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Sorry for neglecting you, dear blog. Was traveling last week. Heading to London for the Guardian and Online Publishers tonight. Catching up with book writing and work inbetween. It would be a dire mistake to make the blog a last priority. But it’s also good that blogs are forgiving.
In my most recent column, I wrote about the dust-up between craigslist and its minority shareholder eBay, and the lawsuit eBay filed against craigslist last month.
One thing that occurred to me: craigslist is plainly unhappy with eBay (and its craigslist-esque free classifieds service kijiji), but buying out eBay's [...]
Registration is underway at the iSummit’08 website. The iCommons crowd practices very edgy mobbing cool, described by the programme:
In order to accommodate the diverse communities represented at the iSummit and to maximise the sharing, learning and interaction between participants, the 2008 programme [...]
Reading the ever-fascinating Grant McCracken recently, I discovered the following about Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen:
"Paul Allen, the Microsoft cofounder, has a yacht that is 416 feet
long. It cost something like a quarter of a billion dollars. It
carries two helicopters. It's so large it cannot dock anywhere on [...]
After being hit with an eBay legal missile last month, Craigslist has responded with a projectile of its own: the company has filed a countersuit accusing the online auction company — which owns a 25-per-cent stake in Craigslist — with “unlawful and unfair competition, misappropriation of proprietary information, deceptive [...]
StumbleUpon, the platform that allows users to discover and recommend videos to others has expanded sources of videos curated into the system. The San Francisco-start-up initially allowed users to "stumble" or collect clips from YouTube. It expanded in recent months to include Google, MySpace and Metacafe.
Just a quick note to announce that if you were hoping to get a ticket to mesh ‘08 next week in Toronto, you waited too long. We are officially sold out. If you’re still looking to attend meshU, however — the one-day workshop series focused on Web development and [...]
Mark Glaser is traveling this week, but we’re happy to have students from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University filling in as special guest bloggers this week. They are in a class studying “locative media,” a new form of journalism that tells stories via [...]
The excuses for not beat blogging are becoming harder and harder to swallow. Don't have the technical tools? Not enough time to alter your website?
Tonight Google released Friend connect.
When I first learned about OpenSocial I talked about it with the 13 beat bloggers quickly and said: "you probably won't [...]
While camping by the Santa Barbara coast I played hookey for a while at a wirless hot spot and picked up a copy of the local six-day-a-week paper, the Daily Sound. The Sound is a 2-year-old rival to the self-wounded Santa Barbara News-Press. To summarize that story, Wendy McCaw, owner of the News-Press precipitated a [...]
Organizations are comprised of people, processes and technology. Finding the right mix for operational excellence is similar to what any good chef must do to produce an exquisite culinary dish. Managers must understand that communication is more than sharing a thought, idea or opinion. It is the art of interpretation [...]
I just donated US$500 to help Chinese earthquake victims. I plan to give more if you also help out.
I've got a bunch of information sources going simultaneously: I switch between the BBC and CNN International, I watch my Google Reader aggregator to see what all my subscribed news [...]
Steve Ballmer might throw a chair after reading this:
Google's search business will pass Microsoft's Windows business by early next year (at the latest). Good thing Microsoft has another huge, wildly profitable monopoly: Office. Add that to the calculation, and Microsoft can breathe easy for a few more years.
I'm late on Powerset (I just don't have time to do the briefings anymore), but Mike has coverage here and Danny's is here.
What I find interesting about Powerset is the refinement, which Danny covers well. The interface (in particular the response to query) is much more grammatical [...]
Not to be missed: Alan Mutter's superb evaluation of the Cablevision deal for Newsday—and how it compares to Rupert Murdoch's offer. As Alan suggested in an earlier post this week, it wouldn't be surprising if Murdoch winds up with Newsday in a year or so after Cablevision runs [...]
Read in the latest issue of Checkerspot, the official magazine of the The Canadian Wildlife Federation, an article about eco-friendly burials.
Natural burial grounds do more than just reduce pollutants otherwise caused by cremation and traditional burials. Some eco-cemeteries function as wild spaces, marking graves with local rocks and [...]
I’ve seen a couple of efforts lately to help determine who’s credible online and though I understand the need and the motive, these attempts are fundamentally flawed and perhaps even more damaging than they are helpful.
The latest is Newscred and Techcrunch describes it today. I used a [...]
Perhaps I'm not the first to spot this, but dopplr, a social networking service that allows users to store and share their trips, has added a carbon footprint calculator (here's mine).
The flaw in this is [...]
Erick Schonfeld put up a post at TechCrunch last night about Cambrian House — the Calgary-based crowdsourcing software company — and how it was heading for the dead pool after failing to raise financing and being forced into a “fire sale” of its intellectual property and other assets. Since [...]
It keeps coming true. Umair keeps saying it. Recently YCombinator's Paul Graham said it as well. Build something actually useful and worry about the business model later and - so long as it really is a useful something - you'll figure out a way to make money [...]
