The Disagreement about Blogs There are two point two new Blog sites created for every second of every day of the year. (around 175,000 per day.) The blogosphere doubles every 236 days! Presently, there are around 77 million blogs,It has been predicted that within three years, 50% of all content online will be user-generated. [...]
The Music Industry’s future was pre-determined 300 years ago. Louis XIV and his ultimate beheading resulting from the Revolution has curious parallels to today’s file sharing activity and the P2Pvolution. The peasants rose in revolt against the high taxes and lack of bread. (And maybe because the early Ipods were self powered, but [...]
Hollywood is not the only casualty of P2P. In 1998, Forrester Research published a report on the online “adult content” industry which speculated on an industry-wide aggregate figure of $8-10 billion The prefix porno- is derived from the Greek term for a prostitute; hence, it may be argued that pornography is as old [...]
Vertical search-engines Know your subject Jul 12th 2007From The Economist print edition Topic-specific search-engines hope to challenge Google, at least in some areas ARE you a generalist or a specialist? The question can be asked of people, but it is increasingly being asked about internet search-engines, as specialist or “vertical” sites take on generalists such [...]
“All politics is local”, former House Speaker Tip O'Neill said. Backfence.com makes that a business. It localizes content to individual suburbs, small cities or towns. Units we actually live in. Backfence only has three communities, all around DC, on board but it just received funding to build out its reach. Locals writing comments about local events; [...]
Charlene Li, an analyst at Forrester, (the technology research and strategy company) writes a blog that's just had its first birthday. Get this. ” Rarely a day goes by that a conversation with a client doesn't include a reference to a blog post. And Communication — the speed and quality of the conversation on this blog — [...]
Reading Charlene Li's blog at Forrester Research I found this intereresting piece of data. Forrester reckons there will be 12 million regular podcast listeners by 2010 and not surprisingly they will be split between mass market and niche (presumably amateur) programming. But here is the interesting thing. I found this out because I downloaded a [...]
Microsoft is the big brother of technology. It's loathed and admired in equal quantities. But it's a great business. Vista, formerly “Longhorn” and the next version of Windows (after XP) comes out next year. Yesterday, Microsoft bought Teleo. Clearly, already, we can expect Vista to have buttons/a simple click process to blog directly, accept RSS Feeds; make internet phone calls, organize our computer [...]