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March 11, 2010
ReadWriteWeb
Today, the California Health and Human Services convened a summit with an expected three hundred people in the interest of a state HIE (Health Information Exchange). This project has been tasked by volunteers and state groups and led by Jonah Fro...
First, we'd like to thank all 596 survey respondents and the many Open Thread commenters who gave such interesting and valuable feedback in our recent post "Should Social Media Experts Be Required to Know Their Tech?"
Over the past couple days, w...
Reporters Without Borders released its annual report [PDF] on online access today. They call it Enemies of the Internet, and it shows a world where online censorship, intimidation and worse is increasing.
It's not surprising that as access to the...
Location based social networks - are you over it already? It feels like location is all we ever hear about anymore, especially this week leading up to SXSW.
We're excited about location too; see our enthusiastic write-ups What Twitter's Geolocat...
March 10, 2010
paidContent
At the powerhouse Abu Dhabi Media Summit here at Yas Island in Abu Dhabi, two of the biggest third-party search deals are being negotiated behind the scenes, we have learned. It just so happens...
Heres why Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) is launching a completely new smartphone OS later this year. The latest smartphone platform market share figures, courtesy of comScore:
In Rob Glasers first public appearance since stepping down as CEO of RealNetworks (NSDQ: RNWK), he implored that it is incumbent upon companies to work together in order for the wireless sector...
March 9, 2010
paidContent
Googles proposed (and now delayed) acquisition of mobile ad network AdMob appears to be drawing even more regulatory scrutiny from the FTC. Bloomberg cites sources who say that regulators now w...
Googles proposed acquisition of mobile ad network AdMob appears to be drawing even more regulatory scrutiny from the FTC. Bloomberg cites sources who say that regulators now want sworn declarat...
News Corp. (NYSE: NWS) may shed the ailing Fox Mobile Group, including the Jamba and Jamster brands, to focus on digital properties, like MySpace, reports The Financial Times.
A sale would no...
Why CNN considers Facebook to be more of a threat than other broadcast media orgs. [Mashable]
MySpace (NYSE: NWS) loses chief architects and a development manager to Gravity, a s...
Two smallbut noteworthyacquisitions for Thing Labs, the company behind Facebook and Twitter web client Brizzly: Thing Labs has purchased Wikirank, a tool that let users visualize and compare th...
In an appearance this morning at a Seattle breakfast event, former FCC Chairman Kevin Martin, who is now a partner at Patton Boggs, was careful not to poke any jabs at the current administratio...
One of the favorite sports of most media conferences these days involves trotting out Wired editor Chris Andersons freemium ideawhich is predicated on balancing free online and paid premium con...
Eyeblaster, which filed for an IPO in October 2008 only to withdraw it three months later citing market conditions, is trying to go public again. The company notified the SEC today it hopes to ...
Google (NSDQ: GOOG)which has spent much of the last year talking about how it is making more money off of YouTubeis now beginning to monetize YouTubes mobile site. In a blog post, the company s...
In another bit of EMI news, less vital to the companys future than todays latest change at the top, OK Go and Capitol Records have parted ways after nine years through mutual agreement. OK Go ...
This is the TV ad Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) hopes will give its search engine a fighting chance against Google.
Made by WPPs JWT, the Bing and Decide campaign will run for three months on UK commercial TV and web.
Microsofts press release: The ads...
[In progress] Its the Bloomberg BusinessWeek Media Summit now, but the two-day conference is still at the McGraw-Hill (NYSE: MHP) Building. CNN President Jon Klein led off in a Q&A with Blo...
The biggest frenemies together: Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google (NSDQ: GOOG) & Maurice Levy of Publicis, one of the largest ad holding companies:
Well have the full video of Schmidts speech and Q&A from here, later this afternoon. Meanwhile...
By Jane Martinson: Jonathan Miller, head of digital media at News Corporation (NYSE: NWS), said today that dual revenue streams are likely to co-exist as media organisations try ways of making ...
In 2008, Terra Firma hired the guy who ran the company which makes Cillit Bang and Air Wick to turn EMI Music around. But now the record label finds itself seeking a reported £100 million to a...
