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competition is good
EBay has a market capitalization of about $42 billion. Yahoo about $43 billion. Google $115 billion. Microsoft $232 billion.
It’s fun to watch them compete in the marketplace.
But how many more partnerships and mergers are coming?
anti-spam company Blue Security admits defeat
In the Fight Against Spam E-Mail, Goliath Wins Again
A Russia-based spammer counterattacked.
Using tens of thousands of hijacked computers, the spammer flooded Blue Security with so much Internet traffic that it blocked legitimate visitors from going to Bluesecurity.com, as well as to other Web sites.
When are they going to solve the Spam problem?
why start a blog?
Many folks still think blogs are silly, since many posts are hastily written about trivial issues that won’t be important five minutes from now.
But this post is important. One day everyone will have something like a blog including interactive group calendars, instant messaging, shared photo and video content.
Some other format may evolve to replace the blog — but I highly doubt it. This is it.
Works for Me: Building bridges to blogs – CNET reviews
the end of television?
Traditional media, including television networks, should be worried.
Change is coming.
The best look forward I’ve seen is a CBC TV Newsworld’s (traditional media) 3-part series.
CBC is doing as well as any of the big networks in struggling to stay relevant with new technology.
Here’s an example. You can watch the 3 TV shows on-line for free.
video – YouTube.com
In December 2005, YouTube launched. Today they show well over 40 million videos a day including some on this blog.
YouTube is much more popular than Google Video & Yahoo Video Search and growing faster.
I’m sold. Video has been a hassle on the internet since the beginning. The clips on Comedy Central are very frustrating, for example. YouTube is successful because it WORKS. Good job.
Interview with the YouTube founders – May 15, 2006
Now, does vimeo.com put out higher quality video?
another well-intentioned, misguided legislator
Dvorak Uncensored » Republicans prepare to ban myspace.com
America’s leadership on the internet is doomed unless somebody straightens-out a few idiot Republican politicians.
blog search – Sphere.com
Do you hate blogs?
I was initially very sceptical. The layout of many is not particularly appealing.
Millions of crappy MySpace pages? What use is that?
The real brilliance of blogging is aggregating quality content. A few blogs do have unique and original personal content. If you could only find it.
The best of field so far is Technorati. Very good, I think.
But a lot of smart folks are betting on the latest blog search engine: high-quality, relevant, and timely blog posts. Check it out at Sphere.com
The coolest feature in Sphere is a simple tool called Sphere It! Bookmarklet — If you are interested in anything you are looking at on the internet, you click ONCE to be brought to a list of relevant blog posts. Wow!
Blogs: Good or Evil?
Excellent overview of the state of the blogosphere from the Washington Post.
Blogs: Good or Evil? — By Howard Kurtz
“But the biggest evil of blogs is that first flaw, blogging’s original sin: the discounting of news-gathering in favor of news analysis.”
Bloggers. Is it time to send Kurtz down the river?
Or should we give the Washington Post a few more years?
Rick McCharles 