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Techmeme's 6 editors signals potential trouble with Google PageRank

It's the money"I think it is a function of not having enough time to create the links; and also it isn?t as fashionable as it once was"Wrong.. It's all about money. Links to other sites take people away from your site and your advertising.Maybe it is google to blame?Before...

Tags: INTERNET, TechMeme, Google Inc., Google PageRank

Discussion threads 2009-11-19

Google: Selling old media sucks

Google: Selling old media sucksAgile businesspeople...It's good to know that the folks at Google are able to analyze, detect, and abandon dying businesses so quickly. They probably should have been able to predict both print and radio were losers by looking at the rates of failure in the businesses,...

Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Google Inc., old media, media

Discussion threads 2009-02-12

Tribune?s troubles reflect old media in new age

Tribune?s troubles reflect old media in new ageThey need to get out of the "yellow rag" busines first.Do you seriously think they belong on top? They are "Johnny, one note" for any socialist idea that comes along. When, or if, they start "reporting" the news rather than dumping only their...

Tags: advertisement

Discussion threads 2008-12-12

Big, BAD contextual Web: Do you want journalism with your ads?

OnHollywood hosted industry insiders to debate "Breaking News and Analysis 2.0" this morning in Los Angeles.Didn’t make it to LA? No problem, “industry insider” Web 2.0 Techmeme to the rescue, for NOT SO "Breaking News and Analysis 2.0.”What is Techmeme? Gabe Rivera:At this moment, the next big story in technology...

Tags: advertisement, Advertising, Donna Bogatin, Google, industry insider, Media, NewLaunches, old media, TechMeme, Web, Web 2.0

Blog posts 2007-05-02

Who needs 'dead tree' old media? Virtually everyone

Whats better than YouTube clip culture entertainment on an almost weekend?A post sponsored by Wired magazine written by an unamed person, or persons, under the unauthorized, assumed identity of Steve Jobs, titled "Radically, transparentally stupid."Topic? As described by Wired magazines NOT Jobs:Hilarious groveling letter from Rubel to "Mr. Louderback" and...

Tags: Web 2.0, Print, Metrics, Media, Marketing, Culture, Blogs

Blog posts 2007-04-26

Web 2.0 ages: Poor old media?

(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction! The Rolling Stones sang it, and Rolling Stone is feeling it, from the blogosphere!Rolling Stone magazine, once a must read for all music and pop-culture nuts is going to establish a social network, via GigaOm. Initial Om Malik reaction: “If this means their...

Tags: User-Generated Content, Web 2.0, Social Web, MySpace, Marketing

Blog posts 2007-04-13

Why Google needs Viacom, big time!

John Battelle to Big Media on Googles YouTube: “Forget the deal.” Battelle’s latest “old media doesn’t get it” piece is a rambling follow-up to a Mark Cuban verdict that old media hasn’t figured things out, YouTube things that is. Battelle’s confidence in his lack of confidence in mega...

Tags: Advertising, Brands, Content, Copyright, Culture, Google, Google Software Applications, Marketing, Media, Metrics, Movies, ROI, Television, TV, Video, Web 2.0, YouTube

Blog posts 2007-03-02

Old media's unwinnable YouTube war

Old media's unwinnable YouTube warAdd a New Award!The Best Low-Life-scum-outlaw-illegal-Mafia entity of the year: HOLLYWORD the SEWER of the worldBest criminal Cartel: MPAA/RIAA (AKA: the Digital Mafia)Best Parasitie Company: MacrovisionFrom Best to Rest: SonyMost Useless technology: DRMMost DRM bloated software: Windows VistaEasies court system to buy: USAMost Usefull law transform...

Tags: Old Media, YouTube Inc.

Discussion threads 2007-02-28

Web 2.0: Does 'old media' get it?

MySpace and Facebook are typically categorized together as “social networking” Websites. Facebook, however, makes a clear distinction between its business and that of MySpace. I chatted with Dan Rose, Vice President, about the Facebook business model at the recent Media Summit in New York City, He underscored to...

