Do We Really All Work for Google Here? (10)
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No doubt, Google is the largest internet giant that determines exactly how the market operates and how other players behave online. What’s more, acquisition by Google is certainly one of the most appealing exit strategies for many of the newly-launched startups - this exit strategy is often the most financially rewarding one and it offers a huge opportunity for further growth of a product with the help of Google’s engineers, servers and money. And even ...
Ditch the Joystick and Go Voice Commando With Tom Clancy's EndWar (1)
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Controller innovations have allowed aspiring tennis stars to swing a Wiimote like Federer and music fans to strum a fake guitar like their favorite rock god. Now, a new game lets couch-bound generals command a virtual army by voice. Tom Clancy's EndWar from Ubisoft, out this fall for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, is like a CG version of the board game Risk, with players micromanaging thousands of variables for victory. EndWar Trailer For more, ...
Web 2.0 Industry As a Perfect Example of Crowd Thinking (29)
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Back in my university years when I studied philosophy I once wrote a paper on crowd thinking and behavior. That experience taught me that crowd is a very dangerous phenomenon because a crowd rarely can be reasonable and people can be easily manipulated to follow guidance from any leader clever enough to issue orders a crowd will understand. Unfortunately now that I watch web 2.0 as an industry I often notice classical examples of crowd ...
America Running Low on Innovation, Ex-Cisco CTO Says (5)
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The U.S. needs to find new ways of funding basic science research in academia and corporate America, says former Cisco CTO Judy Estrin, author of the book Closing the Innovation Gap.
Creating Leaders for Science-Based Businesses (1)
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Published:August 27, 2008Author:Garry Emmons It's been said that in this century, carbohydrates will replace hydrocarbons, and biology will supplant physics as the innovation-producing science. As science fiction becomes science fact, and with science-based firms presenting unique challenges for managers, HBS is examining how, in its teaching and research, it can best contribute to what will be a major new force in the American economy. For several decades, the view from the HBS campus across Western ...
In Hot, Flat, and Crowded, Thomas Friedman Calls for a Green Energy Revolution (12)
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Thomas Friedman is about to dive into the green-tech fray. In his latest book, Hot, Flat, and Crowded, the multi-Pulitzer-winning journalist says everyone needs to accept that oil will never be cheap again and that wasteful, polluting technologies cannot be tolerated. The last big innovation in energy production, he observes, was nuclear power half a century ago; since then the field has stagnated. "Do you know any industry in this country whose last major breakthrough ...
What’s SUP?: FriendFeed’s Modest RSS Proposal (35)
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The RSS wizards at FriendFeed (a social news aggregation site) are proposing a new way to distribute and fetch RSS feeds faster. The proposal is a simple one: publishers provide a centralized RSS to inform readers which feeds have been been updated since their last visit. The benefit? Your news fast. FriendFeed’s Gary Burd and Paul Buchheit (both former Googlers) want to download your RSS feeds as rapidly as they can without taking down your ...
European Internet Population Rockets to 240 Million with Russia Accounting for 17 Million (5)
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There is internet outside of the Silicon Valley - and here is another proof. comScore issued another press release about European internet audience and its immense growth over the year since June 2007. The released information includes various figures demonstrating changes in the number of internet users in 16 countries comScore tracks for its World Metrix. comScore only counts users accessing the web from home or office computers aged 15 and higher and excludes traffic ...
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Rutger Blom said:
Eventhough The Netherlands backed 1% they still have the highest Internet usage penetration in Europe. Makes med a proud Dutchman tonight ;-)
Making money on YouTube with Content ID (46)
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Late last year, we introduced our newest tool for YouTube's content identification and management system, Video ID. While we have long provided copyright owners with similar content policies and tools, Video ID was revolutionary because it provided real choice and control to content owners by combining a sophisticated policy engine with cutting-edge video matching technology. With the other tools in our content ID system, Video ID helps content owners decide exactly what they want done ...
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Hashim said:
the ability to monetize your pirated content? This is a big deal.
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Shane said:
I can't really put my finger on it, but I love this idea, especially where it seems to encourage content providers to keep content online to advertise and/or profit rather than stifle it. Seems like a win-win from what I can tell for many cases.
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Allan Haggett said:
Video ID is GENIUS.
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Hamish.MacEwan said:
As it turns out, our partners are choosing the latter, monetizing 90% of all claims created through Video ID.
