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http://r.hatena.ne.jp/umedamochio/%E8%8B%B1%E8%AA%9E/You Too Can YouTubeThe mission of the Snelling Center for Government is to foster responsible and ethical civic leadership, encourage public service by private citizens, and promote infor...News of topickimi2007-03-29T23:27:02+09:00http://r.hatena.ne.jp/umedamochio/%E8%8B%B1%E8%AA%9E/
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The mission of the Snelling Center for Government is to foster responsible and ethical civic leadership, encourage public service by private citizens, and promote informed citizen participation in shaping public policy in Vermont. It was established in honor of former Governor Richard Snelling whom I had the honor of working for as Transportation Secretary a long time ago A friend...
Facebook is a wonderful example of the next wave of blockbuster new Web apps. Didn’t realize that though until I read Andy Kessler’s interview with 22 year old Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, who is reputed to have already turned down a billion dollar plus offer for the site from Yahoo!Facebook’s mission statement tells the story once you look at it...
Repost: Beginning was initially missing due to jet lag. In all senses of the word, easyJet is cheap; they make an art out of cheapness. Sunday was my first time flying on a European deep discount airline. Didn’t love it but got a convenient direct flight from Ljubljana (which I misspelled in a prior post) to London. Did I mention...
Embarrassing corrections: I managed to misspell the names of both cities in Slovenia which I mentioned including the city in the title. Of course, sharp-eyed readers corrected me and I’ve corrected the post and its title. Am at the airport in Ljubljana (LJU) waiting for my easyJet flight to London Stansted (STN) comfortably seated next to a post with an...
SOA vendors get low marks in BPM, high marks in ‘roadmap honesty’
In a new side-by-side rating of 20 critical SOA features, most vendors did not score well in support of business process management or registry. But most did well in regards to 'roadmap honesty,' which can be assumed to mean sticking to their promises, and adherence to standards. So there's hope.
Alex Barnett here...a quick one: This will be my last post on blogs.msdn.com as I'm leaving Microsoft at the end of March 2007. If you're still subscribed to my RSS feed on blogs.msdn.com/alexbarn please note this blog won't be updated again from March 30th. If you want to keep up with what I'm up to go here.
Hey everybody, I talked about my travel plans earlier this year and wanted to give you a quick update. I’m staying at home for SES NYC 2007, still planning on taking a fair chunk of May off, and planning to hit the Search Marketing Expo (SMX) conference in June. Why am I skipping SES NYC? Well, [...]
It’s almost not worth mentioning, but I know one website noticed this, so I’ll talk about it. Last week there was an update to how we canonicalize a small number of urls. What is “canonicalization” again? Read this previous post, or see this post by John Andrews to see all the ways that you can [...]
North Carolina got knocked out of the 2007 NCAA basketball tournament by Georgetown today. The Hoyas played well, so I don’t begrudge them the win. My usual litmus test for a good tournament is “Did one of my teams make it to the Final Four?” Kentucky got knocked out in the second round, but Kansas had [...]
In fact, I also have an anonymous dude who attacks me. Not with death threats, to be sure, but amazingly enough, he's devoted almost an entire blog to attacking me (not linking).
There is a bigger picture here. This chronicle of lameness also points squarely to the amazingly willful ignorance of the Valley in looking at the real world.
There, attacks like these - and lemme be specific here - attacks where mobs of people are drawn together specifically to gang up on a much smaller number - have been g
Google has a very weak incentive to "support" content of quality. Put another way, Google's incentive to "support" content creators diminishes in quality.
Think about this intuitively: the more crap there is, the more stuff you have to wade through - the happier Google is (at least in the short run).
For those interested in Sun's organization charts (which are, in effect, an expression of my priorities), what's below is the message I sent to all of Sun earlier today. Keeping everyone up to speed on where we're headed is a big part of my job (I'd argue, one of my biggest) - so if you're interested in such things, read on. (And yes, I thought about simply posting this on my blog this morning - but I didn't want folks inside Sun finding out about an organizational change via an external source - thus, the courtesy of an internal email first.)
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To: All of Sun
From: Jonathan Schwartz
Subject: Announcing a new business, and a new leader (or two)
It's unkind and prejudicial for me to say this, but when I read about David Stockman being charged with bank fraud, I had a good laugh. Stockman gained his notoriety as director of the Office of Management and Budget during...
Guy Kawasaki and I picked up our undergraduate degrees at Stanford the same year (1976). Our names were alphabetized onto the same page in the class yearbook. In 1997, we formed a company together ... and for years, our lovely...
Steven Pierzchala, who runs the GrabPERF project (full disclosure: Technorati owns the site) is looking for more measurement locations. For those of you who don't know about GrabPERF, it is a free resource for performance monitoring - and Steven offers it for free, in public, to anyone. He's looking for people or organizations that have a Linux box with a static IP address to act as data collection agents. You really can be anywhere around the worl, and the processes run in the background, quietly testing the locations that GrabPERF tracks in the background. It shouldn't be a significant resource hog.
I think that having resources like this (think of it as an Alexa for website performance, just more accurate) is a really important thing to con
I spent Sunday morning with Robert Scoble, Thomas Hawk, and about 20 other photographers down in Half Moon Bay. It was a great time! Robert rented a massive 600mm f4 lens, and let us all use it, while he was taking video the whole time. At first, that monster was a bit overwhelming, and I withdrew, but I later got some nice shots with it (my favorites are "Fishing under the trees" and "Cutting the Surf 2") but I also found some lovely shots
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http://r.hatena.ne.jp/umedamochio/%E8%8B%B1%E8%AA%9E/Take the ’service’ out of SOA, and what do you get?Service as in SaaS has a different meaning that service as in SOA.http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/service-oriented/~3/104016077/The...News of topickimi2007-03-25T19:58:43+09:00http://r.hatena.ne.jp/umedamochio/%E8%8B%B1%E8%AA%9E/
Take the ’service’ out of SOA, and what do you get?
Service as in SaaS has a different meaning that service as in SOA.
Fellow ZDNet analyst Dana Gardner provides an analysis of this week's announcement in which IT vendors are handing over the specifications for Service Component Architecture (SCA) and Service Data Objects (SDO) to OASIS. Dana calls this an important advancement for SOA: "This move shows an aggressive path for major vendors to making SOA the basis for modern [...]
How is SOA like the food industry? (And I'm not talking about "consumption" of services…) Elliot King, my colleague over at Database Trends & Applications, also edits the BPM Strategies magazine from the BPM Instititute, and recently noted that SOA proponents aren't aiming high enough: "In many ways. the current vision for SOA is not too grandiose, [...]
As seen on Sitemeter, there was an explosion of traffic on Fractals of Change Wednesday afternoon (pictured here) which actually continued pretty much continued unabated through Thursday afternoon. This sometimes happens when I write about something very current or very controversial. Another Sitemeter view showed that these readers were linking in to a two year old post about negotiating. Curious....
Morph of a Nerd CEO ? Company Charitable Donations
Should your startup be making charitable donations? In general, no ? but there are exceptions. Let’s take a look, case by case, at this stingy advice. Suppose all the funding came from you and perhaps a few other members of a close group of founders. It’s your money; you can do whatever you want with it. But, given tax law,...
Nerds are used to long hours. But the long hours you spent getting a program to work are nothing like the hours you’ll have to put in if you start a company and have employees. If you’re not prepared to work twelve hours at least six days each week ? or if your family is not willing to have you...
(Thanks to SEW for reminding me that I meant to write about this.) Google recently introduced another nice piece of flair: a “Blog Bar” that lets you pick keywords, and then rotates through relevant posts by fading new links in and out. You can see it in action over on this post by Mark Lucovsky. You [...]
A little while ago, Ionut noticed that Google Video added a “Blog Buzz” section to its front page. The Blog Buzz shows videos that bloggers have been talking about and linking to recently. So for example when The Lisa does a Friday Recap and links to this “Zeroes” parody of Heroes, our blogsearch team takes that [...]
When referring to those little widgets like MyBlogLog that spruce up a page, do you say “flair” or “flare”? The first place I heard the term was Office Space, and they call it flair:
Peter: What are pieces of flair? Joanna: That’s where you know, suspenders and buttons and all sorts of stuff. We’re, uh, we’re actually [...]
The judge in the KinderStart case granted Google’s motion to dismiss without leave to amend:
The instant case has been intensively litigated for more than eleven months. Under these circumstances, the Court concludes that there is no reasonable likelihood that KinderStart will cure the defects in the SAC [second amended complaint] by further amendment. Accordingly, the [...]
Telx has acquired the meet-me-room business of NYC Connect at 111 Eighth Avenue, one of New York's premier carrier hotel facilities, the companies said yesterday. The deal expands the national network of meet-me-rooms for Telx, which already operates an interconnection facility at 60 Hudson Street,...
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Digital Realty Trust, Inc. (DLR) continues to expand its footprint in Manhattan's premier carrier hotels, announcing tonight that it has acquired data center space at 111 Eighth Avenue. Digital Realty said it paid $24.5 million to buy a 33,700 square feet lease from NYC Connect, including two...
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The long-running rumors are true: NBC and Fox are teaming on a free, ad-supported online video service to challenge Google's YouTube. The real news in today's announcement is the list of distribution partners, which includes MySpace, AOL, MSN and Yahoo! - just about every major player except Google...
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ViaWest, a growing Denver-based colocation and managed hosting provider, said today that it experienced double-digit revenue growth and a 45 percent jump in increased existing customer demand in 2006. While not providing the underlying financial numbers, ViaWest said 2006 was "its best year...
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HP generated a lot of buzz earlier this year when it announced Dynamic Smart Cooling, its new system for advanced management of data center power and cooling. The product won’t be available until this fall, and enters full production in early 2008. In the meantime, HP executives are evangelizing...
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Google CEO Eric Schmidt made an interesting comment about the company's data center infrastructure in a recent podcast at iinovate (link via Tom Foremski).Google is much more capital-intensive than our competitors and we're much further along in the buildout of data centers. We have a competitive...
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When attendees at yesterday’s DataCenterDynamics 2007 conference in New York were asked whether they had implemented liquid cooling in their data center, only three hands when up. But Roger Schmidt, a Distinguished Engineer in IBM’s Server Group, says there will be more very soon.
"In the New...
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HP executive Steve Smith has been named the new chief executive officer of Equinix, the company announced today. Smith, 50, is a 19 year industry veteran and recently served as senior vice president of HP Services, the $15 billion professional services segment of HP. He will begin his new post on...
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http://r.hatena.ne.jp/umedamochio/%E8%8B%B1%E8%AA%9E/Radio SilenceIn three and a half years of blogging I don't think I've ever failed to post at least once a day. I did that yesterday and didn't even realize it until this morning when my f...News of topickimi2007-03-19T00:32:07+09:00http://r.hatena.ne.jp/umedamochio/%E8%8B%B1%E8%AA%9E/
Radio Silence
In three and a half years of blogging I don't think I've ever failed to post at least once a day. I did that yesterday and didn't even realize it until this morning when my friend David emailed me to...
I remember the first time I heard this term, it was 1997 and someone was explaining a complicated digital rights management scheme to me. I invested in that complex digital rights management scheme and lost everything and have been dubious...
