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- Publishers fight open access law for federal research
- Universities are supposed to be on the leading edge of movements to push open source and open access to infomation, right? A Senate bill would require research funded with federal dollars to be published for free online, within six months of publication elsewhere. But universities and scholarly publishers...
- Tags: Publishers, Universities
- Blog posts 2006-10-03
- Information statesmanship needed
- Publishers to Google: back off | News.blog | CNET News.com: Publishers cannot continue to allow search engines to make money off of their content, the head of the European Publishers Council said in a speech in Brussels this week. Alex Barnett, John Dowdell, SmallTalk Tidbits and others have a lot...
- Tags: Publishers
- Blog posts 2005-12-07
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- OLPC is dead...What Kindlenomics taught us
- Fellow ZDNet blogger, Jason Perlow, wrote a neat piece suggesting that, if electronic versions of most college textbooks existed, it wouldn't take many semesters for the average undergraduate to pay for the Kindle on which to read them. In fact, with a fair amount of arm-waving, it wasn't too...
- Tags: Student, Hardware, Textbook, One Laptop Per Child Project, Kindle, Kindroid, XO 2.0, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-11-16
- Going paperless...Are we really saving money?
- I've been continuing to kick around the idea of going paperless in K-12 education, particularly at the elementary level. It's becoming something of a personal crusade as I watch teachers crank out reams of worksheets for their students and find money to buy toner to support their habit. ...
- Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Digital Content, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-11-14
- Porn To Run: Online Advertising Gets A Flesh Blocker
- Sex sells. As long as you don't go too far. Here is your typical family on the beach. Two boys playing in the sand. Husband and wife looking on. She's got only about about 5 percent of her body covered in clothing. Exposed flesh reigns. ...
- Tags: Advertisement, Pornography, Image, Online Advertising, Helix, Online-ad Growth, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2008-11-11
- Big telecom acquiring a Google fixation
- Big telecom acquiring a Google fixationPlease clarify.I don't understand your conclusion.Quoting:What Google, and all of us, most need to do is work that problem, finding business models through which content owners can profit while the end-to-end integrity of the search-and-find Internet is preserved.That will break the link between the content...
- Tags: Strategy, Telecom & Utilities, telecommunications, Google Inc., content delivery
- Discussion threads 2008-11-10
- Kicking Internet pirates off the web
- Kicking Internet pirates off the webPiracy'They'still haven't figured it out!! Make the product a fair price and people will happily pay for it. With a blank CD at 50 cents, who will pay $20 from a shop for an 'Imported'music CD? PERCEIVED VALUE is the key. At $5 nobody would...
- Tags: Perceived Value, Web, piracy, Kicking Internet, Kicking Internet pirate
- Discussion threads 2008-11-10
- Wimob (exe)
- The Wimob Suite is an end-to-end solution that makes your multimedia web content available to a worldwide audience of more than 3 Billion mobile phones. Our platform was specifically designed with flexibility and scalability in mind to effectively serve companies of different sizes, from independent web publishers to multinational brands....
- Tags: Web, Wimob, Wimob Suite, Channel Management, Marketing
- Software downloads 2008-11-07
- Live: Jerry Yang at Web 2.0 Summit
- Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang's name popped in a number of headlines today, sparked by a rumor that his job may be on the line following Google's announcement this morning that it was withdrawing from an ad deal with Yahoo. The company, of course, is denying the rumor. And then, of...
- Tags: Web, Jerry Yang, Yahoo! Inc., Jerry, Web 2.0, Government, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-11-05
- Open APIs reach new high water mark as the Web evolves
- Open APIs reach new high water mark as the Web evolvesAPI AggregationThis is a terrific summary of a landscape-altering trend on the web. At Gigya, we also see these APIs as an enormous opportunity for businesses. By aggregating a large number of these APIs in order to simplify the connection...
