Schmidt Speaks From the Lion’s Den
It’s one thing to talk about Net Neutrality and a little regulation to a crowd of digerati idealists. It’s quite another to bring that up at the Masters of the Universe Ball. That’s the pet name I have for a number of billionaire and powerbroker gatherings that take place throughout the year – my personal [...]
Google Apologizes For Video Shutdown
After being blistered by criticism over the abrupt termination of the Google Video program, Google has offered an apology and full credit to video purchasers.Keep the Google Checkout credit, everyone. It’s a mea culpa from Google as the search advertising company realized its brusque shutdown of their Video service didn’t play well in the public [...]
Google LatLong Looks at New York, Europe
It’s Friday, and odds are that you wish it was Saturday. Or that you weren’t at work – it usually amounts to the same thing. And although the powers of time travel and transportation are beyond me, there are some Google-approved maps that focus on faraway places. The Google LatLong blog actually collected four of [...]
PeopleJam Procures Financial Backing
Here’s the news: PeopleJam just raised some funds from AOL Time Warner’s former COO and the current CEO of TiVo. Here’s the background: PeopleJam is a social network that’s currently in an invitation-only testing mode; membership may or may not, as the homepage suggests, allow you to “take your life to the next level!” “At [...]
Wikiscanner Shows Whodunnit
If you want anonymity online, you might as well just turn off the computer. Not only is not happening, but it’s getting easier to track things. In this case, it’s used for good, but like most purer things, it’s ripe for some corruption. Of course, you don’t really have to turn off your computer. There [...]
Is Scoble Over Blogging?
One word, unless you’ve followed him beyond some magazine articles about him, synonymous with Robert Scoble is "blogger." One of the originals, Scoble literally wrote the book on the topic. And now, well, he seems to be disillusioned with the whole damn thing. So a bit of a fiasco developed while the rest of us [...]
Perfect 10 Tries Again, This Time With MSN
Google CEO Eric Schmidt once said that lawsuits were just part of doing business today. According to Perfect 10 Magazine, lawsuits are the only things that will save them, and have added Microsoft as the most recent defendant. The adult magazine already lost its cases against Google and Amazon, but is appealing the court ruling [...]
‘Web 3.0,’ Apparently, Has Interchangeable Parts
If Eric Schmidt’s right, the business world is in for another love-hate relationship around the bend: so-called Web 3.0. I say "so-called" because it’s kinda silly. But Schmidt’s interpretation of this hypothetical means, inherently, even more control for the consumer, and less for the seller/marketer/developer. At the Seoul Digital Forum, while addressing a room of [...]
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