I heard that there was a shooting in the village last night. So I went to outside.in and found out the details. What a mess. While at outside.in, I also found out that The Coffee Shop, my favorite breakfast place...
One of the most nefarious forces in the venture market during the last bubble was dumb money. It drove up valuations and financing sizes, drove down decision making timeframes, pushed smart money out of syndicates, harassed management, fed venture fratricide,...
Longtime readers might recall that I am a huge Jonathan RIchman fan. So it put a huge smile on my face last night when The Shins delivered a cover of Someone I Care About [rhapsody link] during their encore set...
After reviewing all the comments to my SueTube post, I have to conclude that copyright is a political issue. Or maybe a religious issue. There are copyright hawks and copyright doves. Steve, who is a copyright hawk, said this:Yes, I...
Thanks to still being on East Coast time, I got up ridiculously early and was able to get to the gym and catch up on email and reading before breakfast. That’s the good news. Did pretty well during the day, until I hooked up with some pals in Deer Valley (sneaking in a couple days of [...]
?Some really high quality discussion on widgets bubbling up. My partner Sim lays out his views in his post Widgets Widgets Everywhere.? (Yes, our partnership is chewing on the widgets question right now). And Brad Feld responds to my question yesterday whether there is a venture-backable opportunity in widgets. They are both pretty meaty posts, and I’ve added [...]
Just landed in SF. No exercise again…So far the fatblogging thing is o-fer-2 in getting me to the gym. Decent day on the calorie front, until I fell for the ice cream sundae on the flight out. Couldn’t help myself. Maybe I’ll just be a happy fat guy?
“In the electronic, gadgetized age of e-mail, BlackBerrys and ever-more-sophisticated desktop software?all designed theoretically to manage digital information efficiently?we’ve become overwhelmed. That’s where the productivity industry comes in. The question is, however, whether this newfound emphasis on productivity is helping?or just making us crazier.”
This is the final preview before we launch Highrise. In this preview we’ll talk about Cases.
What are cases
Cases help you keep related notes, files, images, and people together on one screen. You can add notes directly on a case or attach a note you’ve entered on a person page to a case.
Attaching a note to a case
When you enter a note on a person page you are given the option to also attach it to a case. The note will then appear on the person’s page and also on the case page.
Another goal I set for myself was to become comfortable enough with the camera to shoot in manual. This meant switching everything “auto” on the camera off: auto focus, auto zoom, auto iris and shutter speed, an auto white balance. This can be risky when you are new to using a camera: you might misfocus or forget to check your white balance as the light changes. But with manual you can dial in a much richer shot, and it forces you to stay co
If you manage any people or if you are a parent (which is a form of managing people), drop everything and read The Effort Effect. This is an article about Stanford psychology professor Carol Dweck. It examines her thirty-year study...
FeedBurner CEO Dick Costolo's new blog, Ask the Wizard, is turning into a fantastic resource for entrepreneurs. If you're an entrepreneur or thinking about becoming one, go read the whole thing and subscribe. Nice work, Dick!...
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http://r.hatena.ne.jp/umedamochio/%E8%8B%B1%E8%AA%9E/The J CurveDon Dodge wrote an insightful post about venture returns, essentially arguing that venture capital is a bet between "risky and outrageously risky" investments. It’...News of topickimi2007-03-13T23:22:30+09:00http://r.hatena.ne.jp/umedamochio/%E8%8B%B1%E8%AA%9E/
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Don Dodge wrote an insightful post about venture returns, essentially arguing that venture capital is a bet between "risky and outrageously risky" investments. It’s hard to argue with his points.
The facts are what they are, but there is something missing from this and I can’t quite put my finger on it. Perhaps it’s the value [...]
Don Dodge wrote an insightful post about venture returns, essentially arguing that venture capital is a bet between "risky and outrageously risky" investments. It’s hard to argue with his points.
The facts are what they are, but there is something missing from this and I can’t quite put my finger on it. Perhaps it’s the value [...]
I’ve been interested in the widely reported Duke Lacrosse rape case for a while now, but haven’t really been reading much of the ubiquitous press coverage. My primary source of information on this case has been coming from a blog written by a history professor from Brooklyn College. The blog is Durham-in-Wonderland and the professor [...]
Dan Fost writes a good piece about how entreprenuers are using shared office spaces and the local Starbucks to boot strap their businesses.
Malik, for instance, swears by his Starbucks. (He doesn’t want to say where it is, for fear that publicists from the companies he covers will stake him out there and ruin the experience.) [...]
Neuroscience - Law - The Brain on the Stand - Jeffrey Rosen - New York Times Article on the emergence of neurolaw. Proponents say it can help in "the detection of lies... hidden bias, and... future criminal behavior," while skeptics...
Live Science reports on a new study indicating that peer pressure-- or the example of neighbors-- is a significant reinforcer of environmental behavior. Better take out the recyclables?your neighbors are doing it. That's the “follow the crowd” mentality that often...
During the opening of one episode of Seinfeld, Jerry Seinfeld told a joke about how a nature scene-- a lion hunting a gazelle-- would be spun by film-makers to make you root for one side or the other: Go, gazelle,...
WHERE NEO-NOMADS' IDEAS PERCOLATE / New 'bedouins' transform a laptop, cell phone and coffeehouse into their office "A new breed of worker, fueled by caffeine and using the tools of modern technology, is flourishing in the coffeehouses of San Francisco....
This is a bit of an update of a 2006 article in GigaOm on cafes as the new garages (a piece that generated a number of responses), but still worth noting. Today's San Francisco Chronicle has a long article about...
The New York Times reports on a small revival in separate bedrooms in American homes: Not since the Victorian age of starched sheets and starchy manners, builders and architects say, have there been so many orders for separate bedrooms. Or...
(With apologies for the headfake of posting this entry then taking it down - my fingers were working faster than my brain, and I accidentally posted the entry without completing it. Or proofreading it.)
I made a speech last week at which I asserted it was faster to send a petabyte of data from San Francisco to Hong Kong by sailboat, than by the internet.
I got quite a few "how can that possibly be true?" kinds of questions, so here's the math. (Full disclosure, I am a mathematician by training, which guarantees me
The NCAA tournament brackets are done and I’m ready for March Madness! I don’t even mind watching Dick Vitale, baby! I went to undergrad at the University of Kentucky and grad school at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, so I’ve got little orange basketballs in my blood. I’d love for either team [...]
Bill Slawski did one of my favorite blog posts this week. He pointed to a Rolling Stone article that discusses how Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails fame is leading several people on a merry web chase to uncover websites from a bleak, dystopian future. Starting from bolded letters in concert T-shirts, searchers quickly find sites [...]
Research Note: Ninged Again, Or the Second Fundamental Error of Post-Network Strategy
Dear Ning,
I like your new look.
I don't like your new strategy.
Here's why.
I think that, unfortunately, you have fundamentally misunderstood the economics of markets, networks, and communities - and so your strategy is deeply out of sync with the tectonic shifts in consumer behaviour which are reshaping the mediaverse.
The small world strategy - which is what you are employing - is a fundamental mismatch for the markets you are targeting. You are trying to solve problems that don't exist.
Let me offer you an existence proof, of sorts.
There is already a micro-community for almost everything under the sun.
Why is it that, after 4-5 years of exploding profits, market power, value chain control, global domination, etc....
competition in the search space is left to Jimmy Wales...and not:
*Michael Eisner *Sumner Redstone *Alain Levy *Insert random media CEO here
I'm only a grudging Jimmy Wales fan, but seen from a strategic point of view, this lack of competition has been nothing short of an economic perversion.
It boggles the mind that such an enormity of strategic imagination can actually coexist within the confines of a single industry.
"...Avatars are the most undervalued asset on the web today"
Contrast Susie's laser-sharp insight with those that came out of Polaris' Digital Media Sessions - which are unfortunately almost corporobotically meaningless ("data, data, data").
Susie is, of course, right. The question is why. Susie says the answer is about emotional connection.
Controlling the emotional intensity of an industry is an incredibly powerful source of advantage in the post-network economy.
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Estimates of Carbon Output over European Distances Summary Train and coach are almost always less environmentally damaging than plane or car. If you have to choose between plane and car, try not to use the plane for less than 1000...
Ego Check – written by CU Professor Mathew Hayward – was pretty good although once again a 225 page book could have been edited down to about 75 pages and gotten the same point across. The anecdotes and stories were mo
Finally. We had an amazingly wonderful normal weekend in Boulder – sunny, 50 degrees, a little snow hanging around, especially in the mountains. Notwithstanding the daylight savings nonsense (which is irrelevant to me since I wake up while it’s still dark outside and I use Vista now), it’s beautiful here once again now that the White Witch of Narnia has apparently been defeated.
Roger Fillion has a great, detailed article in today’s Rocky Mountain News on Todd Vernon’s experience pitching his company – Lijit – at the recent Venture Capital in the Rocky’s conference. If you missed the conference (or the pitch), here’s Todd’s first slide (that Roger builds his article around.)
I thought Roger did a super job of getting inside Todd’s brain in this article. I also thought that Todd&
Fred Wilson pointed me (us) to a video from his friend John Mahoney (CTO / co-founder of Instant Information – one of Fred’s portfolio companies) titled Practical RSS. It’s an excellent seven minute overview of what RSS means from a user’s perspective. John did an outstanding job both explaining it and creating a high quality video.
This is a rant – feel free to ignore if you don’t care about Microsoft.
What do Vista, CRM, Sharepoint, and Outlook have in common? Yes – Microsoft.
I’m using three of these every day (I dumped CRM.) I’ve been a PC / Windows user forever – always keeping a Mac nearby, but rarely using it (I like to turn it on once a week just to watch it update all it’s software automagically.) I enjoy the Microsoft upgrade cycle (of which we are once again starting a big one with Vista, Office 2007, and all the Server 2007 products that are coming.) I’ve always benefited financially from this (as I’m usually involved in companies that play around the Microsoft ecos
David Cohen has been appropriately nudging me to write my counterpoint to his Big of Bullshit: Widgetspost. Lots has been said about widgets over the past six months, including the ultimate counterindicator article The Year of the Widget?from Newsweek (nothing against Newsweek, but whenever something like this shows up it often means we’ve hit the apex of the phenomenon.)
Lest you think Widgets are new, let’s take a short walk back in history. Do you remember Active Desktop? Yup - a nice
For the last 3 months I have been playing a game called World of Warcraft. This is a Massive Multi-player On-line game or MMO for short. This simply means that I am interacting with other people from all over the world. Now I haven’t been playing for 3 months straight but have played for most [...]
In the past few months I have been looking at questions. Some of those questions are small and others are infinitely large. The context I have looked at them in is from a personal prospective. A perspective of my life and where I am heading. I also looked at some questions for a regional or [...]
Okay, I just gave some productivity tips, so it’s time to give some *unproductivity* tips: ways to waste time online. One thing I really enjoy is watching “speed runs,” which are people recording themselves as they finish video games in record time. The best site I’ve run across is Speed Demos Archive. You can view their [...]
If you’re a techie person, email is essential but it’s hard to stay on top of all of it. If you use Gmail and Firefox, here’s a few tips to get email under control. The first tip is remedial: keep most mailing list emails out of your inbox. I already prune as much of my Gmail [...]
