Archive for March, 2007
This Is The End Of The Twitter As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)
Lifecycles and trendcycles keep getting faster and faster. Just as I was getting up to speed and offering some limited pontifications about the mini-phenomenon known as Twitter, its demise is already being predicted. Twitter is a simple to use and potentially addictive service that allows you to post very short messages to groups of friends [...]
Here Comes Mark Cuban!
You knew that Mark Cuban would come out swinging on this one. In a piece entitled You Go Viacom! the Blog Maverick ripped into “Gootube” (one of his favorite current targets) for being complacent and basically setting itself up for the massive $1 billion lawsuit that it’s now looking at from heavy hitter media company [...]
The Big Guns Come Out: Viacom Sues Google, YouTube For $1 Billion
Some of the smartest people I know are on opposite sides of the YouTube debate. One camp thinks that YouTube that was worth the gargantuan sum that Google paid for it, while the other foresees major troubles ahead, whether it be loss of market share because of the relatively easy replication of the platform (a [...]
Topix to Google: "You Could've Given Us Help, But You've Given Us So Much More"
That quote – you could’ve given us help, but you’ve given us so much more – actually comes from the mouth of Bill Murray’s character in Quick Change (one of the all-time underrated comedies) to a magnificently and contentedly unhelpful New York City taxi driver. It could easily however have come from Topix CEO Rich [...]
Where Some See "Hyper-Localism," Others See More Choices
Gone are the days when the vast majority of the public was collectively comforted by Walter Cronkite and other legendary news anchors. Technology alone did not drive this new age of splintered interest, where many people – and many more each day – draw their news from a number of sources, many of which are [...]
People Are Freaking Tweaking on Twitter
Maybe that’s going a little far, but a lot of people are certainly talking about Twitter, the so called “micro blogging” service that fires super short and super simple messages to groups of contacts based around the premise of: “what are you doing right now?” That’s the spirit of the Internet, really, capturing the essence [...]
Digg and Netscape Struggle to Prevent Gaming and Other Shenanigans
I’m still sifting through the avalanche of e-mail that piles up during a month away from the laptop, but I must make mention of the most interesting article I read today, sent to me around a week ago from my partner and buddy over at Blogcritics, Phillip Winn. It’s a little experiment that Annalee Newitz [...]
