Archive for the ‘Da Web’ Category
Monday, July 21st, 2008
(This post originally appeared on Infoworld's Notes From the Field blog.) The recording industry has finally met its match, and it's one bad mother -- or, more accurately, several good ones. The first good mother in our saga is Stephanie Lenz, who posted a 30-second video of ...
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Wednesday, July 9th, 2008
(This post originally appeared on Infoworld's Notes From the Field blog.) So a New York judge last week ordered Google to hand over 12 terabytes of YouTube user information to Viacom. Yes, we know what you watched last summer, or at least Viacom's attorneys soon will. The ...
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Monday, July 7th, 2008
(This post originally appeared on Infoworld's Notes From the Field blog.) The Bush Administration's anti-recession tactics have given rise to an unexpected beneficiary: the Internet pørn industry. According to the Adult Internet Market Research Company, adult sites have been engorged with sales during the normally limp summer months. One ...
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Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
Recommendation engines know what you want -- even if you don't (A version of this post originally appeared in the July 2008 issue of US Airways Magazine.) Some people remember their first kiss or the first time they drove a car. I remember the first time I recorded ...
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Saturday, June 28th, 2008
Jon Newton at P2Pnet took a shine to my screed on Zuckerberg and asked me for the right to republish, which I happily granted. Plus, he agreed to run a nice photo of me along with it. Now I hope none of us get sued. (He said, half joking). You ...
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Tuesday, June 24th, 2008
(This post originally appeared on Infoworld's Notes From the Field blog.) Last week the House of Representatives passed a "compromise" amendment to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, though it sounds like the only things that have been compromised are our Constitutional rights. Now the Senate is poised to do ...
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Tuesday, June 24th, 2008
Why spend $50 to $100 a month for video entertainment when there's so much good, free stuff on the Web? Good-bye, couch potato, and hello, mouse potato. (This post originally appeared on PCworld.com.) Dan Tynan Lost lost me a long time ago. I'm sick to death of ...
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Monday, June 23rd, 2008
by Dan Tynan Sure, we make jokes about PR people as we eat their cheese cubes and drink their Yuenglings, but we couldn't do our jobs without them. I certainly couldn't. My working life is generally made much easier thanks to the hard work of the kind folks who ...
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Monday, June 23rd, 2008
(This post originally appeared on Infoworld's Notes From the Field blog.) A federal judge in Los Angeles has recused himself from a obscenity trial after a trove of dirty pictures were found squirreled away on his personal web site. Sounds scandalous, no? But the reality is both more complicated ...
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Sunday, June 15th, 2008
Over the last 24 hours this blog has been hit with hundreds of comment spams, all trying to drive people to the same site. (Thank god for Akismet, which trapped all but one of them.) I had over 100 in less than a day.
The spam tries to drive you ...
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Saturday, June 14th, 2008
(This post originally appeared on Infoworld's Notes From the Field blog.) It's over, finito, kaput. The fat lady hasn't merely stopped singing, she's taken off her girdle and waddled home. There are now so many forks stuck into the Microsoft Yahoo deal that it looks like a cutlery display. ...
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Friday, June 13th, 2008
Personally, I'm not convinced that this whole thing is truly over. But is Yahoo's partnership with Google better than its partial or complete takeover by Microsoft? Take this BuzzDash poll and tell the world.
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Posted in Da Web, Google, Microsoft, yahoo | 1 Comment »
Saturday, June 7th, 2008
Running a virtual business is easier (and cheaper) than ever, if you have the right tools
(An edited version of this story originally appeared on PCworld.com.)
by Dan Tynan
When it comes to running a business, our feet are firmly on the ground but our data and software are increasingly in the cloud. ...
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Friday, June 6th, 2008
(This post originally appeared on Infoworld's Notes From the Field blog.) Boozes, babes, and Broadcom. Here's more proof that I got into the wrong end of this business. Ex-Broadcom CEO Henry Nicholas-- already nailed for stock options shenanigans that added a fictional $2.2 billion worth of revenue to his ...
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Thursday, June 5th, 2008
(This post originally appeared in Infoworld's Notes From the Field Blog.) It's been a wild week here in Cringeville. My blog posts on YouTube v. Viacom and the FCC's proposal for a pørn-free wireless Internet have inspired raging debates about copyrights and corporate rights, free speech and free sex. ...
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Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008
Lessons learned from the last downturn have IT confident it can weather any economic uncertainty ahead
(This post originally appeared on Infoworld.com.)
by Dan Tynan
Call it a slowdown, a downturn, or the dreaded "R" word, worries about the state of the U.S. economy have increased across virtually all sectors save one: technology.
But ...
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Sunday, June 1st, 2008
(This post originally appeared on Infoworld's Notes From the Field Blog.) Throttle this. Bit Torrent blocking Comcast got an education in the ways of the Net this week when hackers gained access to the ISP's domain name records and redirected Comcast.net traffic to a vandalized site. Teenage hackers with ...
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Thursday, May 29th, 2008
(Note: An edited/augmented version of this piece appeared on Infoworld.com.)
Sure, you may know all about the garage where Apple was born, Michael Dell's dorm room, or Bill Gates' youthful indiscretions. But that's all so 1997. The old guard of the PC revolution are giving way to the young Web 2.0 ...
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Tuesday, May 27th, 2008
Is Microsoft-Yahoo truly dead? Why did CBS buy CNET? How much would you pay for a letter from a dead genius? And what is Carl Icahn's problem anyway? The answers to these questions and more are found in this week's quiz -- provided you choose wisely. Correct responses are worth ...
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Monday, May 26th, 2008
(This post originally appeared on Infoworld's Notes From the Field blog.)
Bad news for Twitter. The original micro-blogging service (now available in brief, mega-terse, and vowel-free versions) has been accused of aiding and abetting bad behavior on the Web. I am shocked, shocked I tell you.
In case you've never used Twitter, ...
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