MySpace (NYSE: NWS) pulled up the curtain a little this week, letting in some light on a makeover still very much in progress and marking a debut of sorts for Co-Presidents Mike Jones and Jason...
Like many other developers, uLocate works closely with ad networks to monetize WHERE, its free mobile app that is available on a number of carrier networks and Android, iPhone and Palm (NSDQ: P...
Barring a last-minute fix or change of strategy, at midnight Tuesday Hulu.com will switch from a co-host for online video of the Daily Show with Jon Stewart and The Colbert Report to a referral...
Nine months since relaunching its search engine, Bings market share continues to inch up. Its now at 11.5 percent, up from 8 percent prior to its remake, according to the latest comScore (NSDQ:...
February 23, 2010
GigaOM
Spotify, one of my favorite new companies, is getting more money. Earlier today, Michael Arrington reported that he had heard from multiple sources that the Founders Fund has invested in the fast growing European start-up.
We do not know the size...
Yahoo, like Microsoft and Google before it, has struck a deal to get access Twitters to real-time firehose of tweets. Starting Tuesday, tweets will appear on Yahoos front-page search results in real time (Yahoo had previously included tweets but n...
Dr. Mohit Kaushaul
Intel, GE and the Mayo Clinic today said they would conduct a year-long study to find out if remotely monitoring patients via gear made by the two companies and hooked up to a home broadband connection can keep them out of emer...
February 22, 2010
GigaOM
Hooked Media, a venture-backed startup based in San Francisco, launched a platform today that it hopes will take social and casual games like Farmville and Bejeweled and give them a life beyond Facebook or a single web site, allowing players to ...
The Federal Communications Commission this morning released results from its national broadband consumer survey, and the findings will surprise no one. The FCC, which will officially present the document in Washington on Tuesday morning, found tha...
Forget everything you did today. Clear your schedule and spend the next half hour watching this video. It is a presentation by Jesse Schell, founder of Schell Games and former creative director of the Disney Imagineering Virtual Reality Studio. A veteran game designer, he is also on the faculty of the Entertainment Technology Center at Carnegie Mellon University.
In a recent talk at the DICE 2010 conference held last week in Las Vegas, he gave a presentation called Design Outside The Box. It is the most mi...
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Twitter disclosed earlier today that it has crossed 50 million tweets per day. Thats a stat with a direct equivalent: Facebook status updates. As of earlier this month, Facebook had 60 million status updates per day. To be fair, Facebook doesnt se...
February 21, 2010
ReadWriteWeb
Twitter founder Evan Williams posted a message yesterday that was easy to misunderstand: "Met the Dalai Lama today in LA. Pitched him on using Twitter. He laughed."
Some one had already set up the account @DalaiLama though, one week before Wil...
It has been well over a month since the devastating earthquake struck near the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince, and while thousands of relief workers have flocked to the island, some of the efforts are still in the planning stage. Though innovat...
Every entrepreneur will tell you that recruiting the right candidate is important. While startups are constantly trying to find programmers that mesh well with their culture, team and work-style, one article suggests that companies still struggle ...
A first peek at Apple's new data center in Maiden, North Carolina, shows a massive complex that demonstrates the huge commitment Apple may be making to cloud computing.
According to Data Center Knowledge, the $1 billion data center is 500,000 squ...
Twitter just announced that it now sees 50 million non-spam messages every day. That's interesting but it means more when you look at it in context.
The company says that means there are 600 tweets per second. According to a separate Tweet by Twitter's new VP of Communications this afternoon, approximately 83 tweets per second contain product or brand references (20%). Here are some other interesting numbers and an official chart. Putting Twitter in context, Facebook and YouTube remain much larger.
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A popular trend among startups these days is to create a video pitch. Cameras are cheaper, and do-it-yourself applications like iMovie on the Mac make video editing fun and easy. But like any form of new media, video is not just a secondary platfo...
