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Get ready for the 'Twitterization' of mainstream media

Get ready for the 'Twitterization' of mainstream mediaRe: Get ready for the 'Twitterization' of mainstream mediaLoved the article, as you say it will be interesting to see how mainstream media channels whatever that means nowadays adapt to the rise of Twitter/Pownce/Jaiku. Also interesting I feel is the pontential that...

Tags: Knowledge management, Strategy, Twitterization, Get Ready, mainstream media, Twitter, media

Discussion threads 2007-08-16

Mainstream media, blogosphere largely miss point about Skype free calling plan

Mainstream media, blogosphere largely miss point about Skype free calling planJoin the Rest of the WorldI agree. North America is just joining the rest of the world in paying for Skype. Their free SkypeOut was a way to increase customers and usage, and with the amount of coverage this news...

Tags: Blogging, Skype Technologies S.A., Mainstream Media, blogosphere

Discussion threads 2006-12-14

Google trying to buy Microsoft Office clone

Google trying to buy Microsoft Office cloneIrrelevant!There are already alternative office suites. In fact, not only is this not a plus...but it's a minus for GOOG. Cuz who in their right mind *buys* an alternative to M$ Office when the leading alternative, OpenOffice, is free??Google buying OFFICE clone?Google...

Tags: Web browsers, Strategy, Microsoft Office, Mainstream Media, Google Inc., KACHING, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2006-12-12

Arrington is actually helping mainstream media by sucking away their readers

Mike Arrington wanted to create a dialogue with mainstream media at ONA. Steve Gillmor says he shouldnt have wasted his time. Steves right.You want to get the attention of mainstream media? Kick em in the revenue stream. The real competition therefore is Craigslist. You match up six Arringtons with six...

Tags: Arrington, mainstream media, media, Ask

Blog posts 2006-10-09

The thought that Notes is dead is dead

The thought that Notes is dead is deadPremature AgingDead is dead. There are no degrees of death. Death is, literaly, terminal in this life at least.There's 'fatally ill', 'at death's door', and you can have 'one foot in the grave' while being 'deathly pale' or have a 'near...

Tags: E-mail servers, Groupware, Enterprise software, Mainstream Media, Microsoft Office, IBM Lotus Domino, IBM Lotus Notes

Discussion threads 2006-01-27

New worm moves at near-record speed

New worm moves at near-record speedNT Which OS is Vulnerable? Is It Windows? The Article Does not Say...Yawn, just another day in the monocultureYou've only got 70,006 viruses to look out for today. Smile, can it get much worse?I wouldn't care about thisif it weren't wasting SO MUCH network...

Tags: Cyberthreats, Operating systems, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, Mainstream Media, Microsoft Windows, worm, F-Secure Corp.

Discussion threads 2004-03-01

Additional Resources

Geek Sheet: A Tweaker's Guide to Solid State Drives (SSDs) and Linux

Is 20th century conventional Winchester multi-platter, multi-head random-access disk technology too quaint for you? Want to run your PC or server on storage devices that consume far less energy than the traditional alternatives? Want a portable or mobile storage unit that will never fail due to G-forces or "crashing?". Looking...

Tags: Linux, Disk, File System, Solid State Disk, Mandrake, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-07-25

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

Gaping holes in RealPlayer patched

Digital media delivery firm RealNetworks has shipped a high-prority patch to cover four gaping holes in its flagship RealPlayer software, warning that the vulnerabilities could put users at risk of code execution attacks. The patch comes a few hours after Secunia released an advisory warning for one...

Tags: Vulnerability, RealNetworks Inc., RealNetworks RealPlayer, Digital Music, Digital Media, Security, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-07-25

Global spending on Internet ads will total $65.2 bln in 2008

Worldwide spending on Internet advertising will total 65.2 bln USD in 2008, which is nearly 10% of all ad spending across all media, according to IDC. This share is expected to reach 13.6% by 2011 as Internet ad spending grows to $106.6 bln worldwide. by NB

Tags: Internet Advertising, Internet, NB

Blog posts 2008-07-25

Britain moves against illegal file sharing

CBC News out of Canada is reporting that British ISPs are making an aggressive move against illegal file sharing by implementing a program designed to discover copyright violators, who will be sent warning letters and may potentially have their internet connections disconnected. For more on the article,...

