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Tribute To Bruce Jackson
It must be one of those weeks. This morning I got a skype message from my friend, Ervin, in San Francisco, to tell me the sad news that Bruce Jackson had died in a plane crash in Palm Springs over the weekend. Bruce was one of the legends of the live sound business in Australia [...]
SMS Power beats Hollywood, Radio, Videogames & the Music Industry.
Or – The Havenots become the Haves. Preamble It’s a well known fact that when placed under restricting circumstances, all animals will look for an escape or release from the restriction. “The Internet treats censorship as a malfunction and routes around it.” – John Perry Barlow. ——————————————————————————————————————————– The Article IRC stands for [...]
The Cost Of Futuretainment
When someone changes their skype profile, as you probably know, you get a flag on your skype directory list that alerts you that there is a message. You click on it and it shows you the changed profile message – some people change their profile message often, some never. I noticed the other day that [...]
3 Mobile Free Calls for Life
I’m sitting here in Sydney Australia looking at my newest acquisition. My £49.95 Skype phone from 3. And I’m fuming. Yep – you cant buy this phone in Australia yet and if the Vodafone takeover obtains ACCC approval – probably never. I’m fuming because the latest and greatest gadget ever released on the worldwide “must-have” [...]
The Copyright Industry is Removing the Barriers Against Terrorism.
Since 1999, World War III has been raging, slowly escalating in ferocity and intensity as a result of each battle. It is a war between the content industry and the public the world over. The battle lines were drawn when the industry decided to stamp out P2P by squashing Napster. BMG, one of the [...]
Taxonomies Report from Trend Monitor
I was finishing up some work at home tonight and got a skype message from Jan Wyllie, who publishes Trend Monitor. Jan has done some extremely interesting work analyzing consumer trends over the last ten or more years. He is in the process of writing a new report on the impact of Web 2.0 on [...]
Down the YouTube?
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Down the YouTube?
Mar 23rd 2007 | SAN FRANCISCO
From Economist.com
The online-video site gets a heavyweight competitor
IT HAS been a terrible month for Google, the biggest search engine and the internet’s reigning superpower, and for its subsidiary, YouTube, the pioneer and precocious leader of online video. Users may love them, but the old-media companies, feeling increasingly exploited, loathe them, sue them, and gang up on them. And that matters, because neither Google nor YouTube, as quintessential “new-media” companies, own any of the content that they organise so well.
With the announcement on Thursday March 22nd of a new online-video venture between NBC Universal, the huge media unit of General Electric, …
Skype and Firefox.
What's web 2.0, we get asked a lot. One example. Firefox is a great browser. Microsoft have stolen ideas for their Explorer 7.0. But download Skype 3.0 beta. Then see how one idea talks to another. Using Firefox you see phone numbers highlighted on websites. One click and there's a connection, via Skype, to that [...]
The next big thing. TV from the net.
Two different concepts are now working to collapse TV as we know it. The Venice Project is where the boys from Skype have gone with their billions. They are building a TV project based on P2P file sharing. Meanwhile, Tape It Off The Internet is working out of the UK to catalog, identify, tag and [...]
IM and Email
At some point in the last year I realized I now divide the world into two camps. People who use email. People who Instant message. (skype, msn, yahoo, aol, etc) (yes there's a third camp, people not on the net.Are they living in this world?) There's plenty of people who think they're on the cutting [...]