You may have heard of Peter Norvig, who is the Director of Research at Google. He’s the guy that did the Gettysburg Address as a PowerPoint presentation. Or you might have used his artificial intelligence textbook in college. Recently Peter used several folks’ logs (including mine) as a baseline to estimate the skew in Alexa due [...]
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Starting Monday morning, March 5, at 8:45 AM EST The Freedom To Connect (F2C) conference will be webcast live from Silver Spring, Maryland. The first session at 8:45 is Vermont Governor Jim Douglas speaking about Vermont's drive to be the first 100% e-state in the nation. I'm introducing him and moderating. The next session at 10:30 is the brilliant Yochai...
Next week, according to a story in the New York Times, the US is supposed to finalize an agreement with Brazil “to promote the production and use of ethanol throughout Latin America and the Caribbean.” We pay upwards of $.50/gallon subsidy for ethanol produced in the US both to reduce the net emissions of greenhouse gasses and to reduce our...
A collection of terms and definitions from a number of Google’s patent filings on Local Search (not everything discussed in a patent application has been incorporated into Google’s Local search - but the interesting thing about many of these patent filings is exploring whether or not they may have been). Search query categorization for [...]
The Bush administration has accelerated its Internet surveillance push by proposing that Web sites must keep records of who uploads photographs or videos in case police determine the content is illegal and choose to investigate. -- Declan McCullagh, CNET News.
::jaw on ground:: I really hope Declan is wrong on this report because if he's not, we're in deep shit. Can you even imagine what this would mean for civil liberties and freedom of speech? This data retention idea is on par wit
In High-Tech World, Access To Students Still Difficult - washingtonpost.com
Interesting snapshot -- see the article for more details. This is probably a leading indicator of what's coming next inside other organization types.
College students now are wired, wireless, Sidekicked, Facebooked, YouTubed and bleeping with instant messages and text messages. But try getting an important announcement out to everyone on campus.
It's the flip side of all the technology: Students are more connected than ever -- but surprisingly tricky for administrators to reach.
Land lines are all but obsolete. Cellphone numbers are slippery. And e-mail gets lost, overlooked, erased or ignored.
For years, Microsoft and others have tried, and failed, to bring the Net to TV screens with duds like WebTV. But the Venice Project, renamed Joost (as in juiced), is doing the opposite: moving TV to the Internet. And unlike Apple TV, Slingbox and other hardware offerings, Joost requires nothing more than software.
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Irei, genchi genbutsu, muda, and other secrets to Toyota's business success
From 0 to 60 to World Domination is a lengthy article discussing how Toyota’s success is the result of its unorthodox philosophies about engineering and business. Some excerpts below.
Irei projects are one that will be accomplished no matter what it takes…
Within Toyota, there is a rare and secretive designation for certain development projects known as irei, which is roughly translated as “not ordinary” or “exceptional” and refers to vehicles that the company will spend any amount on and go to almost any lengths to engineer, market and perfe
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YouTube Visits Up 14% Since Viacom Takedown Order; Surpasses Television Network Sites
YouTube's traffic has not suffered since Viacom demanded that it remove 100,000 video clips on February 2, 2007. The market share of US visits to YouTube increased by 13.9% in the two week period between the weeks ending 2/3/07 and...
Jeff Orkin, a game-developer-now-in-academics is doing some cool stuff and is looking for help with The Restaurant Game. To see how you can contribute, go to Jeff and Andrews' posts (1. 2. , 3. ). The sound-bite:...(I)t will algorithmically combine...
MISSING THE FOREST FOR THE TREES The mainstream media, when focusing on business/Wall Street stories, is simply too fixated on the next biggest, record-breaking transaction by private equity firms. Both the print and broadcast business media seem to be caught up in the private equity record frenzy. Even the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times aren't immune from this predilection. Case in point? Here's how the WSJ and the NYT headline the $45 billion plus buyout of Texas Utilities (TXU) by KKR and Texas Pacific group, two of the largest private equity firms, on their web sites. First...
AND THE SHOW GOES ON Well, it's almost time for the 79th Academy Awards Oscars show tonight on ABC at 8pm EST. Jon Stewart turns over hosting duties to Ellen Degeneres. Here's a sketch by Craig Ferguson of the Late Late Show on CBS, that gives a quick summary of what to expect tonight, including a snapshot of some of the contenders: As usual, I find myself not having seen almost any of the films in any category. Enjoy the Oscars tonight, runway show and all....
DOG-FIGHT This New York Times article by Steve Lohr (via Techmeme) on VMWare and Microsoft today is a must-read for anyone with an interest in where the software business is going over the next five to ten years. Although it discusses a fairly geeky topic, it's an important element in understanding the software industry going forward for more casual observers of the software industry. Even though the article focuses more on the user of virtualization on the enterprise side, there are hugely important stakes for the mainstream consumer user in the long-term. Here's the crux of the matter (items in...
THE NEW CHAMPION Update: GameDaily Biz has a post (via Techmeme) on a Merrill Lynch report projecting that 30% of U.S. Households will have a Wii by 2011, a more concrete example of the Wii going mainstream. I love this picture via the Chicago Tribune, which has this heart-warming story titled Wii bowling knocks over retirement home. As this Gizmodo story commenting on the story puts it: I remember people laughing at Nintendo's blue ocean strategy, where they said they were going to go after the untapped sections of the game market like the elderly. Well if the Sedgebrook Retirement...
I’ve just returned from the Future of Web Apps Conference in London, put on by Ryan Carson. I didn’t attend the conference in London last year, but this year’s version was well worth the trip over the Atlantic. There were two major product announcements (Digg and Netvibes), as well as a set of really excellent [...]
I switched to Mac a year ago and haven’t looked back. I’ve never had a problem that wasn’t easily solved, and they are in general a pleasure to use. I certainly can’t say that for the PC in my living room, which I have to constantly tinker with to keep it working properly. Today I bought [...]
This is the MP3 version (52,715K) of the CommunityNext founders panel in case you want to listen, as opposed to watch, it. Also, youll probably find this presentation by Threadless to be quite interesting. This Chicago-based online retailer solicits t-shirt...
Panel of Web Community Founders: Utter Defiance of the "Venture Capital" Model
At the CommunityNext conference I moderated this panel with the founders of six very successful web properties: Akash Garg of hi5 Sean Suhl of Suicide Girls Max Levchin of Slide James Hong of HotorNot Markus Frind of PlentyofFish Drew Curtis...
The Kauffman Foundation is launching EntrepreneurshipWeek USA from February 23rd to March 3rd. The theme is Whats Your Big Idea? Take it On! There will be educational programs around the country. Stanford is embracing this program in a big way...
From time to time, our own T.V. Raman shares his tips on how to use Google from his perspective as a technologist who cannot see?tips that sighted people, among others, may also find useful. - Ed.
Conducting research from the comfort of one's office or home is a wonderful convenience, but it's especially rewarding when you need to go the extra mile in accessing research publications.
When I was a graduate student at Cornell, I needed to go to the library with a reader (yes, an actual live human, not a computer:-)), find the relevant publications, and then arr
We have almost all the vices covered now on Wallstrip . Cigarettes , Guns , Booze and TransFat . Finally a little gambling. When we get to porn our work will have a nice rounded feel . International Game technology is one of Wall Street’s greatest stocks…EVER!. Here is the lifetime [...]
Profit from Spanktravision and Strip Clubs…Finally
What can I say…It is on my mind the last 24 hours after watching David Spade alone in his hotel room in Tommy Boy. Porn as an investment is GOLD. The Nasdaq has two illicit investment plays that I am going to be adding to my portfolio - Lodgenet (LNET) and Ricks’s Cabaret (RICK). While [...]
Man was Chris Farley a funny dude. I was watching Tommy Boy on HBO last night. What a classic. So much sarcasm between Farley and Spade. A simple but perfect comedy. My fave line - “I can HEAR you getting fatter”. Laughed out loud by myself once again at that one.
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Tax Site Visits and Dynamic Demographics
The demographics of visitors to a website or category of web sites can shift dramatically in a short period of time (Hat tip to Chris Hafer for pointing out the demo-shift in online tax filers). The chart below shows the...
In Salon today, Cory calls Steve Jobs out on his coy efforts to throw up his hands and say "not my fault" when it comes to DRM.
Actions speak louder than words. Artists have asked -- begged -- Apple to sell their music without DRM for years. From individual bestselling acts like Barenaked Ladies to entire labels of copy-friendly music like Magnatune, innumerable copyright holders have asked Apple to sell their work as open MP3s instead of DRM-locked AACs. Apple has always maintained that it's DRM or nothing. These artists believe that the answer to selling more music is cooperating with fans, no
I was comfortable with other JS libraries like scriptaculous, prototype, and moofx among others. Once I tried the YUI library that became the defacto JS library for projects I work on.
I think the Yahoo! Interface Library will continue to gain traction thanks to its heavy development, extensions, and documentation. It's already being used by large sites such as The Wall Street Journal and SmugMug and across the revamp of the
With a quick copy and paste job using Kent Brewster’s Pipes Badger and a few widgets from services I use, I now have what is a mostly sufficient start page on my own domain that displays my various forms of online expression. Really interesting stuff here.
There’s a magazine that I’d love to read if someone published it (yes, the print kind). Of course, it’s about the Internet. It’s about the stack that makes up the Internet, the platform or, as many people are calling it, the Internet Operating System. It’s mostly technology. But it’s a little [...]
Looking at engagement across the top web-based aggregators, several top readers are driving the lion's share of clicks and views back to our publishers' content.
There are many options and techniques you can use developing print layouts. Here is a quick overview of some interesting solutions you can use to generate print layouts “on the fly”
While OpenID3 got a big boost from AOL, the identity system has benefited from early support by small Web 2.0 start-ups4. Six Apart, Technorati, Magnolia
A closer look at traffic numbers makes it easy to see why media planners may never treat sites like MySpace or Facebook the way they do other mass market online properties.
A few weeks back I posted a couple of podcasts from the Professional Association of Innkeepers International Conference 2006. At that Conference I spoke at four different sessions. The two sessions I already posted were on email marketing — one on the fundamentals and the other on advanced topics. Now I have my other two sessions [...]
My latest SEO Report Card addresses the mythical monster that continues to rear its ugly head… the “Google Sandbox.” No I’m not going to get into a debate about whether it exists or not. It does. End of discussion. What I am going to do is try to render some assistance to some [...]
Ad Age reports from a BofA chat session. "Consumers are on 24 hours a day, you should have all your products available to them," Mr. Armstrong said. He said he couldn't "think of any companies where there isn't room left to grow with us."...
Search Powered Predictions New Tech Reports From MSR: Making a Blogroll "Smarter" & Social Medadata and Email, Hello SNARF Compare "Text Stats" for Amazon.com "Search Inside the Book" Titles Search Engine Roundtable Gets Complete Makeover Accepted Papers: First International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media...
Eric Schmidt in a Reuters story today: Google Inc., racing to head off a media industry backlash over its video Web site YouTube, will soon offer anti-piracy technologies to help all copyright holders thwart unauthorized video sharing, its chief executive said on Wednesday. "We are definitely committed to (offering...
