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- Revisiting Wallop
- rBack in September I received an invite to Wallop and gushed about the service. I was impressed partly because of the novel use of Flash and also partly because I think Wallop enhances the user experience of social networks. One of the things MySpace got right was allowing people to...
- Tags: Wallop, Micropayments, Flash, Experience, Rich Internet Applications
- Blog posts 2006-12-06
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- A short, pointed list of 'wonderful policies'
- A short, pointed list of 'wonderful policies'yes, they make some sense.They are following the original sense of copyright law as I feel to have understood it, anyway.In ten years or so later in a career to have essentially joined if in if a special corner of the media industry, this...
- Tags: wonderful policy, pointed list
- Discussion threads 2008-05-14
- Big+Yahoo+shareholder%3A+There+are+few+alternatives+to+Microsoft+bid
- Big+Yahoo+shareholder%3A+There+are+few+alternatives+to+Microsoft+bidGeez, are you even kidding???YHOO has *many* options! Bill Miller & Legg Mason have an obvious stake in seeing to it that there is just one option...so that they can profit! What kind of journalism is this? Try enumerating some of the many other options, instead of...
- Tags: Portals, E-mail, Advertising & Promotion, Goog, Yahoo! Inc., mobile
- Discussion threads 2008-02-12
- More reflection on the Kindle: Did Amazon just answer an unnerved media industry's prayers?
- More reflection on the Kindle: Did Amazon just answer an unnerved media industry's prayers?Let me add this upSo I shell out three or four hundred dollars for a reader device, plus ten or fifteen per month for the three-year life of the thing, for a total of somewhere around $750....
- Tags: E-books, Desktops, Amazon.com Inc., unnerved media industry, e-book
- Discussion threads 2007-12-06
- For content providers of any size (even you), Bango button offers frictionless push to mobiles
- For anybody who has ever tried to retrieve Web-based content on their mobile handset, be it a full-blown smartphone or just one that's capable of basic Web access via the Wireless Application Protocol WAP, being able to retrieve content on that handset the way its retrievable on the PC are...
- Tags: Mobile, Handset, Service, Ray Anderson, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, David Berlind
- Blog posts 2007-11-19
- Bill Gates seeks patent for ad-rebate program
- I don't write a lot about Microsoft patent applications, as they're often so vague that guessing their true intent is an effort in futility. But when it's Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates' name on the application, things get a little more interesting.Gates and a Microsoft researcher applied for a patent in...
- Tags: Advertisement, Patent, Search Engine, Bill Gates, Microsoft Corp., Patent Application, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2007-08-22
- US premium SMS revenues reached $273 mln in Q1 2007
- US premium SMS revenues reached $273 mln in Q1 2007premium SMS growth factors...These trends have less to do with consumers and more to do with the companies in the space in the U.S these days. In the old days it was a couple large players controlling the market like Motricity...
- Tags: Text messaging/SMS/MMS, Telephony, Cellular phones, SMS, Q1 2007
- Discussion threads 2007-07-04
- Visa's one giant leap for mobile micropay- or is it?
- At CTIA today, Visa USA President and CEO John Philip Coghlan announced a number of alliances with mobile content providers that would allow micropayments for mobile commerce and content.No marketer should attempt to forge those alliances without research. Not to worry, because Coghland came to the podium with some...
- Tags: mobile marketing, Visa International, mobile payment, telephone
- Blog posts 2007-03-28
- Could a startup beat Microsoft and Google to market with a 'cloud OS'?
- A Swedish, venture-backed startup believes it can beat both Microsoft and Google in bringing a "cloud OS" product to market. A "Cloud OS" is what Microsoft officials have described as the back-end infrastructure that will power its growing family of Live services. And -- in spite of repeated public...
- Tags: Linux, Web 2.0, Office, Corporate strategy, Office Live, Windows Live
- Blog posts 2007-03-01
- iStockphoto CEO on Getty Images acquisition: Exclusive interview on one year anniversary
- Got $1.00? Then you can download one of 1,459,000 artist quality, royalty-free images showcased at iStockPhoto.Bruce Livingstone, iStockphoto President and CEO, has been powering “the first, biggest and best community-powered marketplace for value-priced imagery,” since he founded it in April 2000.As of February 2006, Livingston has been powering his photographic...
