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- Tom Ilube ponders 'social verification' with FOAF
- Writing today in the latest issue of Nodalities Magazine, Garlik CEO Tom Ilube tackles the increasingly fraught subject of Identity Theft before moving past it to consider notions of 'social verification.' Tom's company, Garlik, offers a product called DataPatrol that helps UK consumers track information about themselves...
- Blog posts 2008-05-16
- XP on XO: Negroponte has lost his bearings
- At ZD's Hardware 2.0 blog, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes cites this quote from former OLPC developer Ivan Krstic about Nicholas Negroponte's rapidly shifting mission statement: In fact, I quit when Nicholas told me — and not just me — that learning was never part of the mission....
- Blog posts 2008-05-16
- Office 2008 for Mac: The straw that broke the backs of Microsoft's Windows developers?
- Could it be that a Macintosh program will be the tipping point for the confidence that ISVs have in Microsoft as a technology partner? One c-level technologist for a Windows enterprise app says "no more" to Redmond's vision. I wrote the other day about Microsoft's Mac Business...
- Blog posts 2008-05-16
- 2007 US ad revenues up 26%
- The Interactive Advertising Bureau IAB and PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP PwC announced that the 2007 Internet Advertising Revenue Report shows Internet advertising revenues in the US continued their upward climb. For the full year 2007, revenues totaled $21.2 bln, exceeding 2006 performance by 26%, itself the former record year. Q4 2007 Internet...
- Blog posts 2008-05-16
- Rumor Mill: What's next from Apple (updated)
- It's Friday, which means that it's time to look at the latest raft of rumors about our favorite Cupertino company. Atom-powered mini-tablet This one was pretty hot. ZDNet.de reported that Intel Germany CEO Hannes Schwaderer confirmed that there is an iPhone that will be using Intel's...
- Blog posts 2008-05-16
- Ready for the iProd?
- I felt certain this was an April Fool's joke, but apparently there's a real patent application behind it. (Picture from New Scientist.) Call it the iProd. The idea is you load it with answers to health-related questions, which the device uses to create a...
- Blog posts 2008-05-16
- Open Source in 2013
- <satire> <source> Thank you. (Picture from Fox, America's only network. My picture at the top of this blog is expected to look much like this one in 2013, if I shave and get the combover right.) The hectic but repetitive routine of business and journalism often seems...
- Blog posts 2008-05-16
- Mashups turn into an industry as offerings mature
- There were a great many product announcements at Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco last month, but it was the number of announcements around Web-based mashups in particular that received a large share of attendee and media attention. By my count there were at least nine significant announcements in...
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- Federal charges in MySpace suicide case
- Federal prosecutors have indicted Lori Drew for actions on MySpace that led 13-year-old Megan Meier right to kill herself, USA Today reports. She was charged with one count of conspiracy and three counts of computer crimes. The grand jury charges that she accessed protected computers without authorization to...
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- Collaboration 2.0...
- For the last couple of years I've been in the trenches managing a sizeable collaboration space across three continents for a large multinational enterprise. The diplomacy, strategy, tactics and sheer hard work of managing, building and running this type of space can be all consuming, particularly with...
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- Yahoo to Icahn: You misunderstand
- Yahoo's board has responded to activist investor Carl Icahn: "Your letter reflects a significant misunderstanding of the facts about the Microsoft proposal." That letter--delivered by Icahn earlier Thursday Techmeme--has one theme: Yahoo's board botched the Microsoft deal and hasn't served shareholder interest. In its...
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- BriefingsDirect Insights analysts probe future of online advertising and find transactional lucre lurking
- Read a full transcript of the podcast. The future of online advertising captures the headlines and attention when the likes of Microsoft courts the likes of Yahoo! And Wall Street still has a hard time figuring out how much Google is worth, based on just those little...
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- Microsoft delivers another update to Office Live Workspace
- Microsoft rolled out quietly on May 15 its 1.1 update to its Office Live Workspace service, which is currently in beta test. The 1.1 bits are available from the Microsoft Downloads site. adds performance updates, making Office Live Workspace run faster with Microsoft Office programs, plus the...
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- What open source teaches publishers
- I have a more in-depth analysis of today's C|Net news on my personal blog. But there are important comments to make about open source and what it implies to publishers. (What does this classic Geico commercial have to do with anything? Patience, grasshopper.) The...
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- Bell Canada's packet inspection violates privacy law, group says
- And you didn't like Comcast's TCP resets. Something far more egregious is going on in Canada, where Bell Canada has been engaged in deep-packet inspection of traffic. Bell is using DPI to find and limit the use of peer-to-peer applications such as BitTorrent, which it says are congesting its network,...
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- The newspaper's last stand
- Interesting news today...or was it yesterday? I have no idea. I got off an eleven hour flight from Johannesburg this morning, and then had to race to the US embassy to get more visa pages in my passport because I've managed to fill every available visa slot with stamps, causing...
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- Safari "Carpet Bomb" attack information released
- Nitesh Dhanjani released information about some of his newest research on the Safari web browser this morning, and interestingly enough, Apple has decided NOT to fix some of the issues he presented. Dhanjani reported three issues, as follows below from his blog: 1. Safari Carpet Bomb.It...
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- The real question: Is Microsoft still interested in Yahoo?
- I actually believed Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer when he said he was walking away from buying Yahoo. I wasn't among the crowd who thought Ballmer was just posturing, waiting for Yahoo stock prices to plummet and Yahoo shareholder lawsuits to mount before sweeping back in and getting Yahoo for a...
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- Icahn launches Yahoo proxy fight; Mark Cuban's return?
- As expected, billionaire Carl Icahn launched his proxy war to turn over Yahoo's board of directors and one of his nominees is Mark Cuban, who sold Broadcast.com to Yahoo and then took those funds to buy the Dallas Mavericks. Just for entertainment value I may buy a...
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- We've been acquired: CBS buys CNET
- Nothing like scanning the headlines and finding out your parent company has been acquired. CBS Corporation To Acquire CNET Networks, Inc. The details: "Under the terms of the agreement, CBS will make a cash tender offer for all issued and outstanding shares of CNET Networks for $11.50 per...
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
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