UK Home Secretary Talks About Internet, Terrorism
When Queen Elizabeth’s YouTube channel was unveiled, we thought it was great. A soon-to-follow channel from the British Foreign Office didn’t seem like a waste. But there was a definite drop-off in the quality of ideas, and the latest thing – a sort of Internet anti-terror plan – is really raising some eyebrows.
Yahoo embraces OpenID as login standard
The Yahoo ID used by its members to login to services like Flickr and Yahoo Mail will soon be usable to authenticate to sites supporting the OpenID standard.
Google Video Grabs 31 Percent Of Market
YouTube continues to be Google’s good luck charm in video, when it comes to visitors and traffic to videos, anyway.
eComm 2008 is Coming Up
I noticed that eComm 2008 is coming up, 3/12-14. Take a look at what Martin Gedd, on the advisory board, said on his blog:
BEA & Oracle Customers Should Expect Major Shifts
CMS Watch, a vendor-neutral analyst firm that evaluates content technologies, has found that some of the largest enterprise portal vendors are experiencing the most change right now, and therefore, choices that appear conservative to customers might actually carry significant near-term risks. BEA and Oracle customers in particular should expect to see major shifts pending yesterday’s acquisition, as four, overlapping enterprise portal products will compete for attention under Larry Ellison.
Disney Reigns In Online Production Unit
Had the movie "Pocahontas" never been released, my life would be pretty much unchanged, and that’s the case for a lot of Disney stuff. But by delaying the debut of an online production unit called Stage 9, the company appears to have held up some very interesting shows.
ESPN To Cover Gaming
I might let you call me a prophet, a little earlier than expected. I kid, I kid, and I was kidding in March 2006 when I asked readers not to call me that for another 20 years. It wasn’t too hard to predict, thanks to a Microsoft patent about it, and in 2008 comes the next stage: ESPN’s coverage of professional video gaming.
The Digg Reel Courts Viacom Anger
Revision3 added a new show to their lineup, featuring the best of user-submitted videos hitting the Digg social media site.
NCAA Live Blogging, No More
I searched for the term “sports blog” and received over 30 million results on any given search engine and received over 24 thousand results on Technorati. But the real question is why am I searching for a sports blog anyways?
Tracking Blog Effectiveness
There are a lot of data points that can be meaningful for tracking blog effectiveness. That is, tracking what happens when visitors arrive at and engage with your blog content. It really comes down to the purpose of your blog. Metrics for a blog that’s focused on making a web site more search engine friendly by adding crawlable content and attracting links is quite different than a blog that’s meant to build thought leadership or brand credibility.