Archive for November 2007
BrightSpot Media, a startup that was trying attract people to watch ads in exchange for goods and services, last week shut down its consumer-facing site.
Over the holiday, we got in touch with BrightSpot CEO Aaron Martens, who confirmed the Brightspot.tv shutdown but said the company … Read More »
Policy-makers want to split the Universal Service Fund, which brings in around $7 billion or so every year and is used to subsidize the old-fashioned phone systems in rural areas, into three distinct parts: one to subsidize wireless services, another for the old-fashioned phone services, … Read More »
It was starting to look like the merger that time forgot. For months, there had been chatter about a possible corporate coupling between XM Satellite Radio (XMSR) and Sirius Satellite Radio (SIRI). The discussion reached a fevered pitch in February, when it became clear that … Read More »
I recently had a business-life changing experience. Our company, digital-telepathy, was once a full-service interactive agency for Web 2.0 companies. We provided business strategy, design, development and marketing services for web apps. We were pulling in about $300,000 a project. However, I started … Read More »
Matt Trevithick, a VC helping lead Venrock’s cleantech investments, tells me to Google his name and I’ll find a distant relative – Richard Trevithick –- who invented the first working steam locomotive. I did; he does. Like his inventor ancestor, Trevithick, … Read More »
Play around with Songza, a music search engine and Internet jukebox, and the first question that pops up into your head will be: How can this be legal? Whether the latest offering from Humanized, a Chicago-based company, is skirting the legal limits or … Read More »
Over Thanksgiving weekend, Hollywood blogger Nikki Finke exclusively hosted Speechless, a series of short videos starring A-list talent that was produced and conceived by B-list talent and designed to promote United Hollywood‘s position by dramatizing the impact of the writers’ strike on the art … Read More »
More Must Reads
Liz closed out the business portion of our jam-packed NewTeeVee Live conference with a sit-down discussion with Amit Kapur, vice president of business development at MySpace. The conversation starts with Liz asking Kapur about MySpace’s exclusive deals with Lonelygirl15, Prom Queen, and Quarterlife. We assumed … Read More »
By Louis Gray
Nov. 25, 2007, 3:30pm PT
As far as getting up in the morning goes, there are all sorts of unpleasant ways to make the transition – blaring alarm clocks, AM radio interrupted by static and of course, the barnyard rooster. One more inviting way to start the day is to hear … Read More »
By Leo Babauta
Nov. 25, 2007, 2:00pm PT
We’re nearing the end of the year, and with the holiday season upon us, many web workers will be getting pretty busy. But with 2008 approaching, it might not be a bad idea to clean out the clutter in your paper and digital files, and start … Read More »
Ralph de la Vega, group president of AT&T, keynoted NewTeeVee Live and told us he sees a big opportunity in AT&T partnering with “entrepreneurial production of content.” To that extent, the company recently signed a deal with ON Networks to … Read More »
By Louis Gray
Nov. 25, 2007, 10:45am PT
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What’s on your desktop? Pictures of the kids? Your dream car? Maybe one of the stock images Apple provides with every new system?
The way someone organizes and presents their desktop can say a lot about a person – whether they … Read More »
One of the most enjoyable things we do is the MobileTechRoundup Podcast where Matt Miller, Kevin Tofel and I get to chat about fun gadgets and other tools in the mobile … Read More »
By Om Malik
Nov. 25, 2007, 8:05am PT
Mobile Web: So Close Yet So Far, a story in The New York Times gives US mobile web usage a B-minus grade. According to Rethink Research mobile web accounts for “12 percent of average revenue per user in 2007, far below the expected 50 percent” … Read More »
By Om Malik
Nov. 25, 2007, 7:40am PT
Two very different movies with very different intents are borrowing heavily from the web video aesthetic. Brian De Palma’s Redacted and the J.J. Abrams-produced Cloverfield both make heavy use of messy, first-person handheld camera angles to tell their stories. Let’s call it “cinema vlog-ité.”
