Archive for May, 2007

HBO Sets Flight of the Conchords Free On the Internet Winds

There are those in traditional media who get it, and many more who still do not.
HBO gets it, as they are allowing episodes of the upcoming series Flight of the Conchords to be available on video sharing sites (YouTube and others, I’m guessing).
What’s to get? You have to let go of your content. […]

Thursday, May 17th, 2007

Amazon to Sell DRM-Free MP3s From 12,000 Record Labels

Maybe record labels are finally starting to get it. Well, they have to start getting it pretty soon, because there’s nothing like the prospect of extinction to get those innovation-juices flowing.
The latest indication that record labels are starting to meet the demands of today’s marketplace is Amazon’s announcement that it is launching a digital […]

Wednesday, May 16th, 2007

MySpace News Brings Us Painful Screams of Silence

The “ghost town effect” is when you head to a web community or platform of some sort and sense… that nothing is going on, that no one is there, and therefore there’s no reason why you should be there. Just as in real life, people tend to congregate online where there are already other people. […]

Tuesday, May 15th, 2007

MyBlogLog to Rebrand, Upgrade Features

Over the weekend, it was announced that social networking site for bloggers MyBlogLog will be rebranded (to something Yahoo-ized, perhaps?), redesigned, and rolled out with a new “widget 2.0″ component in the near future.
I actually think that MyBlogLog’s widget – which allows bloggers to see who is visiting their site, click their profile picture […]

Monday, May 14th, 2007

Whither the Widget?

There’s lots of chatter and buzzy buzz about widgets these days, so it’s easy to forget that most regular folk have no earthly idea what they are. For our purposes, we’re actually talking about what Wikipedia terms as “web widgets,” defined as “a third party item that can be embedded in a web page.”
Because of […]

Thursday, May 10th, 2007

Attention: People Doing Business Online

Read this piece by Chris Pirillo.
It’s super whiz-bang smart and been-there-in-the-trenches-true, through and through.

Thursday, May 10th, 2007

Keep Up With RSS Feeds On Your Nintendo Wii

Everyone knows that your phone is now a video camera, that your TV and computer are melding together, and that your dog is really more robot than mammal these days.
Okay, one of those might be not so much. But what does feel like science fiction made real is that you can now access Google Reader […]

Wednesday, May 9th, 2007

Twitter Sees “Crazy Insane Viral Growth”

In some ways it’s not fair to measure the growth of Twitter versus the early growth of Blogger by the sheer volume of posts. Twitter posts are limited to 140 characters, while Blogger offers a blank slate for publishing blog posts.
That said, it’s very interesting to look at a series of charts, statistics, and […]

Tuesday, May 8th, 2007

Breaking News: MySpace Acquires Photobucket

Just picked up via Twitter: a Mashable breaking news report that MySpace is to acquire Photobucket.
If you’ve been following this relationship, you know that it was only recently that the leading social networking site and one of the leading third-party widget/media hosting companies were hating on each other. Then, a few weeks ago, they strangely […]

Monday, May 7th, 2007

When You Attack the Blogosphere, Please Turn On Your Brain First

The days when old guard traditional/print media journalists could get away with (fearing and therefore) ridiculing the vast wilds of the new media are mercifully near their end.
Therefore, it’s almost stunningly baffling that David Bullard, a columnist for South Africa’s Sunday Times, could so fundamentally misunderstand what’s going on in the blogosphere today. In […]

Monday, May 7th, 2007

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