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A YouTube Competitor in Silverlight and 1080p Flash Video

A YouTube Competitor in Silverlight and 1080p Flash VideoHow is DRM important for consumers?Since this is a blog post about video, I'll assume you are referring to DRM and video files. How exactly is DRM more important? It's a nuisance at best, and more often than not it inhibits people...

Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, Video Platform, 1080p, Microsoft Silverlight, YouTube Inc., digital-rights management, DRM IS, content creator

Discussion threads 2007-06-12

Google YouTube 'victims' championed by Chilling Effects, EFF, Harvard Law School

Google YouTube 'victims' championed by Chilling Effects, EFF, Harvard Law SchoolIs Donna Viacom's Bedfellow?This woman is clearly out of line in her manner of thinking when it comes to the Viacom/Youtube debate. This is about a company, Viacom, who knew their shady method of sending out legal DMCA notices 100,000...

Tags: Harvard Law School, YouTube Inc., content creator, Viacom Inc., Chilling Effects, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2007-02-17

How about a product placement agency for YouTube videos?

As I show you at the top of this post, some of the more popular YouTube videos get tens of thousands of views per day.Those views are gathered by eyeballs of people who also buy stuff.Advertisers like to reach eyeballs, but traditional routes to eyeballs increasingly are turning Web...

Tags: eyeball, content creator, agency, video, YouTube Inc.

Blog posts 2006-10-29

Gillmor Gang dissects the emerging podshow

On the most recent Gillmor Gang podcast, Steve Gillmor gathered myself, Doc Searls, Sam Whitmore, Dana Gardner, Robert Scoble and one of Podshow.com's/Boku Communications' founders along with Adam Curry, Ron Bloom, to talk about the future of podcasting and a few other choice topics (such as whether CNET/ZDNet is incumbent...

Tags: Ron Bloom, podcasting

Blog posts 2005-08-15

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MobileTechRoundup show #141, jkOnTheRun is aquired, Sony Reader, battery life, and more

I had a good time recording MobileTechRoundup show #141 with the two newest members of the Giga Om Media group, James Kendrick and Kevin Tofel. Don't worry listeners and readers, you will still get the same content from those two and from me here on the podcast for the foreseeable...

Tags: MobileTechRoundup, Sony Corp., Battery, Sony Reader, Kevin, Podcasts, Internet, Matthew Miller

Blog posts 2008-07-25

Click fraud in 2nd quarter of 2008 more sophisticated, botnets to blame

Whereas the overall click fraud rate isn't increasing, it's not decreasing either, remaining flat for the first two quarters of 2008, according to data gathered from the Click Fraud Network, consisting of more than 4,000 online advertisers and agencies. Click Forensics report for the second quarter of 2008, indicates that...

Tags: Click Fraud, RK West, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-07-25

Government, markets and regulation

Government, markets and regulationJust Another Gov't Program Gone BadFannie Mae was created in the Depression to create liquidity in the mortgage market. Lequidity had been wiped out by the stock market collapse and bank runs.As with all government programs, it just grew and grew and never went away. ...

Tags: Mortgages, Vertical industries, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, mortgage, government

Discussion threads 2008-07-24

10 things your IT project manager never wants to hear

10 things your IT project manager never wants to hear#9 is wrongThe actual principal for #9 is the GFC principal, Good, Fast, Cheap, pick any TWO.In reality, a successful project blends all 3 to get a product with a reasonable level of all.Corollary to #10:"It's just what I asked for,...

Tags: Strategy, IT Project Manager, information technology

Discussion threads 2008-07-24

Google creates a new market and wreaks havoc on another

When they first announced it, I was certain Knol was simply a way for Google steal some of the attention away from Wikia search -- and I'm still sure that's what was actually happening. Google doesn't normally pre-announce applications months in advance. After a long wait, Google finally...

Tags: Google Inc., Wikipedia, Knol, Wiki, Online Communications, Garett Rogers

Blog posts 2008-07-24

Google opens Knol website, a wiki with bylines

In a direct challenge to the popular Wikipedia, Google opened Knol, an encyclopedia-like wiki site that requires writers to post their names and expertise. SAN FRANCISCO--Google opened its website Knol to the public on Wednesday, allowing people to write about their areas of expertise under their bylines in a...

