Check out this new survey from Harris Interactive and MSN…39 percent of us have done a vanity search for their own name. Immortality, ho…….
One of the cool projects I'm pleased to be associated with is Make, a new O'Reilly publication that was announced today at O'Reilly's OSCON conference. I helped O'Reilly flesh out the model and editorial concepts for this great new title, and I'm pleased Mark Frauenfelder, of Boing Boing and other…
One of the cool projects I’m pleased to be associated with is Make, a new O’Reilly publication that was announced today at O’Reilly’s OSCON conference. I helped O’Reilly flesh out the model and editorial concepts for this great new title, and I’m pleased Mark Frauenfelder, of Boing Boing and other fame, will be its Editor in Chief. For more info on Make, check Mark’s post here, or contact me if you’re a sponsor interested in knowing more (I’m also helping them on that side of things.)
A reader (thanks!) sent me this link to a Journal article (sub required) – written by Kara Swisher – good to see Kara covering this space again – about Wikis. I've been using Wikis for the past 9 months or so on a couple different projects and I certainly see…
Now, venture capitalists are funding several startups that are attempting to take the idea to a bigger and more lucrative general-business audience. Their goal is to try to solve one of the workplace’s most vexing problems: how to have employees collaborate and communicate better electronically….
….Getting average people to think about controlling the Web as comfortably as they might an e-mail or a Word document has not been easy. But the rise in popularity of Web logs known as blogs and other “social software” is changing that. Blogging, say wiki proponents, has revived the idea that a Web site can be an ever-changing organism that can be linked with other Web sites to create a larger and more informative picture….
….Jot’s Joe Kraus says that to make wikis more widespread, companies like his and Mr. Mayfield’s must make wiki software simple to integrate into existing applications that workers commonly use, add more features beyond document editing and make it even more enticing for people to deploy them. “People have to perceive that they only need to add a little information in order to get a lot out of it,” says Mr. Kraus.
I get a daily news roundup on the term "Google IPO" from, yup, Google News. In any case, the headlines that just crossed my desk are pretty uniformly…cranky. A sampling: WHY not to bid on Google IPO San Jose Mercury News (subscription) – San Jose,CA,USA GOOGLE IPO May Hasten Staff…
WHY not to bid on Google IPO
San Jose Mercury News (subscription) – San Jose,CA,USA
GOOGLE IPO May Hasten Staff Turnover
San Jose Mercury News (subscription) – San Jose,CA,USA
Those of you who know me well are familiar with my fascination with all things archival, especially as it relates to the archaeology of the web. I am quite sure that in my golden years I will retire to a pith helmet and meerschaum pipe, evolving into a full time…
Those of you who know me well are familiar with my fascination with all things archival, especially as it relates to the archaeology of the web. I am quite sure that in my golden years I will retire to a pith helmet and meerschaum pipe, evolving into a full time armchair anthropologist of the PastWeb. Interesting case in point comes to us from TechDirt, which reports on a LawMeme post about a run of the mill business lawsuit. The twist? The plaintiff “tried to amend its complaint to accuse on of the defendant’s lawyers of hacking Archive.org (Bewster’s Internet Archive).” Seems there was incriminating stuff on past versions of a site in question, stuff the plaintiffs did not want preserved through the eternity of time. The defendants, according to the suit, tried to “hack” archive.org to find the lost data. This I love – someone trying to plumb the Eternal to prove a point in the present. Priceless.
PS – Neat new interview with Brewster here. (Thanks Gary.)
Look at this, a new search site "for business professionals." I'm not sure this will catch on, but it is a reflection of the trend toward vertical/domain specific search…Find.com. So I head over there and do the typical vanity search – for "Searchblog." After all, it's business related content. And…
Look at this, a new search site “for business professionals.” I’m not sure this will catch on, but it is a reflection of the trend toward vertical/domain specific search…Find.com.
So I head over there and do the typical vanity search – for “Searchblog.” After all, it’s business related content. And what do I see? Three of my postings are highlighted at the top as for sale by some company called “NetContent.” Hmm. *My* postings, for sale on Find.com. No one asked me. Hmmm.
Well this is interesting. In fact, with a little poking around, I see blog entries by all sorts of folks are “for sale,” as well as stuff by mainstream magazines like BusinessWeek. Note to NetContent: I’ll be calling.
Read MoreI'm proud to say that Boing Boing has launched a new design, one that incorporates sponsors and a cleaner look. I was down visiting with Danny Hillis today (man, talk about mind blowing) and I was very happy to hear that he reads Boing Boing regularly. My role with…
I’m proud to say that Boing Boing has launched a new design, one that incorporates sponsors and a cleaner look. I was down visiting with Danny Hillis today (man, talk about mind blowing) and I was very happy to hear that he reads Boing Boing regularly. My role with Boing Boing is the equivalent of “band manager” – I helped them round up the wonderful sponsors – Wired, Google (Blogger), and O’Reilly – and work out the details of how they can take the site to the next phase of it’s ongoing evolution (“brain candy for happy mutants since 1988!”). Take a look!
Both Greg Linden, of Findory fame, and Gary Price pinged me today on Blogory, Findory's new blog reading/finding service (in beta now). The idea is simple: Blogory will watch what you read and suggest new stuff based on that. The layout is interesting, sort of a Topix for blogs (OK,OK,…
Enough said. (Thanks, pre-Commerce)…
Dan Gilmor has posted a clip of a spinning earth emanating rays of light which represent Google searches around the world. Google showed it at D, though I must have left by the time it was shown. Sort of like their streaming query hack, but in 3D. I'd love to…
Dan Gilmor has posted a clip of a spinning earth emanating rays of light which represent Google searches around the world. Google showed it at D, though I must have left by the time it was shown. Sort of like their streaming query hack, but in 3D. I’d love to know more about when and how this was made, and why. It reflects an interesting world view.
