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Monthly Archives: January 2007
Yahoo to try the Weblogs Inc, Federated Media, and Gawker Media strategy
Full story at TechDirt.
Ok, maybe it is not exactly like thoes models. Weblogs Inc does do blogs on Apple, Google, and XBox, and thoes are certainly brands. If I just hope they hire some people with passion. …
Jason Calacanis and Mike Arrington plan a ‘free to present’ startup showcase
Full story here.
This is a great idea. I agree that people like Chris Shipley are just there to skim-off the VC money that startups received by charging an insane amount of money just to present (but I give …
Business plans do not matter as much as connections to key people
This is what I keep telling my business partners as I go to meetups, Barcamps, and geek dinners by myself. Phil Leigh interviews Dr. Benson Honig, entrepreneurship professor at Wilfrid Laurier University for Podtech.net. Social entrepreneurship is an …
Posted in I heard it on a podcast, Social Web
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Google Homepage Adds New Features
Last week I had just switched from Netvibes back to Google Home Page as my RSS reader. This time, I decided to use the tab feature so that I would only have about 10 to 15 feeds per …
Posted in Web 2.0
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Linking is Not a Crime
Check out this banner that Ross Mayfield of SocialText made. Here is his blog post about it. It his regarding a case where Eli Lilly sued a blogger who made a wiki about Zyprexa. The case …
Posted in First Amendment
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Farce: “Without D.R.M., legal online music stores would not exist.”
Via TechMeme, the New York Times is rehashing Apple’s DRM now that the iPhone has been announced. They quote Apple’s lawyers in Melanie Tucker v. Apple Computer Inc, where Mrs. Tucker complained that she could not buy music …
Help Oppose the PERFORM Act
Via BoingBoing and TechDirt, Diane Feinstein (D-Ca) seeks to make music listening more difficult and more expensive for everyone across America to line the pockets of villainous organizations such as the RIAA.
Take action here at EFF.org. There …
iPhone’s affect on Apple’s and competitor’s stocks
My friend who has stock in Apple just e-mailed this to me.
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Brian Oberkirch’s conversation with Jeremiah Owyang
Check out this conversation with my two favorite guys in the social media space, Brian Oberkirch and Jeremiah Owyang. They bring up all of the great points about using social media in a corporate setting. Jeremiah is …
Firefox 3: Connecting your web apps with Microformats
Richard MacManus reports that Firefox 3 will allow semantic markups that connects your web apps together. This is a great idea, one that seems to merge the web 2.0 paradigm with the semantic web paradigm. However, I …
