AOL Challenges iPhone With Mobile Winamp
AOL is set to launch a new mobile product next week that will allow users to connect to their PC-based music collections from their mobile phones. An extension of the hardly noticed Winamp Remote PC-to-PC media streaming service that launched earlier, the PC-to-mobile service, in effect, turns a mobile phone into a MP3 player.
Flickr Filtering
Yesterday Flickr introduced a new feature on their service called "Filtering." Filtering is a tool whereby users can designate their desired level of browsing (i.e. show me everything on Flickr un-filtered, or screen out material that has been tagged inappropriate by the user community). It also allows users the ability to designate in advance if they feel that things that they are uploading might be considered objectionable and allowing them to mark their images accordingly.
GoFish Adds Extreme Sports Videos
GoFish, an online video company has announced the licensing of sports-related videos from Adrenalina and Movie Made Productions. The agreement will give the GoFish community access to a variety of extreme sports videos.
Currently GoFish has almost 9 million monthly unique users and the agreement with Adrenalina’s and Movie Made Productions will add hundreds of new shows to their network that will focus on sports and lifestyle programming.
Eight Ways To Google Network
A scenario we’ve suggested before comes back from time to time with new, circumstantial evidence it is going to happen; we’re referring to the potential for a Google-operated wireless network, with Wi-Fi and maybe even phone service under their banner.
YouTube? Eh, MySpace Is The One To Watch
All of us that doubted the power of MySpace should be ashamed ourselves. I was chief among the doubters, nearly certain that once MySpace’s teenybopper base grew up, News Corp. would feel the pain of it in the wallet. But two things happened: MySpace blew up YouTube; and last week blew up MSN Video.
Taking Out A Second Mortgage In Second Life
Buying a home is usually the single largest investment that the average individual will make over the span of their life. Careful thought and planning are exercised when determining how much of a mortgage to take on, how large of a home to purchase, and what realtor to use.
Usability and SEM Virtual Education Opportunities
Learn from your living room or heck, just stay in bed. The following are some educational and information opportunties coming up in the user centered design, human factors and search marketing industries.
Human Factors
Lead Nurturing – The YouTube Approach
Content is critical for lead nurturing. Whether it is a case study, new research on some aspect of your industry, a how-to guide, or a whitepaper, content is what makes your lead nurturing programs work – and lead nurturing is what helps marketing drive more revenue to sales.
Business Rules & the Rational Process
Periodically I get asked about bringing business rules into the Rational Unified Process or RUP. RUP and the Enterprise Unified Process are designed to apply UML and best practices in a formal way.
Broadband Use To Reach 100 Million
The United States has 54.6 million broadband households, while China has 46.6 million; the two countries comprise the largest broadband markets in the world.
On a global scale there were 250 broadband households at the end of 2006.