’s latest “competitive insights” posted at her blog concern Gmail, asserting:Users...
Tags: E-mail providers, INTERNET, Google Inc., Hitwise, Google Gmail, Yahoo! Inc.
Blog posts 2007-05-13
Hillary Clinton plays winning hand in Las Vegas
Digital Markets Blog presidential campaign 2008 special series on what I am calling “User Generated Politics”Hillary Clinton cant get enough of Vegas, thats why she has opened up a campaign headquarters there!Clinton vs. Edwards, not Obama: ‘User Generated Politics’ live from Nevada I reported in February, live blogging the “first...
Tags: User Generated Politics, Presidential Race, President Clinton, Politics, Political Campaign, Hillary Clinton
Blog posts 2007-05-10
Can Google sway presidential election? McCain makes pilgrimage to Googleplex
Digital Markets Blog presidential campaign 2008 special series on what I am calling “User Generated Politics”“Presidential campaign trail winds through the Googleplex,” Google not so modestly declares.Is that a good thing, as well as a Googley thing? What is tougher than a job interview to be a Googler? A job...
Tags: User Generated Politics, Presidential Race, President Clinton, Politics, Political Campaign, John McCain
Blog posts 2007-05-08
NBC takes (no) 30 second video pre-roll ad stand
How committed is NBC Universal to capturing the “rising currency” that is broadband video on the Web?Peter Naylor, SVP, Digital Media Sales, NBC Universal, reaffirmed NBC is in to win, as the kick-off speaker, and principal sponsor, of yesterday’s Interactive Advertising Bureau IAB Leadership Forum on Digital Video that took...
Tags: advertisement, Donna Bogatin, Marketing, NBC Universal Inc., online video, Television, TV, Video, Web?Peter Naylor, YouTube
Blog posts 2007-05-08
Google YouTube: Viral video success formula?
What makes for a good viral video? How can You Tube clip culture success be had?Did you ever wish you could find out directly from YouTube?Rich LeFurgy, General Partner, Archer Advisors, moderating the “Content, Consumers, Community: The Balance of Control” panel today at the Interactive Advertising Bureau Digital Video Forum...
Tags: YouTube, Video, User Generated Politics, Google Ads, Google
Blog posts 2007-05-07
Reagan, Schwarzenegger win big in Republican debate campaign 2008
Digital Markets Blog presidential campaign 2008 special series on what I am calling “User Generated Politics”The Republican 2008 presidential campaign field blew its first chance to engage with the American public, big time.Who DID the slate of ten Republican hopefuls engage with at the party’s first debate held at the...
Tags: User Generated Politics, Presidential Race, President Clinton, Politics, Political Campaign, John McCain, Hillary Clinton, Government, Barack Obama
Blog posts 2007-05-06
YouTube class action lawsuit: Has YOUR copyright been infringed?
"HAS YOUR COPYRIGHT BEEN INFRINGED BY YOUTUBE?"So asks Proskauer Rose LLP and Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP, the law firms prosecuting the action of The Football Association Premier League Limited, et. al. v. YouTube, Inc., et al., a copyright infringement class action pending in the United States District Court...
Tags: YouTube, Google, Copyright, Content
Blog posts 2007-05-05
AJAX and Enterprise 2.0 for that 'last mile' of SOA
Ever since the phrase ‘Enterprise 2.0′ (essentially Web 2.0 for the enterprise) was coined more than a year ago, there has been plenty of discussion on how E2.0 could or would fuse with the concept of service-oriented architecture. Would E2.0 methodologies surpass and do end-runs around SOA? Would they serve...
Tags: General
Blog posts 2007-05-04
How YouTube lost its video soul, big time
Can YouTube make revenue sharing work? I asked in January, upon the worldwide transmission of King Hurleys’ snack-sized (87 seconds) utterance straight from an elevator bank in Davos, Switzerland.The Chad Hurley induced euphoria over power to the people, monetary power to the supposedly “little” video people that is, caused many...
Tags: YouTube, Video, User-Generated Content, Google
Blog posts 2007-05-04
Six years after 9/11, state emergency systems still a hodgepodge
In 2009, the nations broadcasters are required to switch over to digital signals. That frees up a huge swath of analog frequency, which the agency will auction off shortly. Under the current plan, thd FCC will set aside $1 billion of the take for states to fund communications systems for...
Tags: Homeland security, Government technology
Blog posts 2007-05-04
Google Apps goes Enterprise Professional: $5000 please
Does Google offer professional services? No. So says Google.Why not?: Google does not offer professional services because our enterprise products are so easy to set-up and configure that customers do not generally need consulting services from Google.So says Google. Google “customers,” however, are not in unanimous agreement.(see Is Google Office...
Tags: Google Software Applications, Google Apps, Google, Enterprise, Business Models
Blog posts 2007-05-03
MySpace to 175 million friends: It's OUR Space, not yours!
“Fairy tales can come true, it can happen to you if you’re young at heart,” so croons Frank Sinatra. Maybe, but the very young are getting their hearts broken at MySpace!It apparently is not an easy task to maintain over 175 million friendships, even if Friend in Chief is founding...
Tags: Social Web, Social Software, Social Networking, Social Media, Social Capital, Self-Promotion, Political Campaign, MySpace, Marketing, Facebook, Barack Obama
Blog posts 2007-05-03
Giuliani vs. McCain? It's debatable
Digital Markets Blog presidential campaign 2008 special series on what I am calling “User Generated Politics”Eight Democrats lock horns online: So what? last Thursday. Tonight, ten Republicans get their chance.The first Republican debate in of the 2008 presidential race is set for 8pm EST. As with the Democrat’s show, the...
Tags: Presidential Race, Politics, Political Campaign, John McCain
Blog posts 2007-05-03
News to know: Big Blue chips; Zimbra; Apple's green missive; ActiveX bugs
Notable headlines: IBM puts vacuum spaces in chips. Gallery right. Video. Russell Shaw: Google-compatible Phone Interface platform described in Patent app. David Berlind: Solving the Web app’s ‘offline problem’: How Zimbra did it and others will follow. Gallery. ...
Tags: General
Blog posts 2007-05-03
Big, BAD contextual Web: Do you want journalism with your ads?
OnHollywood hosted industry insiders to debate "Breaking News and Analysis 2.0" this morning in Los Angeles.Didn’t make it to LA? No problem, “industry insider” Web 2.0 Techmeme to the rescue, for NOT SO "Breaking News and Analysis 2.0.”What is Techmeme? Gabe Rivera:At this moment, the next big story in technology...
Tags: advertisement, Advertising, Donna Bogatin, Google, industry insider, Media, NewLaunches, old media, TechMeme, Web, Web 2.0
Blog posts 2007-05-02
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