It’s certainly late in the game to jump in, although YouTube’s already got some of the groundwork laid out. Each user already has their own channel, along with a subscription service built in that lets other users link up and get notified on when new content arrives. I’m assuming the process would get reworked a [...]
Enterprises love open source but the business models necessary to fuel both their happiness and that of the vendors still need a lot of work.
Jon Williams of Kaplan Test suggested in his keynote, as Dirk Hohndel captures, that the more happy he is with his commercial open-source software, the less likely he will be [...]
And sometimes Google seems conflicted. For example, Google offers a Gmail service level agreement to paying Google Apps customers, and the point of an SLA is to assure business customers they can count on something working. Yes, Gmail has been in flux since its introduction in 2004, but enough is enough. I’m a little surprised [...]
A United Nations agency is quietly drafting technical standards, proposed by the Chinese government, to define methods of tracing the original source of Internet communications and potentially curbing the ability of users to remain anonymous.
The U.S. National Security Agency is also participating in the “IP Traceback” drafting group, named Q6/17, which is meeting next week [...]
Hey, you should have seen my breakup e-mail with Jimmy Wales.
Just kidding.
Of course, as all of Silicon Valley likely knows by now, Wikipedia’s major domo is getting razzed over at Valleywag. The geek gossip site got its hands on a breakup note and IM text Wales apparently sent to ex-squeeze, Rachel Marsden.
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Yesterday’s New York Times
story about Starbucks losing credibility among music fans has attracted
a lot of
commentary. The gist of the story: Starbucks went too mainstream by stocking artists like Alicia Keys and James Blunt, so its customers figure they might as well shop at Wal-Mart, which stocks the same CDs at lower prices. The record industry, [...]
Worried about online auction fraud? If you’re a man you should be, according to the latest Internet Crime Complaint Center report (in PDF). On average, men lost more money to online fraud than women in 2007. Men also perpetrated most of the online crime, accounting for 75 percent of the total reports last year. And [...]
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Plus, unencrypted data on thousands of prisoners in England and Wales goes missing, and while Olympic records were being broken all over the place in the last couple of weeks, QinetiQ claimed Sunday that its propeller-driven Zephyr has set a [...]
I polled several of my non-geek friends to see if the Peek interested them. All of them said it held no interest, and the reasons were something like: “I don’t check e-mail often enough to need it,” “My cell phone already gets e-mail,” and “It’s too expensive for what it does.” I find it funny [...]
At first I saw the $399.99 T700 as maybe a bit too much of a niche and was unsure it wouldn’t be able to be both a good snapshot camera and a digital photo album. In the end, however, I was left pretty impressed with the camera’s massive feature set and respectable performance.
(Credit:
Sony Electronics)
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