The following is also my column in Advertising Age next week. As I write this column, all the talk is about the recession. There were nearly 40,000 stories in Google News in the last week mentioning the R-word.
Just because the Internet makes it possible to offer a near-infinite inventory of goods for sale does not mean that consumers will start wanting more obscure items in any great numbers. That is the conclusion Harvard Business School associate professor Anita Elberse comes to in a recent article in the Harvard Business Review that [.
There’s a new “next-generation” blog aggregator emerging onto the scene today. It’s called Regator. It’s come out of Atlanta, Georgia. And its builders, a trio of entrepreneurs that include Scott Lockhart (co-founder), Chris Turner (co-founder), and Kimberly Turner (editorial director), have managed to deliver a quite impressive piece of kit.
Following the hot, international news sensation that was the life-selling nutcase, we brings news of a new eBay nutcase. The nutcase in question is 33-year-old Canadian musician Ashley MacIssac, who rather worryingly decalred himself bankrupt in 2000, and has stuck his potential future earnings up for auction.
Google Earth is turning out to be a great resource for scientists to visualize and communicate the phenomena they study. You can see the migration patterns of endangered and other threatened animals, based on data collected by the Commission for Environmental Cooperation.
From Schmoozii’s about page- “Schmoozii, Inc. is an online business networking community designed to give business professionals a place to network with like minded individuals, learn about their profession, and find out the latest trends in their profession.
Microsoft has come out with a road map for the Ajax side of ASP.NET, which has been simplified to be just: Framework and tools in one versioned package; Ajax components will be released separately on Codeplex.
The big buzz today is around Indenti.ca, a new open source, and open platform microblogging service. That the code is open source is great in itself, but the biggest breakthrough is support for the new OpenMicroBlogging standard, which means that in theory, anyone could host the script and each service would talk to each other, [.
Adobe Systems' popular portable document format, or PDF as it's more well-known, has become the latest International Organization for Standardization (ISO) standard as of Wednesday morning. Adobe has been the key developer and patent holder of the technology, and on Wednesday passed over the entire specification of version 1.
So after yesterday's rubbish McAfee scare-mongering attempt to get us all to sign up for one of its products, us lot here at Tech Digest thought it might be good to take a look at a sample of genuine spam.
On TechCrunch, Mashable and RWW yesterday, the announcement of new blog aggregator Regator. Here’s what it looks like: Remind you at all of this? Maybe I’m just having a bad day, but it wasn’t even Justin or I that originally picked up on the similarity(ties).
It’s not every industry that gives away what would ordinarily be the key proprietary assets: source codes, communication protocols, content. In the spirit of barcamps and podcamps before it, Jeremiah Owyang is offering to hold an impromptu trade-show-cum-unconference that defies the rules of trade shows.
In the long running battle between Viacom and Google over YouTube hosting copyrighted videos, Viacom has now won a ruling to allow it to access a complete set of video viewing records, totalling some four terabytes of data.
If you’ve been frequenting Tweeterboard, an application that analyzed Twitter conversations and spewed out a list of 100 most influential Twitter users, you must have noticed that the site now sports merely a message that says “Tweeterboard is done.
Fanfare: Google Talk is now available for the iPhone. It features a snazzy interface (is it possible to create a shoddy interface for the iPhone?) and almost everything you can do on the desktop client: create a quicklist of favorite users, search, and manage multiple conversations at the same time.
The NECC 2008 presentation “The Magic of Digital: Collaborative Interaction in Teacher Professional Development” was recorded and is available on Ustream.tv. The official description of this session in the conference program was: The electricity often present when educators connect with each other using synchronous and/or asynchronous digital technologies is contagious for learning and transformative for professional [.
(Credit: Radiohead)The likes of iTunes, iLike, and Imeem might be making troubled record labels' lives a bit more complicated. But on a brighter note for the music industry, they've also created digital music's ultimate publicity stunt.
'WordPress Web 2.0 Spot-Er' latest blog post is titled "Mobilizing Your Blog". [Blog]
Chris Brogan and others are giving thought to working remotely, and that got me thinking about a closely related topic - business phone services. You see, I've effectively abandoned my hard-wire phone.
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