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Haydn Shaughnessy · Founder, TheContentStudio.com · european web 2.0 pipeline / Knowledge Management
Platform European Grid is a Euro conference on GRID applications and it’s supposed to be looking at real life problems currently being resolved by GRIDs. For the uninitiated a GRID is a piece of distributed computing power. It’s like sharing out idle processing and running it across hugely complex tasks. I was the rapporteur on...
Filed at 4:25am
Haydn Shaughnessy · Founder, TheContentStudio.com · Knowledge Management / what's new
Comments on Robert Scobles podcast on Zune may have come a little early to pick up on the news that Microsoft are considering making payments to people who refer a song to a friend, when that friend then buys the track.You can see a trend out there of micro-employment. There are sites offering small payments...
Filed at 5:50am
Haydn Shaughnessy · Founder, TheContentStudio.com · channels and content / Knowledge Management
There are sites that index TV shows and then there’s Tioti. “We currently index 1,600+ TV shows - 90,000+ episodes - and we arematching everything up with content sources like iTunes, AOL and AmazonUnbox - with more to come. Our beta feature set allows you to do exactly what it sayson the tin and do...
Filed at 7:31am
Haydn Shaughnessy · Founder, TheContentStudio.com · for argument's sake / for arguments sake / Knowledge Management
What about this from BusinessWeek: As expected, online retailer Amazon.com Inc. has objected to providing details about its book search feature to rival Google Inc., which says it needs them to fight copyright infringement allegations from a group of authors and book publishers.The gist of it is a group of major publishers and the Authors’...
Filed at 11:23am
Haydn Shaughnessy · Founder, TheContentStudio.com · Knowledge Management / what's new
The site is worth a look, I’m not saying it isn’t. It might be worth joining though I’m busy elsewhere trying to knock mydietfriends into shape. All I want to say is that when you see regular subjects entering the MySpace space, you wonder is it really any different than old fashioned web communities? The...
Filed at 1:22pm
Andy Lark · Chief Marketing Officer, LogLogic · Networking / web 2.0
I've been using personalized search across a variety of sites for sometime now. Eurekster has been my favorite - and not just because I am an advisor to the company. Google's entry into the market looks a bit likeRollyo with...
Filed at 2:06pm
Haydn Shaughnessy · Founder, TheContentStudio.com · Knowledge Management / what's new
The good blogs has a natural community of support - the dozens of bloggers who are in their blogging network referring visitors to each others’ sites. I am one of them and enthusiastically so.What being in the network means to me is not really to do with traffic. I don’t believe my traffic has increased...
Filed at 2:15pm
Haydn Shaughnessy · Founder, TheContentStudio.com · advertising/marketing / Knowledge Management / what's new
Robert Scoble wrote today about the need for a new audience metric. Coincidentally I’d been writing about it late last week:says Scoble:“….we need to measure stuff other than just whether a download got completed or not. She says we need a “likeability” stat. I think it goes further than that.There’s another stat out there called...
Filed at 2:26pm
Andy Lark · Chief Marketing Officer, LogLogic · Networking / web 2.0
CNNMoney onbloggate Walmart. Corporate Blogging: What Could Go Wrong? :: CIO Insight To Blog or Not to Blog: Report from the Front :: Knowledge@Wharton Corporate Blogs Split Cyberspace :: silicon.com Movies in a flash. New Yahoo bookmarks service... Do we...
Filed at 2:27pm
Joel Spolsky · CEO, Fog Creek Software · Software Development
“A motley gang of anarchists, free-love advocates, and banana-rights agitators have hijacked The Love Boat out of Puerto Vallarta and are threatening to sink it in 7 days with all 616 passengers and 327 crew members unless their demands are met. The demand? A million dollars in small unmarked bills, and a GPL implementation of WATFIV, that is, the esteemed Waterloo Fortran IV compiler. (It’s surprising how few things the free-love people can find to agree on with the banana-rights people.)”
Filed at 4:39pm
Haydn Shaughnessy · Founder, TheContentStudio.com · channels and content / Knowledge Management
MySpace is generally about music but that doesn’t mean it can’t also be about film - and now it’s owners have a strong UK presence that’s what it’s trying to do.The upstart social network is in talks with the continuously, perpetually upstart UK TV channel, Channel 4, and together they’re asking the UK film council...
Filed at 6:09pm
Kingsley Idehen · Founder & CEO, OpenLink Software · Software Development
Frederick Giasson continues the conversation about the Web Experience Dimensions in a new post --the first of several-- that chronicles the evolution of Pingthesemanticweb.com and Talk Digger, from Interactive-Web (Web 1.0) sites to Data-Web oriented Data Spaces:
Filed at 6:20pm
Andy Lark · Chief Marketing Officer, LogLogic · marketing measurement / Networking
The degree to which readers engage with media should be a critical factor in understanding the value of that media. My view has been that the degree to which actions intended from any marketing activity - say downloads - occur...
Filed at 6:51pm
Andy Lark · Chief Marketing Officer, LogLogic · Networking / pure pr
Less than two years after acquiring Butler Group, Datamonitor plans on buying Ovum. Four months ago Ovum bought Summit Strategies....
Filed at 6:53pm
Andy Lark · Chief Marketing Officer, LogLogic · Networking / web 2.0
Intersting idea... The latest blogregator/Google mashup, outside.in takes your zipcode and brings all the location-pertinent blogs and news to the screen. A quick search on Los Gatos reveals our skateboard park is getting a new lease of life. So, idea...
Filed at 7:01pm
John Dragoon · Senior Vice President, Chief Marketing Officer, Novell · Platforms / uncategorized
A few hours ago Oracle announced “The same enterprise class support for Linux as for its database, middleware and application products.” Basically, Oracle announced an extension of their previously announced “Unbreakable Linux” campaign adding a “support program that provides enterprises with world-class, award winning, global support for Linux.” (primarily aimed at Red Hat Linux customers)....
Filed at 7:43pm
Randy Littleson · CEO, Kinaxis · Enterprise Applications / general news
SupplyChainer.com has an article that references research by Accenture and an article by InformationWeek regarding supply chain risk. The post talks about the increasing risk caused by globalization.
Filed at 9:06pm
Andy Lark · Chief Marketing Officer, LogLogic · kiwi stuff / Networking
Viki has kindly offered you a free pass to the event if you are up here in the Valley. On Tuesday 31 October ANZA Technology Network brings the best of Australian technology to Silicon Valley for the ANZA Gateway to...
Filed at 10:50pm