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Monthly Archives: August 2007
Google Cuts Deal With AP
Maybe newspapers had reason to be paranoid after all. Let’s file this under “one foot in the grave.” UPDATE: While this would seem like a crisis for those in print, the Economist notes that Google hasn’t really faced a crisis … Continue reading
Rounding Up Friends (and their online profiles)
And figuring out if they’re really your friends too… There’s a new set of standards being developed which aims to make it easier to discover existing friends on new social networks you join – the initiative is called The OpenFriend … Continue reading
Conjured in Office
Tagged Facebook, friends, open standards, portability, profiles, social networks
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Bloggers battered by viral storm
Should read “Bloggers battered by viral storm“, but that wouldn’t really be news. Meanwhile, all’s quiet on the “kick ‘em crew front (maybe because they’re all using WordPress and OpenAds).
Shape Services IM+ for Skype gets F-
Following up on my Skype on the Blackberry experiment… I wound up using the IM+ for Skype program very little, primarily because I start getting SMS messages instead of Skyped the moment I leave my desk. The program worked fine … Continue reading
Will Mortgage Collapse Hurt Web Ads? Looks That Way
I found this part more interesting: Two weeks ago, financial services advertisers made up the single largest sector on the web, accounting for 34% of all impressions… Watch the markets, and predict next quarter’s advertising take.
Trusted Authentication Specification 1.0 Draft 5
The title is a complex way of saying: give me the power to transfer data between sites I use, with the help of OpenID. There are other initiatives being worked on along the same lines, including OAuth. OpenID, TAS, OAuth…FOAF, … Continue reading
The only fly rod guarantee: one day you’ll break it
The person who snapped this photo was more impressed than I was. After the release, I was coined a “trout guru.” I could only laugh. While catching a healthy brown on the second cast of the first hole you step … Continue reading
Nielsen: “Drop in TV Ratings is Because People Are Watching Less TV”
TV networks would like to think otherwise, but unfortunately it’s just less TV viewing. Next up: newspapers blame declining readership on the tendency of newsprint to become blurry when wet.
Stupidest Terrorist Overreaction Yet?
According to the venerable, combined force of the Associated Press and MSNBC… Two people who sprinkled flour in a parking lot to mark a trail for their offbeat running club inadvertently caused a bioterrorism scare and now face a felony … Continue reading