News: Google Biz Apps - No More Pretension, Google Goes for MSFT's Throat
Let's not pretend anymore, shall we? Google is looking to take Office out back and shoot it in the head. From the release: MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., February 22, 2007 - Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) today introduced Google Apps Premier Edition, a new version of Google's hosted services for communication...
This virus is spreading like wildfire... first my boss' boss found out about it, then all of our helpdesk people, now it's like spreading to other schools, and a good friend of mine it seems mentions at least once a day how she was doing this, that, or the other thing "in SL".
Yeegads, people, do all those things in the REAL WORLD. You know, The Big Blue Room. The room with the Scary Yellow Orb in the ceiling. The one those Luddites called in the ancient tongue, "Outside".
The hardest thing I have to do some days is to keep my mouth shut (or refrain from typing into the "comments" box on a variety of web sites and/or clicking "submit").
Yahoo! Tiger Team is Hiring Senior Software Engineers
[Note: Most of this comes from the standard job description... More from me at the bottom.]
Do you prefer to work on a wide variety of projects in a challenging environment? Have you ever felt that your job was monotonous or repetitive? Are you a builder, not a maintainer? Do you enjoy change? If so, Yahoo's platform engineering may have the job for you. Come be a part of our Tiger team.
The Tiger team at Yahoo is dedicated to providing highly skilled, senior engineers to a variety of projects. Tigers perform as an internal "consulting" team, providing short term resourcing to dedicated product engineering teams that have critical or time sensitive problems. In the past Tigers have contributed to highly visible products such as Y! Mail a
At Wired we're working hard on a technology platform shift that will let us relaunch the site with loads of bells and whistlesin June. This involves engineers, "QA" and "release candidates", all of which is exactly as exasperating as it...
Michael Copeland’s latest Business2.0 article predicts a "tidal shift" towards the emergence of tech IPOs in the next couple months. While his language is perhaps excessively strong, I think that his sentiments will likely prove to be correct. There are a number of real growth technology-based businesses which weathered the storm earlier this decade that have emerged commanding both healthy top lines and bottom ones. And some of these even have “.com” in their names. It’s inevitable that the climate will change towards realizing the merit these businesses posses for going public is real. It’s been interesting to hear similar...
Om Malik wonders "why did Fox buy Strategic Data" saying that "It is becoming obvious 2007 is the 'show me the money' year for MySpace and other FIM acquisitions." At face value, this deal is a notable move of taking important vendor technology in house that will help bolster the revenue base of the property within a larger corporate entity. However, I see this as a larger step for the industry as a whole piecing together what will eventually be a myriad of ways that social software will be significantly monetized. While the executive quotes talk about the replacement of...
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Your data: safe in your hands?
I can't believe people commenting on the launch of Google Apps are still recycling the tired old mantra about hosted applications being untrustworthy. It's users that can't be trusted with important data, not SaaS vendors.
I think the BBC hit the right note with its headline today on the launch of Google Apps Premier Edition: Google charges for web programs. Today may go down in history as the day when Google started charging for applications. Suddenly, it's once again become acceptable to charge customers for using Web-hosted software. It's as [...]
It's clear from his statements last night that Benioff believes Salesforce.com's growth story from now on will be about enterprise accounts rather than the smaller companies and deals that have powered the growth engine thus far.
Chris Kohler ran a story in Wired last week about new academic programs in game studies and design, in which the new Singapore-MIT GAMBIT games innovation lab figured prominently, alongside the new Serious Games masters program being launched by Carrie...
Millenial Monsters: An Interview with Anne Allison (Part Two)
Yesterday, I ran the first part of an interview with Duke professor Anne Allison talking about her recent book, Millenial Monsters: Japanese Toys and the Global Imagination. Today, I continue that interview. I mentioned last time that I spoke on...
Millennial Monsters: An Interview with Anne Allison (Part One)
In January, as part of my three week lecture tour, I stopped off in Durham, North Carolina where Duke University was hosting a special event designed to discuss the issues being raised by Millennial Monsters: Japanese Toys and the Global...
I am actually going to sneak in a few days’ respite, if not from work entirely, than at least from what recently has been a relentless travel schedule. After a really fun day-long strategy session with portfolio company Athletes’ Performance in Arizona on Tuesday, and a not so fun red-eye home, yesterday I packed up 3 [...]
In the Vortex ? Emerging Video Ad Formats and Business Models
Dianne Mermigas of the Hollywood Reporter has a terrific article discussing the impact Google and metric driven web advertising will have on the still much larger TV advertising business. (Hat tip: Heavy founder Dave Carson). Boiled down to its essence, the article makes a few elementary — but big — points. Mermigas’s broad thesis is that “Internet-related [...]
I attended a meeting of the Social Media Club here in NYC for the first time last night. It was an interesting debate about how both we (the voters) and campaigns can use social media to engage in the 2008 elections that let me “get my geek on.” A few interesting points that I recall [...]
SoonR, of Campbell, Calif., lets you get to files on your computer via your mobile phone and LogMeIn Hamachi is a free VPN connection. LogMeIn is based in Boston.
If you've ever pulled upto your vacation hotel in...
Aggregate Knowledge grabs interest, will raise $20M
Aggregate Knowledge, the company that tracks Internet user surfing patterns within a site, has become one of the hotter start-ups in Silicon Valley.
It is about to raise $20 million, and rumors are circulating that interest by venture capitalists is pushing the company valuation north of $50 million (before the investment). This is significant because the company launched less than a year ago, and is already raking in millions of dollars.
Visit the venture capitalists on Sand Hill Road, and you'll sense significant confusion about how to invest in the latest Internet technologies.
The old guard can't keep up. Young, smart engineers are proposing ways to exploit the paradigm shift of Web 2.0, and it takes the younger, more curious venture capitalists to understand it all. One solution would be to promote more younger partners, but older VCs are only slightly less tenacious than Supreme Court justices...
Google will announce today it will begin selling online office software for $50 a year, including 10 gigabytes of email storage, word processing, spreadsheets and calendar.
The move comes just as Microsoft is trying to convince businesses to upgrade to its Vista operating system, so Google's offensive is perfect timing -- and is likely to be enough to win over some small businesses.
But here's the fine-print: Google says the services...
After weeks of negotiations over who could use the "iPhone" trademark, Apple and Cisco have agreed to share it.
Cisco gave up its claim to exclusive use of the name, but in return won commitment from Apple to allow Cisco to work with it on future products. We "will explore opportunities for interoperability in the areas of security, and consumer and enterprise communications," the joint release said. The companies didn't provide any other details. ...
Nextbio is latest search engine -- for healthcare research community
Nextbio is a new search engine for the biotech-health industry, something you could have seen coming a mile away.
The nation's multi-trillion dollar healthcare industry is the equal sister to the information technology sector. In IT, you have plenty of niche search engines, such as Koders and Google Code Search. On the healthcare side, you've got a bunch of search engines focused on consumers, but few serious sites oriented to the biotech business-research community....
Cisco continues Web 2.0 buying spree, gobbles Reactivity for $135M
Cisco Systems, the San Jose Internet backbone company digging deep into its pockets to acquire Web-related companies, has agreed to acquire Reactivity for $135 million. The purchase will allow Cisco to integrate its networking operations more closely with Web applications.
Reactivity provides so-called XML gateway technology, which is placed in a layer of the Internet network that talks with Web applications. Reactivity has built things like XML firewalls, but will also help wireless and...
Why not let Internet junkies do your marketing for you?
Brickfish, a San Diego company, lets you do that by tapping into the creative energies of Internet users -- getting them to work for free, essentially, to generate marketing ideas for you.
Mozes, the Palo Alto company that lets you text-message music bands for information like concert details, venue changes and promotions, had raised $5 million in a first round of venture capital funding.
Mozes' mission is straightforward, but difficult to carry out. It wants becomes the one place you send messages to for information about your favorite band. All you do is send a message to M-o-z-e-s (or 66937 on your mobile dialpad), and then type in...
Woo-hoo! An honest-to-goodness, made-to-order-by-a-real-sushi-chef venued called Kyotatsu just opened up next to Gate 34 at Narita Airport. I was the envy of an entire 747 cabin... until I spilled soy sauce on myself. Doh!
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http://r.hatena.ne.jp/umedamochio/%E8%8B%B1%E8%AA%9E/Internap Completes VitalStream DealInternap Network Services (INAP) said today that its acquisition of VitalStream has been completed, with shareholders from both companies approving the ...News of topickimi2007-02-22T23:42:25+09:00http://r.hatena.ne.jp/umedamochio/%E8%8B%B1%E8%AA%9E/
Internap Completes VitalStream Deal
Internap Network Services (INAP) said today that its acquisition of VitalStream has been completed, with shareholders from both companies approving the $217 million deal. The acquisition boosts Internap's position in the fast-growing world of Internet video and streaming media.
"The completion of...
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Many corporate board appointments aren't particularly newsworthy. But Equinix made an interesting appointment today, announcing that veteran real estate investment specialist Irving F. Lyons, III has joined its board of directors, which now has six members. Lyons is the Principal at Lyons Asset...
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National Public Radio technology correspondent Xeni Jardin featured Internet carrier hotels in a segment that aired yesterday. The piece spotlighted One Wilshire, the huge Los Angeles Internet hub owned and operated by CRG West, the technology real estate arm of the Carlyle Group. The report...
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To prove to the potential customers of Google Apps' business edition that Google cares about security, they released a white paper titled "Comprehensive review of security and vulnerability protections for Google Apps" (available as PDF). Here are some interesting details:
Google operates one of the largest networks of distributed datacenters in the world, and goes to great lengths to protect the data and intellectual property in these centers. Google operates an undisclosed number of datacenters worldwide. Many primary Google datacenters are wholly owned and man
Google Apps Premier Edition is the promised offering for small businesses. It includes 10 gigabytes of mail storage, 99.9% uptime guarantee for email, APIs to integrate with the existing infrastructure of a business (single sign-on, user management, email gateway), 24/7 phone support. Everything for $50 a year per user (there's a free trial until April 30th).
Google continues to offer two free editions of Google Apps: <
How to Remove YouTube Videos from a Google Video Search
Google announced last month that Google Video will become a search engine that will include videos from different video sites. For the moment, Google Video includes YouTube videos in the search results.
Because YouTube is much more popular than Google Video, much more videos are uploaded to YouTube (Google Video has 3 million videos, while YouTube has 18 million videos), so most search results will contain a lot of YouTube videos. If you want to search only YouTube videos, you can do that at youtube.com, but how to restrict your search only to Google videos?
People spent an average of 10 minutes in October, and 14 minutes in December. "Users of Google Docs and Spreadsheets skew toward higher incomes, with 28 percent of users earning upwards of $100,000 annually. A large majority of users, 76 percent, have an income greater than $50,000 annually. Users of Google Docs and Spreadsheets are typical of technology early adopters. The
The snippet displayed in the search results pages is important because it shows some excerpts from the web page that have your search terms and helps you decide if the result is OK for you. But Google could show you much more about a site.
Google added some time ago an expandable box (called Plus Box or ManyBox) next to search results connected to local businesses. Now they're experimenting with a Finance Plus Box, that shows financial information next to the homepage of a business listed on a stock exchange.
The new Blogger has updated the feed format from Atom 0.3 to Atom 1.0. One of the most important change is that Blogger sorts the feed item by updated date, so if you edit a post written last year, that post will go to the top of the feed.
