When Honeywell began to try out social bookmarking within its own intranet, the company got some attention for the attempt. When Honeywell established a presence in Second Life, it received the same. But, taken together, these beginnings – and their continued existence – make for an interesting picture.
Courts Becoming Busy With Blog Lawsuits
March was a busy month for lawsuits involving bloggers and webmasters. The court system taking them to task for defamatory statements, with one case becoming the first to go to trial and result in a liability verdict.
A legal system once tentative about taking on digital cases is braving the waters with more frequency. Most of the cases we’ve reported on have involved the statements of anonymous commentators, liability for which webmasters and bloggers have been repeatedly exonerated (or are expected to be). But these are different.
Before Becoming A-List Bloggers
This is not your typical rags to riches story, but an interesting rant from Jason Calacanis over at calacanis.com about what people did before they hit the A-List in blogging.
Is Blogging Becoming The New Standard?
When blogs first hit the scene, there were many who passed the practice off as ‘just another Internet trend’ and doomed the medium to failure before it ever got off the ground. Years later, blogging is still around – and it’s rapidly joining the ranks of mainstream media as a source of breaking news.
Calendar Sharing Becoming New Social Phenomenon
Online calendars have been available for many years now but the calendar-sharing feature that Google has included in Google Calendar has opened the door to a great a form of social marketing that is bound to make waves and possibly increase your bottom line.
Beta Blogger Becoming Better
The migration of users from the old version of Google’s Blogger service to the new beta will happen at an “incremental” pace.
Becoming A Web Media Mogul
It’s no secret any more that as broadband becomes more prevalent in the home, the demand for video content has spiked. An interesting new service called ClipSyndicate, which launched in Beta in April, offers web publishers a way to edit and add video news clips to websites and email newsletters, and monetize them in two ways.
Web Becoming American Pastime
What did we do for fun before the Internet? Oh yeah, other stuff. Pew Internet and American Life reports that the number of Internet users going online every day for no particular reason (a.k.a. surfing the Web) other than to kill time has matched the number that go online for news.
Google Jobs Becoming Issue Again?
Remember last year, at around this time, the difficulty of getting a job at Google was a long-running story.
Googlezon Video Becoming Reality for Google?
Gregory Lamb of The Christian Science Monitor takes a look back at the “EPIC 2014” video – a mock documentary looking back from 2014 at the merger of Google and Amazon and the death of traditional news – and wonders if it might come true after all.