Archive for the ‘Web 2.0’ 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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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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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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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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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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Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
(This post originally appeared on Infoworld's Notes From the Field blog.) Frankly, I thought Viacom's $1 billion law suit against YouTube was dead. YouTube has been kicking people off its site left and right for posting copyrighted material, even if they didn't always deserve it. And Viacom had started ...
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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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Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
(This post originally appeared on Infoworld's Notes From the Field blog.) The longer I stay in this business, the more I think I should have listened to my mother and become a copyright attorney. Don't get me wrong -- I love digging for dirt and punishing the technologically wicked, ...
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Tuesday, May 13th, 2008
In the next decade, we might not whiz around in jet cars or own personal robot servants, but we will whiz around in 3D virtual worlds and have access to the Internet from everywhere.
(A version of this story appeared in the March/April issue of Consumer Digest magazine, which has no ...
Posted in Future Tech, Gadgets, Lists, Web 2.0 | 2 Comments »
Monday, April 21st, 2008
by Dan Tynan
When word got out that my wife and I were splitting up, I received several emails from long-time friends who knew us back when we were both skinny--err, dating.
“I am a little heartbroken about your current relationship status,” wrote one.
“What's with the single status? Are you guys splitsky? ...
Posted in 15 minutes, Da Web, Facebook, Families, Foolishness, Life, Web 2.0 | 8 Comments »
Monday, March 24th, 2008
(This entry originally appeared on Wired.com. It's here now though ....)
by Dan Tynan
The last thing Philip Bensaid wants to think about is making money. The co-founder of Crusher, a hip, Web 2.0-ish take on invitation sites like Evite, he's determined to keep his self-funded firm revenue- and ad-free, at least ...
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