Musings on the new Internet
Posted in Business models, Technology on Oct 24th, 2007
Google appears to have punished large scale blog networks and similar link farms, where each site in the network provides hundreds of outgoing links on each page of the blog to other blogs in the network, in some cases creating tens, even hundred of thousands of cross links. In many of these cases, including AOL […]
Posted in Citizen journalism on Oct 22nd, 2007
Posted in Beyond Web 2.0, Citizen journalism, New media, Social networking on Oct 22nd, 2007
Posted in Wired, Twitters Nate Ritter and Viss are closely following the events surrounding the California fires and posting updates of evacuations, things that are needed, and other important information.
Nate and Viss are using the hashtag #sandiegofire. Twitter users can enter “track sandiegofire” in SMS or IM and receive notifications whenever a tweet goes […]
Posted in Beyond Web 2.0, Technology on Oct 21st, 2007
Information R/evolution, another excellent video from Michael Wesch, Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at the Kansas State University.
The narrative brings us from the times of catalogs and shelves to the revolution of links and universal ubiquitous information sources that is Web 2.0. We are the real links to information.
The first video of Wersch’s view of […]
Posted in Beyond Web 2.0 on Oct 20th, 2007
Flickr is a great platform to share photos but it is quite limited in what you can do to the photos after you upload them to your site.
Now we learn that Flickr has partnered with Seattle-based Picnick to add photo editing capabilities to the site:
Users will be presented with an edit option on the photo […]
Posted in Technology on Oct 20th, 2007
Well, nobody knows for sure. But the rumors just keep growing.
After an earlier report that HTC is building the phone with initial shipments set to hit by the “end of 2007″ and globally in 2008, now there is a new report confirming that HTC “will ship about 50,000 cellphones running on a mobile operating system […]
Posted in Beyond Web 2.0, Media, Social networking, Technology on Oct 20th, 2007
I don’t watch much TV other than news and a few sporting events but I am always amazed at the way different media continue to converge and be used in ways that were not even imaginable a couple of years ago.
The next episode of CSI:NY to be aired next Wednesday and known as CSI:NY does […]
Posted in Beyond Web 2.0, New media, Social networking on Oct 9th, 2007
An interesting move happened today in what may be Google’s next step in its efforts to revive social networking as part of their global strategy.
I mentioned yesterday that Google was getting ready to launch Orkut 2.0.
Today Jaiku announced that they are being acquired by Google.
With the acquisition of Jaiku Google will gain access to Jaiku […]
Posted in New media, Social networking on Oct 8th, 2007
Google is starting to throw more resources behind its social networking site Orkut recognizing that the social networking phenomenon is very profound and powerful.
Orkut is very popular in Asia and Latin America where it has nearly 24 million monthly users. However it badly trails behind MySpace and Facebook in the US and Europe where […]
Posted in Music on Oct 8th, 2007
Music industry warned it will not survive if it continues to rely on CD sales alone.
According to Guy Hands, the new owner of EMI, Britain’s largest music group:
The recorded music industry… has for too long been dependent on how many CDs can be sold. Rather than embracing digitalisation and the opportunities it brings for promotion […]
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