The Web Has Become the Organization
The Web has become the organization. An organization of a billion people with a billion things to say. And a million ways to work together.
Alan Cox Files DRM Patent
Digital Rights Management (DRM) technology is a method of content protection that can limit the use of content to specific platforms, devices or other such methods as deemed by the content manufacturer. The practice has been widely scrutinized as of late, specifically in terms of digital music.
UN Will Not Control The Internet
The new head of the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), Hamadoun Toure has no new plans to change the oversight of the Internet.
Wikinomics and Mainstream Web 2.0
Along with Toronto blogosphere luminaries such as David Crow of Ambient Vector and DemoCamp fame, Mark Kuznicki of Remarkk, ex-Flockster Will Pate (soon to be a Torontonian, I hear), Eli Singer of CaseCamp and Tom Purves of firestoker, I attended the launch of Don Tapscott’s new book Wikinomics – subtitled “How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything” – on Thursday at U of T. My first thought? Bob Rae looks a bit like a Muppet character.
AOL Looks to Acquire TradeDoubler
Early Monday, Time Warner announced plans to purchase TradeDoubler, a European provider of online marketing and sales services. The deal, which has yet to be finalized, is reported to cost the company around $900 million.
An iSCSI debate….
I loved Chuck Hollis’ (EMC) blog, and equally enjoyed both Dave Hitz and Tony Asaro’s responses. With EMC, Netapp, and another ESG’er pontificating on an issue, it must be good.
Microsoft Releasing Web Analytics Tool: Gastineau
Marshall Sponder turned me on to a post from Ian Thomas at Microsoft confirming the rumors that Microsoft is building a web analytics application code named Gastineau.
CRM, Customer Experience, Gethuman and Decisioning
Curiously I came across two references to gethuman.com in my browsing recently.
Napster To Take Over AOL Music Now
AOL and Napster announced Friday that Napster will become the exclusive music subscription provider for AOL Music. The two companies will partner to migrate approximately 350,000 paid subscribers of the Music Now service to Napster’s digital music subscription service.
Overstock.com Comes Clean
Recently, I posted an entry about social media attacking – a post focusing on the AntiSocialMedia.net blog that many felt was developed solely to harass critics of Overstock.com. Well, this is no longer a speculative issue because Judd Bagley, director of social media at the shopping site has admitted he is the administrator of the […]