Tags: Advertising, Amateur Content, Facebook, Google, Google Software Applications, Media, Metrics, Social Media, Social Networking, Social Web, User-Generated Content, Video, Web 2.0, YouTube

Blog posts 2007-02-25

Gestures

GesturesOld Media GestureTrue, the Business Week article you refer to about some Old Media companies planning Google's downfall is a yawn in many respects.I have previously posted at ZDNet that the Older, Big-Name, Media companies are going to raect to the Net sooner or later - and that they will...

Tags: Old Media

Discussion threads 2006-01-16

Additional Resources

Is Google the Center of the Universe?

It's not even a year since the triumphalism of Jeff Jarvis's Google 'reverse engineering' book 'What Would Google Do?' hit the book shelves, but it seems an age ago now. Jarvis's publisher Harper Collins claims this book is 'all about you' in their promo blurb - how you...

Tags: Google Inc., Rupert Murdoch, Jarvis, Wiki, Online Communications, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-11-24

What open source can teach medical practice

Great article, Dana.You did in such a short piece what CNN, MSNBC, FOX and other media journalists failed to do: tell the story as it really is. You didn't take what was news worthy and sensationalized it, nor played up a negative reading of it to frighten those possibly affected,...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Insurance, health care, open source, medical practice, CNN

Discussion threads 2009-11-24

Is it time to go quad-core?

Quad core, Chris?You have told us over and over that all you need is Google. You don't need a real OS, real apps, or any processing power to speak of. All you need is a browser, preferably Chrome. Why on Earth would you need a quad core...

Tags: Processors, cloud computing, quad-core, laptop computer, virtualization

Discussion threads 2009-11-23

Opera patches 'extremely severe' security hole

Let me know when it gets really reheheally 'extremely severe'.ntRE: Opera patches 'extremely severe' security holeStill using Opera 10.01, still no problems. I'll upgrade before I sign off.What comes after "extremely severe"? - just so gawd awful, really, must do or die, severe!Critical and importantThese bugs would be rated...

Tags: Web browsers, patch management, Lynx, Opera Software ASA, security, security hole, Opera patch

Discussion threads 2009-11-23

Hands on with new Roku Channel Store; is cable TV still worth the cost?

Not available on the N1000I don't see any options for this on my N1000.Bummer.Has the resolution improved on HD content?That was one thing I'd like to know. I can see a future, where everything you would ever need in the home will go thru the internet. I am already set...

Tags: Cable, TVs, TV & Home Theater, Network technology, Advertising & Promotion, FrameChannel, video quality, Roku Inc., cable television

Discussion threads 2009-11-23

Stupid DROID Tricks, Volume 1

also if u want to talk and surf the net (get directions,or use the Map) in the same time u just have to open or switch the applications using the HOME key on the phone.Also: if u want to make a very CHEAP International calls or If you want to...

Tags: E-mail, Stupid DROID Tricks, Volume 1, phone

Discussion threads 2009-11-22

Internet: A threat to government or the other way around?

The Kleptocrats that feel entitled to your money...worry that us mushrooms now have other uncontrollable sources for the "truth" and won't eat the horse compost fed to them by the monopolistic crony Main-stream Media.RE: Internet: A threat to government or the other way around?There are two things tyrants and bureaucrats...

Tags: Vertical industries, government, retraction, Internet

Discussion threads 2009-11-20

Conference energy levels

Coming to Dreamforce has been a revelation. The news was dominated by Chatter but that only tells a fraction of the real story. As I sat in the media room chatting sic to an old buddy it occurred to me this was a conference that annoyed for all...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Software-as-a-service, Event, Software As A Service (SaaS), Managed Hosting, Sales Force Management, Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies, Sales, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-11-20

Inside the Google Chrome OS security model

The proof will be in implementationAll of these lofty goals are one thing. Making it happen in code is quite another. It sounds like they are just giving a laundry list of what people want them to say. I'm in the "believe it when I see it" camp. Good intentions...

Tags: security, Google Inc., licence, Google Chrome

Discussion threads 2009-11-19

Google makes Chrome OS open source today

I like itThe ChromeOS demo looked pretty cool!I'm almost 100% webapp-based already, so I could see myself using a simple, fast & no maintenance OS like that the majority of the time.I like it too, but, for me, I need to compile and run programs locally. I would imagine that...

Tags: Operating systems, Desktops, open source, Google Inc., Chrome, operating system, ChromeOS

Discussion threads 2009-11-19