I listened to the Gillmor Gang today, because it featured Gabe Rivera talking about Memeorandum. After wading through all the Gang's talk about Sun.com, which didn't interest me in the slightest (what was that about?!), I noted this gem of a quote from Doc Searls:"Memeorandum is what google news should've...
- 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...
The latest comScore Networks report states that total Internet spending reached $143.2 billion for the full year 2005, an increase of 22 percent from 2004. What's more, comScore Networks chairman Gian Fulgoni is quoted as saying: "It's clear based on what we're seeing so far in 2006 that the strength...
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"...
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...
From the Martin Scorsese DVD bio about Bob Dylan, called No Direction Home. This shot is right at the end (from a 1966 concert) after audience members booed him for playing electric and one guy yelled out "Judas!".Dedicated to all those Web developers who are building things out of the...
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...
On my ZDNet blog, I discuss social news site reddit.com with co-founder Alexis Ohanian and compare their collaborative filtering system with Digg's. Reddit may have a jump on Digg when it comes to avoiding groupthink and spam, via a user reputation system it calls 'karma'. Check out the full story...
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...
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...
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...
Perhaps I ventured a bit too far out of my echo chamber, but today I came across 3 different conspiracy theory articles about popular Web companies. One was about e-commerce giant Amazon.com and the other two related to leading Social Networking sites MySpace and Facebook. The theories namecheck the CIA,...
Yahoo continues to buy up all the great talent, this time they've snagged my blog buddy Lucas Gonze and his innovative music-sharing web app Webjay. As the Yahoo! Music Blog explained [via TechCrunch]:"Webjay is visionary and fantastic, but we are also keenly interested in Lucas the individual. He’s contributed a...
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...
This week will be awash with coverage from the CES 2006 show in Las Vegas (International Consumer Electronics Show). I'll be quaffing down any interesting news about Web-based media and gadgets, along with feasting on my staple Internet bigco diet of Yahoo, Google, Microsoft, Apple. Bill Gates (MS), Terry Semel...
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