Archive for August 18th, 2008
Amazon’s Special MP3 Deals — Indeed!
Image my surprise to receive this email the other day: Dear Amazon.com Customer, Amazon MP3 is offering free songs and albums as low as $5. All songs can be played on MP3 players, including the iPod and iPhone. Enjoy your music wherever and however you like it. I tried it, and I liked it! (But you will shocked and awed by the number of songs you don’t want for free!) Amazon.com Tags: amazon, iphone, ipod, mp3 Related Entries Hey Why Not? Amazon To Enter Music Download Biz - D...
What Economy? TV Sales Surge Anyway
TV Sales Surge Despite Economy: DisplaySearchBy Amy Gilroy — TWICE, 8/15/2008 10:56:00 AM Austin, Texas — TV shipments for North America hit record growth levels in the second quarter, despite a weaker U.S. economy, said DisplaySearch. TV shipments rose 28 percent compared to the same quarter last year to more than 9.3 million units, according to preliminary DisplaySearch findings, marking the strongest quarterly results since the research firm began tracking TV shipments in 2004, i...
Carl Ford 3.0
Carl Ford is one of my favorite people in this business, and few people make more of an indelible impression than Carl. He has long been the Mutt half of VON’s Mutt and Jeff combination, and one of the first questions that came to my mind with the demise of VON was what would Carl do? For better or worse, Carl is not shy, and most of us have stayed in touch via his various Facebook pages, and he’s been working his network to keep busy in this brave new world. Like me, he’s got ...
Canadian Cablecos Winning High-Speed Game
Earlier this month, Silicon Valley Insider took a look at how the cable companies and telecos fared during Q2 in the high-speed Internet business. When it came to growth, the cable companies kicked some serious butt by taking 73% of net subscriber adds. To get an idea of what’s happening north of the border, I did the same exercise. I also collected total telephone growth given bundles are such a key part of the marketing mix these days. In the high-speed market, the cablecos walked away w...
NSF Tells The Story of The Birth of The Internet
National Science Foundation has put together a really great web site that tells the story of the birth of the Internet, using videos, presentations and documents from its archives. The history is divided into decades, and there is a special section devoted to Mosaic developed at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications in the early 1990s. It should be on your things to do today. Awesome! ...
Google Pushes White Space, Says Free The AirWaves
Today, Google is launching a new advocacy campaign, Free The Airwaves, an effort by the company to get some traction around white spaces, the tiny slivers of spectrum that resides in the 700 MHz band vacated by analog television’s switch to digital transmissions. It even launched a lobbying web site, though the “supported by Google” text needs a magnifying glass to be found. Google has been lobbying hard to get this spectrum unlicensed and make it open to all unlicensed device...
Turn your Passion into YOUR Reality
A few year ago, a friend told me: Jeff, sometimes you first need to make a difference before you make money. Looking back, I know what he said was true. Several times in my life I have experienced a period of time where my passion for a product, technology or a service became a personal obsession which eventually turned into a revenue producing opportunity for myself (and for others.) Usually I discovered this new found passion when I was totally entrenched doing something else. Looking bac...
The End of the 404?
Since the Web hit the mainstream more than a decade ago, the 404 has been the standard error message when a server request can’t be fulfilled. But as ISPs look for news ways to generate more revenue, the 404 could go extinct. For example, take a look below at what Rogers is doing when you mistype a URL. In this case, I was looking for Craigslist but didn’t include the .com. For Rogers, replacing the 404 lets it present two banner ads (both in-house), some sponsored links, and links ...
Following 4G: The State of LTE
We have been following the emergence of 4G technologies pretty closely, including the looming battle between WiMAX and Long Term Evolution (LTE). As part of this continuing coverage, we are going to give you short updates on these technologies and current carrier plans. Stacey outlined the 4G plans of various U.S. carriers last week. This post is small update on the state of LTE market. According to ABI Research, there will be 32 million subscribers on LTE by 2013, though LTE Networks aren̵...
Meet GigaLogue, Roll Your Own NewsFeeds
A few days ago, I wrote about blogs needing to be more social and embracing new personal web services and acting as hubs (or aggregation points) for our increasingly digital lives. Of course, for a majority, Facebook would do just fine. Mathew Ingram sums it up succinctly when he writes, “Blogging isn’t for everyone…For those who want more control over their online data and destiny…I think blogs and blog-based tools are the best route.” One of the great things about Fa...
Can Optic Cables Predict Economic Shifts?
Having followed the optical network business for over a decade, one thing I have learned is that the boom and bust cycles of the business often mask patterns that have long-term implications. The overbuilding of U.S. networks in the 1990s foretold a bust in the telecom industry. The buying up of bankrupt carriers’ assets indicated the rise of new players including Google, which has built a fearsome infrastructure. These days, all the excitement in the optical business is around new undersea c...
Introducing GigaOM Daily
This past weekend at Word Camp 2008, we announced GigaOM Daily, a Twitter-style micro-newswire that is going to take editorial inputs from our team and our growing network of blogs. Some might call it the Twitterization of news. If you want to be super-simplistic, then you also can think of it as a constantly updating LiveBlog. Inspired by the thinking behind Dave Winer’s concept of “river of news,” it is a reflection of the changing nature of news in our time-constrained life. Many of ou...
Blogging 101 ??? Exchanging Links
My friend Al is a new blogger. He’s received his first requests for link exchanges and would like to know what I think of this practice. For non-bloggers: a link exchange is an agreement that says I’ll put a link to your blog on my blog if you link to my blog from your blog. The sites which have solicited Al do not particularly impress him; but they do have fairly high link ratings. That means that, if they point to his blog, he will gain Google juice and Technorati rank and possibl...
How Do You Rate NBC’s Olympics?
How would you rate NBC’s coverage of Olympics A… Excellent Work B… Okay, But Not Great C… Crap Olympics? Is it a new Web 2.0 company? Warning: This story is meant for our U.S. readers only. As many of you already know, I am giving Olympics the miss and perhaps that is why I am not familiar with the daily coverage on NBC and its online properties. The Olympics apparently have proved to be a bonanza for the company. The Peacock Network ...
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