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- Archive of court decisions in need of Web 2.0 applications
- My local paper has a piece about Carl Malamud's court.gov project, which thus far has uploaded 1.8 million Supreme Court and federal opinions to the Web. Apparently, this is one of Carl's primary missions these days, to make court decisions, which are public domain, as available...
- Tags: Web, Annotation, Malamud, Lexis, Web 2.0, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-02-13
- The anxious new dawn of cybersnooping
- The anxious new dawn of cybersnoopingLexis Is BadHey,Nice to know that you can't even opt out of LexisNexis unless the following condidtions are met so "Joe Average" is screwed.[b]An individual may request opt-out if one of these conditions exists:* You are a state, local or federal law enforcement officer or...
- Tags: Lexis
- Discussion threads 2006-05-03
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- Maybe It's Time for Twenty-Somethings To Take Over Media
- Media companies have to become technology companies, able to quickly and effectively deliver new services that appeal to a generation of readers who only spend about seven minutes a day of their free time reading stuff printed on paper. That's the contention propounded this morning by Harold...
- Tags: Media Company, Technology Company, BusinessWeek, Media, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2008-09-08
- Open source opens access to the law library
- While the Internet has opened up access to most data, legal records have remained a tidy little racket. Westlaw and Lexis-Nexis have it all tied up in a neat little bow. Now Google-like algorithms and cheap Indian labor are letting new companies grab for hunks of that duopoly by Dana...
- Tags: Case Law, Law Library, Fastcase, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-06-12
- Judge decisively rejects RIAA legal theory
- A federal district judge has delivered a pretty resounding blow to a theory the RIAA has been using to win verdicts in its copyright-infringement lawsuit campaign. In Atlantic Records v. Howell, Judge Neil Wake refused the RIAA's motion for summary judgment based on the "making available" theory. ...
- Tags: Theory, RIAA, Judge, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-04-29
- Silobreaker pitches 'insight as a service'
- Silobreaker offers a new twist on news aggregation and search navigation. The free service, which was introduced at Demo 08, offers several views of news, with more than 20,000 data sources (including news sites,blogs, and research institutions) poured into the index. The company claims that it provides...
- Tags: Business Model, Service, Silobreaker, Trends, Productivity, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2008-01-30
- Netsuite nightmares: part deux
- Last September I wrote about how NetSuite has been failing its customers. It isn't getting any better. Following that post I started to receive emails going into detail about how NetSuite's sales talk bears no relation to what the company is able to deliver. It seems that most of the...
- Tags: NetSuite Inc., Tara, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Insurance, Sales, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-01-10
- Gates' last CES keynote: Long on sales claims, short on futures
- Gates' last CES keynote: Long on sales claims, short on futuresNot much news of upcoming productsI'm guessing it's probably because these products aren't coming for awhile, and it wouldn't make sense to blab about them before making sure there's no issues.At least Microsoft gets that now, unlike in the past...
- Tags: Sales strategy, Sales force management, Gates Foundation, sales claim, Microsoft Corp., Gates IS, Apple Inc., sales
- Discussion threads 2008-01-06
- WashPo gets RIAA CD rip story wrong on Dec. 30; I got it right on Dec. 11
- When I first became aware of that clueless December 30 Washington Post article in which Mark Fisher erroneously claimed the RIAA was maintaining that ripping CDs was illegal, wanna know what I thought to myself? Well, h-e-l-l-o!! Mark, if you had only read my...
- Tags: CD, RIAA, WashPo, Keyphrase, Peer To Peer (P2P), Tools & Techniques, Internet, Management, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2008-01-04
- What that RIAA/CD rip court brief really says
- There's a lot of misinformation floating around the blogosphere about what exactly the (hiss, boo) Recording Industry Association of America is saying in a court brief about the very act of ripping your CDs, converting them to MP3s, and then storing them on your hard drive...