- Tags: Brands, Business Models, Content, Copyright, Culture, ecommerce, Marketing, ROI, Social Media, Social Networking, Social Web, The Real Deal, User-Generated Content, Video, Web 2.0, YouTube
- Blog posts 2007-02-19
- News to know: IE 8; Vista; Yahoo & Hillary
- Notable headlines:Microsoft starts gathering IE 8.Adobe to send PDF to standards group. Adobe releasing PDF spec to ISO embracing the Open Web. Adobe statement. iTunes fertile new ground: PDFcasting. Microsoft copies BlueJ, admits it, then patents it.Open-source identity projects connect with Microsoft. IBM contributes ID software to open source security...
- Tags: General, Microsoft Windows Vista
- Blog posts 2007-01-29
- Microsoft's Live Points point the way to micropayments
- Microsoft's Live Points point the way to micropaymentsThe Kiaser LivesOr is it Al Capone?Amazing how many suck up the slop....er..ahhh micropayment scheme.
- Tags: micropayment, Live Points, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-01-28
- Microsoft's Live Points point the way to micropayments
- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates talked up his vision for a micropayments strategy during the World Economic Forum in Davos. While articles by the mainstream media dont explain details if any outlined, the strategy sounds a lot like Microsofts existing "Points" system that allows Xbox and Zune customers to make...
- Tags: Windows Live, Office Live, Development tools, Xbox Live, Microsoft Windows Live, micropayment
- Blog posts 2007-01-28
- Bill Gates: Microsoft vs. Google Checkout, eBay PayPal
- Bill Gates: Microsoft vs. Google Checkout, eBay PayPal*IF* they can do itthen they have found the holy grail of ecommerce. Should be very interesting to see how this plays out.Thank you Mr Bill!You #4%^&*g blood sucking, junk selling, snake-oil peddling, behind the times, copy-cat, #$@^^!You are dealing in innuendo...
- Tags: Sales channel, Financial services, Bill Gates, Microsoft Corp., eBay Inc., advertisement, Google Inc., Google Checkout, PayPal
- Discussion threads 2007-01-28
- Is Apple getting ready to charge for 802.11n Mac enabling software?
- Is Apple getting ready to charge for 802.11n Mac enabling software?Typical AppleThere are 2 pathetic things about this:1. This is a blatant money grab.2. The Mac zealots will praise it as being a wonderful thing.bundled with leopard upgrade?Too bad, that is odd. When will it be included in new...
- Tags: Wi-Fi, Tools & Techniques, Operational accounting, Desktops, Notebooks, GAAP, Apple Inc., IEEE 802.11n, accounting, Apple Macintosh, software, macbook
- Discussion threads 2007-01-16
- Gnomedex: Dave Winer--forget about ads
- Opening the Saturday morning session at Gnomedex, blogging pioneer Dave Winer declared that "ads on Web sites are not part of economy we are living in now." His notion is that each person's Web site is a form of advertising. "You can find out who shares the same interests...
- Tags: Dave, advertisement
- Blog posts 2006-07-01
- EFF's sender pay email debate ends in draw
- Last night Mitch Kapor, Esther Dyson and Danny O’Brien debated the pros and cons of sender-pay email at a fundraiser for the Electronic Frontier Foundation held at the Roxie Film Center in the Mission district. Actually Mitch was the moderator, but the co-founder of EFF and Chair of the Open...
- Tags: Electronic Frontier Foundation, Goodmail, e-mail
- Blog posts 2006-04-21
- Who's killing the software industry the fastest?
- Who's killing the software industry the fastest?Open Source is license killer, but SOA spurs competenceBoth are disruptive, but they have very different effects:- OSS severely threatens the license revenue stream, changing the business model to use only services- SOA removes vendor lock-ins, increasing competenceOSS may indeed be a software vendor...
- Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Tools & Techniques, Web services, Enterprise software, eBay Inc., software, SOA, OSS
- Discussion threads 2006-02-01
- Cell-iPod "Mobile Me" combo appears likely
- It appears quite likely that Apple is getting ready to release a cellular-enabled iPod.Either that, or an iPod-enabled cell phone.If not, then why did Apple, according to the San Francisco Chronicle's Ryan Kim, file four trademark applications earlier this month, covering such terms as "digital music," "cellular" and "communications?"The...
- Tags: computer
- Blog posts 2006-01-17
- Web 2.0 Humor
- There's been a lot of excellent Web 2.0 humor this past week. Paul Montgomery has a wicked take-off of an AC/DC song, called Two Point Two Oh Ain't Web Pollution. Here is the chorus: Two point oh ain't Web pollution...
- Tags: Web Pollution, Web, Web 2.0, Two-point
- Blog posts 2005-10-30
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