Buying and selling stuff on the Internet surely has come a long way. Just a decade ago, most of us would never be caught dead shopping for real, live goods on the Internet. Who knows what you'll get, right? Order a pair of size nine shoes and get ...
There is no dearth of streaming music services on the web today, so it takes quite a bit for a new service to stand out from other popular services like Spotify, MOG and Lala. Today, we came across Bitspace, an online music player and backup servi...
We don't know about you, but we're sort of a fan of being a fan of things on Facebook. It can be useful a way to keep up with what's going on at the White House, for example. Or you can let the world know that you enjoy "Not Being On Fire", in cas...
U.S. authorities have tracked down the hacker who wrote the code behind the attacks on Google last month.
The man is a freelance security consultant with ties to the Chinese government and military. The Chinese government had access to his work, ...
Google knows you. It knows what type of car you drive from that time, last year, when you looked up the where you could find a cheap set of tires. It knows that you like Mexican food from all the times you've looked on Google Maps. And Google knows how to leverage this type of information with services like Google AdWords, AdSense, and DoubleClick Ad Exchange but now it's moving into what it's calling "the next generation of ad serving" - a simplified, streamlined ad server.
While Google currently has the ...
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Seesmic will release a major update of its web-based Twitter client Seesmic Web today that will introduce a number of new features like drag and drop list management, TweetMeme integration, threaded conversations and a new way to view and manage your retweets. Seesmic Web now also includes a very handy new contact manager for Twitter.
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Drag and Drop List Creation
The nicest new feature in Seesmic Web is the ability to drag and drop contacts to any list. Compared to TweetDeck and other desktop too...
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At the recent Mobile World Congress 2010, Dutch app store analytics firm Distimo presented their findings on the six largest mobile application stores in existence today: the iTunes App Store, BlackBerry App World, Google Android Market, Nokia Ovi...
Are people are who they really say they are online? Conventional wisdom tells us that social networking sites, blogs and other social media outlets have allowed people to carefully craft online "personas" - essentially idealized versions of who they are in real life. Are you wittier online? More outgoing? More social? Friendlier? For those hiding behind the keyboard and computer screen, personality traits like these are easier to fake. Or are they?
According to a recent research study, maybe not. Psycholo...
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Last week I had the privilege of meeting Adam Greenfield, author of Everyware: The Dawning Age of Ubiquitous Computing. It's one of my favorite books about the Internet of Things and is still ahead of the curve, even though it was written in 2005 ...
For months, we've been fielding rumors (and filtering out the facts) about MySpace's proposed redesign and rebranding.
Tonight's report on TechCrunch outlines a few minor details of the overall plan to stop the site's hemorrhaging users and stem ...
What do you get when a Christian pastor, an atheist, a grad student and a lawyer set up a website to criticize churches?
I swear, this isn't a bad joke. It's a very real site, ChurchRater, and it allows anyone with an Internet connection to identify and review church services around the world. Is the site inspiring frank conversations about worship and religion, as its creators intended? Is it allowing sometimes closed or cliqueish communities to see how they appear to outsiders? Or does it, as some users ...
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Our good friend Steve Garfield is a terrific fellow and also happens to be one of the Web's first video bloggers. As part of a series called The New Rules of Social Media, he's just published a book that lays out a complete roadmap for online vide...
February 10, 2010
GigaOM
Time Warner Cable plans to expand its DOCSIS 3.0 broadband upgrades in portions of Texas, Ohio and upstate New York during the first half of this year, according to Light Reading. Ive emailed the company for confirmation, but really Im hoping that...
If music subscription service Rhapsody hoped that adding mobile phone applications would turn around its fortunes, a new quarterly report from primary stakeholder RealNetworks suggests otherwise. Newly independent Rhapsodys subscriber base shrank ...
Things seem to be humming along in the Facebook game market: Zynga, the leading Facebook game company, with popular apps such as Mafia Wars and Farmville (whose users recently sent half a billion valentines to each other in 48 hours), has agree...
Weve kept a close eye on Chinese telecommunications equipment vendor Huawei for the last few years, and today the company justified our attention by telling me in an interview that in 2009 it grew its North American sales by 63 percent to $408 mil...
