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- MSFT's Live Ambitions - 2007-07-06 08:49:29-04
Microsoft, already taking on Sony, Apple, Google, Yahoo! and Oracle just opened a new front in Web video, with Livestation. The company already has the Soapbox platform for video sharing and viewing online, but now it is taking on Joost with LiveStation, a product born out of a partnership with Skinker, who in turn used [...]
- A Programmers Fridge: Things That Grow in our Fridge - 2007-07-06 12:17:01-04
There is a serious issue when you have an office filled with programmers and not any sales people. What is the issue? The office fridge. No one cares if the fridge starts smelling bad. You let it go and go...
- Current TV Takes User Generated Content On Air - 2007-07-06 17:03:12-04
With the massive Live Earth concerts, which will be broadcast live to an estimated 2 billion people over television and the Internet (you can watch them live on MSN), just about five hours away, I thought it might be interesting to take a brief look at Al Gore's other Internet and television endeavor. Founded in 2005, Current TV is independent cable and satellite television network aimed at a ...
- Headlines of Note for July 6, 2007 - 2007-07-06 17:45:47-04
In addition to today’s Internet Marketing Monitor coverage, we felt these stories were worth pulling out of the multitude of news items for July 6, 2007: Do we really need to write our own search engine? [Facebook Blog] That’s an excellent question. As the blog post points out, many other search options existed [...]
- Facebook One Of The Top Search Engines? I Dunno About That! - 2007-07-06 18:15:07-04
I shouldn't -- but I couldn't resist doing a quick poke at Facebook's pronouncement that it is the "most used people search engine on the web." Really? According to? Facebook gives some stats that perhaps back up this claim, but only if you consider Facebook a people search engine. I don't. Not yet. It's hard for me to consider something a people search engine when, until last September, i...
- Finally, I get it! I get the Wikipedia! - 2007-07-06 20:09:13-04
I've been pretty vocal about my criticism regarding Wikipedia in the past but Michael Motherwell’s post over at the Cre8ative Flow blog has me rethinking things. He offers an entirely new reason for why I haven’t taken to Wikipedia the way Wiki, Google and Matt Cutts would have hoped I...
- Welcome To Attention 101: My Name Is Mr. Calacanis - 2007-07-07 01:45:06-04
In defense of Seth Godin, founder of Squidoo (who by the way doesn’t need my defense)… Is it possible for Jason Calacanis to be more transparent in his attack on Squidoo? No? You can’t see right through it? Look, all I’m saying is Jason has an agenda, and that is to keep the focus on him and the things he is pimping, currently Mahalo. This “attack†on Squidoo is yet another masterful manipulat...
- Weekend Reader - 2007-07-07 12:04:58-04
Nudist on the day shift - According to the American Association for Nude Recreation and The Naturist Society, “working from home, in the nude, is in fact increasing in popularity!†It’s one of the activities they recommend for the annual Nude Recreation Week, July 9-15. Zoho meets Facebook - If you get a sudden itch to [...]
- Bloggers! Here Comes Navel Gaze Sunday - 2007-07-07 15:33:10-04
A trend: sometime every Saturday afternoon Eastern Time (now), tech bloggers run low on real news, and a story about bloggers themselves gets an unnecessary amount of airtime. On Sunday, it rises to a rabble before dying down as the Monday news starts coming in - call it Navel Gaze Sunday if you like [...]
- MyBlogLog: DNS for People - 2007-07-07 15:36:58-04
Many moons ago I took a job managing the Sun Sparc workstations on the Fixed Income trading floor at the Tokyo branch of Lehman Brothers. TIt was a time when a 486 Compaq computer cost $5,000 (just the CPU!) and a 28.8 Supra modem would run you a couple hundred bucks. With these economics in mind, you'll understand why a job with an investment bank that gave me access to dual T1 lines was attra...
- Gizmoz To Get Mainstream Attention At MTV Music Awards - 2007-07-07 16:28:33-04
Gizmoz, an Israeli startup that allows people to create realistic 3D cartoon avatars of themselves and embed them on other websites, will be getting a little mainstream attention at the upcoming MTV Music Awards in September. On Monday, MTV, Taco Bell and Gizmoz will jointly announce a new website and promotion: users will go [...]
- ad:tech Miami Closes, Opens Eyes to Differences, Similarities. - 2007-07-07 18:03:46-04
The inaugural Miami ad:tech show, held at the Miami Beach Convention Center June 26-27 was a success by my metrics. It was well attended. It offered content not found at other ad:tech conferences and it opened the eyes of...
- What is a Wiki? A Video - 2007-07-07 21:42:54-04
Common Craft has come up with another great video, Wikis In Plain English. I’m amazed at the ignorance of Wikis in business. People still treat Wikis as ’something the kids do’ in business when it could be a fantastic technology to leverage. If I think of the thousands of emails, meetings, and calls I [...]
- Media Frenzy: All Shook Up, Right Down to the Musical Core - 2007-07-08 00:49:10-04
News that the Universal Music Group would no longer guarantee Apple access to its coming releases could shake up the digital music business.
- Video, Social Networking Use Up - 2007-07-08 04:18:44-04
A new data release from The Face of the Web, Ipsos Insight’s annual study of Internet and Technology trends, shows (probably quite obviously) an increasing use of video and social networking sites. According to Ipsos, the evolution of Internet users’ digital media and online habits appears to be transitioning “to the digital video age†. At [...]
- Chess.com Launches a Social Network for Chess - 2007-07-08 06:10:19-04
The owners of Chess.com could likely make a good income by simply putting up a homepage littered with ads. But no, they’re going the more creative route: launching a social network for chess players. Soft-launched in June, the network claims 5,000 members and 1 million pageviews during the first month. Features include [...]
- When three ex-MSFTies partner: They're Beautiful! - 2007-07-08 09:14:36-04
Three months ago almost everyone wondered (or at least one nosy blogger did) what happens when three amazingly talented Microsoft employees leave to form their own startup company would do and could achieve. Of course I’m referring to the amazing trio - Hillel, Walter and Jenny at Jackson Fish Market. If you still think they’re [...]
- ATS #82 - Part 1 of a 3-way with Tangerine Toad and CK about Blogger Outreach and Nikon D80's outreach program - 2007-07-08 09:39:42-04
This is part 1 of a very special 2-part episode of Across the Sound focusing on blogger/influencer outreach and specifically, Nikon D80's outreach program. It is honest, spirited and pretty heated. Enjoy. Audio comments to +1 206 203-3255. Direct Download...
- Taco Bell, Gizmoz team for MTV commercial - 2007-07-08 12:57:07-04
I’m declaring this avatar weekend at Lost Remote. Following up on the cool Simpsons Character Generator is news that Taco Bell is teaming up with Gizmoz - a firm that allows you to upload a photo of yourself and make a virtual avatar. The avatar can move its head, talk and even dance a [...]
- Next up: Wurst Sinatra - 2007-07-08 19:00:51-04
Steve Gillmor:Several months ago Doc Searls and I came up with a name for a new show I have been developing. I grabbed it that night as soon as I got home. Tomorrow that show will launch: it¹s called Bad Sinatra.In the Gesturesphere, we all make contributions to the state of mind we call this social network of ours. You can call it attention, or intention, or VRM, or Twitter, or whatever. But i...
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