Not all feed readers care about the element, but most of the time you'll see the updated post appearing as new. The situation is even stranger in Firefox: if you subscribe to a Blogger feed using Firefox Live Bookmarks, you'll see all the updated items, as if they were new.
I know what you'll say: "This a very good idea. If you update a post, then we should find out. Maybe it's important." That's true, but many people th
By popular demand, the old interface of Google Image Search is back. People didn't like the cleaner design introduced one month ago that removed precious information like image dimension and the domain.
Here are some comments from Google Operating System visitors. I'm sure Google received much more similar comments and decided to put back the more traditional design:
"Google image search is a work tool, and reducing the amount of useful info you get at a glance makes it considerably less useful and
Google started to show warnings for search results that install malicious software. The same warnings can be seen in image search (one example is an "innocent" query like site:crackserver.com, that shows all the images indexed from crackserver.com). If you click on a thumbnail from the search results, you'll be sent to an interstitial that recommends to try another search result.
Google Apps for Your Domain (you must love the URL: google.com/a), Google's package of hosted services for organizations and small businesses, could soon add new features and options.
InfoWorld reports the obvious: Google will add Docs & Spreadsheets to the offering. "It has been widely assumed that at some point Google would add Docs & Spreadsheets, a word processing and a spreadsheet program, to Google Apps, a suite of communication s
"Step out of New York's 14th Street subway stop, turn up Eighth Avenue, and there, in the heart of Chelsea - amid the traffic, delis, pizzerias, and restaurants - is Google's largest software engineering center outside of Mountain View," reports Information Week<
Last week, Larry Page spoke at the annual American Association for the Advancement of Science conference. He explained there are "some people at Google [who] are really trying to build artificial intelligence and to do it on a large scale. It's not as far off as people think." CNet resumes his conclusions: "His guess, he said, was that the brain's algorithms weren't all that complicated and could be approximated, eventually, with a lot of computational power."
Larry Page talked about his Tesla complex. "As a boy, Larry Page was fascinated with inventors and their creations. But he was troubled by stories of those
You don't read often a blog post that destroys every reason for which the blog exists. Gadget lovers, those who buy the latest shiny MP3 players, phones, laptops and digital cameras had to read this piece of text last week in Gizmodo:
I gave up two years of my life writing about gadgets for this site. Waking up every morning at 5 AM, chewing up press releases to find the rare morsel of legitimate information, chasing down "hot tips" that ended up being photochops of iPods with reflections of genitals in the touchscreens. Oh, and the worst: fielding emails from PR parasites eager to suck away preciou
Jessica Pfund, a Google employee, talks about a program you may have heard about: Google Earth. The one-hour video takes you "through some of the most powerful, yet overlooked, features of this program and how people are using it".
Some notes:
* Google Maps is a 2D view of the world, while Google Earth is a 3D view of the world.
* Google Earth shortcuts: double click to zoom in, double right-click to zoom out. Double click on the zoom in button to zoom in to the
I read a lot of political and current event blogs, and for California stuff one of my favorites has always been the Sacramento Bee columnist Daniel Weintraub, who authors the excellent blog California Insider. I was disheartened to read today that he is moving his blog over to Capitol Alert, which is a $500 a [...]
Stanford’s chemistry department has a really interesting project that follows the pioneering seti@home initiative. You download a client app to become part of a massive distributed computer that analyzes how proteins fold with the goal of understanding complex diseases like Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and cancer.
Folding@Home Distributed Computing: What is protein folding and how is folding linked [...]
FOWA Notes: The Magic formula - Mike Arrington | Muffin Research Labs by Stuart Colville: 3. Data and service protability (teqlo, ning and pipes) Frees user data, no-ones figured a way to make money out of this yet. But they willObviously we agree that this is a great opportunity for 2007. Mike was right to point out [...]
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http://r.hatena.ne.jp/umedamochio/%E8%8B%B1%E8%AA%9E/Preview 2: Highrise permissions and groupsLast week we posted the first preview of Highrise. In that preview we introduced the product in broad strokes. With each additional preview we...News of topickimi2007-02-21T23:53:54+09:00http://r.hatena.ne.jp/umedamochio/%E8%8B%B1%E8%AA%9E/
Preview 2: Highrise permissions and groups
Last week we posted the first preview of Highrise. In that preview we introduced the product in broad strokes. With each additional preview we’ll be covering one facet of Highrise in detail.
With preview 2 we’ll be focusing on permissions and groups.
The “keepshare” scenario
Highrise is a shared contact manager. That means that everyone in your organization can use it to keep their contacts and
Be the guy with the megaphone and other lessons from a JetBlue meltdown
It could have been worse. I could’ve been stranded on the runway for eight hours. Instead, I was stuck at the JetBlue terminal for 12 hours last Thursday before finding out my flight was cancelled. [1]
Here are some communication lessons learned from the fiasco:
Put all your soldiers on the front lines. Jet Blue’s corporate offices are located near JFK so they brought in a bunch of people who normally work there to help out at the terminal.
“If a major project is truly innovative, you cannot possibly know its exact cost and its exact schedule at the beginning. And if in fact you do know the exact cost and the exact schedule, chances are that the technology is obsolete.”
-Joseph G. Gavin, Jr., discussing the design of the lunar module that landed NASA astronauts on the moon.
“What appears at first to be well-articulated, firmly established architecture often consists of a broad (perhaps even vague) product concept; a set of evolving, sometimes lo
juberjabber: Google Talk URLs Google Talk has its own URL scheme for chats and phone calls. (tags: Google googletalk IM VOIP) juberjabber: Usage Stats From the Major IM Networks "Reasonable estimates for most of the major services" (tags: IM Stats)...
If you don't like people sticking their fingers in your food then don't let them in your kitchen. Unfortunately, the National Hockey League didn't get the message. The NHL has a substantial presence on YouTube. However, they told one person...
Market Truths Wins Second Life Business Plan Contest
As I mentioned a few months ago, Edelman and Electric Sheep conducted a Second Life business plan contest. The idea here is to find and fund the most promising initiative. Today Electric Sheep and Edelman revealed the winning plan. It's...
Mobilicio.us Mobile front-end to del.icio.us. (tags: socialbookmarking Mobile del.icio.us) The Complete Guide to Managing iTunes Videos | iLounge (tags: iTunes Video iPod Windows OSX) Free photos - Free images - Free stock photos. FreeDigitalPhotos.net "Thousands of royalty free stock photos...
Orbitcast, which has been tracking the satellite radio biz for quite sometime now, says it's official. Sirius and XM Satellite have announced they are merging. That's certainly good news for radio heads. However, there's still a big problem with satellite...
Many Web 2.0 Sites Fail to Link to Related Content
For all of their surging traffic, a lot of blogging, social networking, community and other Web 2.0 sites truly fail at keeping people on their site in the most basic way - by pointing people to related content within their...
A bit of President's Day fun from my colleague Phil Gomes. He's telling the now bald Britney Spears that she can't team up with us. Incidentally, we all hung out recently at a company meeting and it felt eerily like...
This is posted on behalf of Joshua de Larios-Heiman. ---- I was at a venture capital cocktail reception at Zibibbos in Palo Alto last week hosted by the Hina Group, a venture capital and investment banking specializing Chinese technology investment....
If you've visited the TerraNova region of NationStates lately, you'll see that its grown to a whopping 11 nations in the little more than a week since the first post in this short series of thought experiments in hypothetical game...
eBay has now owned Skype for more than four full quarters. How's that little $4 billion flyer doing? Answer: Pretty well, actually. Not amazing, not terrible. Pretty well. eBay doesn't release much Skype information, but we can still get a good snapshot: After decelerating through Q2 last year, both revenue...
Perhaps Viacom had an ace up its sleeve after all. When the company stormed out of negotiations with Google a few weeks ago and demanded that YouTube remove all its clips, the popular thesis was that the Big Media YouTube Rival was a go. It wasn't--and, likely, will never be--but...
It's that time of year: to celebrate the engineers who create the new technologies that revolutionize our world. Their work changes the way we work, play, learn, and communicate with each other.
As part of our ongoing commitment to raise awareness of these contributions (here's more on our our K-12 initiatives), and to get young students interested in engineering, we're hosting a Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day on February 22nd in several of our U.S. offices, including N
Rumors are running around that Palm is about to surrender to destiny, and become a phone platform for Nokia or Motorola. That article was the first time I even heard about the Nokia E-series smartphones, and I am in the...
Ballmer claims that software piracy is what is holding down Vista sales, and pledges to tighten the screws on protection via the so-aptly-named Windows Geniune Advantage: [from Ballmer blames pirates for poor Vista sales] Of course he is ignoring the...
Pete Cashmore is pretty evenhanded in his comments about Renkoo, yet another Evite wannabe: [from Renkoo Launches Social Networking Profiles, With a Twist] [...] the way they’ve implemented the profile pages seems to break with convention: instead of spending hours...
Paul Kedrotsky reminded me that Jetblue's CEO has a blog. Would be a great opportunity to use it to blunt the criticism about hte company's poor response in recent days to bad weather and operational snafus. However, it hasn't been...
No surprise to me: [from Infinite Loop: 75 percent of Vista reviewers bring up MacOS X by Iljitsch van Beijnum] 75 percent of Vista reviewers bring up MacOS X Vista Let's try a little experiment: find some random Windows Vista...
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http://r.hatena.ne.jp/umedamochio/%E8%8B%B1%E8%AA%9E/Blogging from Word 2007, crossing the chasmThe other day I wrote:…as someone who is composing this blog entry as XHTML, in emacs, using a semantic CSS tag that will enable me to sea...News of topickimi2007-02-20T23:37:52+09:00http://r.hatena.ne.jp/umedamochio/%E8%8B%B1%E8%AA%9E/
Blogging from Word 2007, crossing the chasm
The other day I wrote:
…as someone who is composing this blog entry as XHTML, in emacs, using a semantic CSS tag that will enable me to search for quotes by Mike Linksvayer and find the above fragment, I’m obviously all about metadata coexisting with human-readable HTML.
Operating in that mode for years has given me a [...]
It makes absolutely no sense to charge the same amount per kilowatt hour for peak electrical use as we charge for off-peak consumption. Peak power generation is much more expensive than off-peak ? often twice as much and sometimes much more. Peak power almost always depends on fossil fuels. And peak power usage is what drives the requirement for more...
EMI has received a bid approach from Warner Music, the latest twist in a seven-year battle in which the two music groups have tried to buy each other. “If a proposal is made, it will be considered with a particular focus on conditionality, the regulatory and operational risk profile, and on valuation in relation to the company’s standalone value and the value creation available from a combination,” EMI said in a statement.
Last July the two music firms terminated their pursuit of each other after a European court ruling over Sony Music and Bertelsmann’s BMG merger cast doubt over the chances of this deal.
A year after Google acquired their company dMarc as the basis for Google Audio Ads (ads on radio stations) , brothers and company founders Chad and Ryan Steelberg have left the company. It’s easy to read too much into their departure since many purchase contracts include some mechanism to keep the founders around for awhile and founders notoriously don’t like...
