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Does Japan's plan to kick off P2P users violate privacy?

Does Japan's plan to kick off P2P users violate privacy?P2P session connectionsP2P operates by establishing an IP to IP connection between 2 computers without the use of an intervening file server. The various ISP servers and routers are only used as a transport mechanism. The actual file transfer and storage...

Tags: Peer to peer (P2P), P2P, content owner, privacy

Discussion threads 2008-03-17

Why Google will never pay for content

I hold an MBA from New York University Stern School of Business. No MBA necessary, however, to grasp the American way, the American capitalist way that is: You get what you pay for! Why then does Wall Street darling, $140 billion market cap, 29% profit margin Google wantonly “make...

Tags: Advertising, Brands, Business Models, Click Fraud, Content, Copyright, Google, Google Software Applications, Marketing, Profits, ROI, Search, Search Advertising, Video, Wall Street, Web 2.0, YouTube

Blog posts 2007-03-06

Who needs Google? CBS vs. Viacom vs. NBC

Who needs Google? CBS vs. Viacom vs. NBCYouTube provides nothing to content owners.Let's us start with the premis that the content owners use ViaCom as an example do NOT care if anyone ever see's their content. WHat they do care abou is that the content generates income. (Yes...

Tags: Operational accounting, NBC, YouTube Inc., CBS Broadcasting Inc., Google Inc., Viacom Inc., income, content owner

Discussion threads 2007-02-03

Is Google's multi-billion dollar free ride over?

It is a $144 billion market cap irony that a media company which derives all of its revenues from selling ads against others’ content garners headlines for weighing compensation to content owners for the right to exploit their content.In “YouTube Google: Paying off content owners?,” I recount the recent flurry...

Tags: Business Models, Advertising, Legal, Google, Video, YouTube, Brands, Copyright, Content

Blog posts 2006-11-05

YouTube Google: Paying off content owners?

YouTube Google: Paying off content owners?NonsenseGoogle has to be held accountable for Youtube's activity. At some point, they will.NewsCloud Releases Reporting EngineAt least to add some factual data back into the Viacom takedown thread, we set up a reporting engine of broken links at YouTube:http://www.newscloud.com/youtube/videosAnd there is more detail herehttp://www.idealog.us/2006/11/newscloud_publi.htmlWhile...

Tags: Corporate communications, YouTube Inc., Paying Off, Google Inc., content owner

Discussion threads 2006-11-03

YouTube Google: Paying off content owners?

The latest YouTube rumors have Google paying off content owners with bribe like upfront settlements.   Google’s inordinate 26% profit margins are due, in part, to its shrewd, but not content owner friendly, Google business model by “fair use” and “safe harbor,” as I discussed last weekend in “Google ’safe harbor’:...

Tags: YouTube Inc., Google Inc., YouTube

Blog posts 2006-11-03

Google speak on copyright: content owners beware

Google speak on copyright: content owners bewareridiculousYou must be kidding. Clearly you don't understand how the Internet works. Without Google, Yahoo, MSN, and Ask, I wouldn't have found your meaningless ramblings. And guess what, you can absolutely block Google from indexing them. Beauty of the Internet,...

Tags: INTERNET, Web site development, Microsoft Corp., Google Inc., content owner

Discussion threads 2006-09-27

Google to content owners: you will be compensated, maybe

Google CEO Eric Schmidt has recently been touting what he says is Google’s desire to compensate content owners, as I present in “Google royalty-free content: fair use, or foul play?”Google CEO Eric Schmidt extolled the virtues of “financial sharing” in content partnerships during the company’s Q2 investor conference call last...

Tags: Google Inc., P10

Blog posts 2006-08-14

Google puts video ads on Google Video

Google puts video ads on Google VideoWho decides- content owner or advertiser?Garett, Great story! The screen shots really help in understanding what they are doing. Today the advertiser decides which content their ads will be associated with. I wonder if in the future the content owner will also want some...

Tags: Corporate communications, advertiser, video, advertisement, content owner, Google Inc., brand, Google Video, video advertisement

Discussion threads 2006-06-23

Standards needed for media watermarks

Standards needed for media watermarksWhen did content owners say they wanted a watermark?I mean feel free to make all the standard watermarks you want, but no one wants them.Great Article!I agree that watermarks are better than DRM. I personally cringe at the prospect of using DRM protected files on my...

Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, digital-rights management, compliant watermarking system, watermarking system, watermark, content owner, DRM Systems, standards, digital data

Discussion threads 2005-12-07

Defending creators of digital media

I wasn't disappointed by the recent Supreme Court ruling that allowed content owners to sue file trading networks for failure to do enough to protect their copyrights. That shouldn't surprise anyone who caught my post last week where I defended content owners against the "fair use" militias who want to...

Tags: Thievery Corp., music

Blog posts 2005-06-28

Additional Resources

Facebook bans Google's Friend Connect

A few days ago, Google launched a new service called Friend Connect to help website owners make their stuff social without needing to do much work. This basically involves being able to host certain gadgets that use OpenSocial on a webpage by simply copy and pasting some code from...

Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, Web Site, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Internet, Garett Rogers

Blog posts 2008-05-16

XP meets XO: Will Linux get an equal shot?

Updated: The One Laptop Per Child program will put XP on its XO laptop and children in the developing world will have a choice between Windows and Linux. On the surface, a little choice isn't going to kill anybody. In fact, choice is good. And if some...

Tags: Laptop Computer, One Laptop Per Child Project, XO, XP Screen, Linux, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP, Operating Systems, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-05-16

Rumor Mill: What's next from Apple (updated)

It's Friday, which means that it's time to look at the latest raft of rumors about our favorite Cupertino company. Atom-powered mini-tablet This one was pretty hot. ZDNet.de reported that Intel Germany CEO Hannes Schwaderer confirmed that there is an iPhone that will be using Intel's...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple MacBook, Apple Inc., Minitablet PC, Intel Corp., Notebooks, Tablets, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-05-16

Open Source in 2013

<satire> <source> Thank you. (Picture from Fox, America's only network. My picture at the top of this blog is expected to look much like this one in 2013, if I shave and get the combover right.) The hectic but repetitive routine of business and journalism often seems...

Tags: Job, America, World Entertainment Shortage, Recruitment & Selection, Open Source, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-05-16

Web 2.0 and the end of advertising

The idea that software on the Web is going to be largely funded by advertising is just so wrong-headed, I hardly know where to start. It had me spluttering in the latest BriefingsDirect Insights analyst podcast hosted by Dana Gardner — more on that in a moment. Let's move on...

Tags: Software, Web, Web 2.0, Advertisement, Phil Wainewright

Blog posts 2008-05-16

Dynamic documents as two-way end points help bind people and processes to SOA

Read the full paper. Listen to the podcast. Sponsor: JustSystems North America. Making services oriented architecture SOA a fixture across larger swaths of enterprise IT and business processes has grown into a top goal. Finding additional innovation to amplify a SOA's value is therefore always welcome. ...

Tags: Document, SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2008-05-16

News to know: XP meets XO; Yahoo; Facebook; Verdiem; DIY phishing

Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: It's finally official: XP is coming to the XO. Christopher Dawson: Sugar-free Windows, as predicted Microsoft cuts backup from Windows Home Server PowerPack Larry Dignan: Icahn launches Yahoo proxy fight; Mark Cuban's return?...

Tags: Facebook, Larry Dignan, Microsoft Windows XP, Yahoo! Inc., Privacy, TechMeme, Icahn, Phishing, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Cyberthreats, Spam, Security, Viruses And Worms, Spam And Phishing, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software

Blog posts 2008-05-16

Frenemies

Enterprises both large and small are psychologically complex places. Industrial and organizational psychologists are full of fascinating anecdotes about the ways the individual people that make up an enterprise organize themselves to hinder, help, block or share with one another. A common term in Hollywood is ‘Frenemies'...

Tags: Collaboration, Environment, Rivalry, Silo, Groupware, Productivity, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Management, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2008-05-16

Introduction to BIT

This is the 1st excerpt from the second book in the Defen series: Business Information Technology: Foundations, Infrastructure, and Culture Introduction This book is designed for people who interact with, but do not want to become, professional information systems...

Tags: Information System, Bear, Computer, Business Owner, Systems Decision, Dick, Jane, Systems Culture, Productivity, Data Centers, Strategy, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Management, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2008-05-16