- Tags: API, eBay Inc., Open API, Web
- Discussion threads 2008-11-05
- News to know: FCC oks white spaces; Firefox; Dell; Adobe patch
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Obama wins: CBS News: Election Webcast Techmeme: FCC approves plan to approve white spaces for broadband use Joe Brockmeier: Vote Firefox! Mozilla passes 20%...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., FCC, Adobe Systems Inc., Google Inc., Dell Computer Corp., Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Windows, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Web Browsers, Operating Systems, Software, Sales, Internet, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-11-05
- News to know: Windows 7, Azure, SAP, Google book scans, RIM
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Ed Bott: A first look at Windows 7's pre-beta PDC release Mary-Jo Foley: Windows 7: What's coming for business users Larry Dignan: Windows 7: Will it...
- Tags: Google Inc., Research In Motion Ltd., Larry Dignan, Richard Koman, Microsoft Windows 7, SAP AG, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-10-29
- Thanks to Google, writers' lives may be even more thankless, unless....
- The announcement that Google has settled its book scanning lawsuit with The Author's Guild raises all sorts of hopes for digital use of new and previously published books. But without some radical changes in the publishing industry, the results of the settlement are not going to make it easier to...
- Tags: Google Inc., Author, Industry, Pain Point, Litigation, Operational Accounting, Strategy, Business Operations, Finance, Management, Mitch Ratcliffe
- Blog posts 2008-10-28
- eBooks get social, pose further threat to traditional publishers
- eBooks get social, pose further threat to traditional publishersExcited about the possibilitiesI believe in what Stephen King said - that eBooks are great but nothing will ever replace the feel of a paperback in your hand. That being said, I'm excited by the idea of being anywhere and having the...
- Tags: E-books, e-book
- Discussion threads 2008-10-28
- eBooks get social, pose further threat to traditional publishers
- When most industry observers examine the impact of social media on traditional media industries, the focus inevitability turns to easily digitized media such as newspapers, magazines, radio, television and music. But what about books, and more specifically eBooks? To get a sense of where eBooks are...
- Tags: Author, Publisher, Amazon Kindle, Cost Problem, E-books, Personal Technology, Jennifer Leggio
- Blog posts 2008-10-28
- Google settles book scan suit for $125 million
- Google settles book scan suit for $125 millionwhat about BiblioBazaar ?Hi Larry,When I read this;"With this agreement, in-copyright, out-of-print books will now be available for readers in the U.S. to search, preview and buy online — something that was simply unavailable to date."-- interesting perspective, but there are companies out...
- Tags: Operational accounting, Google Inc., revenue
- Discussion threads 2008-10-28
- Google settles book scan suit for $125 million
- Google and The Authors Guild, the Association of American Publishers said Tuesday that they have settled a book scanning lawsuit for $125 million. The agreement ends a two-year class action suit over Google's scanning of in-copyright books and other written property for its Google Book Search. The...
- Tags: Google Inc., Settlement, Agreement, Litigation, Operational Accounting, Business Operations, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-28
- Online ad strategies
- There are more than 300 ad networks that focus on monetizing Web sites, so having a strategy is key. Ren Chin, marketing vice president for Yieldbuild, says that Web site publishers should consider three factors in their overall strategy for bringing in revenue: ad network selection, ad layout, and reporting.
- Tags: Advertisement, Online Advertising, Strategy, Management, whiteboard, online, ads, marketing, monetization, strategy, optimization, website management
- Whiteboards 2008-10-27
- Symantec to identify safe software by 'reputation'
- The company's tech will judge whether an app is unsafe by looking at where it can be found across the database of Symantec users and categorizing those machines as safe or otherwise. Symantec will soon introduce a "reputation-based" software-rating technology that it has claimed can accurately differentiate malicious malware...
- Tags: Program, Software, Symantec Corp., Malware, Basant, Lee Min Keong, Security, Lee Min Keong, ZDNet Asia, Symantec, security, software, malware, ZDNet Asia
- News items 2008-10-24
- LockLizard PDF Control - PDC Mac viewer (dmg)
- PDF secure Mac viewer software with copy protection. View PDC documents protected with Lizard Safeguard PDF Security. No useless passwords to enter in order to view protected PDF files. Free PDF DRM download for complete PDF Control. Note that publishers of secure PDF documents may have implemented PDF controls to...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Adobe PDF, LockLizard
- Software downloads 2008-10-24
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