Viacom’s YouTube Foil: Broad Licensing Deal With Joost
Viacom and online TV provider Joost have done a broad distribution deal, all of which should put more pressure on YouTube to work out its disagreements with content owners, the WSJ reported.
The content portion of the deal involves licensing hundreds of hours of programming from Viacom TV properties, as well as movies made by the company’s Paramount studios. Viacom will contribute both current and archival programming to the venture, including programs such as Real World, Laguna Beach,Beavis & Butth
Newspapers’ Online Video Efforts Might Just Beat TV
My ex-boss Kurt Andersen does a nice piece in NYMag, writing about how newspapers have taken to putting video and videoblogs online, and may just become better at it than TV news outlets themselves. And he has some great lines in there: “Whereas the YouTube paradigm is amateurs doing interesting things with cameras, the newspapers’ Web videos are professional journalists operating like amateurs in the best old-fashioned sense.” Example David Carr’s Carpetbagger video blog on NYTimes.com.
“I can easily imagine newspapers’ Web-video portals becoming the TV-journalism
Sirius-XM: FCC Chairman Kevin Martin And Defining Competition
Whether you call it a merger or an acquisition, the actual closing of a deal between Sirius and XM relies in great measure on a different definition: the meaning of competition in a multi-platform world. The satellite radio competitors content that there is enough competition in the radio space to merit federal approval of their plans. During an impromptu press conference last month at CES, I had the chance to ask FCC Chairman Kevin Martin about the impact of access to media in multiple formats and on multiple platforms when it comes to defining competition in FCC terms. Martin parsed through the question, then said: “The changes
Confirmed: XM and Sirius To Merge; Tough Regulatory Hurdles; $13 Billion Deal; Karmazin Heading It
Updated : The official release is out, confirming the deal, pending regulatory approval. Mel Karmazin, the CEO of Sirius, would become CEO of the new company while Gary Parsons, the chairman of XM, would remain in that role.
Details:
-- A tax-free, all-stock merger of equals with a combined enterprise value of approximately $13 billion, which includes net debt of approximately $1.6 billion.
-- XM shareholders will receive a fixed exchange ratio of 4.6 shares of Sirius common
If last month’s Golden Globe awards are any indication, next Sunday’s Oscars are going to be very good for the web traffic of traditional media outlets covering the Academy Awards, a NYT article suggested. While the TV audience drew 20 million viewers, within a day of the Golden Globes broadcast, People Magazine’s people.com attracted 39.6 million pageviews. Celebrity news magazine sites Vanity Fair (vanityfair.com), Entertainment Weekly (ew.com)
Digital Fingerprinting: A Good Video Piracy Solution, Not A Magic Bullet
If media companies’ attempts to track down unauthorized use of their video content on file-sharing services was akin to looking for a needle in a haystack, Audible Magic believes it has a very powerful magnet necessary to the task. In a NYT profile, the Los Gatos, CA company demonstrates its content-recognition software, which Audible Magic claims can locate even the blurriest forms of online video piracy. The demonstration involved Vance Ikezoye, Audible Magic’s chief executive, downloading a grainy clip with Chinese-language overdubs on YouTube that looked
MySpace May Beat Yahoo On Pageviews, But Not When It Comes To Attracting Advertisers
A long article in Adweek examines how advertisers and media buyers consider the value of pageviews and uniques when deciding on where to place the bulk of their ad dollars. Eventually, Adweek says, it will come down to defining engagement and figuring out the value of word of mouth on the web. But right now, uniques rule in the minds of decision-makers, who bank on traditional media measurements like CPMs. Adweek wonders whether the trend in pageviews might affect the equation. Since pageviews for sites that rely on some form of user-content and social networking functions are outpacing traditional media brands, shouldn’t adve
MTV has reinvented itself more times than Neil Young and Arianna Huffington combined. In The NYT, David Carr ponders the future of the Viacom-owned, once-dominant cultural touchstone, now at the crossroads at the ripe old age of 25. Carr walks through the various milestones in the history of what was once called Music Television and looks at how it expanded and invented new genres of television (particularly reality). But the meat of the article is considering what comes next. Carr does some prognosticating, as do the people he interviews. Most interesting is how the importance of digital media is implicit in almost everyone’s words. Christina Norman, MTV’s president, ackno
A weekend journey from the NBA-All-Star events in Las Vegas to a birthday party for the 4-and-under set landed me squarely in the marketing blitz known as kids TV. Permeating the Nick programming in between ads for Bratz beach dolls and the like: promos for ME:TV, Nickelodeon’s latest user-gen concept. Registered users can upload videos through Nick.com and broadband channel Turbo Nick. Some will be played on the live studio show Nickelodeon’s ME:TV that launches today; it will pop up between 5-7 p.m. around and between various Nick shows. Kids will be able to vote and some can participate from home via webcam. (Parents have to submit permission slips by fax or mail before a kid can upload.) The
@ NBA All-Star Weekend: Tech Summit; 3D HD; Celebs Galore
The NBA Tech Summit was full of interesting people, some good panels and a lot of conversation. I can tell you that you’ll benefit from what I heard and learned in a lot of ways but I couldn’t live blog—unless a participant gives his or her ok after the fact, what’s said in the room can’t be published. If I can work some approvals out, I’ll post more. Among those who participated: Google Chairman and CEO Eric Schmidt; Mary Meeker; Turner’s Mark Lazarus, David Levy and Phil Kent;
Bud.TV Under Fire By State AGs For Not Being Closed Enough
It isn’t enough that Anheuser Busch is using a system that checks registrants’ birthdates against drivers’ license databases as a way of weeding out underage access to new bud.tv. (This is the very same process that I questioned on privacy terms when I reviewed the site.) Twenty-one state attorneys general say A-B can and should be doing even more, reports AdAge. The AGs sent a stern warning to A-B via a letter that—as AdAge notes—contradicts many of the critics who though A-B was building too high a barrier. It also draws a dir
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Anystream Buys Cauldron Solutions; Raises $7 Million
Online video solutions firm Anytream has bought software firm Cauldron Solutions, a company that helps TV networks manage rights and revenues for digital content, reports TVWeek. The combination of the two companies will provide content owners with a one-stop solution for formatting their programs for delivery across any new media form and keeping track of the rights issues and finances, the companies said. Financial details were not disclosed.
Also, we missed this earlier this month: Anystream
IHT has a nice profile of Schibsted, the Norwegian newspaper publisher which is doing very well online, contrary to tghe fate of other newspaper publishers worldwide. Earnings rose 28 percent in the Q4 for the company, and online operations will generate about 20 percent of the company’s revenues this year, and will generate as much as 60 percent of the operating earnings by next year, according to analysts. And why is it doing so well? By sticking to its online investments, and launching new brands even if it undercuts its own print products.
Folio has a good cover story on what it considers the dealmakers in the magazine/B2B industry in 2006. It also lists the top 10 deals of last year: CMP Technology/United Business Media; 1105 Media; VNU (Renamed Nielsen); Penton (Prism); Reader’s Digest Association; Primedia; The Wicks Group; Metal Bulletin; Summit Business Media; and CondeNet.
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http://r.hatena.ne.jp/umedamochio/%E8%8B%B1%E8%AA%9E/Will Online Video Remain A Monopoly?I was struck by this statement from a NYT report about the ongoing dialogue among Viacom, NBC, and News Corp about the future of online video, GoogTube...News of topickimi2007-02-19T23:14:11+09:00http://r.hatena.ne.jp/umedamochio/%E8%8B%B1%E8%AA%9E/
Will Online Video Remain A Monopoly?
I was struck by this statement from a NYT report about the ongoing dialogue among Viacom, NBC, and News Corp about the future of online video, GoogTube, etc.: It has become evident that the question of who will rule video on the Web is incredibly tangled. For now, most of the sticky strands lead to Google, [...]
Blog Herald Column: How SEO Confronts Its PR Challenge In The Blogosphere
I got a lot of attention from the search engine optimization (SEO) community this past week for a post on “What Gives SEO A Bad Name” ? the example I used, a parked domain appearing as a #2 Google search results, turns out to be Google’s fault, not the work of an unethical SEO. Or [...]
More like Moneeeeeeeyyyyyyyyy is you have owned Brazil the last 4 years . It took a 400 percent run just to get the Brazil ETF to an all-time high from the ‘pit of despair‘ it found itself in 2002. Since hitting an all-time high in late 2004 after the 400 percent run, it [...]
Canadian Dollar - a safer way to play a gold and oil rally?
Not sure, but I am bullish on the Canadian Dollar. No one in Canada believes in their own dollar. Inferiority complex I guess. I see things differently as a transplanted Canadian. Before the Candian dollar run is over, it should shoot well past what anyone believes is possible and I think past par [...]
Over the last six months I have been thinking a lot about virtual worlds and visual, intuitive, human oriented interfaces in general. I am frankly fascinated by our increasing ability to deal with all kinds of applications in a highly...
I have written previously that using "keywordese", the language of keywords used to query search engines today, is like using a "grunting pidgin language" instead of a human natural language to communicate our intent to the search engine. This also...
Stanley Shilov is reporting the sighting of a new tabbed ad format for Adsense. The ads have three tabs for searches, web pages, and videos. Screenshot #1 Screenshot #2 Screenshot #3 The ads are different in two distinct ways: * They are tabbed. The three tabs deliver different content, titled Searches, Web Pages, and Videos. [...]
I noticed a change to the Alexa traffic reports late Friday, and have now found the official announcement from Alexa. They’ve added new data points including:
Geographic location of visitors. Your site’s traffic rank in different countries. Audience reach percentages. Changing terminology to reflect latest data is from “yesterday” and not “today”.
Google Reader Changes, Now Every Blogger’s More Popular
It’s been an interesting weekend to watch the blogosphere’s fleeting excitement as one by one, they realize their RSS subscriber count hasn’t actually seen a huge increase, Google’s just made some changes to the way it reports Google Reader and Google Homepage subscribers. That said, it’s still nice to see your Feedburner stats take a jump. [...]
Is Google Overrated? Danny Sullivan Fights Another Battle.
When Danny Sullivan’s not busy protecting the reputation of SEO, he’s off fighting crime protecting the reputation of Google. In this month’s issue of Fast Company, Danny squares off against Donna Bogatin, and fights against claims that the world’s largest search engine is tapped out. Pilgrim Partners: Grow Your SEM Agency - let Andy Beal [...]
Barron's just put up a story on Electronic Arts, with the take-away being that the stock is cheap, management makes all the right moves and quoting several analysts who support this view. Bully for them. Question is, based upon all...
Mark Hulbert penned an interesting article in today's New York Times concerning a recent study of stock price performance in the face of hedge fund activism (defined as owning 5% or more of a company's shares). The conclusion: shares in...
Barely a day has gone by since I wrote a post concerning Toyota's challenges as they substantially expand their sales volumes and global footprint. I clearly stated that I think they'll win, and that they have a unique culture that...
In the last few weeks a number of people have sent me a link to Michael Wesch's video meditation on the evolution of media and its likely impact on all aspects of human interaction. One of Wesch's main points is...
