(Woops) Telecoms Help Make Case For Neutral Net
One of the more parroted talking points against Net Neutrality has been verbalized this way: It’s a solution in search of a problem. Rather snide, really, if you think about it, and is a remark that usually accompanies a brush off to concerns of gatekeeper abuses.
Facebook’s AceBucks Bring In $1.5 Million
As regular readers will know, I’m wary of Facebook applications. I’m especially wary of ones that require or (in the case of AceBucks) imitate real money. But the more I think about it, the more it makes sense that Buddy Media, which owns the AceBucks app, has raised $1.5 million.
Facebook To Expand Globally
Facebook has plans to translate its Web site into foreign languages as it attempts to capture a larger share of the global market.
Strategies For Getting Into Podcasting
Murdok’ Kara Ratliff caught up to Roxanne Darling from Bare Feet Studios and Beach Walks with Rox at the 2007 Podcast and New Media Expo.
Microsoft Backs New Postal Technology
Depending on how much you trust the current government that likes to tap phones and secretly search your houses, an electronic form of paper mail that you can receive anywhere, anytime might be a good thing. At least you won’t to worry about anthrax.
Steve Jobs Inspires Yahoo
It’s an exciting, strange, and, for Yahoo’s sake, hopefully encouraging piece of news: Steve Jobs gave the search engine company’s executives a pep talk.
Court Rejects Mans Suit Against Yahoo
A man who wanted to run for Governor of New York but did not receive enough signatures to be placed on the ballot has lost his attempt to sue Yahoo and Ask.com for undermining his "master election plan."
Skype Paid Off, And Zennstrom Departs
Niklas Zennstrom has left his role as CEO of Skype, the VoIP firm eBay purchased in September 2005, and eBay will eat a substantial charge to push him out the door.
Integrate Podcasting Into Your Marketing
Eric Schwartzman, Founder and Chairman of iPressroom, was video interviewed by Murdok reporter Kara Ratliff at the Podcast & New Media Expo.
Hey, Shakespeare! Nobody Cares; Web Writing Tips
Writing for the Web is tricky business because there is no audience more diverse. Writers, especially purist writers (I’m pointing at myself both accusatorily and guiltily), are stubborn, especially ones honed in a print world where the appropriate audience finds you or rejects in distant silence, and writers (secretly) want you to bask in their brilliance.