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Data Vortex said:
YouTube == $$
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Angus said:
read this one http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/16/technology/16tube.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
English Grammar 101: All You Need to Know (1)
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Shared 42 times Just ask to a friend what is the role of prepositions within sentences, or what are the four moods of verbs, and I am sure that you will see a puzzled look on his face. Understanding the basic grammar rules is essential for communicating efficiently, but most of us have forgotten those concepts years ago. In order to solve this problem we decided to put together all the basic rules on a ...
Jeff Han: We're Just Scratching the Surface of Multitouch (10)
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SAN JOSE, California -- Jeff Han has some simple advice for companies thinking about how to integrate the latest interface technology into their products: Start over. "It's like Yoda said, you must unlearn what you've learned," he says, referring to the 40 years that the mouse and keyboard have dictated how we interact with computers. Admittedly, that's no easy task, so the multitouch pioneer and his company, Perceptive Pixel, have devoted the better part of ...
Story Pitch: Microsoft’s “flattened” Windows 7 team and what it means for business (1)
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Shared 32 times Dear Steven Sinofsky, Jon DeVaan, and Frank Shaw: (For those who don’t know, Frank Shaw is the guy who, at Waggener Edstrom, runs the Microsoft PR account there, and Steven Sinofsky and Jon DeVaan runs Microsoft’s Windows team. Steven and Jon blog on the Windows 7 engineering blog and Frank keeps a personal blog too). I’ve been keeping in touch with a few of my friends on the Microsoft Windows 7 team. ...
There is No Social Media Overload (1)
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Shared 22 times Every day, there are more and more great services to investigate in the world of social media. Each one breaks new ground in terms of features, focus or user interface. There are many different sites that target general social networking, some are for business, some are for dating, some are for microblogging, and others for service aggregation. And there will be many more. While some are calling for a pause in the ...
Four Ad-Free Ways that Mined Data Can Make Money (1)
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Shared 36 times Machines can do wonderful things. Side by side with the rise of a new world of publishers, the computer scientists of the world are cranking it up as well - building new ways to create value from the sea of data being published by people. And then they take their work and they sell it to advertisers! Barf-o-rama! We have some appreciation for advertising technology and we certainly appreciate our advertisers here ...
Lessons from a Startup Acquisition (1)
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Shared 20 times Founders are notorious for falling in love with their visions. How else could we survive 18-hour workdays or a multitude of setbacks with our optimism still intact? The problem with this is that it’s impossible to predict what the future holds. So, to be successful, you’ll have to grow comfortable with transforming that vision you’ve fallen so deeply in love with into something you may never have considered. Becoming part of a ...
Vote for my SXSW panels (3)
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I need your help - I'm hoping to be invited to speak at the SXSW Interactive Festival next March in Austin and part of the process is asking the audience what they want to hear. I've submitted two proposals and am a part of several others -- I've listed them all below. Please take a few minutes and visit the SXSW Panel Picker to vote by August 29th-- and especially helpful, include your comments on ...
Gnomedex Day 1 Reflections (5)
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Technorati Tags: gnomedex I'm attending my first Gnomedex on the recommendation of friends like Josh Hallett, and I'm having a blast. Gnomedex is run by uber-geek Chris Pirillo and his extensive network of family and friends. And that is what makes Gnomedex so different from other conferences -- it's personal. I never met Chris before and he came right up to me and introduced himself at the first break. The sessions themselves have been variable, ...
Groundswell In Academic Syllabuses (2)
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Back in June, I spoke at Edelmans' New Media Academic Summit where I had the opportunity to meet many professors who are engaged in teaching the next generation of new media experts. (I was there to be on a panel with my friend, Steve Rubel, speaking about the topic New Media 2012 - you can see a synposis and also video of that session.) One of the things that I did was to ask the ...
CNN Wants to Go Viral: Enables Embeddable Videos (1)
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Shared 35 times Starting today, CNN will allow all users to embed videos from CNN on their blogs or social network profiles. With this, CNN is following a growing trend among news organizations like MSNBC, FoxNews, and CBS. Judging from the wording of the announcement, CNN is clearly hoping to see some of its clips go viral, and with the political season in the U.S. heating up in the run-up to the November election, they ...
The Time is Right for Creative Capitalism (4)
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Published:August 20, 2008Author:Nancy Koehn Editor's Note: In a much admired and debated speech given at the World Economic Forum in Davos last January, Bill Gates said that many of the world's biggest problems cannot be fixed by philanthropy, but instead require free-market capitalism—"creative capitalism"—to solve. According to Gates, creative capitalism is "an approach where governments, businesses, and nonprofits work together to stretch the reach of market forces so that more people can make a profit, ...