Look, … Read More »
“Is there money in long-tail video?” we asked a panel of video advertising CEOs at our NewTeeVee Live conference on November 14. Moderator Jeremy Liew of Lightspeed Venture Partners (bio) immediately took it to the next level, saying “I think there’s 500 people in the … Read More »
I know we’ve made the obvious observation before: why not have the ability to use a Windows Mobile device as a Windows SideShow display? Sounds like it’s a … Read More »
By Om Malik
Nov. 24, 2007, 7:15am PT
From Russia with love (for movie lovers) comes ZML.com, which is planning to become the Allofmp3.com of flicks. Crazy as it might sound, but they are using a collective licensing agreement with an obscure Russian rights holders agency to offer movies for download … Read More »
I have been using the Kindle for a few days now and should share my feelings about the reading experience since I can do so with some real usage impressions. I have … Read More »
By Mike Gunderloy
Nov. 24, 2007, 6:34am PT
Redesigns Ahoy – You’ve seen our new look, of course, but if you haven’t popped by our parent site GigaOM lately you might want to pop in there too. We’re trying to make reading our ever-increasing flow of news and opinion online more pleasant … Read More »
By Wagner James Au
Nov. 24, 2007, 6:00am PT
Spiderman 3, The Simpsons Movie or Transformers for $2 to $3 a pop, downloadable in the format of your choice, without any DRM or OS-specific media players at all? The offerings of the new movie download store ZML.com sound too good to be true … Read More »
Yesterday I received an intriguing invite from OQO to a pre-launch unveiling in London of a new product on December 3rd. OQO will also announce something they call the Anytime/ Anywhere Computing Environment. There’s not a lot of additional information but it sounds like a totally … Read More »
By Om Malik
Nov. 23, 2007, 5:43pm PT
We have been busy this weekend, rolling out new designs. In addition to this blog, WebWorkerDaily got a big makeover too. ACS did the design for WWD. Thanks guys for all your hard work. New WWD is wider, cleaner and simpler. Hopefully … Read More »
By Anne Zelenka
Nov. 23, 2007, 5:30pm PT
By Anne Zelenka
Nov. 23, 2007, 4:42pm PT
We’re pleased to pull the cover off Web Worker Daily’s site makeover tonight. The lighter background combined with a wider main column width should give a fresher reading experience. Plus, we’ve added a box with featured articles at the top so you’ll be sure to find … Read More »
By Samuel Dean
Nov. 23, 2007, 4:00pm PT
Among free productivity application suites that can save you from shelling out money for Microsoft’s Office suite, GoogleDocs and OpenOffice tend to get all the attention. Lately, though, I’ve been experimenting with some alternatives, and they’re more than good enough to use in place … Read More »
By Om Malik
Nov. 23, 2007, 3:30pm PT
A cleaner, simpler reboot. What do you think?
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By Carleen Hawn
Nov. 23, 2007, 2:50pm PT
By Samuel Dean
Nov. 23, 2007, 2:00pm PT
It may be a little too early for a full laundry list of technology predictions for 2008, but one forecast I’m very confident in is that multiple types of wireless technologies will transform how people use their various devices next year. By the end of … Read More »
By Carleen Hawn
Nov. 23, 2007, 1:56pm PT
Jack Welch is still deemed one of the greatest business leaders of all time. Bill Clinton will go down in history as one the most successful political leaders of the modern age. One reason why Welch and Clinton were so successful, Stanford Professor Chip Heath … Read More »
The Thanksgiving family gathering yesterday was great and one I look forward to each year. It’s great to sit with the family who gathers together far too seldom and have a nice day together. This year was different in a gadgety way and I am still … Read More »
By Mike Gunderloy
Nov. 23, 2007, 11:00am PT
This is “Black Friday” in the States – the traditional day of post-Thanksgiving mall deal madness that opens the Christmas shopping season. And according to The Conference Board, consumers are in “a festive mood” for this holiday season…
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Much of the eBook attention lately is on Amazon’s Kindle, and rightly so. I resisted my early-adopter genes and didn’t pull the trigger on a Kindle, so eReader continues to … Read More »
By Anne Zelenka
Nov. 23, 2007, 8:46am PT
Semantic web believers including Tim Berners-Lee and Nova Spivack like to say that the social graph is part of their semantic world: the Giant Global Graph (GGG) as coined by Tim Berners-Lee. But the Giant Global Graph itself is like Dustin Hoffman’s autistic savant character … Read More »
