- Esther Dyson talk (Yahoo is "intelligent design"; Google is "blind evolution.")- CES Storylines (nice quote: "By the time Vista hits the street... it will be less about the OS itself, and more about the vast array of services surrounding it.")- Consumer Internet, Digital Media and Technology Conferences for 2006...
In Part 1 of my interview with digg founder Kevin Rose, we discussed digg's popularity, reputation systems and recent issues with GroupThink. In the second part of this interview, Kevin and I talk about digg's battle with spammers and the upcoming release of new personalization features, plus an API. Full...
Curious comment from famous VC Michael Moritz of Sequoia Capital, he who invested heavily in Google in 1999. He also got a piece of Yahoo and Paypal -- also Webvan and eToys, it has to be said. He's listed as number 1 in the 2006 Forbes Midas List (via Jeff...
Todd Bishop from Seattle PI newspaper speculates whether Wellington filmmaker Peter Jackson was in Seattle and Microsoft last week... at the same time a certain Wellington blogger was in town.Pete and me (nb: pic of me by Alex Barnett)Todd wrote:"Filmmaker Peter Jackson, best known as the "Lord of the Rings"...
I'm still in transit from my flight back from Microsoft Search Champs in Seattle. Due to foggy weather in my home city of Wellington, I've had cancelled and delayed flights to deal with. And to top it all off, the airline lost my luggage!! I'm currently in Auckland and will...
Today I was at the Redmond office of Microsoft and it was an interesting day of discussions about... well I'm not allowed to say due to NDA. But most of the last hour of presentations was bloggable. TechCrunch has a good summary post, to which I'll add a few more...
In a few hours I'll be on a plane to Seattle, for the Microsoft Search Champs V4. My second trip to the US and my first to Seattle. It'll be 15.5 hours of flying time from New Zealand (not including waiting around for connecting flights etc), but luckily for me...
I've been following Umair Haque's fascinating articles on new media economics and 'edge competencies' - and I've noticed he prefers Google's media strategy to Yahoo's. I've been curious to understand why, because the common wisdom over the past year or so is that Yahoo has been making all the right...
Tushar Vyas, from mOne-Group M: "Traditionally, media enthralled people. Today it doesn't happen - customers are multitasking and fragmented. Today's customer wants to gain perspective, personalise the experience, get involved and participate. Digital allows this to happen."Quoted by Dina Mehta at Digital Summit 2006 - Integrating Online into the Traditional...
Aggregating and filtering the latest Web Tech and Media news, so you don't have to! (p.s. it'd be great to get some feedback on this new daily feature of mine - is the R/W Filter of any value to folks? How can I improve it? Thanks!) - Chinese internet police...
Stanford Law professor Lawrence Lessig has a thought-provoking essay on FT.com about the perilous state of what he terms the Read-Write Internet:"We are well on our way to perfecting the “Read-Only” internet – that network in which every bit of culture can be bought in a single click, but bought...
It's not quite a Bloggers and Old Media lovefest yet, but at least people seem to have eased up on the 'us vs them' rhetoric. AdAge.com has a nice article explaining why Blogging vs. Traditional Media has been oversold. Scott Karp's recent post entitled Bloggers Are So Wrong About Media...
This story warms the cockles of my heart, not only as a kiwi but a wanna-be Web millionnare ;-) AfterMail, a company from my hometown Wellington New Zealand, recently sold their web mail software to US company Quest for $14.7 million upfront and another $30 million in cash if it...
Sorry for lack of updates recently, I've been busy getting married :-) I see others have been busy too - Mike Arrington's expanded the Crunch empire with a new mobile blog called MobileCrunch, Susan Mernit's been hired by Yahoo! (does this mean I get my name on the 5ive page...
I'm not usually an Apple fanboy, but I decided to check out Steve Jobs' Macworld keynote this year. The webcast was provided by Apple (nb: they force you to download the latest iTunes + Quicktime in order to watch it). Steve wowed us with some big numbers, including impressive iPod...
A USA Today article reveals that MySpace has now reached 47.3 million members. The Blog Herald also reports that MySpace "is growing by an amazing 160,000 new users a day, according to MediaPost".USA Today gives a rundown of numbers for SNS sites, c/o comScore Media Metrix. They note that "in...
There's been a ton of CES news to digest these past few days, especially in the past 12 or so hours. Yahoo released Go and CEO Terry Semel made a speech at CES; Google released Google Pack, Google Video Player and Google Video Store; Larry Page did a speech at...
Yahoo! Go is being advertised as "a new suite of products and services for your PC, mobile phone and even your TV". The main aim is to enable people to connect with their content (e.g. email, photos, music) across a range of devices. Right now the Go product range is limited....
Yahoo will broadcast a reality tv series called "Wow House" on their Web portal within the next few months. The SF Chronicle calls it an early step in Yahoo's ultimate goal to create television of the future. Wow House has a technology focus, as families participating in the show compete...
Looking at the media year ahead, the LA Times christens Google the new 800-pound gorilla - and also the Big Bad Wolf - of the media business. It's an extraordinary article that predicts mega-billion dollar wheeling and dealing in the media industry in 2006. Here are some highlights relating to...
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