Opera Software today released the beta of Opera 10.5 for Windows. The big improvement in this new release is a new JavaScript engine; Opera claims that its eight times faster than the previous version.
As the web apps we rely on get increasingly ...
Google has acquired the social search startup Aardvark for $50 million, according to TechCrunch. Weve asked both companies for comment, as well as our friends and friends of friends on Aardvark (thats what it does), but havent gotten official conf...
Peter Sunde, apparently not content with having co-founded the worlds most popular index of copyright-infringing movies, music and software (the BitTorrent tracker known as The Pirate Bay) as well as inspiring the creation of an actual political...
The mobile browser startup Skyfire is joining the increasingly crowded WebKit bandwagon by buying kolbysoft, maker of Steel, a WebKit-based Android browser that appears to have cultivated a tiny but dedicated base of fans whove downloaded the app...
Some music blogs skirt the edges of legality (and some completely ignore it) when it comes to posting mp3 files of their favorite songs. But a number of popular music blogs say Google deleted their blogs without warning, despite the fact that th...
Apple just a few years ago became the leader in online music sales by offering a cheap, easy way to purchase songs and an attractive device on which to listen to them. Now, by halving the price of TV shows sold through iTunes, Apple is looking to ...
Aspera today launched a version of its rapid file transport software for the iPhone, which will allow iPhone users to squeeze their picture and video files through the crappiest connection that AT&T may have to offer. And it makes the transfer...
Google Buzz has received a ton of hype as a potential Twitter/Facebook/Foursquare/Yelp-killer, but its only fully available on about 80 percent of Android devices on the market. And thats got some of those older Android users furious.
As Android ...
Google today announced an audacious plan to build what is essentially the most cutting-edge broadband network in the United States. While it is being mis-portrayed in certain segments of the media as an ISP effort, in reality it is nothing more th...
Edgar Bronfman Jr.
Warner Music Group president Edgar Bronfman this week articulated what we’ve known for quite some time: that major record labels have lost confidence in the free streaming model for music consumption and, by extension, the fre...
It is not good to talk ill of the dead. It is okay, however to speak the truth, however harsh it might seem, about the living dead.
Rupert Murdoch’s $580 million MySpace purchase has outlived not only its utility, but has also finally hit its exp...
Owen Van Natta, the former Facebook executive who was picked to revive MySpace last April, is stepping down, News Corp just announced. Hell be replaced by two of his hires, Mike Jones and Jason Hirschhorn, who now each share the title of co-president, reporting to News Corp digital CEO Jon Miller.
Circumstances around the shake-up arent clear yet. Miller was quoted in a press release as basically saying that Van Nattas personal and professional priorities werent in alignment with MySpace. One thing is clear: Running MySpace, and trying to bring it back to relevance, is a tough job.
Google Buzz, in case you hadnt noticed, has been getting lots ofwell, buzz since being unveiled yesterday. Depending on your perspective, its either a huge Facebook-Twitter-MySpace-Yelp-Foursquare killer, or its a giant disappointment and theref...
January 14, 2010
GigaOM
Skype, a big proponent of open networks and net neutrality, in a filing today with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) argued that net neutrality was about growing the broadband ecosystem and preserving a borderless, open Internet and it would promote investment, jobs and innovation.
The company said that it welcomes the Commission’s focus on preserving an open Internet and strongly supports the proposed six principles described in the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM.)Earlier, FCC had come up w...
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Cake Financial, a social web service for sharing stock portfolios, has been acquired by E-Trade. The service is to be shut down, information destroyed and account payments reimbursed, according to a thinly positive landing page letter from Cake CE...
December 16, 2009
Compete Blog
A couple months ago, my mp3 player developed an unhealthy obsession with Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believing”. It would turn on, regardless of the time of day or night, and play “Don’t Stop Believing” on repeat until I was able to hit it a few times and stifle its cry for attention. With the [...]
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August 17, 2009
TechCrunch
Lets not beat around the bush: The G1 was not a very good phone. Thats not to say Android isnt a good mobile OS — it is, its just that the initial hardware built to run the OS didnt do it justice. It was poorly designed and had a fairly cheap feel...