- Tags: Hard Drive, P2P, RIAA, Keyphrase, Peer To Peer (P2P), Internet, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2007-12-11
- AltLaw offers a legal research alternative for federal courts
- AltLaw, a free legal database created by Prof. Tim Wu of Columbia Law School, has officially launched, Ars Technica reports. Ars describes the service: The database currently provides full-text search of Supreme Court and Federal Appellate opinions from the last decade or so. It also allows for...
- Tags: Ars Technica, Database, Goal, U.S. Supreme Court, Service, AltLaw, Storage, Databases, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, ZDNet Government
- Blog posts 2007-10-02
- Changing the way we find, reference, and talk about the law
- Tim O'Reilly and John Markoff have good writeups on public.resource.org, which aims among other things to create "an unencumbered repository of all [U.S.] federal and state case law and codes." In a letter to legal publisher Thomson/West, public.resource.org President and CEO Carl Malamud seeks clarity as to the extent...
- Tags: Law, Mr., Wiki, Search, Blogging, Online Communications, Internet, Denise Howell
- Blog posts 2007-08-22
- Last bastion of trust falls
- IT security practices have always been dominated by trust, often myopically. Specialized applications are still deployed with the assumption that end users, be they customers, contractors, or employees, would not attempt to abuse that trust. Lexis Nexis fell victim to this trust as did Choicepoint when they assumed paying...
- Tags: Spyware
- Blog posts 2007-07-20
- Two "Fraudulent" Netflix Patents fuel antitrust class action lawsuit
- A fellow named Dennis Dilbeck has sued Netflix, based on his perception that two of the company's Patents were granted without full disclosure of prior art- and that lack of disclosure has provided Netflix with a degree of protection that has enabled the company to "monopolize" the online DVD rental...
- Tags: Regulatory
- Blog posts 2007-05-18
- I need some help tabulating cases
- I dont have a Lexis/Nexis CourtLink account - and I dont have the experience needed to use one effectively either. If you do, and would be willing to do some certainly unpaid and probably unrecognized research for me, Id sure like to hear from you....
- Tags: General
- Blog posts 2007-04-17
- Spyware, data privacy bills reappear in House
- Spyware, data privacy bills reappear in HouseSelling My Social Security Number?I am outraged that ANY company is allowed access to my social security number. How do they get it to sell in the first place? I have long beeen an advocate of NOT using SSN's for identification purposes....
- Tags: Social Security, Operational accounting, spyware, U.S. Congress
- Discussion threads 2007-02-10
- Court OKs warrantless tracking with GPS
- The 7th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled last week that police can place a GPS tracking unit on a suspects car without obtaining a search warrant. In US v Garcia (2007 U.S. App. LEXIS 2272), decided Feb. 2, Judge Richard Posner found that such a device was a mere "augmentation"...
- Tags: Government technology, Courts, Law enforcement, GPS
- Blog posts 2007-02-08
- Large organizations embrace on-demand - and not just CRM
- Large organizations embrace on-demand - and not just CRMAnother survey with similar findingsHi Phil -- In case you haven't seen it, the Cutter Consortium also recently published a survey about the growing adoption of SaaS. See http://www.cutter.com/press/070122.html for more information on the survey. The survey respondents were...
- Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), Customer relationship management (CRM), Advertising & Promotion, CRM, software-as-a-service, SaaS solution, on-demand, survey, Microsoft Project, Projity
- Discussion threads 2007-01-30
- State conviction records fuel a burgeoning industry
- Local governments routinely sell records of criminal and motor vehicle convictions to a range of businesses. In Connecticut, for example, the court system charges $1,400 a year for such records, the Waterbury CT Republican-American notes. Thats small potatoes. The newspaper reports that huge database companies like ChoicePoint...
- Tags: Databases, industry, Waterbury
- Blog posts 2006-12-11
- University joins Google library project
- University joins Google library projectBeautiful .It's great to know that GOOGLE will be the thorn in Microsofts buttocks to deflate the overbearing corrupt bohemoth ."In a world without walls and fences , who needs windows and gates.'NiceWhen I was back in school, not to long ago, it took ages to...
- Tags: INTERNET, Construction, Google Inc., Google Library Project, Google Library
- Discussion threads 2006-10-12
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