Tags: Google Inc., DuPont Co., Web Site, Wikipedia, Knol, Wiki, Online Communications, Reuters, Google, encyclopedia

News items 2008-07-24

COPA suffers another blow

InformationWeek is reporting on the latest blow to the Child Online Protection Act, or COPA. COPA imposes heavy fines on libraries and schools among other institutions that fail to prevent children from "content harmful to minors." If you're asking just what constitutes "harmful to minors", so...

Tags: Child Online Protection Act, Minor, Regulations, Government, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-07-23

Microsoft splits its Platforms

Microsoft splits its Platformsjohnson leavingFirst of all, this is good news. It's not like he as done a good job running this companies marketing and online business. This is good news. Microsoft is making changes and its for the better. For all your naysayers who like to...

Tags: NETWORKING, Microsoft Corp., Johnson, rep, Juniper Networks Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-07-23

Attack code published for DNS flaw

The urgency to patch Dan Kaminsky's DNS cache poisoning vulnerability just went up a few notches. Exploit code for the flaw, which allows the insertion of malicious DNS records into the cache of the target nameserver, has been added to Metasploit, a freely distributed attack/pen-testing tool....

Tags: Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-07-23

Free the XBOX 360!!!

Free the XBOX 360!!!"Microsoft-approved"Why shouldn't Microsoft be concerned with the performance of software on XBox?Quoting:Microsoft makes both the hardware and software, and the environment is tightly controlled - only Microsoft-approved software need apply. [End quote]Vista shows that a product's reputation can be affected by the uninterest or mistakes of third...

Tags: Game players, Games, Microsoft Xbox, Microsoft Corp., game, console

Discussion threads 2008-07-23

Social browser Flock wants to be fashionable

It's actually a pretty clever strategy by Flock: Build customized versions of the company's social browser, populated with vertically-targeted content from an array of partners -- and in return expose Flock to those sites' communities. by Steve O'Hear

Tags: Web Browser, Entertainment, Flock, RSS, Web Browsers, Advertising & Promotion, Internet, Marketing, Steve O\'Hear

Blog posts 2008-07-23

Can Ubuntu win the OS beauty pageant?

Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, has thrown down the gauntlet to his merry band of open source followers: Make Ubuntu as pretty and ultimately better looking than Apple's Mac OS. eWeek's Darryl Taft quotes Shuttleworth Techmeme: "The great task in front of...

Tags: Ubuntu, Mark Shuttleworth, Operating System, Linux, Open Source, Operating Systems, Desktops, Software, Hardware, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-23

COPA is unconstitutional

The Third Circuit has upheld a lower court decision that the Child Online Protection Act is unconstitutional, AP reports. In its ruling Tuesday, the federal appeals court concluded that the Child Online Protection Act is unconstitutionally overly broad and vague. The court also ruled that...

Tags: Child Online Protection Act, Parental Control, Third Circuit, Regulations, Government, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-07-23

October Esquire magazine will use electronic ink

Earlier this month I mentioned how Hearst is embracing the mobile web by offering much of their content on mobile phones. Hearst is now going to bring a bit of mobile technology to print media with their usage of electronic ink in the October issue of Esquire. The electronic ink...

Tags: Electronic Ink, Mobile, Matthew Miller

Blog posts 2008-07-23

Microsoft gives a new Xbox 360 experience

Despite having what is regarded as one of the best user interfaces of all the major consoles, Microsoft is reinventing the Xbox 360's look. Despite ostensibly having what is regarded as one of the best user interfaces of all the major consoles, Microsoft is reinventing the Xbox 360's look....

Tags: NetFlix Inc., Microsoft Xbox Live, Video, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Xbox 360, Microsoft Xbox, LiveParty, Spotlight Channel, Xbox Experience, Games, Game Players, Corporate Communications, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Marketing, Xbox 360, Microsoft, user-generated, video games, Xbox Live, Sarju Shah, Gamespot

News items 2008-07-23

Guest blog - A lesson in compassionate capitalism

Guest blog - A lesson in compassionate capitalismIt's happening everywhere.Nobody wants to be in business or make a transaction unless they make a killing, not just a reasonable profit.I have nothing against making money, but when your greed hurts others, like the Starbucks managers and employees, I think it's time...

Tags: Retail, Blogging, Investment, Food & Beverage, Starbucks Corp., compassionate capitalism, capitalism, blog

Discussion threads 2008-07-23