More from Davos: Tero Ojanpera (Nokia CTO) interview
Back to some more Davos videos - I had the wonderful experience of bumping into Dr. Tero Ojanpera in line waiting to get into one of the afterparties at the WEF meeting in Davos. He gave me a closer look at his phone, and at the Widsets he uses, which are sort of like widgets for your phone. The gadgets he has are very cool, but how he uses them gives a glimpse into the future - a future of notifications to always-on devices that you carry with you. Enjoy the video:
Publish an RSS feed? If so, Google wants to help you make it more popular by suggesting best practices for feed publishers. The section about how Google is counting feed subscribers is most interesting.
Google Reader - Common Questions:
Users on the web increasingly consume their favorite content through feed reading applications. If you’re a website publisher, [...]
Murphy’s Law: How Microsoft Vista Helps Terrorists
Obviously the benefits far outweigh the risks, but this is case in point that the sword has two edges.
Murphy’s Law: How Microsoft Vista Helps Terrorists: Rarely does sensitive information on missing laptops find its way to the wrong people. The exception is the missing laptops in a combat zone. There, too many people know that any [...]
This story on Bloomberg had the standard issue dryness for what is really a fascinating story unfolding in Venezuela. This is what the economist interviewed for the story had to say about Chavez’ plan to control inflation by lopping 3 zeros off the currency. He has a funny understanding of the problem,'' Alberto Bernal, a [...]
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http://r.hatena.ne.jp/umedamochio/%E8%8B%B1%E8%AA%9E/Seattle conference on scalabilityPosted by Amanda Camp, Software EngineerWe care a lot about scalability at Google. An algorithm that works only on a small scale doesn't cut it when we ar...News of topickimi2007-02-18T23:30:55+09:00http://r.hatena.ne.jp/umedamochio/%E8%8B%B1%E8%AA%9E/
Seattle conference on scalability
Posted by Amanda Camp, Software Engineer
We care a lot about scalability at Google. An algorithm that works only on a small scale doesn't cut it when we are talking global access, millions of people, millions of search queries. We think big and love to talk about big ideas, so we're planning our first ever conference on scalable systems. It will take place on June 23 at our Seattle office. Our goal: to create a collegial atmosphere for participants to brainstorm different ways to build the robust systems that can handle, literally, a worl
A conversation with Dan Chudnov about OpenURL, context-sensitive linking, and digital archiving
Today’s podcast with Dan Chudnov is a sequel to my earlier podcast with Tony Hammond about the Nature Publishing Group’s use of digital object identifiers. I invited Dan to discuss related topics including the OpenURL standard for context-sensitive linking.
I’m not the only one who’s had a hard time understanding how these technologies relate to one [...]
Yesterday I exercised poetic license when I suggested that Adobe’s Extensible metadata platform (XMP) was not only the spiritual cousin of microformats like hCalendar but also, perhaps, more likely to see widespread use in the near term. My poetic license was revoked, though, in a couple of comments:
Mike Linksvayer: How someone as massively clued-in as [...]
By forming this partnership, I think Yahoo! and Krugle will create a strong network and online tools for the developers to find, and share the codes available on the web.
Krugle, the code search engine, has scored a victory after being selected to power the search on the Yahoo Developer Network, the place to find info about Yahoo’s APIs and web services.
Yesterday I came across yet another (read: tired subject matter) article about the perils of living in an "always on" culture with the advent of portable devices like BlackBerrys and Treos. While I fall into the camp of viewing the carrying of a device with me "liberating" as opposed to draining, my reasoning goes beyond purely staying connected via e-mail anywhere I am (which is obviously a huge benefit). With my 8700 series, the mobile browser functionality actually works rather well. And with that, I have my my.yahoo page as the default home page. Even more than with a PC...
A year ago I posted about when I meet with entrepreneurs for the first time that I like to ask about the founding story, the plot of how the idea for the company was generated and how the principals in it came together. These intangible details of a founding story accurately portray a startup as a unique coalescence of real people, not just a valuable aggregation of human and technological capital. I wanted to add that I believe that learning the founding story also helps us as VCs evaluate and better understand entrepreneurial teams in situations where we haven’t had...
Newt Gingrich could be the surprise of 2008, says this story. Could be, but don't think so. Newt is indeed a fountain of ideas--good ideas--but the flip side is his short attention span and lack of discipline. Newt makes fundraisers...
Google Acquires Adscape Media: Interactive Online Gaming Advertisement and Gaming System Developers
According to news reports, Google has completed a deal to acquire Adscape Media, a company located in San Francisco which has developed ways for advertisers to show fresh and changeable (dynamic) advertisements within video games which can be shown without interrupting gameplay. The company (in an earlier incarnation) also has developed patented technology for [...]
I’ve been using Eurekster’s custom search engine to enable people to search for information about search engine patents from this site (see the “Search Patent Swicki” in the right column at top). I’m interested in hearing from anyone who has tried it out to see what they think about this custom search. Do [...]
Ross Stapleton-Gray pointed me to an NSF award to the University of Colorado for SGER: A New Generation Wiki for Supporting a Research Community in Creativity and IT: The proposed research will create environments that go beyond existing Wikis (being...
Adobe to launch online video editing with Photobucket
Back in October, in the context of Larry Lessig's tongue-lashing of YouTube as a "fake sharing" site because it didn't allow remixing, I pointed out: We don't have the same free tools for managing and editing video that we have...
In the current issue of Science, Manu Prakash and Neil Gershenfeld report on their work with "bubble logic" [pdf]: "We demonstrate universal computation in an all-fluidic two-phase microfluidic system. A bubble traveling in a channel represents a bit, providing us...
As you know, there’s plenty of video on the Web. You can go to YouTube and see almost anything you want, most of it dreadful but some of it pretty good. You can also post your own videos on YouTube and you can vote on YouTube videos to try to help other people find the good ones. But this isn’t...
The weather was warm and clear today. There was just enough heat and instability in the atmosphere to produce some light thermals, so I had to go up for a flight in BASA's SZD-51-1 "Junior"
I hadn't been in much of a thermal for a few months, and all the time spent on my single engine license managed to suppress my soaring urge. I'm afraid that's been mostly undone now. :-)
When I wrote the other day about The Hardest Thing I Have To Do Every Day, I was in the midst of a mad email purge and filing campaign. This is yet another attempt to change my ways.
The end result is quite pleasing.
But it'll take a serious adjustment of habits to keep things that neat and tidy.
UPDATE The crack Marketing Team (a.k.a. Rod) made a terrific teqlo variant of the The Machine is Us/ing Us video showing how Teqlo works. (see the original here, more interesting than the YouTube...
This evening with the kids, somewhere between the Wiimote and RC Simulator controller, or perhaps the DS stylus or Guitar Hero axe, I realized that all real innovation in the videogame industry these days seems to be in input devices....
A few weeks back, the Venice Project aka Joost team had opened up an early alpha version of their peer to peer TV client for some of GigaOM/NewTeeVee users, and seeking their feedback on how to improve the software. Well, you all seem to have done a good job. The company has just announced the [...]
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What does $10,000 buy in San Francisco?
PAUL BOUTIN - San Francisco's city attorney is investigating more than $10,000 paid retroactively to Ruby Rippey-Tourk, mayor Gavin Newsom's former appointments secretary and mistress. Rippey-Tourk "received more than $10,000 in sick pay while undergoing substance abuse treatment after she left City Hall," according to an AP report. Ten grand makes a scary headline in Fargo,
E-mail mobilizer Visto suddenly goes ahead with a formal announcement of Altitude Capital's (previously secret-ish) $35 million investment in the company. A reader asks:
Why should Visto be shy about taking money from a hedge fund that funds patent lawsuits? Maybe they don't want to be seen as moving from 'litigious startup' to 'patent troll'. Personally I like trolls but not eve
Jupiter Research's Michael Gartenberg will be hopping over to Microsoft, a la Jon Udell, to serve as an "enthusiast evangelist." Whatever you think of the credibility issues such positions create, it's not like this is a new phenomenon. All you really have is a publi
So you want to build a video sharing network? Of course you do. Fortunately, it's really easy to launch an awesome and successful video-sharing site these days. A highly placed but necessarily anonymous Internet superstar shares with us the ultimate plan for video fortune. Just follow these 20 simple steps, and you'll be kitting out your own fleet of Gulfstreams in no time.
Step 1. Never forget: If Xeni Jardin uploads videos of herself to Boing Boing with the logo of your company next to the "play" button, you're going to be rich.
FACT: Despite speculation to the contrary, there is so far no evidence that the Church of Scientology plans to establish a huge presence in virtual world Second Life. No secret deals for vast tracts of First Land have been revealed either by the Church or Second Life purveyor Linden Lab. Reports of a massive outreach initiative, involving dozens and eventually hundreds of customized avatars controlled in shifts by Church personnel and sent on conversion missions throughout Second Life, are also unconfirmed. The technology to translate a Scientologist
James B. Stewart's long New Yorker article on the Hewlettt-Packard board-surveillance scandal is, of course, not online. However, you deserve least one juicy nugget: the contretemps between spymistress HP chairman Patricia Dunn and powerful board member Tom Perkins regarding Perkins's "novel" Sex and the Single Zillionaire -- now in
Dan Fost at the San Francisco Chronicle at last discovers the provenance of this legendary pic of Federated Media's John Battelle. Turns out that the photo originally emanated -- like so much in tech news -- from the machinations of John Dvorak. It dates from Battelle's Industry Standard days, taken by Dvorak during one of Battelle's infamous "money-wasting Friday parties." Dvorak photoshopped the pic to look like black-and-white film, gave it the
As rumored, Google will be purchasing in-game advertising startup Adscape Media for $23 million. While this is widely interpreted as further evidence of Google's plans for a Second Life-style virtual world of its own, it's more likely another case of Google's mania for blazing new trails in automated online ad placement. The sprawling
On March 3, the X Prize Foundation -- they of the rocket plane -- will have a fund-raiser at Google to announce the next phase of their entrepreneurial carnival. The event aims to scare up $50 million to operate the foundation, but it's also designed to seduce venture capitalists into funding future X Prizes. Details are murky as to how this might work, though allusions are made to chances at equity stakes in successful prize-winners in various technological fields. Some
Jewish culture mag Moment runs a long profile of Sergey Brin, focusing particularly on early life and the Brin family's emigration from Moscow when Sergey was six. Much and possibly all of the info has been around the block a few times, though not often all collected in one place. Most singular is a penultimate section that begins "Does any company founded by two Jews, no matter how assimilated, necessarily retain some defining Jewish characteristics?"
A tipster writers in with goss on potential rumblings within the cerebral confines of Hot or Not:
inside scoop is that Hong and the other guy are having problems, can't agree on the direction of the company. Hong wants to take it much further, make it a friendster/myspace thing and throw everything in such as video, blogs, the whole 9. Engineers are leaving and new ones are hard to come by. They may just sell it if they can't work it out in the next 30 days.
Poor Jim Young, always "the other guy" to James Hong. Though normally we
One of prettiest useless things seen I've seen in awhile: the Twingly screensaver, via Biz Stone. Pulls in blog RSS feeds from all over the world, showing them accumulate in pillars on an elegantly rotating 3D globe. Post titles scroll by; click on any title to display the post and have the globe flip to the blog's physical location. And of course you can zoom and rotate around the blog-globe like the crazy spaceman you are. Minutes of fun.
