Feb
29
Technorati to Launch Blog Ad Network?
February 29, 2008 | 1 Comment
Continuing a Friday full of rumors and little real news, TechCrunch is reporting that blog search engine Technorati is going to shift its focus towards becoming a blog advertising network:
Through a variety of sources we’ve confirmed that Technorati is making plans for a major shift in it’s going forward strategy, and is also considering a […]
Feb
29
Limelight loses patent suit and might have to go dark
February 29, 2008 | 4 Comments
Update: Adam Curry says Podshow does have a contingency plan and that Limelight doesn’t expect to go black anytime soon.
According to the AP, Akamai Technologies has won a a patent suit against Limelight Networks. Apparently Limelight’s content delivery system was infringing upon one of Akamai’s patents.
Judging from the early reports on Silicon Alley Insider, besides […]
Feb
28
I think its fitting that Dave Winer’s post on competing with Twitter just hit TechMeme while Twitter’s API backend seems to be down and out once again.
Among others, Dave is picking up some ideas that the guys from Assetbar discussed a while back:
#4 It must be possible to use your clone when Twitter goes down […]
Feb
28
I have often scolded the writers at TechCrunch for not being critical enough lately, but Erick Schonfeld hits the nail on its head in his review of Disney’s Stage9DigitalMedia project.
Erick especially points to the comments by Barry Jossen, an “an Academy Award-winning short-form producer and studio executive” who is the general manager of Stage9:
“While the […]
Feb
28
Update: the more I think about this, the more I do actually feel cynical about this after all. See TechCrunch for a posting that goes behind the PR and looks at the politics involved here. In the end though - no matter the politics - I still feel this is a useful initiative in the […]
Feb
27
Google sets JotSpot free as Google Sites
February 27, 2008 | 1 Comment
Just a few days after opening up GrandCentral again, Google has now released a new version of the wiki-based group collaboration service JotSpot which is fully integrated with Google Sites. If you use Google for Domains, you can add this app to your services now.
Much to the chagrin of TechCrunch editor Michael Arrington, BusinessWeek broke […]
Feb
27
The Tubes Are Still Clogged
February 27, 2008 | 1 Comment
Update: I’m just reading the actual bill and while the pdf of the bill doesn’t allow copy-and-paste, you can find the language about the whois on page 10. Basically, a domain registrar is not allowed to shield, mask, block, or otherwise restrict access to the registrants name, phone and fax number, physical address and email […]
Feb
26
It’s no secret that I have developed quite a liking for FriendFeed since Louis Gray pointed me towards it last December and now that the beta period is over and FriendFeed is open for everyone, I thought I would write a little companion piece to the “How I Use Twitter” post from a few weeks […]
Feb
26
Monday Night Thoughts (a mostly FriendFeed edition)
February 26, 2008 | 4 Comments
Just a few thoughts on Monday night after taking a long weekend off:
I got an email telling me that Robert Scoble had become my friend on FriendFeed. At first I was honored, but then I realized that Scoble had subscribed to pretty much everybody on FF. To me, that is not an efficient way of […]
Feb
22
Short story: If you want to sign up for Google’s number-for-life service GrandCentral - go here.
Long story: I have repeatedly criticized the folks at Google for seemingly forgetting about some of the great companies they have bought lately. The one that has irked me the most was GrandCentral, mostly because I think it was a […]
Feb
22
Remember how people were trading Joost invites less than a year ago like they were Gmail invites? And do you remember when you last opened that Joost application you installed after you were so happy you finally got your invite?
Me neither. Now, according to Pingdom, Joost’s website has had a lot of downtime in February. […]
Feb
21
Hail Google Video Ads (and kill the pre-roll)
February 21, 2008 | 3 Comments
So Google has finally opened up the floodgates to video ad heaven. Within a few days, you are bound to see more videos with text ads popping up at the bottom of the page or “InVideo” ads that also appear at the bottom of the video - courtesy of Google’s AdSense for Video (which is, […]
Feb
21
99-cent iTunes Movie Rentals
February 21, 2008 | 2 Comments
I noticed that Apple had pushed an upgrade to iTunes onto my machine this afternoon, but the far more interesting news is that Apple is going to select a different movie title every week for a 99-cent rental.
That, to me, means that they are not only taking the movie market serious, but that they are […]
Feb
21
Social Network Shrinkage? I wish…
February 21, 2008 | 4 Comments
CNet is running a story on how traffic to Facebook, Bebo and MySpace dropped between 2 and 5 percent between December and January:
If anything, this could mean that after rapid expansion, social networks have reached a saturation point. “It was inevitable that early growth rates couldn’t be sustained, and the larger networks have been […]
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