Tags: File-sharing, Peer To Peer (P2P), Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Internet, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-07-25

Mystery solved: Apple's new product is iTablet (updated)

Previously I speculated about the mysterious "product transition" that Apple's Peter Oppenheimer CFO mentioned no less than seven times in the Q3 2008 Earnings conference call with analysts. Some of his quotes from the call: We are working to develop new products that contains technologies...

Tags: Apple Inc., Tablets, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-07-25

Cool Tools - Slingpage extends stickies and sharing to Firefox users

Slingpage, which announced its social browsing extension for Internet Explorer last month, will introduce an equally feature-rich version of its service to Mozilla Firefox users next week. Slingpage offers a way for Web surfers to find information about favorite topics via "Slingcast" feeds as well as create...

Tags: Monitor, Mozilla Firefox, Note, Tool, Slingpage, Web Browsers, Monitors & Displays, Internet, Hardware, Components, Jennifer Leggio

Blog posts 2008-07-25

Microsoft may need an IBM moment of clarity

Microsoft's financial analyst meeting was a tale of a technology conglomerate: You heard a lot about search, a decent bit about the enterprise and all sorts of projects in between. But amid all the coverage--see Mary Jo's laundry list of stories--I can't help but wonder if Microsoft's...

Tags: Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Corp., Enterprise, IBM Corp., Game Players, Virtualization, Tools & Techniques, Enterprise Software, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Management, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-25

News to know: 'Spam king' dead; Microsoft's cloud; Dell;

Notable headlines: Ryan Naraine: Escapee 'Spam King' dead in apparent murder-suicide CBS Denver Video: 'Spam King' Inmate Dies Along With Wife, Daughter Mary Jo Foley: Ozzie foreshadows 'Zurich,' Microsoft's elastic cloud Microsoft to get more 'Apple-like' in PC,...

Tags: Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-25

We wanna be more like Apple - Microsoft and Ubuntu get ready to fire up the photocopiers!

We wanna be more like Apple - Microsoft and Ubuntu get ready to fire up the photocopiers!Linux has no marketing.Market share is directly related to marketing. When is the last time anyone saw a Linux commercial?Isn't that the point?You say that Canonical needs to listen more to the "customers" but...

Tags: Copiers, Operating systems, Desktops, Notebooks, Market-Share, Apple Inc., Ubuntu, wanna-be, Microsoft Corp., photocopier, Linux

Discussion threads 2008-07-24

Speculation over possible Skype backdoor

There's growing speculation coming out of Europe that there's a backdoor in Skype that allows remote eavesdropping of telephone conversations. A report in the reputable Heise Online says the issue was discussed at a meeting with ISPs last month where high-ranking officials at the Austrian interior...

Tags: Skype Technologies S.A., Telecom & Utilities, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Internet, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-07-24

World's fastest Blu-ray recorder outruns Blu-ray media?

World's fastest Blu-ray recorder outruns Blu-ray media?pricesLooks like prices are dropping on the hardware, now we just need them to drop on the media. Still too expensive for long-term backup solutions.

Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Blu-ray Recorder, media, recorder

Discussion threads 2008-07-24

World's fastest Blu-ray recorder outruns Blu-ray media?

Buffalo just announced the world's fastest Blu-ray recorder capable of burning through your data at an 8x clip. The problem? BDA-approved media maxes out at 6x assuming you can find one. That's a funny bit of math, no? Available in Japan...

Tags: Recorder, Media, Blu-ray, BDA-approved Media, Advertising & Promotion, Serial ATA, Marketing, Storage, Hardware, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2008-07-24

Is open source hurt by piracy?

Is open source hurt by piracy?Only hurts Open Source if proprietary is seen as "better"Sounds like what you are saying is for example, that the competition in the office suite space is Open Office Vs MS Office Vs pirated MS Office. Those willing to pirate see both Open Office...

Tags: Operating systems, open source, piracy, OpenOffice, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp., Linux, software

Discussion threads 2008-07-24