Oh, this is rich. The Nambu Network, owners of the URL-shortening service Tr.im announced today that the service will go open source on or before September 15 of this year. Thats odd since the service has now gone from completely shutting down, to...
A Manifesto
I believe in Twitter. I believe people want to use it and that it is useful to them. Im less sure of its susceptibility to monetization, but then again, I cover cameras and ramen-bots, not internet business. Still, since Im coming dow...
As more details emerge about the MySpace-iLike acquisition, all sorts of interesting observations and questions pop up. A few thoughts:
The Facebook Angle
This is by far the most interesting angle to the deal. iLike is the most popular music appli...
Local news always seems to get the short end of the stick, both in terms of coverage and advertising dollars. And as the entire newspaper industry continues to struggle for survival, the prospects for local news looks particularly bleak. It jus...
Live video streaming service Ustream is being sued by Square Ring, Inc, a boxing promotional company owned by professional boxer Roy Jones, Jr. The suit alleges that Ustream has committed massive and blatant copyright infringement by allowing 2,3...
The aptly named Bryan Appleyard had an interesting profile in the Times of London. He wrote about Steve Jobs without actually being allowed to talk to the man and resulting tale sounds more like a Mark Oliver profile of the Bilderbergers than a f...
Even though they havent really found a big audience yet, hyperlocal news sites are becoming a hot commodity. In June, AOL bought Patch for $7 million, and today MSNBC acquired EveryBlock. EveryBlock was previously funded by a grant from the Knight Foundation, which ended in June. The five employees will now work at MSNBC.
The price was not disclosed, but like the Patch acquisition, it is not an audience acquisition. Rather it is a hyperlocal platform play which MSNBC can now plug into its site and push...
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We're a few weeks away from the official release of Snow Leopard and I'm here to tell you things are really heating up in the realm of Exchange Support, OpenCL, and being able to click on an icon to make all of its windows appear.
Sorry. I'm just...
BlogTalkRadio is a popular podcasting site with about 4.5 million listeners a month. And its no stranger to large-scale live podcasts, as some pull in more than 20,000 listeners while theyre going on. But on Wednesday, the service is likely to see...
Benchmark Capital is investing in Danish startup Zendesk, and led a $6 million B round of funding. Benchmarks rock star partner Peter Fenton is joining the board.
Zendesk just raised money in May in an A round from Charles River Partners, which...
MySpace is close to acquiring popular social music service iLike, weve confirmed with multiple sources. The deal, which should close this week, will be MySpaces first acquisition since new CEO Owen Van Natta took control of the company in April 20...
We first broke the news about Dell releasing a smartphone exclusively for the Chinese market eight days ago. Some pieces of information on the so-called Mini 3i leaked a few days after, and today the Android device finally saw the light of day d...
We'll probably have some more details on this later today, but we're able to spill some of it now seeing as much of it just went live on Samsung's own site.
If you haven't been keeping up with all the latest in Samsung news, here's what you nee...
Its less than two months old, and GDGT is already getting some high profile attention, and maybe even a few acquisition sniffs.
One of our reliable sources told us today that they had reason to believe both CBS/CNET and Amazon were considering ac...
Wakoopa tracks your desktop application usage in order to recommend new software, games and web applications. It has two main groups of users: professionals and hedonists. The professionals are using it to track their working hours, while hedonist...
Last month, our post about MySpace debuting Pearl Jams new single turned into a debate over who could rightly claim to be the true kings of grunge. Regardless of where you stand on that, lets agree that Pearl Jams new album is starting to sound gr...
Having witnessed the extent to which humans are involved in transcribing messages for SpinVox (the voicemail to text service), I have become concerned about the privacy of my data and personal communications. Although Ive now cancelled my SpinVox ...
A team of Yahoo veterans who built its behavioral targeting advertising technology are publicly launching a hybrid ad network today called Rocket Fuel, which theyve tested over the past year with major brands including Nike, Dell, Microsoft, and...