Amnesty Intl Goes After Yahoo!

Amnesty International is putting pressure on Yahoo! to plead for the release of imprisoned Chinese journalist Shi Tao. Yahoo! released email account information that led to a 10-year prison sentence for Shi Tao after releasing government information to overseas news organizations.

Email Kills Telegram STOP Few Notice STOP

The Western Union telegram (the singing one, too) is dead. And in case you thought sending telegrams was a means of communication that died with The Three Stooges, or was trapped in Technicolor with Bugs Bunny, you were mistaken. Until last week, Western Union was sending 55 telegrams a day on average.

Search Engines Flag Down Super Ads

While many people will argue over the replay of Ben Roethlisberger's "touchdown" run, many more will want to replay the Super Bowl advertisements, and can choose from video on AOL, Yahoo or Google.

Enterprise Software Summit

I'm at the Enterprise Software Summit in Sundance, Utah. When I was here two years ago, the talk was on Consolidation (with Siebel and Peoplesoft executives in attendance) and Business Models.