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Streaming music fundamentally changing music business

The New York Times has a piece that backs up my recent contention that streaming will mark the end of illegal downloads. Brad Stone's article says flat-out: Many music industry observers now believe that there is a fundamental...

Tags: Music, Brad Stone, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-07-25

Fake Steve Jobs outed by New York Times

It's a sad day for impostors everywhere.The New York Times has outed Fake Steve Jobs and he is Daniel Lyons, a senior editor at Forbes.Times reporter Brad Stone quotes Lyons:“I’m stunned that it’s taken this long,” said Mr. Lyons, 46, when a reporter interrupted his vacation in Maine on Sunday...

Tags: Brad Stone, Daniel Lyons, Fake Steve, Fake Steve Jobs, Larry Dignan, New York Times Co., Reporter, Steve Jobs

Blog posts 2007-08-05

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Adobe Flash, Apple Safari fail privacy test

Third party plug-ins like Adobe Flash do a poor job of cleaning traces of your browser sessions, rendering private-browsing features somewhat useless, according to a new study by researcher Katherine McKinley. McKinley, a researcher at iSec Partners, created a tool for testing the functionality of clearing private...

Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Apple Safari, Privacy, Apple Inc., Web Browser, Plug-in, Web Browsers, Internet, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2009-01-02

Real ready to fight Hollywood

Real Networks, which long tried to make a business by cooperating with labels and studios, has finally realized the only way for them to succeed is to play the "people" card. Hence, Real's RealDVD program, a $30 DVD ripper. Real is willing to push back on Hollywood...

Tags: Hollywood, NYT, DVD Association, DVD, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-09-09

The 3-D Web Goes Thin

Increasingly, it looks like Weight Watchers has gotten hold of the Semantic Web. Fat is out. Thin is in. And while no one’s counting points, it certainly looks like, thin clients will increasingly play a central roles in attracting organizations to the 3-D web. A number of...

Tags: 3D, Web, 3-D Web, Vivaty, ScreenCaster, Dave Greenfield

Blog posts 2008-03-31

Google: CAPTCHAs aren't dead yet

CAPTCHAs, those fuzzy letters that are supposed to ensure you're a human when you register for an account, have been under fire of late, but Google says their demise is greatly exaggerated. That's the takeaway from a post by Brad Stone in the New York Times Bits...

Tags: CAPTCHA, Google Inc., Hacker, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-03-14

MySpace: Will its socialist-like approach to its social app developers succeed?

MySpace kicked off its developer program Tuesday by providing API's and development tools to tens of thousands of developers, with some unique diistinctions, and restrictions, that it hopes will result in high quality apps. Developers were invited to its "Sandbox" event in San Francisco to learn more about the...

Tags: Developer, Difference, MySpace, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2008-02-06

Facebook: The canary in the social networking coal mine

Facebook has stirred up a great deal of controversy and now harsh criticism with its Beacon advertising program. Three weeks after launching Beacon Facebook, the company did a 180-degree turn to make it more palatable for users rather than advertisers. It still fell short of the total opt-in approach that...

Tags: Facebook, Network, MySpace, Google OpenSocial API, Social Networking, Public Relations, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Corporate Communications, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-12-01

Facebook Beacon update: No activities published without users proactively consenting

Updated: On November 6, Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg proudly launched the new services Techmeme that he expected to redefine the advertising business. “People influence people. Nothing influences people more than are recommendation from a trusted friend. A trusted referral influences people more than the best...

Tags: Facebook, Notification, Problem, Story, User, Referral, Beacon, Public Relations, Business Structures, Web Site Development, Web Technology, E-mail, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Finance, Internet, Online Communications, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-11-29

Tim Berners-Lee: From World Wide Web to Giant Global Graph

Updated: On this Thanksgiving morning in the U.S., the Facebook Beacon storm continues to rage Techmeme. It's simply growing pains for the social graph. In fact, the social graph which Mark Zuckerberg defines as the network of connections between people reached a new stage of legitimacy or recognition today with...

Tags: Social Networking, Web, Graph, Tim Berners-Lee, Site, WWW, FOAF, Semantic Web, Channel Management, RDF, Internet, Marketing, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-11-22

Google's OpenSocial: What it means

Google's open social networking platform play is the buzz of the blogosphere tonight. see Techmeme. Indeed, it is called OpenSocial in that the set of APIs allows developers to create applications that work on any social network that joins Google's open party. So far, besides Google's Orkut social net, LinkedIn,...

Tags: Developer, Google Inc., Facebook, Network, Goal, User, OpenSocial, Social Networking, Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-10-30

Encyclopedia of American Cinema. FREE first chapter in the trial version (Mobile)

This illustrated Encyclopedia includes biographies of the best American directors and actors, reviews of the best American movies, and lists of awards. FREE first chapter in the trial version.Features Fully illustrated. Search for words or phrases. Navigate from Table of Contents or read page by page Add Bookmarks Text annotation...

Tags: Cinema, Mobile, Biology, Director, MobileReference, American

Software downloads 2007-09-27

YouTube conundrum for vintage acts

YouTube conundrum for vintage actsWild WestI must say I like the Wild West theme. It characterizes what it means to be American and British Law firms just are not appropriate as gun slingers in America. Sorry. A week or so a go we had a wild fire near a large...

Tags: Sales strategy, YouTube Inc., British Law, sales

Discussion threads 2007-09-14

Twitter adds search; MTV adds Twitter

Silicon Valley's favorite micro-blogging service, Twitter, has upgraded its service by adding "people search". The new feature is designed to make it easier to find people that you want to follow, by enabling you to search user profiles by name, location, bio, and url. A long overdue capability that is...

Tags: Twitter, MTV, Steve O'Hear

Blog posts 2007-08-22

Vista isn't Me2, it's Win95 + 12 years

In certain circles, it’s become fashionable of late to refer to Windows Vista as Windows Me2. It’s the second-worst insult you can hurl at a Microsoft program (the worst is to compare it to Microsoft Bob, neatly summarized as “7th place in PC World Magazine's list of the 25 worst...

Tags: Windows Vista, Windows 9X/Me, Uncategorized, Microsoft

Blog posts 2007-06-28

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

Social networking cha cha and the land grab

The social Web has finally arrived. The question is where is it going. What Facebook, MySpace, Linked In, Xing YouTube, Xanga, Bebo, etc. and their fossilized antecedents from the late 20th century germinated has reached adolescence. Right now its a big cha cha, with everybody joining the dance, dancing...

Tags: General, Web Technology, Social networking

Blog posts 2007-03-05

Ask Jeeves gets answers

Ask Jeeves has been in the news several times recently. In May Ben Edelman asked "Does Jeeves Ask for Permission?" Ben documents a number of instances of misleading installations at websites targeted to children and a few installations through security exploits that were totally lacking in notice, disclosure...

Tags: Ask Jeeves Inc.

Blog posts 2005-09-12

Microsoft alum has sights on the world's first patent marketplace

Sooner or later, something will have to be done about the barrage of "dumb" patent disputes or technology innovation will eventually grind to a halt. While companies continue to arm themselves with licenses and lawyers, there is at least one start-up with a radical business model poised to capitalize on the messy situation. ...

Tags: Intellectual Ventures, patent, Nathan Myhrvold

Blog posts 2004-11-16