Bambi Franciso reportulates that Amazon's Jeff Bezos is considering a personal investment in much-hyped natural-language search engine Powerset. It's been widely reported that Powerset planned to use Amazon computing resources, but this would be an unusual vote of confidence from Bezos. Unless he really is just looking for a new toy.
The choices range from "Naked South Bay Jogger Comes Clean" to "Nude jogger's jiggles end with a fine and an apology." Scientific Atlanta engineer (and proud patent holder) Darryl Delacruz has been identified as the Naked Jogger of Cupertino. Alternately described as "fleshy" and "not in very good physical shape," Delacruz also purportedly owns a
In the midst of this week's serious-minded and notably glitz-free pitch to advertisers, Yahoo debuted a strange and worrisome creature -- "Gus the Gopher," a CGI rodent in a purple Yahoo sweater that demonstrated how to use Yahoo's mobile offerings. Gus apparently has no relation to the eponymous gopher of Two Ton Baker fame, and it's unclear why he was trotted out dur
A perennial trope of mogul types -- actual and aspiring -- is praise by way of offer to hire. You see this a lot when one exec is asked about another whom he or she admires. Typically, Exec A sings the praises of Exec B, and as a capper, proudly claims that he or she would gladly hire Exec B, given the chance. On the face of it, a nice gesture; in reality, a rhetorical move that both absorbs and diminishes the status of the supposedly praised Exec B.
For example, Jason Calacanis is fond of this maneuver (e.g.
Yes, Gmail is now open to all comers -- invitations not required. You can even get it if you're unfortunate enough to live in "a swath of Asian and South American countries where the Mountain View-based company previously limited the number of users." That's no reason to create a promotional clip that's among the most inane things ever posted to Youtube, which
All complaints I have -- and there are many -- about urban pillowfighting boil down to the terminal cuteness of the whole affair. Laughing Squid has all the pics and links to last night's cushy conflagration at Justin Herman Plaza, including a video clip that shows a crowd of hipsters delicately bopping each other with barely any bloodlust. Dilettantes. We had more dangerous pillow fights in my parents' basement at the age of ten, and if anyone had called us a "flash mob," they would have gotten a mouthful of foam-packed
CFO and exec VP Steve Swad has quit AOL to "pursue an opportunity in the growing private-equity field." Swad came up in 2003 from Turner Broadcasting. He survived the recent AOL purges, but sadly, has not -- as far as we can tell -- posted any beefcake photos. No word yet on Swad's specific plans or his AOL replacement. Memo after the
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http://r.hatena.ne.jp/umedamochio/%E8%8B%B1%E8%AA%9E/Frame or Be FramedGeorge Lakoff is a professor at U.C. Berkeley Linguistics Department. He’s written a book called Don’t Think of an Elephant His message in this interview concerns how Re...News of topickimi2007-02-16T00:40:12+09:00http://r.hatena.ne.jp/umedamochio/%E8%8B%B1%E8%AA%9E/
Frame or Be Framed
George Lakoff is a professor at U.C. Berkeley Linguistics Department. He’s written a book called Don’t Think of an Elephant His message in this interview concerns how Republicans appear to be good “framers” and Democrats are lousy ones. Here are...
Here is an interesting juxtaposition. First, I read The Availability Heuristic in the Classroom: How Soliciting More Criticism Can Boost Your Course Ratings by Craig R. Fox, UCLA Anderson School and Department of Psychology. In this study, two groups of...
Powerset had party last Saturday night to celebrate our Series A funding! The party took place at Frisson, a trendy bar/restaurant in San Francisco's financial district. We wound up with perhaps 500 people attending, completely filling up the space (and...
Barney interviewed by Bambi Francisco on Marketwatch about PARC/Powerset deal
Bambi Francisco, from Marketwatch, interviewed me last Friday about the PARC/Powerset strategic deal announcement. The video is now available. We discussed the following questions: How fundamental is the PARC technology to Powerset? What are the financial terms of the deal?...
Wikipedia’s policy of neutrality sometimes forces resolution when we’d rather have debate. Yes, competing sides get represented in the articles, and the discussion pages let us hear people arguing their points, but the arguments themselves are treated as stations on the way to neutral agreement.
So, there’s room for additional approaches that take the arguments themselves as their topics. That’s what Debatepedia.org does, and it looks like it’s on its way to being really useful.
Like Wikipedia, anyone can edit existing content. Unlike Wikipedia, its topics are all up for debate. Each topic presents both sides, structured into
Google Plans AdWords Algorithm Change; Expects Complaints
I just got off the phone with Google’s Nick Fox, Senior Business Product Manager for Ad Quality, and got the scoop on the upcoming changes to the AdWords Quality Score. As we reported earlier today, Google is indeed planning a change to the Quality Score, with two major updates.
The addition of a new column in AdWords campaigns, [...]
It’s true: newspapers are outperforming TV in video ads. In 2006, newspapers’ websites sold $81 million in local online streaming video advertisements. Local TV broadcasters’ websites sold only $32 million. Even taken with the other $48 million spent on online video advertising, it’s not much compared to the advertising industry total of [...]
Over at SEJ, Loren provides 13 reasons why the NoFollow tag simply sucks. My favorite? Linking to someone with a NoFollow attribute is a sign of not trusting them. It’s like reaching to shake someone’s hand, but stopping to put on a pair of latex gloves.
Loren’s also turned off the default nofollow for links in comments. [...]
According to an email received by Shimon Sandler, Google is gearing-up to start letting AdWords advertisers see their Quality Score. …we’re making improvements to the way that we evaluate the Quality Score to set minimum bids for keywords. First, we will be launching an optional Quality Score column to provide you with more transparency into the [...]
In honor of Valentine’s day: e-mail marketing is part of a love triangle. Perhaps that might more accurately be described as a love-hate triangle. Marketers remain hopelessly devoted to the medium. E-mail marketing was chosen as the #1 most important advertising media in 2007 according to an informal survey of 1500 marketing professionals conducted [...]
Google wishes us all happy Valentine’s day with a chocolate covered strawberry. People are saying Google spelled its name wrong: no ‘L.’ (It’s like a Christmas joke for Valentine’s day!) And yes, it does look that way at first glance. I’m willing to give them the benefit of the doubt and say that [...]
Lenoir Officials Defend $260 Million Tax Incentives to Google
It seems there’s been a lot more interest in the tax breaks to Google, since we learned the search engine could receive as much as $260 million in incentives for building in North Carolina. Today, Lenoir and Caldwell County officials fight back against the critics, arguing why having Google build a data center is great for [...]
Business Week takes the time to catch-up with the Podcast industry and see what progress has been made to try and monetize the medium. It seems like things have been very quiet over the past year or two. I recall all of the hype surrounding podcasts - I even attempted one myself - but podcasting [...]
Pheedo’s new FeedPowered advertising platform offers to take any RSS feed and turn it into a dynamically updated ad unit (see their site for live examples). Where can you run the ads? You can run your FeedPowered ad on targeted sites across Pheedo’s network of publishers. Alternatively, you can distribute FeedPowered advertising into just about any [...]
Hat’s off to Read/WriteWeb for their outstanding compilation of companies in the online video space. This is definitely something to go in your bookmarks, with info on:
Video Sharing Intermediaries Video Search Video eCommerce Video Editing & Creation Rich Media Advertising P2P (Peer To Peer) Video Streaming Vlogosphere
We’ve already covered the PPC campaign for Election 2008. The candidates are making more headway in their Internet campaigns every day. From blogs to online video to MySpace profiles to their own social media networks, it’s clear that anyone who’s serious about the presidency in ‘08 has hired someone who knows their Internet [...]
If you think you’re safe behind your YouTube username, think again. ASPnews.com is reporting Google’s YouTube has complied with subpoenas issued by the U.S. District Court in Northern California, and turned over the identities of two users who illegally uploaded entire episodes of “24″ prior to its broadcast and DVD release. “We intend to use the information provided to [...]
If you’re anywhere near Raleigh on Wednesday February 21st, be sure to drop by the Exploris center for a TIMA panel on Social Media Marketing/Reputation Management. I’ll be joined by Lenovo’s David Churbuck, Crossroad PR’s Cindy Akus and moderator Nathan Gilliatt. It’s an informal panel discussion, so we’ll have plenty of opportunities to answer your questions. [...]
A recent UK survey of mobile phone users suggests that there may be no where near the amount of people using their cell phones for search, as believed. Just 20% of UK subscribers actually search for content on the mobile internet, despite an industry perception that 89% do, according to research released today, from the Mobile [...]
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One of the announcements to come out of last weeks Open Solutions Summit in New York was the formation of the Open Solutions Alliance (OSA). They say:
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PAUL BOUTIN - San Francisco's city attorney is investigating more than $10,000 paid retroactively to Ruby Rippey-Tourk, mayor Gavin Newsom's former appointments secretary and mistress. Rippey-Tourk "received more than $10,000 in sick pay while undergoing substance abuse treatment after she left City Hall," according to 
E-mail mobilizer Visto suddenly goes ahead with a 
Jupiter Research's Michael Gartenberg will be hopping over to Microsoft, a la 
So you want to build a video sharing network? Of course you do. Fortunately, it's really easy to launch an awesome and successful video-sharing site these days. A highly placed but necessarily anonymous Internet superstar shares with us the ultimate plan for video fortune. Just follow these 20 simple steps, and you'll be kitting out your own fleet of Gulfstreams in no time.
FACT: Despite speculation to the contrary, there is so far no evidence that the Church of Scientology plans to establish a huge presence in virtual world Second Life. No secret deals for vast tracts of First Land have been revealed either by the Church or Second Life purveyor Linden Lab. Reports of a massive outreach initiative, involving dozens and eventually hundreds of customized avatars controlled in shifts by Church personnel and sent on conversion missions throughout Second Life, are also unconfirmed. The technology to translate a Scientologist 
James B. Stewart's long New Yorker article on the Hewlettt-Packard board-surveillance scandal is, of course, not online. However, you deserve least one juicy nugget: the contretemps between spymistress HP chairman Patricia Dunn and powerful board member Tom Perkins regarding Perkins's "novel" 
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On March 3, the X Prize Foundation -- they of the 
Jewish culture mag Moment runs a 
A tipster writers in with goss on potential rumblings within the cerebral confines of 
One of prettiest useless things seen I've seen in awhile: the 
Bambi Franciso reportulates that Amazon's Jeff Bezos is 
The choices range from "Naked South Bay Jogger Comes Clean" to "Nude jogger's jiggles end with a fine and an apology." Scientific Atlanta engineer (and proud 
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A perennial trope of mogul types -- actual and aspiring -- is praise by way of offer to hire. You see this a lot when one exec is asked about another whom he or she admires. Typically, Exec A sings the praises of Exec B, and as a capper, proudly claims that he or she would gladly hire Exec B, given the chance. On the face of it, a nice gesture; in reality, a rhetorical move that both absorbs and diminishes the status of the supposedly praised Exec B.
All complaints I have -- and there are many -- about urban pillowfighting boil down to the terminal cuteness of the whole affair. Laughing Squid has all the 
CFO and exec VP Steve Swad has quit AOL to "pursue an opportunity in the growing private-equity field." Swad came up in 2003 from Turner Broadcasting. He survived the ![looks like that]("http://jeremy.zawodny.com/i/empty-inbox.png"){kind=link}
